• Course Evaluations
• Peer Evaluations (Fill out once per team member, Do not evaluate yourself). Failure to evaluate your peers will negatively impact your grade. Due 12/8.
• Package all project materials in a Team Drive that is shared with all faculty (ERD, Database export, All web-site files, documentation, etc.) Due 12/8.
• 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 holiday break!

• Exploring the functionality of Jquery
• Jquery Tabs Case Study
• JQuery Cycle Demo
• Walkthrough with Source Files

Assignments

1. Upload your working cycle implimentation to your 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 Monday.
2. 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 Monday.

• Dragon Show and Tell
• Individual project discussion

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/cloud9)
  • ASP (UALR IIS)

• Create Cloud 9 Account from the email invitation you were sent.
• Exploring the functionality of Cloud9
• Publishing Files

Assignment

1. Implement a contact form solution on your Dragon Project. If necessary create a contact page.
2. Due Monday (10/2) – Create a blog post on the Dragon 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 9/27 – Email me the final implementation of your Dragon project. In a blog post, I’d like to hear about your experience working on this project. What did you do well? What would you do differently? I’d also like you to reflect on the feedback session with your classmates. What did you improve based-on what your reviewers recommended? There should also be a working version of a contact form implemented (Will cover on Monday).

• Layout Examples
• Additional Examples
  • Example 1
  • Example 2

• Starter Document
• Micro-site Project

Assignment

First Iteration due next Wednesday before class. (September 20, 2017)

• Today’s Codecast
• Download Files
• Working with Brackets
• 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 Monday. We’ll begin a web design project on Monday. 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
• Retrieving your Files from the server

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 Monday. 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.

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

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. You are welcome to use any graphic design software you have access to to complete the assignment. Good Luck!

• Review Syllabus 
• Verify VMWare Access (Tutorials and Support)
• HTML & CSS Review
  • Selecting the Proper Style: Tags, Classes, and ID’s
• Introduction to Fireworks
• Other Online Graphic Design Tools
  • Canva
  • Gravit Designer

Assignment

Read – Steps for producing a web site

• T-Shirt Distribution
• Course Evaluations – Please fill out once for each faculty member.

Summer Learning Resources

• Advanced HTML & CSS
• Web Typography Handbook
• HTML/CSS Micro project Challenges
• More HTML/CSS Exercises
• Best Practices and Tutorials
• Learn Flexbox (New CSS Layout Spec)
  • Flexbox Froggy
• CSS Grids
  • CSS Grid Garden

• Lab Debrief
• Review Grades

• CSS Progress Check
• 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 Wednesday. Be prepared to discuss in class.

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

Assignment

Complete writing CSS for the example we have been working on in class. Submit the finished result to me no later than next Monday.

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

Assignment

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

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

Assignment

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

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

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.

• Quiz
• First Assignment Q & A
• 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.

• Codecast
• 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: web.ualr.edu
  • Username: students\username
  • Password: students domain password
  • Port:21 (It should default to this)
• Coding in the cloud with CodeAnywhere

Assignment

• HTML Reference – Code Guide | Introduction to HTML | Be prepared for a Quiz on Monday covering all class materials and readings thus far.
• 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 Wednesday (3/15).
• Reading Assignment: CSS Basics

• Codecast
• 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: web.ualr.edu
  • Username: students\username
  • Password: students domain password
  • Port:21 (It should default to this)
• Coding in the cloud with CodeAnywhere

Assignment

HTML Reference – Code Guide | Introduction to HTML | Be prepared for a Quiz on Monday covering all class materials and readings thus far.

• Codecast
• Working with Tables
• Working with Forms
• 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: web.ualr.edu
  • Username: students\username
  • Password: students domain password
  • Port:21 (It should default to this)
• Coding in the cloud with CodeAnywhere

Assignment

HTML Reference – Code Guide | Introduction to HTML

• Codecast
• 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

• Codecast
• 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.

• Understanding Web Related Terminology
• Structure, Content, Design, & Behavior

Assignments

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

• 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 Monday. Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6. If you completed this course previously please complete the Advanced course to fulfill this assignments requirements.

1. Due next Wednesday – Write a blog post about 5 new tips/tricks 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.

Using the Web Like a pro

• 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 Wednesday. Please be prepared to discuss in class.

Google Services

• Overview

Using the Web Like a pro

• 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 Wednesday. Please be prepared to discuss in class.

Google Services

• Overview

Using the Web Like a pro

• Resources

• Shortcodes
• Q&A

Google Services

• Overview

Using the Web Like a pro

• Resources

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

Homework

Homework (Due 1.23.17): Write your first blog post reflecting on your first week in the program and your personal expectations for the class. Make sure you categorize 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 1.18.17): 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
  • Cheryl Johnston
  • Bruce Bauer
• Student Introductions
• Introduction to the Classroom Technology
  • Virtual Machines
  • Off Campus Access to VPN
• Subscribe to Group Email List – it-ruby+subscribe@googlegroups.com
  • View Group Online
• Icebreaker Activity
• Chromebook Distribution and Overview
  • Chromebook Agreement
  • Using Multiple Google Accounts

Assignments

• Complete the Myers Briggs Type Inventory and email the results to cljohnston@ualr.edu. Due January 11, 2017 by noon.
• Bring your Chromebook to class on Wednesday.