• WordPress Codex
• Theme Development Resources

Blank Starter Themes

• HTML5 Blank
• Blankslate
• More

Template Hierarchy and the Loop Explained

• Guide

• Course Evaluations – Please fill out 3 times (Once for Each Faculty Member)
• Peer Evaluations
• Package all project materials in a Team Drive that is shared with all faculty (ERD, Database export, All web-site files, documentation, etc.)
• Register for ITEC 4610
• If you have non-profits or other causes that you support in the Central Arkansas area that would benefit from a web/database project next semester please send them my way. We are currently looking for capstone projects.
• Have a great summer!

• Review Grades
• Peer Evaluation – Due Friday – May 5, 2017 – Emailed to all faculty
• Course Evaluations – Please fill out 3 times (Once for Each Faculty Member)
• Project Presentation – Thursday May 4, 2017 – 1:30pm

We hope you have a great Summer and we look forward to seeing you all in the Fall. If any of you are looking for project work for the Summer please let us know and we’ll try to pass along opportunities as they present themselves.

• Walkthrough with Source Files

Assignment

Upload your working version to you web space and send me the url. Make sure to do some customization so you get the opportunity to play with editing the calls to jQuery. Please send me the working URL before class on Thursday.

• Jquery Tabs Case Study
• JQuery Cycle Demo

• Exploring the functionality of Jquery
• Jquery Tabs Case Study
• JQuery Cycle Demo
• Building web apps with Jquery

Assignment

Read the following Article on Progressive Enhancement. Write a blog post explaining progressive enhancement in your own words. Please discuss why it is important to use progressive enhancement and include a link to another article you found and read relating to the topic. Due before class Thursday.

Introduction to JavaScript

• Introduction
• Uses of JavaScript
• Examples
  • Placement
  • Comments

HTML5 Boilerplate

• HTML5 Boilerplate
• Content Markup

Introduction to JavaScript

• Introduction
• Uses of JavaScript
• Examples
  • Placement
  • Comments

Assignment

Complete Getting Started with programming at Codecademy. Send me a a screenshot of the completion page. I recommend creating an account so you can save your progress and completion other modules in the future.

Site Planning

• Planning, Storyboarding and Collecting Resources for your Web Site

Working with HTML5 Boilerplate

• View Documentation | Download

Individual Web Site Project

• Requirements

Assignment

Watch the HTML5 Boilerplate Video | Download the Files (If you haven’t done so already) Review the HTML and CSS Documentation while looking through the boilerplate files. Be prepared to discuss on next week.

Begin thinking about a topic for your individual web project. By next Tuesday I should have a planning document and site map for the new site.

Web Forms

• Hosted Solution
• Using Server-Side Technology
  • PHP (Bluehost)
  • ASP (UALR IIS)

Assignment

1. Implement a contact form solution on your Segway Project. If necessary create a contact page.
2. Due Thursday (2/23) – Create a blog post on the Segway project. Include the site URL, Feedback you received,  How you improved/fixed your site based-on what your reviewers recommended. There should also be a working version of a contact form implemented.

Solicit feedback from a classmate regarding the design and implementation of your Segway Project. I’d like you to spend the next week incorporating the suggestions from this critique into your project. When critiquing others keep in mind that we are all at different places skill-wise. Be constructive in your criticism and remember to also include what you like as well.

Assignment

Due next Thursday (2/23 – Email me your final Segway project. I’d like to hear about what you improved/fixed based-on what your reviewers recommended. There should also be a working version of a contact form implemented (Will cover on Tuesday).

• Starter Document
• Micro-site Project

Assignment

• Horizontal Nav

Due Thursday before class. (February 16, 2017)

• Starter Document
• Micro-site Project

Assignment

Due Next Thursday before class. (February 16, 2017)

• Optimizing and Exporting Images
• Integrating Image Slices into Your Site Template
• Finalizing your page template
• Duplicating pages for your site

Assignment

Please read the following article on image optimization and write a short blog post discussing three takeaways from the article.

