William M. Pegram
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ITE 170 Schedule - Section 003,004N - Fall 2011

Last revised: December 9, 2011

The schedule will be updated with links to homework exercises and additional material as the course progresses.  The most current copy of this schedule can be found www.billpegram.com. Material, including quiz dates, below the X below is tentative; students should not work on assignments shown below the X since the assigment will likely change. References to Shelly are to Web Design: Introductory, Fourth Edition, Gary B. Shelly H. Jennifer T. Campbell, Course Technology, 2012, iSBN-13: 978-0-538-48240-0. References to Bishop are to Sherry Bishop, Jim Shuman, and Barbara M. Waxer, The Web Collection Revealed Standard Edition: Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Flash CS5, and Fireworks CS5, Delmar Cengage Learning, 2011, ISBM-13:978-1-111-13078-7

  Week Class Topics Reading/Homework Due (more will be added as course progresses) 
 

8/22, 8/23 and 8/30
Course Introduction, The Environment and the Tools, Web Graphics
Images, Fireworks

Conceptual
  • The Environment and the Tools (Chapter 1 Shelly) - internet and World wide web (PPT on Blackboard) - accessing internet and WWW, types of web sites, web design tools, web design roles
  • screen resolution and pixels
  • Resizing images in Fireworks (sample photo)

Williams and Tollett, Chapter 1, 2

 

 

8/29. 9/6
Web Design

Conceptual
  • Web Publishing Fundamentals (Chapter 2 Shelly) - web vs. print, web design principles, writing for the web, web publishing issues
Williams and Tollett, Chapters 5-6
  XHTML

Hands-On

XHTML Tutorial (copies will be distributed)
  9/12, 9/13
Conceptual
  • Planning a Successful Web Site - Part 1 (Chapter 3 Shelly)
Williams and Tollett - Chapter 7
    Hands-On
  9/19, 9/20
CSS

Conceptual

 

 

   

Hands-On

CSS Tutorial (reading), Biography Assignment (due at midnight after class 9/26, 9/27)
  9/26, 9/27
Dreamweaver
Hands-On
  • DW site definition (p. 12-14 Murray)
  • Dreamweaver workspace - Property Inspector, Panels (pp. 4-9 Murray)
  • Code, Split, Design, and Live View (p. 25-26, 28 Murray)
  • Preview in Browser (p. 97-98, Murray)
  • Adding Folders and Pages to Website by right-clicking in Files panel
  • Dreamweaver FTP - preserves file and folder structure automatically( !) - FTP Files from Dreamweaver CS3 video
  • Creating Absolute, Relative, Within-page, and email links in Dreamweaver (pp. 91-94 Murray)
 
  10/3, 10/4
Dreamweaver

Hands On - Dreamweaver

  • Creating Inline, Embedded, and External Stylesheets and applying them (p. 41-43, 49-55, 57-59)
  • Settiing Page Properties - HTML and CSS, including Background image (p. 177 Murray)
  • Inserting Inline Graphics and setting properties (pp. 163-169, Murray)
  • Making inline image into a link (p. 94 Murray)
  • Create Imagemap in DW (pp. 177-179 Murray)

 

 
  10/17, 10/18
Dreamweaver

Hands On

  • Using Predefined CSS Layouts (p. 59-60 Murray)
  • Paragraph Alignment, Indentation, Creating Lists, History Panel (pp. 66-69 Murray)
  • Templates and Library Items in DW (pp. 184-189, 192-193 Murray)
  • Tables with DW (pp. 208-214 Murray)
  • Doing Accessible Forms with Tables in DW (thanks to http://www.humboldt.edu/wag/reference/dreamweaver.html ) (pp. 223-234)
 
  10/24, 10/25
  • Midterm on HTML, CSS, Fireworks, Dreamweaver
 
  10/31, 11/1

Conceptual

  • Typography and Images (Chapter 5 Shelly)
 
  10/31, 11/1
Fireworks
Hands-On Project Proposals due 11/1
  11/7, 11/8
Flash

Conceptual

  • Introduction to Flash (Bishop Chapter 1 PowerPoint)
  • Flash tools (Bishop Chapter 2 PowerPoint)
 
 

11/7, 11/8
Flash

Hands-On
  • Flash Drawing tools - pencil, Ink bottle, oval and rectangle, brush
  • Flash drawing models - merge and object
  • Creating gradients
  • Frame by Frame Animation
  • Publishing movie from Flash and Inserting swf from Dreamweaver
  • Onionskinning
  • Adding or Deleting Frames
 
  11/14, 11/15
Flash

Conceptual

  • Symbols and Interactivity (Bishop Chapter 3 - parts)
  • Creating Animations (Bishop Chapter 4 - parts)
 
    Hands-On Project Web Graphics due 11/15
  11/21, 11/22
Flash

Conceptual

 

 
    Hands-On Project XHTML site due 11/22
  11/28, 11/29
Flash
 
X 12/5, 12/6 (no class 12/12) Project Flash site due 12/6
  12/13, 12/19  
Not covered or assigned

Flash Short Assignment 1

Flash Short Assignment 2

Flash Assignment 3