Web Site Design | ART 2440
Course Calendar
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- Welcome
- Brain Teaser
- Introductions
- Review of Syllabus
- Truths and Lies about Websites
- Assignment 1 Goes Out
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- Planning a Website
- Flowcharts
- Principles of Good Web Design
- Choosing a good URL or Domain Name
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- Assignment 1 Research Day
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- Photoshop, Fireworks, or Illustrator?
- Getting Started with Photoshop
- Color
- Type
- Shapes
- Layer Effects & Styles
- Assignment 1 Due
- Assignment 2 Goes Out
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- More Photoshop:
- Layer Management
- Layer Comps
- Masks
- Seamless Backgrounds
- Gradient Backgrounds
- Actions
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- Designing for Rollover States
- Slicing
- Optimizing
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- 1/2 Assignment Two Work Day
- 1/2 Assignment Two Critique
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- XHTML Syntax
- HTML vs XHTML
- Defining Your Site in Dreamweaver
- DocType Declartions
- HTML tag
- Head tag
- title tag
- body tag
- headings
- paragraphs
- Assignment 2 Due
- Assignment 3 Goes Out
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- Using HTML references: W3schools vs. Dreamweaver
- Sloppy vs Clean Code
- lists
- links
- images
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- tables
- forms
- div
- id
- span
- class
- class vs id
- Using the Web Developer Toolbar to see divs
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- FTP with Dreamweaver
- Validating your XHTML
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- CSS Syntax
- Clean vs Sloppy Code
- Assignment 3 Due
- XHTML Test
- Assignment 4 Goes Out
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- Tying CSS to XHTML
- Color
- Units
- Text and Fonts
- Speficity
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- Margins
- Padding
- Borders
- Shorthand Properties
- Pseudo Classes
- Background Color and Images
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- Positioning
- Some Great Resources
- Validating and Viewing CSS
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- Copyright: Code vs Content
- File Management
- Assignment 4 Due
- Assignment 5 Goes Out
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- Automated HTML in Dreamweaver
- Automated CSS in Dreamweaver
- CSS Test
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- Accessibility
- CSS: Swapping Headings with Images
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- Tweeking Existing Code
- CSS Galleries
- Javascripts
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- XHTML: Objects and Embedding: Music, Video, Animations, Widgets
- Assigment 5 Critique last 1/2 of class
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- Web Topics of your Choice or possible field trip
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- Assignment 5 Due
- Assignment 6 Goes Out
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- Google Webmaster Tools - Rank High
- Submitting your site to Google
- Using the tools
- Generating a site index
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- Assignment 6 Due
- Class Presentations and Critique