Review the HTML & CSS concepts covered last semester and bring questions/need for clarification to class on Tuesday. We’ll begin a web design project on Tuesday. If you need some review this site covers a good chunk of what we discussed last semester.

• Using Shapes, Text, and Photos to Create Imagery for your site
• Optimizing and Exporting Images

Assignment

Create Banner image for your sample page in Fireworks. The image should be as wide as your container div and between 80px and 200px tall and less than 40kb in size. Emailed tswallace@ualr.edu before class on Tuesday. Have fun with this. You can make an image for anything. It could be a company, an event, a hobby etc. I’d like to see the following elements present in your design. Typographical Element, some sort of photographic element or vector artwork, and a consistent color scheme (Try Kuler).

Next class I’ll show you how to integrate this image into your template page properly. Please bring the file to class.

• Set up Web Hosting
• Cpanel
• Using Shapes, Text, and Photos to Create Imagery for your site
• Optimizing and Exporting Images

Assignment

Create Banner image for your sample page in Fireworks. The image should be as wide as your container div and between 80px and 200px tall and less than 40kb in size. Emailed tswallace@ualr.edu before class on Thursday. Have fun with this. You can make an image for anything. It could be a company, an event, a hobby etc. I’d like to see the following elements present in your design. Typographical Element, some sort of photographic element or vector artwork, and a consistent color scheme (Try Kuler).

Next class I’ll show you how to integrate this image into your template page properly. Please bring the file to class.

Working with Photography

• Cropping and Re-sizing
• Working with the Selection Tool
  • Exercise: Remove the Background from this photo
• Color Correction (Curves)
• Clone Stamp
  • Exercise: Duplicate a Bird on the wire and remove the wire at the top of the image

Image Optimization

• Optimizing Imagery for the Web

Assignment

Post optimized samples of the images you created to your blog with an explanation of the tools and approach you used.

• Fireworks Workspace
• Creating Shapes
• Working with Typography
• Cropping and Resizing

Complete the following tutorials and submit the folder icon you create in the 3rd tutorial.

• How to use the pen tool in Adobe Fireworks
• Using the Path Panel
• Create an Icon in Fireworks

You should email this icon to me before class next Thursday. Late submissions will not be accepted. I do not expect you to perfectly replicate the icon in the tutorial but I would like to see a solid effort from each of you. This is a challenging assignment so I encourage you to not wait until the night before it is due. Good Luck!

Welcome

• Review Syllabus
• Verify VMWare Access
• HTML & CSS Review
  • Selecting the Proper Style: Tags, Classes, and ID’s
• Positioning Lab Review
  • Positioning Lab
• Introduction to Fireworks

Assignment

Read – Steps for producing a web site

• All assignments due to the faculty by Noon, Wednesday December 13, 2016
• Course Evaluations – You’ll need to fill this out once for each faculty member. Please take the time to do this. This help us continue to improve our program to meet you needs and expectations.
• Be sure to register for ITEC 3650 for Spring if you have not done so already.
• Have a great break!

• Positioning Overview
• CSS Positioning
• CSS Positioning Lab

Assignment

Complete today’s lab assignment and upload to your web space or post to Codepen. Sent me the url’s for each exercise no later than Tuesday. Be prepared to discuss in class.

• Google Fonts API
• Positioning Overview
• CSS Positioning

Assignment

Complete Styling your Prototype HTML Document and submit URL to me no later than Tuesday.

Read The following Article on CSS Positioning. Be prepared to discuss next week.

• Today’s Codecast
• Understanding Color | Kuler
• CSS Box Model – Description | Demonstration
• Styling Page Navigation
• Positioning Overview
• CSS Positioning

Assignment

Complete Styling your Prototype HTML Document and submit URL to me no later than Tuesday.

Read The following Article on CSS Positioning. Be prepared to discuss next week.

