| Date | Class: Tuesday 6 to 9:40 pm |
Homework |
| Jan 21 |
Administration. History of Web. Overview of
Web technologies. Purpose of Web sites. Content and experience. Introduction to HTML. PaintShop Pro lessons on capture, clipping, color codes, drawing. |
Find 2 Web sites: one good, one bad. Prepare
1-2 paragraphs on each. Read
Vannevar Bush article
. Start HTML text: introduction, chapters 1 & 2. Project I: Prepare HTML page on good and bad sites. Use observations on your own experiences AND commentary in textbook. We will repeat this exercise later. Refer to HTML book as needed (don't get fancy). |
| Jan 28 |
Present Projects. HTML lesson continued.
Logical versus display form of information. Introduction to images. Raster
versus Vector (ref. PowerPoint & Flash). Discuss readings. Answer/discuss issues on images. Paint Shop Pro for conversions. Issues of colors and fonts. Optimizing palettes. PSP & Photo Shop for palettes & transparency. Web sites as collection of files: file management. |
Read/refer to HTML book, chapter 3, 4, 6,
7. Upload your project to class site for student projects. Send e-mail with project name, your name, URL to student TA. Refer to HTML text, chapter 5. |
| Feb 4 |
How the Web works: IP addresses, tcp/ip, http,
cache, proxies. Access methods (lab to T1, modem, cable modem). Personal
computers, wireless phones, embedded devices/PCs. WAP. Draw using Photo Shop. Lists. Discuss experiments viewing sites. Discuss readings. HTML: Internal links, lists, tables. Text as important medium. Is a picture worth 1000 words? Privacy, encryption, intellectual property, other legal and ethical issues. |
View the same Websites using different platforms
and access methods. Report on Blackboard Discussion forum. Read/refer to chapter 2, 7, 8, 14, 15, 25 in HTML book. Read/refer to chapter 13 in HTML book for tables. Research one or more legal/ethical topic on Web. Report on issue on Blackboard forum. |
| Feb 11 |
Community Day: no class |
Participate (respond to) other
postings at least 1/week). |
| Feb 18 |
SNOW DAY. |
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| Feb 25 |
Frames. Image maps. Comment on postings. Metaphors in Web sites. Create animated gifs in Paint Shop Pro Animation Shop. (PhotoShop: ImageReady for image slicing) (Introduction to Sound. Sound formats. If possible: Prepare sound files: record wav file of your own voice and line input from tape or CD. Mix.) |
Begin to plan Project II. Can focus on legal issue; instruction and/or persuasion; topic from other course or something else. Assemble team, decide on purpose, audience, content. Discuss with me and get approval. POST TOPIC AND CHECK FOR MY RESPONSE. |
| Mar 4 |
Catch up! Forms. Introduction to JavaScript.
Review for midterm. |
Study for midterm. |
| Mar 11 |
Answer questions for midterm. MIDTERM. (Work session on projects) |
Find good & bad uses of 'multimedia'
(audio, video, animation)on Web. Report on Blackboard. Complete project II. Read/refer to text on JavaScript. JavaScript is required for Project III, not necessary for Project II |
| SPRING BREAK |
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| Mar 25 |
PRESENT PROJECT II. Continue
with JavaScript. The butterfly ballot and other examples of poor design. How to prevent? |
Read/refer to chapters 16, 18, 19 on scripting. |
| Apr 1 |
Comparison of tools for creating web sites
(NotePad, Homesite, Dreamweaver, Netscape
Composer, Front Page, also Word &
PowerPoint.) Assign tools for experiments. JavaScript Calculations. Document Object Model. Assign project III. |
Report on tools on Blackboard. Respond to postings. Post announcement of project III (list team members) on Blackboard and check for my response. |
| Apr 8 |
JavaScript, continued. Virtual Dog. Discuss experiments with tools. Emerging technologies (XML, VXML, WML, middleware). Commercials for other courses. Look at HTML produced by tools.. How to make changes. File management issues. |
Registration week. |
| Apr 15 |
Catch up on JavaScript: any questions? Any
relevant current events? Discuss and/or post. Calendar example. Start styles. Content versus format. Media information survey. |
Post on current events. Read/refer chapters 8, 9, 10. |
| Apr 22 |
Styles for layout. Dynamic HTML. |
Perform search related to your topic for
your Project 3. Research how search engines work (HTML text, information on www.google.com). Report on Blackboard. Prepare to show ('test') some of project in class. |
| Apr 29 |
Discuss postings. Emerging technologies. Preview
of projects. Constructive feedback. |
Post constructive feedback on other projects. Review study guide for final quiz in order to ask questions. Do posting on good/bad. Read on-line Jakob Nielsen articles. Report on Blackboard. If appropriate, indicate any changes in your approach to Web sites. |
| May 6 |
Present projects. Review for
final. |
Study for final. Send URL, title,
your name to student TA. |
| May 13 |
FINAL |
| Project I | 10 |
| Project II | 20 |
| Project III | 25 |
| Midterm | 10 |
| Final | 20 |
| Participation in Blackboard discussion (different browsers, legal issues+, multimedia uses, HTML tools, search engines, emerging technologies) | 15 |