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SCHEDULE, EDIT 772 ADVANCED (SPRING 2000)

MONDAY JANUARY 24
Typography Quick style sheet intro

FYI: Some web site makeovers using just text and color

HW for 1/31: Decide on your research topic and roughly what you want to do for your final project.

Post your assignments page in a folder (EDIT 772b) on your web site, and e-mail me your URL.

MONDAY JANUARY 31

Engagement, Color on the web, Color selection (color combos)
Photoshop basics, Photoshop advanced (won't cover everything today)

FYI: Photoshop vs. PaintShop Pro

Dreamweaver orientation and site setup. How to use the Dreamweaver Library

MONDAY FEBRUARY 7

Photoshop wrapup, optimization, Image maps and image cutting, how to lay out web sites in Photoshop

Example page layout in browser / window area only

Sliced page (done with Picture Dicer)

Basic skill to take away: Know that you can use PS as a design tool.
Maybe more advanced: Know how to slice up your page design
Maybe more advanced still: Know how to build rollovers (we'll learn how to set up a series of similar images today; next week we'll add the Javascript for these)

Assignment 1 due

Slides for this evening (PowerPoint 97 for Windows binary file)

MONDAY FEBRUARY 14

Bookmarklets
Javascript, building rollovers with Photoshop and Dreamweaver
Forms and scripts

Assignment 2 due (for students building new sites, your design treatment is due this evening as Assignment 2)

MONDAY FEBRUARY 21

(Javascript and forms from 2/14)

Dreamweaver behaviors palette

DHTML and how to use the Dreamweaver timeline
HTML 4

Perhaps: How to do cascading menus with layers

Assignment 3 due

MONDAY FEBRUARY 28

Java and frames

Some uses of frames

To utlitize off-site resources - Humanities Division Faculty Forums
To hide multiple URLs - VCCS New Horizons Conference
Navigation-decoration - Old class project
To keep ads in a user's face - Macromedia

Big danger: Not putting meta-tags in your frame creation page. Search Altavista for "Your browser doesn't seem to support frames."  

Related: Altavista's guide to META tags

Fun: Try searching for misspelled words on AV - good reminder of how bad misspellings look.

My current fave: "trail lawyers" (Yee hah!). Other fun ones: mazagine, excelent, busines, ignorence, and "lorem ipsum" (I'll explain this one in class)

Good resource: "Common Errors in English at www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/

If time, pick up "next best things" from 3/20

Link added: How to password-protect files on UNIX systems

Another tidbit: The right way to do redirect pages.

Assignment 4 due

MONDAY MARCH 6

Multimedia - demos on how to make

Perhaps: we'll have some student projects in here?

» DRAFT SITE OF YOUR FINAL PROJECT DUE THIS WEEK! »

MONDAY MARCH 13

Spring break

MONDAY MARCH 20

Research presentations
Hopefully we'll get a few presentations done when we cover those topics in class, e.g. if someone is researching Java, maybe s/he will present on the 28th.

Information on databases and the web.

Next-best things:

MONDAY MARCH 27

Final project presentations