Please submit your final project to me via email (tswallace@ualr.edu) by 3:30pm, December 13, 2012. I have enjoyed working with you all this semester. Happy Holidays.
Category Archives: Fall 2012
Semester Wrap-Up
- Next Steps | IFSC 3300 (Sample Syllabus)
- Mobile Web Development (Spring 2013)
- Course Evaluations
Next Steps
Working with Forms
JQuery Wrap-Up
- JQuery Cycle Demo
- Q & A
Working with JQuery
Assignment
Find and complete one jquery tutorial on the web. Upload the finished project to your web space and send me a link to the working example. Finish as homework due Thursday (4.17.12). When evaluating the script make sure that the page is still usable without Javascript enabled. You should pick something that can be integrated into your current site to meet the above mastery requirement.
Introduction to JavaScript Libraries
Experimenting with JavaScript
JavaScript
- Script Resources | More
- In-class assignment – On a blank HTML page implement a JavaScript from Dynamic Drive. Upload to the web and email me the link. Included in the document should be the URL where you got the script and any enhancements you made to the script. Extra credit will be given for any script that have been enhanced from their original format.
Assignment
Read the following Article on Progressive Enhancement. Send me an email (tswallace@ualr.edu) 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 Tuesday.
Introduction to JavaScript
Assignment
Read A reintroduction to JavaScript and complete lessons #1 and #2 at Codecademy
Building Imagery for your Site
Assignment
Create Banner image for your website in Fireworks. 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 next Thursday.
Planning a Website Project
- Lab Exercises
- Final Project Guidelines
- Planning, Storyboarding and Collecting Resources for your Web Site
Assignment
Decide on a topic for your final web site project. Once you have an idea of what you’d like to do fill out the site questionnaire, craft a statement of purpose , and storyboard your site. You should submit this to me via email before class on Tuesday.
CSS Positioning Lab
CSS Positioning Lab
- Finish Styling our Prototype HTML Document
- Styling Page Navigation (Lists)
- Positioning Lab
Understanding CSS Positioning
- Using Dreamweaver to Create and Apply Styles
- CSS Box Model – Description | Demonstration
- Positioning Overview
- CSS Positioning
- W3Schools – Positioning Lab – Use the Try it yourself links at the bottom of each code snippet to experiment
Design: Introduction to CSS
- Selecting the Proper Style: Tags, Classes, and ID’s
- Creating and Attaching a Style Sheet
- Using Dreamweaver to Create and Apply Styles
- CSS Box Model – Description | Demonstration
Assignment
Read: CSS Specificity & Class vs. ID – This is quiz material.
Working with Paths in Fireworks
Your assignment for this session is to complete the following tutorials and submit the folder icon you create in the 3rd tutorial.
You should email this icon to me before class next Tuesday. 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!
Introduction to Fireworks
- Fireworks Workspace
- Creating Shapes
- Working with Typography
- Cropping and Resizing
Introduction to HTML5
- What is Dreamweaver?
- Dreamweaver Workspace
- Defining a Site in Dreamweaver / Connecting to the Web server
HTML5 Overview
Assignment
Read Chapter 8 – Quiz Material
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.
Emailed to tswallace@ualr.edu on 9.27.12
Introduction to HTML
- Quiz
- Sectioning your HTML Document
- HTML Assignment Guidelines
- Creating Your UALR Web Space
- What is Dreamweaver?
- Dreamweaver Workspace
- Defining a Site in Dreamweaver / Connecting to the Web server
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.
Emailed to tswallace@ualr.edu on 9.25.12
Reading Assignment: CSS Basics
Structure: Introduction to HTML
- Inserting Images
- Working with Forms
- Quiz
- Here is a copy of the document we’ve been working on in class.
Assignment
Read Chapter 4 and Chapter 6
Structure: Introduction to HTML
Structure: Introduction to HTML5
- Setting Up an online work environment using JSbin
- Meta Tags
- Marking Up Content – Download the Starter Document
- Additional (x)html tags for textual content
- Special Character Encoding: Details | Reference
- Block vs. Inline Elements
Assignment
Read (Quiz Material) Read Chapter 3
Structure: Introduction to HTML
- Naming Conventions, Meta Naming, Directory Structure
- How the Internet Works
- Understanding how a web page works
- Doctypes & DTD’s – Document Type Definition
- Declaring a Language Type
- Exploring the <head>
- Title Attribute
- Meta Tags
Assignment
Read Semantic XHTML (Quiz Material) & Read Chapter 2.
Getting Started
- Review Reading
- Structure, Content, Design, & Behavior
- 300 Million Dollar Button
- VPN Instructions – Login to VPN with NetId
Assignment
Evaluate your favorite web site based on our discussion of Structure, Content, Design, and Behavior. This is a written assignment that should be emailed to me (tswallace@ualr.edu) no later than 9-4-12. Make sure you discuss the following elements: Site URL, An assessment of the Structure, Content, Design, and Behavior of the site, Things you like about the site, Things you would change.
Our Window to the Web: Web Browsers & Understanding Web Related Terminology
Assignment
Read Chapter 1 in Textbook and The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards