End-of-semester info

Here’s a list of assignments that must have links on your CAWEB home page:

• Web Gazette 3
• Resume
• 100K Scuba
• Artist/Musician
• Dane County Farmers Market
• Styling Link States with CSS
• SimpleViewer Gallery
• Pirate Party
• Basic Tables
• Portfolio/Brochure

Extra Credit

If you want to fancy up your home page for extra credit, refer to the Temporary Home Page Assignment Page  for points available for various things.

Please notify me me by email by midnight on Dec. 18  of the specific things you did for the extra credit. For example, you might say in your email:

“Hi Ann, I fancied up my temporary home page by adding an image map, an external style sheet and CSS links states.”

Grade scale on Dec. 11

Here’s the grade scale at the moment. These numbers will change as I enter more grades. Your total points are on your Blackboard page.

Note that this does not include any grade alterations for absences. As stated in the Syllabus, grades are lowered one level for each three classes missed. IOW, after you miss four classes, your grade is lowered one level; after you miss seven classes, your grade is lowered another level, etc.

Basic Tables Exercise

Super easy assignment exercise.

Download the materials to do the assignment here.

Download the assignment sheet here.

Pirate Party

Pirate Party will be due Dec. 18

In Pirate Party, we’ll learn how to make links within an html page – you click on a link in the page and it goes to another part of the page.

Here is a step-by-step handout for the assignment. It contains a grading rubric.

Here are the materials you need to do the assignment.

Tonight – web forms (and a little bit about hosting and domain names)

Tonight we’ll work on web forms. For more information about web forms, read Chapter 9, Forms, pp 147 – 176 in Learning Web Design.

For information about how to use Dreamweaver to create forms, watch James Williamson’s Dreamweaver 6: Essential Training on Lynda.com. Chapter 10 addresses web forms.

Week 14 recap – Simpleviewer

Freshly back from Thanksgiving break, we worked on our Portfolio/Brochure sites this week.

And! We learned how to use Simpleviewer.

Creating a Gallery with SimpleViewer – Exercise

In this exercise, we’ll use Simpleviewer to create a web gallery. There are two ways to use Simpleviewer:

• Download and install the simpleviewer freeware from http://simpleviewer.net.
• Use the version bundled with Adobe Bridge.

We’ll use method 2 to create a gallery of adorable puppy photos.

This exercise will be worth 21 points:

• Create Gallery (5)
• Insert gallery into web page (5)
• Make it look pretty much like Must Love Dogs screenshot (10)
• Upload to folder (1)

Week 13 Recap – CSS Links exercise

On Tuesday the 20th, we worked on the CSS Links exercise. You can go to the exercise page and find out all about it!

Schedule for the rest of the semester:

• Nov. 27 Tue – Work on Brochure/Portfolio Site. I’ll be gone and you’ll have a sub.
• Nov. 29 Thurs–
  • Interim deadline for B/P site – Photoshop/Illustrator/Fireworks prototype of your site ready for a crit. If you don’t have some kind of a draft ready to show, your final grade will be lowered 10 points.
  • SimpleViewer demo – learn how to make an image gallery with Bridge
• Dec. 4 Tuesday – Work night. Also, discussion of web forms and hosting, domain registration, etc.
  
• Dec. 6 Thurs – Pirate Party (anchored Links and Image Maps) demo + work night
• Dec. 11 Tue – Work night. Also, brief discussion of tables.
• Dec. 13 Tue – Work night
• Dec. 18 Tue – Portfolio/Brochure crit. Last class. All work must be in on this day.

Happy Thanksgiving, BTW! Here is a treat for you. You’re welcome.

Styling Link States with CSS – Exercise

In this exercise, we’ll practice using CSS to make links change when hovered over with a mouse. The handout explains everything in detail, so I won’t go on and on here.

Don’t forget to define a site!

Finishing up Farmer’s Market & a fancy full-page background demo (week 12)

Here’s what we did this week:

1. On Tuesday, I demo’d how to make a background that stretches to fill the browser window.  If you want to do this, here is a video that shows you how: Full-Page Background Demo.
2. On Thursday, I we had a work night and and then a crit of the completed Farmer’s Market sites.
3. At the end of class on Thursday, I handed out stuff for our next (and last big) assignment – the Portfolio/Brochure site.

Schedule for the rest of the semester

• Nov. 20 Tue – Work night for Portfolio Brochure. Also, CSS Links in-class exercise
• Nov. 27 Tue – Work on Brochure/Portfolio Site. I’ll be gone and you’ll have a sub.
• Nov. 29 Thurs–
  • Interim deadline for B/P site – Photoshop/Illustrator/Fireworks prototype of your site ready for a crit. If you don’t have some kind of a draft ready to show, your final grade will be lowered 10 points.
  • SimpleViewer demo – learn how to make an image gallery with Bridge
• Dec. 4 Tuesday – Work night. Also, discussion of web forms and hosting, domain registration, etc.
  
• Dec. 6 Thurs – Pirate Party (anchored Links and Image Maps) demo + work night
• Dec. 11 Tue – Work night. Also, brief discussion of tables.
• Dec. 13 Tue – Work night
• Dec. 18 Tue – Portfolio/Brochure crit. Last class. All work must be in on this day.