• View Project Guidelines

Please submit the url of your final project no later than 3:30pm (May 9, 2013). I enjoyed having you this semester. Enjoy your Summer.

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

• HTML5
• CSS3

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
• 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 Thursday. 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.

Resources 1 | 2 | 3

Please spend today’s session working on your final project. Please be prepared to give the class an update on your project on Thursday. For homework please finish the remainder of the “Intro to Programming” Lesson on Codecademy.

• 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.

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

Assignment

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

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

• Planning, Storyboarding and Collecting Resources for your Web Site

Assignment

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

• 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
• Final Project Guidelines

Assignment

Decide on an idea for your final project and begin researching the project. Look for a few existing sites that you like for inspiration. On Tuesday we’ll go through a planning process that will help us structure the project.

• Using Shapes, Text, and Photos to Create Imagery for your site
• Optimizing and Exporting Images
• Deciding on Good Colors and Fonts

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.

• 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 on the Tuesday following Spring Break. 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

• Styling Page Navigation
• 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 Monday. Be prepared to discuss in class on Tuesday. Have a nice weekend.

• Styling Page Navigation
• Positioning Overview
• CSS Positioning

Assignment

Please Review today’s class materials in preparation for an graded in-class exercise on Thursday.

Spend today’s session styling all elements in your html document. While styling, pay close attention to not create duplicate styles. Read the following posts and try to incorporate these ideas into your workflow

• Deciding on Good Color and Fonts
• Styling Page Navigation

Please upload the completed assignment and send me the URL. I will be grading effort on this assignment. I expect you to have problems being new to this. Use your resources and give it a go. If you take the day off and spend 10 minutes working on the assignment, your grade will reflect that decision. Good Luck and have a nice weekend.

Due before class on Tuesday.

• 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.

• Creating Your UALR Web Space
• What is Dreamweaver?
• Dreamweaver Workspace
• Defining a Site in Dreamweaver / Connecting to the Web server
• Using Dreamweaver for markup | Download Starter Document

Assignment

Reading Assignment: CSS Basics

• 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 2.19.13
Reading Assignment: CSS Basics

• Review Accessibility
• Quiz
• Today’s Codecast
• Working with Forms
• Sectioning your HTML Document

Assignment

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? This is a written assignment that should be emailed to me (tswallace@ualr.edu) no later than next Tuesday

• Today’s Codecast
• Additional (x)html tags for textual content
• Hyperlinks
• Inserting Images
• Working with Tables

• Today’s Codecast | Using Codepen
• Marking Up Content – Download the Starter Document
• Additional (x)html tags for textual content
• Special Character Encoding: Details | Reference
• Block vs. Inline Elements
• Hyperlinks
• Inserting Images

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

• Naming Conventions, Meta Naming, Directory Structure
• 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.

• 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 1-24-13. 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

Course Syllabus

• Download Syllabus PDF

Assignment

Read Chapter 1 in Textbook and The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards