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9/10/07

9/17/07

  • HTML and XHTML Code Tutorial
  • Student Blogs
    • Options: Title, Tagline, Date Offset
    • Options: Discussion Options
    • Managing Comments
    • Options: Themes
    • Revising and Deleting Past Posts
  • Feed Reading
    • Subscribing to Class Blogs

9/24/07

  • Blog Notes
    • The Question to Ponder and Why Blog (Again)
    • Comment setup and moderation
    • Signing up for Google Reader
      • Subscribing to Class Blogs
  • Class Account Information Sheets
  • Using Dreamweaver
    • Touring the Interface (Chap. 2)
    • Site Setup (Chap. 3)

10/01/07

  • Publishing Exercise
  • Basic Page Elements (Chap. 4)
  • Links (Chap. 5)
  • File Organization

10/08/07

  • No Formal Class!
Open Lab session for those who need it. I will attempt to be online via the class Chat Room and Elluminate to answer questions. There will be an assistant available for the first part of the session.

10/15/07

  • Notes on Color and Images
  • Begin Chapter 6 - Cascading Style Sheets
    • Intro to what CSS is
    • Linked Stylesheets
    • Creating a few sample styles

10/22/07

  • Continue Chapter 6 - Cascading Style Sheets
    • CSS Sample Files (download and put in your site folder in a folder called css-ice
    • Page Properties
    • Moving to an External Stylesheet
      • Viewing Stylesheets
    • Creating Rules: Tags (Type)
    • Creating Rules: ID
    • Creating Rules: Classes
    • Creating Rules: Pseudo-Classes
    • Attaching to Second Page
    • Multiple Stylesheets and Cascading

10/29/07

  • NO CLASS

11/5/07

  • Tables (Chap 8)
    • Creating and Manipulating Tables
    • Table Widths
    • Table Borders: XHTML and CSS
    • Table Alignment
    • Table Color
    • Merging and Splitting
    • Sorting Tables
    • Rounded Corners on Tables
  • Forms (Chap 13)
    • Creating a Form
    • Field types
    • Field names
    • Formatting Forms
    • Form Processing (Allforms)

11/12/07

11/19/07

  • Why Fireworks?
  • File Formats and Vector/Bitmap images
  • flickr Photos - flowers
  • Fireworks
    • General Tools
      • Canvas Color/Size
      • Crop
    • Bitmap Tools
      • Magic Wand and Inverse Selection
      • Lasso and Polygon Lasso
      • Marquees
        • Expand, Contract, Border
      • Moving and Copying Selections
      • Levels
    • General Tools
      • Image Size
      • Rubber Stamp (clone)
      • Smudge
      • Blur/Sharpen
      • Eraser
      • Red Eye Removal
      • Filters

11/26/07

  • Fireworks Vector Tools (Lesson 2)
    • Rectangle and Rounded Rectangles
    • Ellipse, Polygon, Shape Tools
    • The Pen Tool
    • Select and Select Behind
    • Fill and Stroke Colors
    • Gradient Fills
    • Textures and Stroke Types
    • Scaling and Resizing
    • Rulers and Guides
    • Scaling (alt, shift, alt-shift, numeric)
    • Rotating and Cloning
    • The History Panel
    • Paste Inside and Paste as Mask
    • Live Filters and Filter Styles
    • Aligning
    • Grouping and Arranging
    • Sub-Selecting
    • Canvas Cropping
  • Fireworks Layers (Lesson 3)
    • New Layers and Layer Names
    • Layer Editing and Locking
    • Showing and Hiding Layers
    • Single Layer Editing
  • Fireworks Text (Lesson 4)
    • Adding Text
      • Text Properties
      • Strokes, Fills, Effects
      • Aligning and Indenting
      • Attaching to Paths
      • Convert to Paths
      • Strokes, Fills, Effects

12/03/07

  • Form Processing (Allforms)
  • Aligning and Grouping Objects
  • Combining Paths (Lesson 5)
    • Unions
    • Splits
    • Punch
    • Intersect (keep overlap)
    • Crop (top rules)
  • Creating Buttons (Lesson 6)
    • Using the Button Editor
    • Slices and Guides
    • Previewing (in FW and in browser)
    • Copying Buttons
    • Names and Links
    • Importing
  • Optimizing and Exporting (Images) (Lesson 8)
    • The Export Wizard
    • The Optimize Window
    • Formats
      • GIF, JPG, PNG (web)
      • Transparency
      • Animated GIF (web)
      • TIFF, BMP (print and special apps)
    • 2-up and 4-up
    • File Export
    • Quick Export

12/10/07

Images for today: galaxies.zip

  • Hotspots and Slices
    • Creating Hotspots
    • Using the Web Layer
    • Exporting the Image and HTML
    • Creating Slices
    • Adding Simple Rollover Behavior
    • Image Swapping
    • Exporting the Images and HTML
  • Popup Menus
  • Dreamweaver Behaviors
    • Swap Image
    • Open Browser Window
    • Status Bar text
    • Div or element text
  • Class Evaluations!

12/17/07

  • Final Project Lab Session
  • Special Topics as Needed


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