Friday, June 7, 2013

Final Exam/Project


Required Components for Final Website

1.     Welcome Page
              a.     Mission Statement
                                               i.     About company
              b.     Logo
2.     Product page –
              a.     Price
              b.     Product Image
              c.      Persuasive Paragraph about product
              d.     Specs
              e.     Reviews
3.     “About us” page
              a.     Contact info
              b.     FAQs
4.     Products
              a.     Contains link to #2
              b.     5 additional products
5.     Text Box links at the bottom of each page

Product images can be found in Desktop Design > Wade > Period 1 > Final Products

All products were taken from at http://www.thingsyouneverknew.com/

Monday, June 3, 2013

Monday

Sorry I am out again I have a workshop to attend. I know how sad you all are when I am out so I will make sure you are super busy. Please write a bio for the third artist on you r website and add it to your site.

I hope have a great day and I hope you dance.

Friday, May 31, 2013

GOOD MORNING!!

Pay no attention to the man sitting at table. IGNORE ME!

No seriously. It is hot and you guys smell. Sorry but its true. Not all of you. Not most of you. But some of you and some of you a lot. I mean A LOT!

Please continue working on your website. Be sure you have all the components. A list was given to you yesterday. If you did not get the list... awwwww. TOO BAD!!! Have a great weekend and come to CODA. 2-8 in the courtyard!!

Thursday, May 16, 2013

I guess you can't leave a 3 year old at home alone

Hey guys,

My son was sent home sick yesterday, so he has to stay home today. I tried to come to school but my wife said that I couldn't leave him home alone. I said "He's not alone. The cat is there." I even left one of those pet feeders/water dispensers for him. She said it was not safe but I locked his door. Anyway...

For class I would like you to chose a second artist. Ideally one of the ones you already have featured in your site to write about. It is an advisory day so time is limited. Have fun and hope to see you tomorrow.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Monday, Monday...



... can't stand that day.

Sorry I am out. My daughter is sick. But hopefully I will be back tomorrow. Until then...

Continue to work on your gallery website. Each page should have a navigation text box at the bottom.

Add a text box to the bottom of one page.
 Add the names of every page on your site. Be sure to evenly space the titles. Using "Inspector" window link the names to the appropriate pages.
 Copy and paste that text box to the bottom of each page.  Be sure to deactivate the link to the page you are on after you have pasted the text box on each page.

See you tomorrow.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Term Battle Royale

What are the differences of the following web design terms:

Anchor vs. Link

Static vs. Fluid

Frame vs. Header/Footer

Monday, April 22, 2013

Production Team Site


Roles

Team Leader            
-       Should be elected not self appointed
-       Makes final decisions and keeps team on task

Designers
-       Create pages
-       All of you are designers (including team leader)

Requirements -

Home page/Index/"Welcome"
-       Contains general information about team and about game

“About Me” page - Team
-       Photos and bios of team members

“Movie” page
-       “One-pager”/elevator pitch
-       Trailer

“Photos” page
-       Concept art
-       Stills from game

Monday, March 25, 2013

Gallery Web Site

Requirements for your gallery website...

Welcome page
  - an introduction to your site
About me page
  - personal information which should be fictitious
Gallery page (Albums page)
  - should feature the "chosen" artist as well 2 other artists
Photos page
  - should feature the "chosen" piece as well as 5 other examples of artist work

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Writing Piece

Whether you write about the same artwork or a new one, write a formal piece trying to convince people to buy the actual artwork and therefore investing in the artist.

Structure
Introduction

Body

Conclusion


INCLUDED INFO
Artist Bio
Describe the artwork    
     Medium
     Title
     Subject/Focus
     When – Historical Context

Try to persuade the reader to invest their money in the artwork and the artist.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Website Extensions

Extensions are the ending of a web address that (in theory) designates its function.

Please find out what the following extensions represent...

  • .com
  • .net
  • .org
  • .biz
  • .info 
  • .mobi
  • .us 
  • .name
  • .co.uk
  • .org.uk
.edu
.gov

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Flash Deco Tool

Please create an animated sequence incorporating the "Deco Tool." At the end of class save the project into the "Flash" folder in "desktop design">"wade">"period 1" and name it...

"(Your Last Name)(Your First Initial)Deco"

Have fun


Wednesday, January 30, 2013

OMG! Best Web Site EVAH!

In a comment below, post a link to the best (school appropriate) site you have ever seen and state why.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

For the Midterm

Know the TERMS!
Know the PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN!
Know the ELEMENTS OF DESIGN!
Know how to CREATE A BLOG, POST AND COMMENT on a blog and ADD A PICTURE AND A LINK!

