• Final Project Guidelines
• Next Steps | IFSC 3300 (Sample Syllabus)
• Mobile Web Development (Spring 2014)
• Course Evaluations

Today we will work individually on our final projects and review/troubleshoot our Jquery implementations.

Assignment

Submit the url for the page including your Jquery implementation. This should be submitted no later than this evening.

• JQuery Cycle Demo

Assignment

Find a Jquery tutorial on the web. 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. Submit the URL to me via email of the working script. Due Tuesday.

Resources 1 | 2 | 3

• Final Project Guidelines
• Progressive Enhancement Review
• Script Resources | More
• Jquery Tabs Case Study
• JQuery Cycle Demo
• Exploring the functionality of Jquery
• Building web apps with Jquery

Assignment

Find a Jquery tutorial on the web. Begin working on the implementation and bring to class on Tuesday. 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
• Uses of JavaScript
• Examples
  • How To
  • Placement
  • Statements
  • Comments

Assignment

Complete lessons #3 and #4 at Codecademy.

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.

• Hosted Solution
• Using Server-Side Technology
• Review Segway Projects

Assignment

Read A reintroduction to JavaScript and complete lessons #1 and #2 at Codecademy

• Segway Project
• Starter HTML Document

Assignment

Work on the Segway project and bring questions to class on Thursday. This project is due next Tuesday.

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

• 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.

• Planning, Storyboarding and Collecting Resources for your Web Site
• Final Project Guidelines
• Deciding on Good Colors and Fonts

Assignment

Complete the planning document and sitemap and submit to me via email no later than next Tuesday.

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

Your assignment for Spring Break is to 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 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! If you’d like you can download a 30 day trial of Fireworks on your own computer so you can work off campus.

• CSS Positioning Lab
• Fireworks Workspace
• Creating Shapes
• Working with Typography
• Cropping and Resizing

Assignment

Read – Steps for producing a web site

• Positioning Overview
• CSS Positioning
• CSS Positioning Lab

Assignment

Complete today’s lab assignment and upload. Sent me the url’s for each exercise no later than Thursday. Be prepared to discuss in class on Tuesday.

• Styling Page Navigation
• Positioning Overview
• CSS Positioning
• W3Schools – Positioning Lab – Use the Try it yourself links at the bottom of each code snippet to experiment

ASSIGNMENT

Style your prototype HTML Document from top to bottom. Upload the file to your web space and send the URL to tswallace@ualr.edu before class on Tuesday.

If you haven’t already, please read the following article on CSS Positioning and be prepared to complete an in class lab assignment on Tuesday.

• Positioning Overview
• CSS Positioning
• W3Schools – Positioning Lab – Use the Try it yourself links at the bottom of each code snippet to experiment

Assignment

Style your prototype HTML Document from top to bottom. Be prepared to share this with me in class next week. I am not looking for perfection. I’d really like you to experiment with as many css properties as possible.

If you haven’t already, please read the following article on CSS Positioning and be prepared to complete an in class lab assignment on Thursday.

• Creating and Attaching a Style Sheet
• 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

Assignment

Read the following article on CSS Positioning and be prepared to complete an in class lab assignment on Thursday.

• Defining a Site in Dreamweaver / Connecting to the Web server
• Using Dreamweaver for markup | Download Starter Document
• 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.

• What is Dreamweaver?
• Dreamweaver Workspace
• Defining a Site in Dreamweaver / Connecting to the Web server
• Using Dreamweaver for markup | Download Starter Document
• Selecting the Proper Style: Tags, Classes, and ID’s

Assignment

Reading Assignment: CSS Basics

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.
You can email the html document to me or for additional credit upload to the server and send me the url. Send to tswallace@ualr.edu before 10.1.13.

• HTML Assignment Guidelines
• What is Validation?
• Creating Your UALR Web Space
• Naming Conventions, Meta Naming, Directory Structure
• 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.
You can email the html document to me or for additional credit upload to the server and send me the url. Send to tswallace@ualr.edu before 10.1.13.

Reading Assignment: CSS Basics

• Quiz
• Today’s Codecast
• Sectioning your HTML Document
• Naming Conventions, Meta Naming, Directory Structure
• Creating Your UALR Web Space

• Review Accessibility
• Today’s Codecast
• Working with Forms
• Sectioning your HTML Document
• Creating Your UALR Web Space

Assignment

Be prepared for a Quiz on Thursday covering all readings and in class discussion.
Read Chapter 4 and Chapter 6

Watch – Accessibility for the Modern Web by Derek Featherstone

Assignment

Explain in your own words what web accessibility means to you & why it is important to build accessible web sites? Do some research on the topic. This is a written assignment (1-2 pages) that should be emailed to me (tswallace@ualr.edu) no later than next Tuesday. See you next week

• Additional (x)html tags for textual content
• Hyperlinks
• Inserting Images
• Block vs. Inline Elements
• Working with Tables

• Today’s Codecast | Using Codepen
• 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 (x)html tags for textual content
• Special Character Encoding: Details | Reference
• Block vs. Inline Elements

Assignment

Read (Quiz Material) Read Chapter 3

• Today’s Codecast | Using Codepen
• 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 (x)html tags for textual content
• Special Character Encoding: Details | Reference
• Block vs. Inline Elements

• How the Internet Works
• Understanding how a web page works
• Setting up our work environment using Codpen
• 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.

• Structure, Content, Design, & Behavior
• 300 Million Dollar Button
• VPN Instructions – Login to VPN with NetId
• How the Internet Works
• Understanding how a web page works

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 8-29-13. 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.

• Understanding Web Related Terminology
• Browser Overview
• 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 8-27-13. 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.

Course Syllabus

• Download Syllabus PDF

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