| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Reading/Project Due |
| 1 |
Class |
Orientation, DW Demo, Web Design |
Jakob Neilsen's research |
| Lab |
Dreamweaver, email |
|
| 2 |
Class |
More on Design, Usability, site management, CSS |
Web Usability Oversight;
Research-based Web Design & Usability Guidelines |
| Lab |
Dreamweaver- Site managemt., CSS |
CSS
good article & How-to |
| 3 |
Class |
Typography, Color on the Web; |
Web Typography
Web-safe colors?
|
| Lab |
Photoshop - optimization |
A#1 - Local & Remote Sites (due Monday. April 14) |
| *4 |
Class |
Images & Image file types, file sizes, resolution |
|
| Lab |
Photoshop layers |
A#2 - optimized image (due Friday, April 25) |
| 5 |
Class |
More on images, Slicing images - rollovers
& animation; optimization
|
|
| Lab |
ImageReady - slicing, rollovers & optimiz. |
|
| 6 |
Class |
Dreamweaver forms; Flash |
|
| Lab |
Flash |
|
| *7 |
Class |
Dreamweaver Behaviors & JavaScript |
|
| Lab |
Flash animation |
A#3 - slicing an image
|
| 8 |
Class |
Digital video, Digital audio (PCM, MP3, MIDI), Compression |
|
| Lab |
iMovie |
A#4 - Simple Flash |
| 9 |
Class |
Digital video and audio |
|
| Lab |
iMovie |
|
| *10 |
Class |
Search engines, registering your site
Wrapup - evaluations, etc. |
A#5 - Flashier Flash
Project - Final site (due Monday, June 9 at 9:00 pm) |
| Lab |
Review final sites |
|