Friday, January 11, 2013

Chrome Experiments

Chrome Experiments is a collection of interactive websites. Your task is to review two of these "experiments" for the content in your new webpage.

The first site that you have to review is WebCam Toy. The second site is one of the other experiments that you choose.

Each site should be reviewed by asking the following questions...

1. What is the name of the site? What is the URL?

2. What does it do? Briefly describe what you can do at the site?

3. What is it similar to? What makes it better than that? How can it be improved? (For example: Webcam Toy is similar to Photobooth. It has many more choices in effects including several video choices. However, you can not record video. w)

4. What makes it cool?

Monday, January 7, 2013

New Tutorial

Follow the link below to start a new website. After following the tutorial please critique the tutorial and compare to the others we have done.

First Website

Enjoy!
 

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Common Terms Defined

  • ASP
    Microsoft Active Server Page (ASP) is a server-side scripting technology that can be used to create dynamic and interactive Web applications. An ASP page is an HTML page that contains server-side scripts that are processed by a web server before being sent to the user’s browser. You can combine ASP and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to create powerful interactive websites.
  • Bandwidth
    How much information you can send through a connection. The Capacity of a connection. Usually measured in bits-per-second. A full page of English text is about 16,000 bits.
  • Binary
    Information consisting entirely of ones and zeros. Also, commonly used to refer to files that are not simply text files, e.g. images.
  • Browser
    A Client program (software) that is used to look at various kinds of Internet resources, e.g. Internet Explorer
  • Client
    A software program that is used to contact and obtain data from a Server software program on another computer, often across a great distance. A Web Browser is a specific kind of Client, e.g. your Internet browser connecting to another web site, makes your compute, the client.
  • Cookie
    The most common meaning of "Cookie" on the Internet refers to a piece of information sent by a Web Server to a Web Browser that the Browser software is expected to save and to send back to the Server whenever the browser makes additional requests from the Server.
  • CSS
    (Cascading Style Sheet) A standard for specifying the appearance of text and other elements across the entire web site. CSS was developed for use with HTML in Web pages but is also used in other situations. CSS is typically used to provide a single "library" of styles that are used over and over throughout a large number of related documents, as in a web site.
  • Domain Name
    The unique name that identifies an Internet site. Domain Names always have 2 or more parts, separated by dots. The part on the left is the most specific, and the part on the right is the most general.
  • Download
    Transferring data (usually a file) from a another computer to the computer your are using. The opposite of upload.
  • Dynamic Site
    The term dynamic is defined as constant change. Dynamic, as it relates to web design and development, refers to the way in which content, images, or any other variable is placed into a website. Typically, a web based language is used,such as PHP, to retrieve information from a database. An example of a dynamic website would be an e-commerce website or a site with a content management system.
  • FTP
    (File Transfer Protocol) A very common method of moving files between two Internet sites. FTP is a way to login to another Internet site for the purposes of retrieving and/or sending files. A web designer/developer will login to a server, and FTP files from his computer, to the server, making them viewable on the world wide web.
  • Host
    Any computer on a network that is a repository for services available to other computers on the network. A client will receive data from a host.
  • HTML
    The coding language commonly used to create Hypertext documents for use on the World Wide Web. The "hyper" in Hypertext comes from the fact that in HTML you can specify that a block of text, or an image, is linked to another file on the Internet. HTML files are meant to be viewed using a "Web Browser".
  • HTTP
    (HyperText Transfer Protocol) The protocol for moving hypertext files across the Internet. Requires a HTTP client program on one end, and an HTTP server program on the other end. HTTP is the most important protocol used in the World Wide Web (WWW).
  • IP Number
    (Internet Protocol Number) Every machine that is on the Internet has a unique IP number - if a machine does not have an IP number, it is not really on the Internet.
  • ISP
    (Internet Service Provider) An institution that provides access to the Internet in some form, usually for money.
  • Server
    A computer, or a software package, that provides a specific kind of service to client software running on other computers. The term can refer to a particular piece of software, such as a WWW server, or to the machine on which the software is running.
  • Static Site
    Static, unlike its dynamic counterpart, stays constant. The text, images, and other variables are placed into the HTML. This type of site does not require a database or dynamic web programming languages.
  • Upload
    Transferring data (usually a file) from a the computer you are using to another computer. The opposite of download.
  • URL
    (Uniform Resource Locator) The term URL is basically synonymous with URI. URI has replaced URL in technical specifications.
  • WWW
    World Wide Web (or simply Web for short) is a term frequently used (incorrectly) when referring to "The Internet".