Fall Quarter Web Production
| Week | Date | GRDSN 126 Section AA-Tues. & Thurs. | GRDSN 126 Section BA-Mon., Wed., & Fri. | |
| 1 | MON | 20-Sept | Introductions Looking at our toolset Reading: the intro and section 2 of the Opera Curriculum |
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| TUES | 21-Sept | Introductions Looking at our toolset Reading: the intro and section 2 of the Opera Curriculum |
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| WED | 22-Sept | Discussion of reading: Opera 1 and 2 Overview of images for the web-using Save for Web and Devices Reading: section 3 of Opera Curriculum Start the Image Trickery exercise |
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| THURS | 23-Sept | Discussion of reading: Opera 1 and 2 Overview of images for the web-using Save for Web and Devices Meet the Web Community: Listen to the Big Web Show,#11, Nicole Sullivan for next week. Reading: section 3 of Opera Curriculum Start the Image Trickery exercise |
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| FRI | 24-Sept | Continued from Wed. Meet the Web Community: Listen to the Big Web Show,#11, Nicole Sullivan for next week. |
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| 2 | MON | 27-Sept | Discussion: All the heavy concepts emanating from Nicole; and Opera 3 Two big deals: the Discovery process...and Zeldman. Raster images, file formats, Indexed color and the Web Safe palette Next reading: the first (free) chapter of Jeremy Keith's HTML for Web Designers Here is a TEMPLATE for you to populate with your web graphics examples. This will be stored in the AVA Classes>GRDSN126>Temp folder. |
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| TUES | 28-Sept | Discussion: All the heavy concepts emanating from Nicole; and Opera 3 Two big deals: the Discovery process...and Zeldman. Raster images, file formats, Indexed color and the Web Safe palette Next reading: the first (free) chapter of Jeremy Keith's HTML for Web Designers Here is a TEMPLATE for you to populate with your web graphics examples. This will be stored in the AVA Classes>GRDSN126>Temp folder. |
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| WED | 29-Sept | Thinking inside the box. The Box Model is HUGE! Raster images: compression |
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| THURS | 30-Sept | Thinking inside the box. The Box Model is HUGE! Site research. Box analysis. Foreshadowing the Award Winning Website Raster images: compression Discovery leads to moods, styles, and wireframes (Take a look at style boards by Fashion designers) Apply mood colors to an interface-grab this sample interface: make 6 sample color schemes from sampled mood boards or photos. |
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| FRI | 1-Oct | Discovery leads to moods, styles, and wireframes (Take a look at style boards by Fashion designers) Site research. Box analysis. Foreshadowing the Award Winning Website Apply mood colors to an interface-grab this sample interface: make 6 sample color schemes from sampled mood boards or photos. |
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| 3 | MON | 4-Oct | Making a tiled image A reminder; read the free first chapter of Jeremy Keith's HTML forWeb Designers |
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| TUES | 5-Oct | Making a tiled image A reminder; read the free first chapter of Jeremy Keith's HTML forWeb Designers |
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| WED | 6-Oct | Putting images into boxes The layout process for web: old and new terms. Thumbs to mockups-the horror of slicing DEADLINE: Put your color scheme/CSS exercises, 6 pages with color variations, into your folder in the 126 Temp folder, by the end of the week
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| THURS | 7-Oct | Putting images into boxes The layout process for web: old and new terms. Thumbs to mockups-the horror of slicing What did you learn from Jeremy Keith? Work on the graphics examples template page. Coming up: create an animated GIF "leaderboard ad", to appear on this page. See the IAB guidelines for details. DEADLINE: Put your color scheme/CSS exercises, 6 pages with color variations, into your folder in the 126 Temp folder, by the end of the week |
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| FRI | 8-Oct | What did you learn from Jeremy Keith? Work on the graphics examples template page. Coming up: create an animated GIF "leaderboard ad", to appear on this page. See the IAB guidelines for details. |
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| 4 | MON | 11-Oct | An exercise in web design workflow. | |
| TUES | 12-Oct | Animated GIF wrapup An exercise in web design workflow. | ||
| WED | 13-Oct | Web design workflow | ||
| THURS | 14-Oct |
DEADLINE: Your GIF "leaderboard ad" is due, on the AVA serverby the end of the week. Connecting to the campus server. Upload your Image Trickery pages to the server. Here's How. |
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| FRI | 15-Oct |
DEADLINE: Your GIF "leaderboard ad" is due, on the AVA serverby the end of the week. Connecting to the campus server. Upload your Image Trickery pages to the server. Here's How. |
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| 5 | MON | 18-Oct | Let's Get Famous! Commence the Award Winning Website project F.Y.I. Here are some great videos. |
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| TUES | 19-Oct | Stay on track with this course Deliverables list Let's Get Famous! Commence the Award Winning Website project F.Y.I. Here are some great videos. You may wish to review the ADDYrules and categories A collection of "cool-dog" stuff about design...in progress. | ||
| WED | 20-Oct | Stay on track with this course Deliverables list You may wish to review the ADDYrules and categories A collection of "cool-dog" stuff about design...in progress. |
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| THURS | 21-Oct | The To-Do List for your Award-Winning Website Last Chance to turn in your Animated Banner Ad |
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| FRI | 22-Oct | The To-Do List for your Award-Winning Website Last Chance to turn in your Animated Banner Ad
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| 6 | MON | 25-Oct | AWW-design brief due. (what are you going to do) | |
| TUES | 26-Oct | AWW-design brief due. (what are you going to do) | ||
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| FRI | 29-Oct | Mid-Course Seismic Event Download the Files for the boxes exercises. Have your Image trickery on the server! |
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| 7 | MON | 1-Nov | AWW-design brief due. (what are you going to do) | |
| TUES | 2-Nov | AWW-design brief due. (what are you going to do) Mid-Course Seismic Event Download the Files for the boxes exercises. Have your Image trickery on the server! | ||
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| THURS | 11-Nov | VETERANS DAY | ||
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| 9 | MON | 15-Nov | Award Winning Website-wrapup | |
| TUES | 16-Nov | Award Winning Website-wrapup | ||
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| WED | 24-Nov | THANKSGIVING | ||
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| 12 | MON | 6-Dec | Dead Day | |
| finals | TUES | 7-Dec | ||
| finals | WED | 8-Dec | ||
| finals | THURS | 9-Dec | ||