Instructor:

Daniela Castillo

Email:

castillod@smccd.net

Voice Mail:

650-306-3407

Office Hours:

Monday 10:00-1:00 Tuesday 4:00-5:00 Wed. 12:00-1:00 or by appointment Building 3-207

Lab Hours:

Friday Same as Office Hours but only by appointment Building 13-211

Lecture Calendar

Cheating Policies

Text Book:

The Non-Designer’s Web Book. 2nd Edition by Williams and Tollett. Peachpit Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-201-71038-2

Assignment 5 - Due Thursday Nov. 14

1. Gather all your assets for the final project. Scan pictures, clean them up.

2. Finalize content. Check spelling and grammar

I will check the progress of your content gathering efforts every week. Also, please let me know if you plan to insert some media we have not covered in class in your website so we can go over it in class.

Mid-Term -Due Thursday Sept. 24

Your final site should be completed to a working stage as a skeleton and without content. It needs to meet the following requirements:

1. GUI (Graphic User Interface) has to be designed in Photoshop and sliced, or designed in Dreamweaver with Text links and Tables.

2. The basic layout of most of your pages should be completed. This means that you need to decide on a certain look and feel, and build it in Dreamweaver using Tables and other design elements learned in class. If most of your pages will look the same (recommended), just create your first page (index.htm) and re-save it with different names to create all the main pages for your site.

3. Links between pages should be finished. This means that I should be able to go from your index page to all the other pages in your site, and back to index.

What you do NOT need to complete for the MidTerm: Content!! This includes pictures, text content, splash screens if you have any, flash animations if you have any, other bells and whistles that you may want to put in.

Remember: KEEP IT SIMPLE, CONSISTENT and SMALL!!

Go to the Internet and find one or two pages (can be more if you want) that look and feel more or less the way you want your final project to look like. You may find one page that has the right color scheme and another with the right navigation, you can use them both.

Once you find this page, print a copy of it (color or b/w, it doesn't matter). With a red marker, or with some other distinguishing color, and a ruler, make lines through the design where you think the table divisions would be. Basically, if you were doing that page, how would you make the tables to fit the pieces?

Bring the printout with the lines to school and turn it in. Also, please make sure that you save the URL (internet address) of your sample pages... we may use them later.

Assignment 3: Due Thursday Sept. 19

Please build a navigation tree for your website. Include the Index page (home page or splash page) at the very top of the tree and then all the main sections and their corresponding subsections. Include links to the exterior of the site and mark them with an X. Include important internal links and user flow throughtout the site.

You can make the tree with small post-its, or drawn squares to show each page. Please make sure that the whole thing is readable and clear.

For ideas you can reffer to the Yale style Manual online.

Assignment 2: Due Thursday Sept. 5

Answer the following questions about your site. Type them and turn them in at the beginning of class.

1. What is your website about (the topic that you chose to make your site about)?

2. Who is your target audience (who is going to be looking at your site)?

3. Who is your client (is this site for yourself or for somebody else?)?

4. Tell me your proposed color scheme. Basically, what color combination do you plan to use. Why did you choose these colors?

5. What is the approximate length of the site (number of separate pages)

6. What topics will your content include?

Assignment 1 Due Thursday August 29

Please read Chapter 8 of your textbook. "Good Design and Bad Design".

Find TWO websites, one that you consider to be designed well and another one that is poorly designed (according to you and/or following the book guidelines. Copy the URLs somewhere so we can discuss them in class.