What you need to know

A hex triplet is a six-digit, three-byte hexadecimal number used represent colors. The bytes represent the red, green and blue components of the color. One byte represents a number in the range 00 to FF (in hexadecimal notation), or 0 to 255 in decimal notation. The hex triplet is formed by concatenating three bytes in hexadecimal notation, in the following order:
Byte 1: red value
Byte 2: green value
Byte 3: blue value

If you have #000000, all values are set to 0 and the color you have is black

If you have #FFFFFF, all values are set to 255 and the color you have is white

#FF0000— red is set to 255, green and blue are set to 0. The color you have is red

#00FF00— red and blue are set to 0, green is set to 255. The color you have is green

#0000FF— red and green are set to 0,blue is set to 255. The color you have is blue

Oddly enough, to get yellow you need 100% red, 100% green and 0% blue. Go figure.

This is what the finder looks like on the dock:

To open the finder window:
Click on the icon on the dock or click on the desktop and then press +N.

There are 3 views to the finder window:icons, list and columns.

Icon view:
List view:
Column view:
Cover Flow:
Quick Look:
Actions:

Finding Recent work

To find your most recent project:

Select the second view
Click Date Modified.
If the triangle points down, the first item in the list will be the most recent file that was modified. If the triangle points up, the first item in the list will be the first file that was modified (the oldest).

Pixels are an absolute measurement. 12px equals 12 pixels.

em is a unit identifier. It is relative to the font-size of the currently selected font. If the current font is 12px, 1em is also 12px.

The font-size of this line is 12px
The font-size of this line is 1em
The font-size of this line is 1.2em or 20% larger than 12px
The font-size of this line is 2em or 100% larger than 12px
The font-size of this line is .8em or 20% smaller than 12px

As you can never be sure how a user has set their browser preferences, using a relative unit measurement is generally safer.

In the folder liz_arum_classes

are all of my classes.

All middle school classes begin with the number 1.
All high school classes begin with the number 2.
All third grade classes begin with the number 3.

The number is followed by the name of the class and the section and then the days that the class meets:

The Dock is the bar of icons that sits at the bottom or side of your screen. It provides easy access to some of the applications on your Mac, displays which applications are currently running, and holds windows in their minimized state. It's also the place to find the Trash (its icon looks like a waste basket).

To select an item in the Dock, just click its icon. When an application is running, the Dock displays a small black triangle or a blue light beneath or beside the application's icon. To make any currently running application the active one, click its icon in the Dock to switch to it (the active application's name appears in the menu bar to the right of the Apple logo). As you open applications (or open files to launch applications), their respective icons appear in the Dock, even if they weren't there originally.

Control-clicking the divider line provides quick access to all of the Dock's settings, including screen position. Moving the divider line shrinks or expands the icons.

The Desktop

desktop

Apple Menu

The following are some items in the Apple Menu that you might find useful

About This Mac	Displays information about the computer. This shows: current version of the operating system the amount of available memory type of processor that the system is using
System Preferences	Launches the application used to control almost all aspects of the Mac OS X configuration including: resolution color sound
Dock	This submenu provides quick access to common functions, such as the ability to hide the Dock. These functions, as you might expect, are also located in System Preferences.
Recent items	Displays the most recently launched applications and documents.
Force Quit	Causes the selected application to quit, regardless of its current state. You may also press Command+Option+Escape to force an application that has hung to exit.
Restart	Closes all applications, prompts the user to save open files, and reboots the computer.
Shut Down	Closes all applications, prompts the user to save open files, and shuts down the computer.

Windows

Windows

	Closes open window
	Shrinks the window into an icon view that is contained within the Dock
Holding down Option while clicking the Minimize or Close button will result in all the windows in the current application being minimized or closed.
	Opens the window to the size necessary to display the available information.
	Click and drag on the resize icon in the lower-right corner of each window.
Hold down the  key to drag non-active windows located behind other windows. Hold down the Option key while clicking on an inactive application's window to hide the front most application and bring the clicked application to the front.

This is the default save view:
Default view

If the location to which you want to save your files isn't in the pop-up menu, you can click the disclosure push button to the right of the pop-up menu. The dialog box will expand to a full-sized save box
Save expanded

Save work in either your work or web folder. Most projects should be saved in the work folder. Projects that are ready to be shared should be in the web folder :