This
course is designed to get your portfolio online utilizing your drawings,
photos, paintings, or sketches. Using a pre-made template which can
be tailored for your own use, we will cover the essential aspects of
building a web site. By the end of the week, you should have a simple,
yet complete web site that is ready to be published on the World Wide
Web.
We will primarily focus on how to manipulate images in Adobe Photoshop
and use Macromedia Dreamweaver to create your web site. Adobe ImageReady
and Macromedia Fireworks are other programs that we will also look at
during the week.
The following gives you a sampling of the content that what will be
covered in class. Please check back for further updates.
Specific topics include:
1. Getting Started: defining
your audience
2. Color
on the WWW: monitor color & resolution, browser safe colors
3.
The Design Process: designing for
the screen vs. print design, understanding browsers, image formats,
web site structure
4.
Planning Ahead: organizing your files and folders, creating a
site map, file name structure, file compression
5. Photoshop/ImageReady/Fireworks:
image preparation (gif, jpg, gif animation), creating actions/droplets,
"slicing and dicing" your images
6. Dreamweaver Basics (version
3) : web page design (layers, inserting text, creating links); preview
work in browser; site management tools
7. Dreamweaver Advanced (version
3) : Javascript rollovers, creating frames, designing with tables,
customizing/troubleshooting your HTML code
8. Site hosting: obtaining
a domain name or URL, how to FTP/Upload your site
9. Testing your site
10. Other related topics:
file conversion from other programs, audio/video for the Web, integration
of other HTML editors, cascading style sheets, integrating interactivity,
emerging technologies
11. Resources
Skill level: You should have good working knowledge of Photoshop
5 or 5.5 and be able to navigate reasonably well on the computer.
Please
bring to class, any or all of the following items:
• slides, images, or flat
artwork you wish to scan or have already scanned
• journals or text you may
wish to scan or use as a resource
• inspirational items to
scan, such as leaves, grass, fabric swatches, book covers, etc.
• ideas, thoughts, or sketches
you have been thinking about regarding your website
• text information including
bio, contact info, description of artwork or portfolio (bring any information
you might already have on disk)
• ZIP disks to save your
work