• Today’s Codecast
• Understanding Color | Kuler
• CSS Box Model – Description | Demonstration
• Styling Page Navigation
• Positioning Overview
• CSS Positioning

Assignment

Complete Styling your Prototype HTML Document and submit URL to me no later than next Thursday.

Read: Getting to Know CSS |  Getting to know the  Box Model – This is quiz material.

Assignment

Please write a blog post regarding today’s usability tests. I’d like you talk in detail about your observations from both tests and your thoughts as to why usability testing is a valuable part of the design/development workflow.

• Understanding Color | Kuler
• CSS Box Model – Description | Demonstration
• Styling Page Navigation
• Positioning Overview
• CSS Positioning

Assignment

Read: Getting to Know CSS |  Getting to know the  Box Model – This is quiz material.

• Selecting the Proper Style: Tags, Classes, and ID’s
• Creating and Attaching a Style Sheet
• CSS Box Model – Description | Demonstration

Assignment

Read: CSS Specificity & Class vs. ID – This is quiz material.

• What is Validation?
• Assignment Q&A
• Quiz

Assignment

• Create and Validate a prototype HTML document that includes examples of all HTML elements covered thus far. For a list of requirements view this page. Send me the URL of this page no later than next Tuesday (10/25).
• Reading Assignment: CSS Basics

• Sectioning your HTML Document
• What is Validation?
• Naming Conventions, Meta Naming, Directory Structure
• Setting up your coding environment with Brackets
• Creating Your UALR Web Space
• Using an FTP Client – Filezilla – Tutorial
  • Host:ualr.edu
  • Username: students\username
  • Password: students domain password
  • Port:21 (It should default to this)
• Coding in the cloud with CodeAnywhere

Assignment

• Create and Validate a prototype HTML document that includes examples of all HTML elements covered thus far. For a list of requirements view this page. Send me the URL of this page no later than next Tuesday.
• Reading Assignment: CSS Basics

• Sectioning your HTML Document
• What is Validation?
• Naming Conventions, Meta Naming, Directory Structure
• Setting up your coding environment with Brackets
• Creating Your UALR Web Space
• Using an FTP Client – Filezilla – Tutorial
  • Host:ualr.edu
  • Username: students\username
  • Password: students domain password
  • Port:21 (It should default to this)

Assignment

• Create and Validate a prototype HTML document that includes examples of all HTML elements covered thus far. For a list of requirements view this page. Send me the URL of this page no later than next Tuesday.
• Reading Assignment: CSS Basics

• Today’s Codecast
• Additional html tags for textual content
• Special Character Encoding: Details | Reference
• Hyperlinks
• Inserting Images
• Block vs. Inline Elements
• Working with Tables
• Working with Forms
• Sectioning your HTML Document

Assignment

HTML Reference – Code Guide | Introduction to HTML

• Today’s Codecast
• What is HTML5?
• Doctypes & DTD’s – Document Type Definition
• Declaring a Language Type
• Exploring the <head>
  • Title Attribute
  • Meta Tags
• Marking Up Content – Download the Starter Document
• Additional html tags for textual content
• Special Character Encoding: Details | Reference
• Hyperlinks
• Inserting Images
• Block vs. Inline Elements
• Working with Tables
• Working with Forms
• Sectioning your HTML Document

Assignment

HTML Reference – Code Guide | Introduction to HTML

• How the Internet Works
• Understanding how a web page works
• Setting up our work environment using Codpen | Today’s Codecast
• Other Code Editors
• What is HTML5?
• Doctypes & DTD’s – Document Type Definition
• Declaring a Language Type
• Exploring the <head>
  • Title Attribute
  • Meta Tags

Assignment

Read the 300 Million Dollar Button.

• Discuss Homework Reading
• Browser Overview
• Structure, Content, Design, & Behavior
• 300 Million Dollar Button
• How the Internet Works
• Understanding how a web page works

Assignment

Evaluate your a web site you frequent based on our discussion of Structure, Content, Design, and Behavior. Write a blogpost that includes the following elements: Site URL, Screenshot, An assessment of the Structure, Content, Design, and Behavior of the site, Things you like about the site, Things you would change. Due Tuesday.

