Creating Your Own Website AP010S

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Creating Your Own Website AP010S Spring 2007 Professor: Jeff Knowlton e-mail: kno***** This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Please include "Web workshop" in your subject line, so you don't get deleted. phone: 661-799-9*** (but Skype is better) Skype name: j***knowlton Workshop Sessions: January 25, 26, 29, 30, February 1, 2        MacLab    9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Workshop Outline: In this workshop students will create their own website using Macromedia Dreamweaver and old school HTML.  The workshop will cover enchanting topics such as; importing and compressing images, marking up text, using frames, creating tables and an introduction to Cascading Style Sheets or CSS Attendance at all sessions required.  Limited to 15 students. Requirements: Please show up and make something. We all know how CalArts works, but attendence is crucial given the short duration of the workshop format. Jan. 25,    The First Date We will begin with a brief history of media. Then to get a feel for what goes on under the surface of a web page, we will tackle very simple hand coded HTML documents and upload them to the server. We will also discuss file hierarchy & index pages, Secure Shell & FTP connections.   Jan. 26,    Text and  Dreamweaver This session will begin the introduction to Dreamweaver and WYSIWYG web page editing. In answer to the question, "Where do I keep my files so everything stays together" we  will talk about the whole local vs. remote file issue as well as relative vs. absolute paths. We will also mark up text, "Bold, Strong, Italic and so on" Jan. 29,    Image and Compression    During today's session, we will look at configuring images and video for the web and imbedding these assets in the web page. For video we will think more specifically compression and image size. Please arrive to class with image and video assets. Jan. 30,    Tables and Structure This session will cover the use of tables and delve into site architecture. One man's organization is another man's apocalyse. Do you organize deep or wide? Or at all? Tables; bringing things together in one place. Feb. 1,    Frames Yeah, that thing on the side. You know...... There isn't much to it, so you will spend some class time today synthesizing things we have gone over for your own personal website. Feb. 2,    CSS or Cascading Style Sheets and closure Your data is separate from the information about how it is displayed. Or in CalArts terms, content is separated from form.  We will cover the basics of CSS, while leaving plenty of time to make sure that any problems with your websites are solved.

 

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