Happy July
You made it – in under two weeks everyone has successfully created a website!
Today we’ll look at your sites, discuss design, and talk about what else your site might include and how to keep your site growing.
You made it – in under two weeks everyone has successfully created a website!
Today we’ll look at your sites, discuss design, and talk about what else your site might include and how to keep your site growing.
Today will be focused on Advanced CMS use and project development. Keep focusing on your website, on developing your project, as today and tomorrow are the last days we have to finish up your website.
- interactivity
- permissions
- Project development
It’s Tuesday already? Where is the time going?
Today we’ll cover:
- advanced design and Photoshop masking
- site themes and colors
- project development
Site Design! Today we’re talking about designing our personal sites and how that design works to effectively communicate with our website users.
- navigation
- page development
- project development
Banners and Projects
- Dimensions banner competition
- project development
Photoshop
Photoshop layers
making graphics for the web
- banner
- image formats for the web
Today is all about Web Page Basics! We’ll be covering:
- CSS/XHTML
- links
- CMS
- Internet safety
Principles of Graphic Design and Photoshop
- layers
- layer effects
- Rule of thirds
- Typography
- color schemes
- projects
Welcome to day one of Dimensions! We’ll be working with old-fashioned pen and paper today, but most of the time from tomorrow until the last day, we’ll be working online.
Today, we’ll introduce ourselves, become familiar with the course website, and collect emails and a writing piece from everyone. Here’s the schedule for today:
- getting to know you/us
- what is the Internet
- why is the Internet important
- uses of the Internet
- what’s a server
- html
- ftp
Writing piece – Scott and Maria would like to know your preferences and expectations for the class! Please take ten minutes or so and write out the following information to be handed in before you leave today:
- what experience do you have designing and building websites?
- Have you used Photoshop or WordPress before, and if you have what did you make with these applications?
- do you have a website now? If you do, would you like to share the URL?
- choose five websites you like and five you do not like and list the URL. Beneath each URL, describe what you like or do not like about those websites.
Please write all above questions out on a sheet of paper. Put your name and email address on the top of the paper as we need your name and email to set-up your website for Dimensions.
Welcome to Dimensions 2011 – Web Design!
We’re very much looking forward to getting to know everyone, to seeing what designs and pages you create, and we want to have lots of fun for the two weeks we get to spend together!
Check out the schedule of stuff we’ll be doing below, and if you have other stuff you’d like added – speak up!
June 20 : The Internet
- getting to know
- what is the Internet
- why is the Internet important
- uses of the Internet
- what’s a server?
- html
- ftp
June 21: Principles of Graphic Design and Photoshop
- layers
- layer effects
- Rule of thirds
- Typography
- color schemes
- projects
June 22: Web Page Basics
- CSS/XHTML
- links
- CMS
- Internet safety
June 23: Photoshop
Photoshop
layers
making graphics for the web
- banner
- image formats for the web
June 24: Banners and Projects
- Dimensions banner competition
- project development
June 27: Site Design
- navigation
- page development
- project development
June 28: Advanced CMS
- advanced design
- plugins
- project development
June 29: Advanced CMS
- interactivity
- permissions
- Project development
June 30: Project Work
- finish projects
- project development
July 1: Closing Ceremony/Show Work