• Understanding Web Related Terminology
• Browser Overview

Assignments

• Read – The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards
• Create an Account on Codepen.io.

• Resources
• Understanding Web Related Terminology

Assignments

1. This week you should complete the Power Searching with Google course as homework. Be prepared to discuss when we return to class next Tuesday. Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6
2. Due next Tuesday – Write a blog post about 5 new tips/trick you learned from the Power Searching with Google course. Please explain each technique and a situation where you might use it to find valuable information.

• Resources

Assignment:

Review your favorite web-based service in a blog post explaining it’s functionality, the pro’s and con’s of using the particular service, and discuss the service’s potential for impacting the way you work. Post is due next Tuesday. Please be prepared to discuss in class.

• Resources

Assignment:

Review your favorite web-based service in a blog post explaining it’s functionality, the pro’s and con’s of using the particular service, and discuss the service’s potential for impacting the way you work. Post is due next Tuesday. Please be prepared to discuss in class.

Introduction to Google Web Services

• Overview

Assignment

Create and embed a simple Google Presentation (Two or Three Slides) with content of your choice. Embed the presentation in your Blog in a new post.

Introduction to Google Web Services

• Overview

Assignment

Create a Google Doc and share it with tswallace@ualr.edu. In this document, List 5 web sites that you find useful in your professional or academic careers. Due before class on Tuesday.

• Customizing the Sidebar
  • Widgets
• RSS Feeds
• Shortcodes
• Custom Menus
• Individual Q&A

Assignment

Wrap up customizations of you WordPress blog.

If you are not familiar with Google Docs, spend sometime experimenting with Docs, Sheets, and Presentations. Be prepared to bring questions to class for next Tuesday’s session. Have a safe and Happy Labor Day.

• Daily Inspiration
• Blog Settings
• Applying a Theme
• Customizing the Sidebar
  • Widgets
• RSS Feeds
• Shortcodes
• Custom Menus
• Individual Q&A

Assignment

Make sure you have done the following by Tuesday of next week. We’ll be moving on to new topics so you should have all blog related issues and assignments squared away.

• Make sure I have your Blog URL
• Customize your blog
  • Apply a new theme
  • Customize the sidebar or wigitized areas
    • Add a few widgets.
    • Display an rss feed from a site that you frequent.
  • Try using a shortcode in a post or a page.
• Completed About Page
• Created a Custom Menu

• Introduction to Worpress
  • WordPress.com
  • What is a blog?
  • Publishing Content | Video Tutorial
  • Pages vs Posts
  • More Resources

Homework

Homework (Due 8.30.16): Write your first blog post reflecting on your first week in the program and your personal expectations for the class. Make sure you catergorize and/or tag the post. If you are feeling adventurous try adding a photo to the post as well. There is no length requirement for this assignment.

• Chromebook Orientation
• Introduction to Worpress
  • WordPress.com
  • What is a blog?
  • Publishing Content | Video Tutorial
  • Pages vs Posts
  • More Resources

Homework

Homework (Due 8.25.16): Visit WordPress.com and create a new blog. This will be where you reflect and write over the course of the next semester. Send me the address of your blog via email (tswallace@ualr.edu). We will review all of the settings on Tuesday.

• Review Syllabus & Expectations
• Faculty Introductions
  • Thomas Wallace
  • Daniel Spillers
  • Cheryl Johnston
  • Bruce Bauer
  • Chad Garrett
• Student Introductions
• Introduction to the Classroom Technology
  • Virtual Machines
  • Off Campus Access to VPN
• Chromebook Distribution and Overview
  • Chromebook Agreement
  • Using Multiple Google Accounts
• Subscribe to Group Email List – it-amber+subscribe@googlegroups.com
  • View Group Online
• Icebreaker Activity

Assignment

Complete Program Pre-Survey if you have not done so already. Bring your Chromebook to class on Tuesday.