Advanced Web Strategies ADV4850: Work for Hybrid Class 1
Posted on | October 31, 2008 | No Comments
The work for this week is to complete all pages for the major project. Every section should have at least one completed page, with appropriate content written. Every page should be search-engine-optimized, and have a distinctive title.
All comments given to you by Prof. Harper for the last homework assignment should be reviewed, and changes should be made as directed. At this point, students should have determined how their project site is going to have dynamically loaded content. This is a requirement for the final project, and lacking a dynamic aspect will result in a failing grade.
Be prepared to present your project in class, and discuss your design approach, and the technologies used on the site.
Please email me your homework from last week (implementation of a lightbox slide show) as a link to a live page by Tuesday, Nov 4.
Tags: dynamic website > final project > hybrid class homework > lightbox > slideshow
Class Participation ADV3650: Affiliate Programs
Posted on | October 31, 2008 | 1 Comment
What affiliate programs have you found, and are planning to use on your final class project? Please give details about the program, the requirements, offerings, and a short description of your approach to implementing the advertising campaign on your website.
Web Page Layout Assignment: ADV3650 Advanced Web Design
Posted on | October 28, 2008 | No Comments
Using a source such as the New York Times article on blood-consuming organisms, combine photos, captions, and an article in an interesting layout. You should practice the skills acquired in class, styling text using CSS, and layout techniques using divs, floats, positioning, and CSS. This one-page assignment should showcase your graphic design talent, it should be engaging to look at, and entice the viewer to read.
Different Options For Implementing Lightboxes
Posted on | October 23, 2008 | 1 Comment
If you have a selection of images you want to present as a thumbnail gallery you have a number of options. I’m going to show two of them here. One is the solution that’s built into WordPress, another is based on a wonderful Javascript library called Script.aculo.us.
The pics are from when we went down to our dog’s breeder to choose her and bring her back to NYC. The breeder is Pacific Hounds in Bridgewater, TX (north of Fort Worth) they mostly have harriers and beagles though they also have some foxhounds (both American and English) as well as a considerable number of bloodhounds which they run under their other business name HHP Bloodhounds.
First the gallery feature built into WordPress 2.6…
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- Bunch of small beagles hoping they'll get a treat
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- Lots of little beagles looking cute
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- Cute little beagles waiting for a treat
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- Harrier, alert, tail up, looking at something
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- Harrier hound tracks a scent
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- 6 harrier hounds hope their owner will give them a treat
Notice that when you click on the images you’re taken to another page that just has a larger version of the image on it, and then when you click on the larger image you get the full size image.
Now lets try a nicer option from HuddleTogether.com (which is based on Script.aculo.us, follow the Huddle Together link for full instructions and downloads).
Homework for ADV3550 Web Page Implementation Monday Morning
Posted on | October 22, 2008 | No Comments
Following the class after Prof. Wong was out sick, the students of ADV3550 Web Page Implementation Monday morning should spend the week finishing off the flat designs they are planning on using for their final portfolio site project. You should continue to edit the pages, and write the content that you are using for your site. You should also be gathering images of your design work which will be showcased on this site.
Be prepared to review with the class your finalized designs. We will be discussing how to approach building each design. Bring in jpg images that can be shown onscreen, that we can talk about, and deconstruct.
Also, I am grading for midterms this week. You have until Thurs evening to email me any outstanding homework assignments you have not turned in. If you are not happy with your current grades, please feel free to resubmit improved homework.
Here are the current homework assignments, to date:
- Register domain name, and sign up with a hosting service
- 3 logo designs, and 3 interface designs
- Create an underconstruction page, and finalize one design for your site
- Build out a sample portfolio site, as we had started in class using the Dreamweaver: 2-column-fixed template. Write content for home, bio, resume, and contact pages. Make sure each page has a different title. Email link to live sample portfolio site.
- Complete graphics page exercise that was taught in class. Email homework as a link to a live page. Add graphics to sample portfolio site worked on in homework #4.
If you have any questions, please email me, and put “Question” in the subject line.
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