Lesson 21

Todays lesson was about style sheets and of course we had some hands on work to do. First of all the style sheets. It is simply a format used for text and objects. It is a quick and efficient way to have a standard format for different pieces of work that need to have consistency, such as our group project.

We learnt about 2 styles today, paragraph style and character style.

Paragraph style: Paragraph style is a style that controls all paragraph attributes as shown in the picture below

This paragraph style sheet was very useful to create different paragraphs to make an article look interesting instead of boring. 

Just by playing around and trying different styles i came up with the example, some might argue that all these styles can be achieved without using the style sheets, however it is all scattered in different places and it may be hard to find, hence the paragraph style helps o make things easier and as mentioned earlier, paragraph styles is used to get consistency when there is more than a one page article. Furthermore for the paragraph style there is a very nice feature, if a certain part does not match the paragraph style, there will be a warning to tell us that an area does not match the style that was used,(a plus symbol) this can be solved by clicking the paragraph symbol or i can create a style based on the paragraph style

Character style: A style just to control character attributes such as fonts

For example, if there is a long paragraph but there is a really important quote, this is where character styles come in 

Using the character styles, i made the quote a red colour and used a different font to make it more obvious, and unlike paragraph styles, only the selected area will follow the style.

Lastly, after our style sheet lesson, we put all our skills learnt to the test. This is what i came up with

    

This piece was tough, for the left page scaling the letters to the right size and placing them took longer than expected but i got it done. The right page was more difficult because there was alot of character styling and paragraph styling to do while placing and aligning the article properly as well. Overall today was a very useful lesson as i learnt about how style sheets can be used the exercise was a tough one too.