| Date | Composition | HTML |
|---|---|---|
| 2/6 | Class: Example site? How
do you use the Web? What do you look for in a site? Do web readers differ
from book readers? (notes) Assignment: Read Krug: Ch 1. Email site critiques to me by Wednesday. Give examples that make you think. I will post your submissions and we will discuss (some of) them next class. |
Class: Set up an account on aurora.wells.edu
and build a first page (directions). Assignment: Read Carey, Tutorial 1. We will do the exercise in lab next week. |
| 2/13 | Class: Review site critiques.
Planning: site audience and objectives (notes). Assignment: Read Krug Ch 2. Are there technologies in your lives to which muddling through applies? Email critiques and a preliminary topic, audience, and objectives for your project by Wednesday. |
Class: Tutorial 1, Sessions 1.1-1.3. Assignment: Complete Tutorial 1, including the review and Case 1 on p. 1.39. Construct a resume as suggested in Case 4. Read Tutorial 2. |
| 2/20 | Class: Review successful
and unsuccessful sites. Possible projects. Past projects: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Planning: site architecture (notes). Assignment: Read Web Style Guide Ch1 (Process) and Ch3 (Site Design through the E-commerce subsection). To think about: how an architecture can contribute to site objectives. To do: develop a preliminary architecture and reference it from your page. |
Class: Tutorial 2, Sessions 2-1 and
2-2. Assignment: Complete case 1 on p. 2.34. Read Tutorial 3. Update your homepage to include links to your tutorials, resume, and project documentation. |
| 2/27 | Class: Site architecture, continued
(notes). Assignment: Read WSG, the rest of Ch3 (Site Elements) and Krug Ch6. Study questions for WSG. Write a brief paper analyzing the AHA site (suggestions). |
Class: Sessions 3.1-3.3. Review assignment
on p. 3.47. Assignment: Case 3 steps 1-18. The rest of the steps are optional. What do you think of the splash screen?. Continue with project documentation. Possible format. |
| 3/5 | Class: Review AHA critiques. AHA2, AHA3, Site elements. Using tables for site design: CCS with borders on. Allison Ladd Ceramics without and with borders. Page 1 borders on. Case 1 borders on. (notes). | Class:
Sessions 4.1-4.3. Optional: review. Assignment: Prepare for midterm. |
| 3/12 | Class:
Activism Day Assignment: Read WSG, Ch4 (Page Design) and Krug Ch3-4. Start Krug 6 and plan to read all of Krug by the end of the semester. I will mention some (but not all) chapters as we go along. |
Class:
Midterm
(answers). Assignment: Tutorial 4, Case 1. Read Tutorial 5. |
3/19 | Class: Page Design (notes). Assignment: Decide what design elements you wish to include in your pages and begin to incorporate them. WSG, Ch6 (Editorial Style). Finish Krug 6 and read 5. Consider how to improve this text. |
Class: Sessions 5.1-5.2. Since this is
the last class before break, and some of you have driving, I will not
be offended if you do the tutorial when you get back. Assignment: Case 4. Read Tutorial 7 |
| 4/2 | Class: Prose (notes).
Different versions
of the 3/19 text. Assignment: 1. Rewrite this to capture its main points (email me a link to your rewrite by Wednesday). 2. Select a piece of information you plan to convey on your site and discuss which of the guidelines we have considered apply to its presentation. (link from your page to your discussion by Wednesday). 3. Be ready to give a 5 minute site progress report. |
Class: Sessions 7.1-7.2. Assignment: Add a style sheet to your home page. Begin to design and incorporate a style sheet for your project. |
| 4/9 | Class: Find
of the week Site progress reports. 4/2 rewrites
and applicability to your project. Typography
(notes). Assignment: WSG Ch5 (Typography). Email by Wednesday: how are you applying the elements of typography discussed in WSG Ch5 to your site? Optional: WSG 7 (Web Graphics) and 8 (Multimedia) |
Class: Session 7.3. Assignment: Case study 1. Continue with your project style sheet. Read Tutorial 10 through 10.19. |
| 4/16 | Class:
Example 1, 2,
3.
Typography comments.
Graphics and multimedia (notes). Assignment: Add a statement describing how you will use graphics and multimedia in your site (if at all) to your project documentation. Krug Ch8-11. Please look at 1, and 2. |
Class: Sessions 10.1-10.2.
Assignment: Exercise. Read Tutorial 6.1 and 6.2. Optional 6.3 |
| 4/23 | Class: Netmechanic's site
evaluation and image
optimization tools (example).
Planning for your site evaluation (notes). Assignment: Prepare a site evaluation plan (put a link on your site by Wednesday). We will go over them in class next week. |
Class: Sessions 6.1, 6.2. Assignment: Work on your project. |
| 4/30 | Class:
CSS validation: W3C and
WDG.
Interactive sites and the technologies
behind them (notes).
Pop ups. Images in lists.
Google.
FYI: Google IPO
Assignment: Put answers to these e-commerce study questions on your site. |
Class: Site evaluation plan review:
HB,
MG,
AR,
TG,
JM,
YL,
CM,
CS.
Assignment: Perform the site evaluation, post results to me by Wednesday. If practical, tape record one of the sessions. Be prepared to discuss them and the problems remaining in your site. |
| 5/7 | Class: E-commerce (notes).
Examples of affiliates: 1,
2. Affiliate support: linkshare.com.
Advertising placement: fastclick.com.
Shopping cart
Evaluate Aurora Shoes. Assignment: Prepare project presentations. |
Class: Repeat site evaluation with guest users. Share progress and brainstorm. |
| 5/14 | Class: Project presentations
(guidelines).
Assignment: Complete your project by Monday, 5/17 ( guidelines). |
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| 5/21 | Final Exam: 9-12 am in Macmillan 121 (comments). | |