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Syllabus
Please note that this is the first semester of a sequential year-long
course
which is build upon the assumption that you have basic web design skills.
Course
Description
Requirements/Grading
Please note that
there is substantial work required in this course,
including mandatory reading, writing and technical assignments.
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Week
1:
Monday,
August 25
Introduction, Attendance, Weblogs
Useful
web resources
Formation
of groups, reading, goal of course, concept
Wednesday, August 27
Prepare
3 minute presentations of your past work and interests.
(URLs, visual material)
First
Assignment (due
September 3)
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Week
2:
Monday September 1 (Labor Day Observed)
Wednesday, September 3
Presentation/ creation of page with names.
Second Assignment (due September 17)
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Monday, September 8
Overview
of some existing sites
In-class
in groups:
From these sites and the sites covered in "Deep Sites" select
one project and write a 100 word response. What bothers you about (these)
web initiatives? How could you make it better/ differently? Why yet another
web-based publication?
links
in blog (index), group name/ logo
registration for access
walk through:
assignment 2
start
of assignment 3
Third
Assignment (due September 24)
Wednesday, September 10
Instructor out of town (N5M Amsterdam)
Class meets
Design a
page and integrate a weblog into your own template design
using the Blogger site ftp-ing to your
own web space, with creation of an archive.
Advanced students may also use the Moveable
Type site.
Introduction to Inline Frames
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(Instructor
out of town, Next
Five Minutes, Amsterdam)
Class
meets
Fourth Assignment
(due September 29)
Wednesday, September 17
Layout
manipulations with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Introduction
lab
notes
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Introduction
to Dhtml
lab notes
Wednesday, September
24
Fifth
Assignment (due
Oct 1)
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Week
6:
Monday, September 29
Continue work
group critique
lecture notes
Wednesday, October 1
Create an architecture map of the publication
in Photoshop and post it online (check file size).
start design
process
lab notes
sample
sites
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Week
7:
Monday, October 6-- No class
(Yom Kippur)
Wednesday October 8
Introduction
to Fireworks / class walk through
6th Assignment
for Site Design (due Oct 20)
(also extended deadline for assignment 5: Oct 20th)
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Monday,
October 13
Basics
of Design, Hands-on exercise
creating 360 degrees image, Introduction to
Dreamweaver
7th
Assignment (due Oct 27)
Wednesday October 15
Steven
Vitiello lecture, Rm 268
<I'll make the readings for each group of topics
for the presentations available to you on the discussion
blog. I'll also once more explain the coding for assignm 5
via email for those have not managed to solve this yet.>
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Week
9:
Monday, October 20
Presentation of Interfaces
Introduction to iFrames
Review
of Stephen Vitiello Lecture
Suggested Reading
(Tim Lenoir lecture):
All But War is Simulation: The Military Entertainment Complex,
Configurations, Vol 8 (2000/ 2003), pp. 238-335.
Wednesday October 22
Class
meets 2 pm, CFA 112
Class
meets 2-4pm in CFA 112 for web streaming event with
Tim Lenoir (Stanford University)
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Week 10:
Monday, October 27
Group Presentations
Wednesday October 29
Group Presentations, Site Submission to Search Engines,
Server Side Includes (ssi)
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Week 11:
Monday,
November 3
Optimize group site for submission (meta
tags, design etc)
Include text based on research for group presentation
into site(s)
Repeat: ssi, iframes
New:
Settings anchors
Editing style sheets (redefining HTML tags)
Creating a style class
CSS selector
Wednesday,
November 5
Video Screening
8th
assignment (hand in texts printed out December 1)
4
individual research assignments
Write four 500 words pieces.
Those who have not yet submitted notes need to
hand them in (group presentation of Oct 29).
Ask for 2 extra individual assignments if you
want to improve your grade by adding 2 grades.
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Week
12:
Monday, November 10
Dreamweaver-->CSS layers,
stacking order,
clipping area, layers into tables,
scalable
table
demo: http://molodiez.org/pub_front/index.shtml
Wednesday, November 12
Tracing
image, adding behavior to a layer
extra assignments
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Events
handlers, text for status bar,
swap image, play sound
Wednesday November 19
Set text of layer, drag layer action
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Timelines,
showing and hiding of layers
Wednesday November 26
Fall Recess Nov 26-28, No class
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Launch of
Publications
Wednesday December 3
Secure domain names
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Last
Day of Class
Monday, December 8
Optimizing
of site, plans for spring semester
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