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The Textbook Course Description Course Objectives Course Policies Grading System Course Schedule |
Prof. Thomas A. Easton
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OFFICE: Rm. 120A
OFFICE HOURS: 9-9:50 AM MWF, 12-2 PM MW, 9:25-10:40 AM TTh, 12-2 PM TTh OFFICE PHONE: 859-1331 HOME PHONE: 338-1074 CANCELLATION PHONE NUMBER: 859-1140 Click here to email me:  |
| DATE | TOPIC | ASSIGNMENT |
| T 1/9 | Introduction | Read Chap.1, pp. 4-29 |
| Th 1/11 | Design Strategy | Read Chap.2, pp. 31-45 |
| T 1/16 | Navigational Structure | Read Chap. 2, pp. 46-67 |
| Th 1/18 | Thomas College: Strategy and Navigation | Explore the TC web site and prepare a paper describing the design strategy and navigational structure. |
| T 1/23 | Design Guidelines: Appearance | Read Chap. 3, pp. 69-83 |
| Th 1/25 | Design Guidelines: Interactivity | Read Chap. 3, pp. 84-97 |
| T 1/30 | Thomas College Design | We will discuss how the chapter applies to the TC site. |
| Th 2/1 | HTML, XHTML, and Conversion Programs | Read Chap. 4, pp. 99-111 |
| T 2/6 | Web Authoring Programs | Read Chap. 4, pp. 112-129 |
| Th 2/8 | Creating a Web Page in XHTML | Do Chap. 4, Lesson 1, pp. 130-138 |
| T 2/13 | Multimedia Element--Text | Read Chap. 5, pp. 155-171 |
| Th 2/15 | Cascading Style Sheets | Read Chap. 5, pp. 172-185 |
| 2/19-2/23 | WINTER BREAK | |
| T 2/27 | Creating Style Sheets | Do Chap.5, Lesson 1, pp. 187-199
We don't have Dreamweaver, but you can use Nvu to do the work. (It's free!) Download Nvu here. For documentation, go here or here. For style sheet-specific help, click here. |
| Th 3/1 | Multimedia Element--Graphics | Read Chap. 6, pp. 203-221 |
| T 3/6 | Graphics Software | Read Chap. 6, pp. 222-245 |
| Th 3/8 | Design Project | Use Paint.Net to do the logo and manipulate the photo. Then use Nvu to do the web page. |
| T 3/13 | Multimedia Element--Animation | Read Chap. 7, pp. 281-291 |
| Th 3/15 | Animation | Constructing animated GIF files with UnFREEz; you may download your own copy of UnFREEz here. (It's free!) |
| T 3/20 | 3D Animation and software | Read Chap. 7, pp. 292-309 |
| Th 3/22 | Flash | Do Design Project, Lessons 1-5 |
| 3/26-3/30 | SPRING BREAK | |
| T 4/3 | Flash | Do Project Builder 2, with "Two Steps Beyond" |
| Th 4/5 | Multimedia Element--Sound | Read Chap. 8, pp. 343-361 |
| T 4/10 | Software | Read Chap. 8, pp. 362-375 |
| Th 4/12 | Flash and Sound | Do Design Project, Lessons 1-4; if you want sound-editing software for your own use but don't care to pay for Flash, download Audacity. (It's free!) |
| T 4/17 | Multimedia Element--Video | Read Chap. 9, pp. 395-411 |
| Th 4/19 | Video | Read Chap. 9, pp. 412-427 |
| T 4/24 | Video | Do Design Project, Lessons 1-4; the text comes with a video file, but you should feel free to use a different one, perhaps recorded with a digital camera or camcorder on campus (the river?). |
| Th 4/26 | Video Project | Continued |
| M 4/30 | FINAL EXAMS BEGIN | |
| EXAM DAY | Finish and demonstrate projects as necessary. | |
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