• Final Due Tuesday December 13, 2016. The project should be submitted no later than 10:00am – Final Project Guidelines
• Final Q & A
• Next Steps
  • IFSC 3300 (Sample Syllabus)
  • Mobile Web Development (Spring 2016)
  • BA in Web Design and Development
    • Advisor Thomas Wallace
• Course Evaluations

• 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. Please send to tswallace@ualr.edu and mxkumar1@ualr.edu.

• jQuery Tabs Case Study
• jQuery Cycle Demo
• Review Grades

Assignment

Begin looking for ways you can implement jQuery (or another library) into your final project. Identify what is it you’d like to do (image gallery, carousel, lazy load etc.) and begin researching what it takes to get it implemented.

Resources 1 | 2 | 3

• How jQuery Works
• Exploring the functionality of jQuery
• What is a CDN?
• Why use a CDN?
  • Google CDN, CDNJS
• jQuery Tabs Case Study
• jQuery Cycle Demo

Additional Reading and Study – Javascript 101

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
• Uses of JavaScript
• Examples
  • Placement
  • Statements
  • 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.

• Hosted Solution
• Using Server-Side Technology
• Planning, Storyboarding and Collecting Resources for your Web Site
• Final Project Guidelines

Assignment

• Submit your Segway project
• Complete the planning document and sitemap and submit to me via email before class on Tuesday.

Work today to complete your Segway project. Make sure you remember to send me the URL no later than Thursday.

Segway Project

• Starter Document | Starter Document (Using HTML Structural Elements)
• Micro-site Project – Due Thursday November 12.

Assignment

• Micro-site Project – Due Thursday November 12.

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

Segway Project

• Starter Document | Starter Document (Using HTML Structural Elements)
• Micro-site Project – Due Thursday November 10.

Assignment

Begin work on the Segway Projects. You should have a good start on your main page template prior to class on Monday.

• 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.

Woking with Photography

• Color Resources
• Cropping and Resizing
• 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

Email me the completed optimized samples of the images you created in class. Due Thursday.

Woking with Photography

• Color Resources
• Cropping and Resizing
• 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

Email me the completed optimized samples of the images you created in class. Due next Tuesday.

• Review Positioning Exercises
• Fireworks Workspace
• Creating Shapes
• Working with Typography
• Cropping and Resizing

Assignment

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! If you’d like you can download a 30 day trial of Fireworks on your own computer so you can work off campus.

• Positioning Overview
• CSS Positioning
• CSS Positioning Lab

Assignment

Complete today’s lab assignment and upload. Sent the url’s for each exercise to tswallace@ualr.edu and mxkumar1@ualr.edu, no later than next Thursday. Be prepared to discuss in class.

• Today’s Codecast
• Creating and Attaching a Style Sheet
  • CSS Reference
• Understanding Color | Kuler
• CSS Box Model – Description | Demonstration
• Styling Page Navigation
• Positioning Overview
• CSS Positioning

Assignment

Read The following Article on CSS Positioning.

• Today’s Codecast
• Creating and Attaching a Style Sheet
  • CSS Reference
• Understanding Color | Kuler
• CSS Box Model – Description | Demonstration
• Styling Page Navigation
• Positioning Overview
• CSS Positioning

Assignment

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

• Today’s Codecast
• Creating and Attaching a Style Sheet
  • CSS Reference
• 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.

• Ashi Franke – UALR Digital Strategy

Be prepared to discuss this presentation in class on Tuesday.

• Today’s Codecast
• Creating and Attaching a Style Sheet
  • CSS Reference
• 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.

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.

• HTML5 Structural Elements
  • 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: CSS Specificity & Class vs. ID – This is quiz material.

• Quiz
• Brackets
  • Tutorials
• Organizing your Web Space
• HTML5 Structural Elements

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
• Working with Forms
• What is Validation?
• Naming Conventions, Meta Naming, Directory Structure
• 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

• Setting up our work environment using Codpen | Today’s Codecast
• 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
• Block vs. Inline Elements
• Hyperlinks
• Working with Tables
• Working with Forms
• Sectioning your HTML Document

Assignment

Read (Quiz Material) Introduction to HTML

HTML Reference – Code Guide | Introduction to HTML

• Setting up our work environment using Codpen | Today’s Codecast
• 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
• Block vs. Inline Elements
• Hyperlinks

Assignment

Read (Quiz Material) Introduction to HTML

HTML Reference – Code Guide | Introduction to HTML

• Classroom Tools
  • Brackets – Code editor
  • Filezilla – FTP Client
• 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

Create a Codepen Account and experiment with it’s features.

Read (Quiz Material) Introduction to HTML

• Structure, Content, Design, & Behavior
• Browser Overview
• 300 Million Dollar Button
• 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 8-30-16. 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.

Discussion

• Understanding Web Related Terminology
• Browser Overview
• How the Internet Works
• Understanding how a web page works

Assignment

Setup and Account at Codepen.io. the free account is acceptable for the work we will do in class.

Additional Reading – 300 Million Dollar Button

Course Syllabus

• View Syllabus (PDF)

Introduction to the Classroom Technology

• Virtual Machines
• Off Campus Access to VPN

Discussion

• Understanding Web Related Terminology
• Browser Overview

Assignment

Read:  The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards