ITE 170 Schedule - Fall 2011

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	Course information Getting started on Annandale computers 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 Web Page Creation and Revision, Text Formatting, RGB color Validation - http://validator.w3.org/ FTP using CoreFTP (FTP Instructions) FTP using Windows Explorer - see FTP instructions above	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 Absolute and Relative Links Default Pages and Directory Browsing Inserting Images into Web Pages Tables
	9/19, 9/20 CSS	Conceptual Planning a Successful Web Site - Part 1 (Chapter 4 Shelly) References and XHTML Rules
		Hands-On CSS - inline, embedded, external Depecated tags and attributes CSS Reference CSS validator	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 Image Rollovers in DW (p. 179 Murray) Working with Images Image editing and creation in Fireworks	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 Shape Tweens, Shape Hints, Symbols and Instances, Animation within a Symbol Classic Tweens, Bitmaps and Tweening Alpha, Masks	Project Web Graphics due 11/15
	11/21, 11/22 Flash	Conceptual Using Vertically Tiled Image with CSS margin property for foreground - solid image Using Vertically Tiled Image with CSS margin property for foreground - pattern image Using Vertically Tiled Image with Tables for foreground - pattern image
		Hands-On Button and movie clip symbols ActionScript for buttons to start and stop the main timeline	Project XHTML site due 11/22
	11/28, 11/29 Flash	ActionScript for slideshows, website in movie Photos for slideshow
X	12/5, 12/6 (no class 12/12)	Introduction to Inverse Kinematics and the Bone and Bind Tool Student Examples of Bone and Bind Tool	Project Flash site due 12/6
	12/13, 12/19	Terms you should understand Final (at regular class time):

Not covered or assigned

Flash Short Assignment 1

Flash Short Assignment 2

Flash Assignment 3