IS2020 Weekly schedule
(To download the full syllabus, click here)
Week 1:
See examples of different
color combinations.
See the Seurat picture
and the silly webpage
I made
Links:
Lawsuit-
Web design will change again, as Microsoft is forced to make changes to Internet
Explorer.
Non-dithering colors by hue - We almost used one of Lynda Weinman's books. She's famous in the land of web design. I had one of her guides to graphics in 1998.
Color wheel - or find your own. I also like this one.
URL Roulette- without looking at the url, guess what the focal point of any given site is and what they do.
Webopedia - the encyclopedia of web terms
The difference between the WWW and the Internet
Week 2:
Read this
article on color theory
In-class:
See examples
of different color combinations.
See the Seurat picture
Links:
Non-dithering colors
by hue - We almost used one of Lynda Weinman's books. She's famous in the
land of web design. I had one of her guides to graphics in 1998.
Color
wheel - or find
your own. I also like this
one.
Want to get your feet wet playing with art programs? Try painting with this applet by Kidpix.
Browsers:
(Mac and PC): Update your IE,
Netscape,
Mozilla,
(Mac only): Safari,
Lynx
(text-only)
(PC): Lynx
Week 3:
In-class (if we have time)
photo
retouching
some guy
named Bob
Site done by fellow students
Rashaad's cool Pshop piece
Links:
-You really can't have too many free
images.*
-Download some nifty free fonts
for your home machines from Chank
*= (Many sites will also allow you to download low-res versions of their images to use in your "comp layout" (comprehensive layout- the thing you show the client). This is a sorta "try before you buy" approach. ) I recommend photodisc.com, eyewire.com, and comstock.com - try adding things to your "lightbox" and then showing a client.
Materials for Project 1 (due Thurs):
(note- © symbol is alt-g when typing on Mac. On PC use special brush in
Pshop or do alt-0169 (hold down alt key and type 0169))
gecko picture
rabbit picture
dog on leash
dog in costume
water
text
sample layout
Week 4:
Week 5:
In-class:
Dreamweaver Lesson 1,2- intro.txt
Project 3 (due Tues, Oct 14th)- this is a fun one! Here's the assignment sheet - PDF
Setting up your FTP connection in Dreamweaver:
From Dreamweaver, go to the Site menu, down to New Site
1. Give your site a name (IS2020 is a good one). Hit next.
2. Leave "no server-side technology" checked. Hit next.
3. Leave first item selected- ("edit local copies on my machine, then upload.") Hit next.
*4. To define your site folder on your computer click the little folder picture at the bottom of this same window- if at home browse until you find the folder all your website files are in (it is recommended you make a dedicated folder for this). Hit next.
*5. Choose FTP for how you connect to remote server.FTP address: softweb.jwu.edu
folder on server: web/yourloginname/
Username: yourloginname
Password: yournetworkpassword.Test the connection the first time you set it up. Hit next.
6. Do not enable check-in, check out.
7. If you want to change anything later, do Site > Edit Sites and choose it from the list or if you still have the window open, hit the back button.
Here are the PDF instructions on how to slice and upload your project 3 (personal splash page) to your webspace
Week 6-7:
In-class:
Lessons 2 (end of) , 3 and 4 (beginning)
Dreamweaver Lesson 2- files
-If you want to try to get working on it, a week from this Thurs will be the due date of the 4th project. You will convert your designs into Dreamweaver- breaking apart the graphics into individual graphics. You can use slicing to cut apart and save parts of your design as individual graphics.
Quiz on Monday:
Links:
Good Design Features vs Bad Design Features (according to Robin Williams)
Criteria for Good Web Design (written by one of my grad professors, Philip Kain)
Week 8:
In-class:
Dreamweaver Lesson 4 - menu layout due Monday of Week 8
Quiz on Monday:
Week 9:
Dreamweaver Lesson 5 and (maybe) 9
Project 4 Assignment sheet- due Nov. 10th!
(the date is wrong on the sheet, so please write down the new one!!)
Week 10:
