DES 251
Digital Media Design
Schedule / Assignments
week1 |
Course Intro/Review(Goals, policies, grades, syllabus) Readings Ch. 1, 2, 3Downoad free TextWrangler editor Week1_lecture Assignment 1 HTML
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week2 |
Martin Luther King Jr. Day HTML, HTML5 Readings Ch. 4, 5
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week3 |
Markup - XHTML, HTML, HTML5 Purchasing, hosting and administering your own domain FTP Download free Fetch FTP program from UIC webstore Readings Ch. 6, 7, 8, 11
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week4 |
Markup - XHTML, HTML, HTML5 Introduction to CSS CSS for color & textReadings Ch. 10, 12
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week5 |
Cascading Style Sheets Using CSS to style visual elements & graphics Readings Ch. 13, 14, 15, 16
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week6 |
Cascading Style Sheets CSS Positioning Readings Ch. 13, 14, 15, 16 Using absolute positioning from CSS Positioning Best Practices http://alistapart.com/article/css-positioning-101 http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/ Assignment 5 - to finish chess exercise using CSS positioning
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week7 |
Cascading Style Sheets CSS Positioning Readings Ch. 15
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week8 |
Midterm - March 5 Work on Midterm Project
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week9 |
HTML5 Readings Ch. 17, 18 Assignment 7: web site content web site map home (main content) page wireframe home (main content) page wireframe Illustrator Design
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week10 |
Dreamweaver Assignment 8: Web site development - Other pages
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week11 |
Spring Break |
week12 |
Intro to Javascript JavaScript class exercise
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week13 |
Javascript image frameworks LightBox Assignment: Install Lightbox in your website
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| week14 | Responsive Web Design Contact forms
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| week15 | Work on Final Project Course wrap-up & review SAGE Email me the Ethernet address of your MAC to enable SAGE Download SAGE Pointer from here
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week16 |
Final Presentation - April 30 |