E388M Schedule
Make Sure you make full use of the CD that comes with the Lemay book, especially the 3rd Party software, the examples, and the graphics collections
Also remember http://www.utexas.edu/cc/training for short courses, independent study courses, etc.
and see class schedules: http://www.utexas.edu/computer/classes/
and see self paced tutorials:
http://www.utexas.edu/cc/training/handouts/tutorials.html#internet
X=Jenn's anthology
Jan 18 Introduction. X1-39 Course description; Schedule; Examples of Projects; Books on reserve; Discovery learning; Group Participation Guidelines; Guidelines for Listening; Racial Harrassment Policy; Sexual Harrassment Policy; ACITS short courses; Web Resources and Articles; Overview of DiNucci, Weinman, and Siegel. Grunspan, Creating Killer Interactive Web Sites, table of contents; Storage account and evaluate multimedia
Jan 20 READINGS: CURRENTS article, contribution to CURRENTS Forum required before class; Lemay, pp. 1-27: Review X1-39.
Jan 25 READINGS: Postman, , contribution to Postman Forum required before class; Lemay, pp. 29-51. Get Organized. X 18-19, 24, 31, 44-7, 138-140
Begin thinking about what you want to do with HTML, your goals, your main topics, your organization and navigation; how to storyboard your web site;
Jan 27 DUE: 1 Page Tentative Initial Project Description: Goal? Topic? images? video? sound? animation? Begin thinking about a list of questions you would ask a viewer to find out if your goal is achieved.
READINGS: LeMay pp.53-68, Intro to HTML; 901-902 HTML and Web Development, 903 HTML Editors; X 24 Peer Review of Initial Project Description; review X 18-19, 31, 44-7, 138-140
Feb 1 READINGS; Lanham, to p. 146, , contribution to CURRENTS Forum required before class; Lemay 71-96: Title, Headings, Paragraphs, Lists, Comments
Feb 3 DUE: Initial Storyboard of Project. Peer Review. READINGS: Lemay 659-751Web Page Design: HTML Extensions, Page Layout, Proofreading. X40-3 review X 18-19, 31, 44-7, 138-140
Feb 8 DUE: Initial paper prototypes of screens to be handed in to instructor
READINGS: Lanham, to end, contribution to Forum required before class; Lemay 97- 131 Links, Relative and Absolute Pathnames, Anchors, URLs,
Feb 10 READINGS : Lemay 133-174 Style tags, Preformatted Text, Rules, Lines, Quotes, Special Characters, Alignment, Fonts.
Feb 15 READINGS: LeMay 175-246 Images and Text and Links; Color and Backgrounds; Image Formats, Compression, Interlacing, 908 Tools and Information for Images;
Feb 17 READINGS: LeMay 311-359 Tables; X71 Tables Exercises; Review X72-95
Feb 22 READINGS: Lemay 401-486 Multimedia: Sound, Video, and More: External Media, Inline Multimedia, Animated Marquees, Java Applets, Plug-Ins, Working with Sound and Video files, Movie Formats, Digitizing Video, 904 Java, 905-6 Sound and Video
Feb 24 READINGS: X44-70 "How to Create a Web-Enabled CD-ROM"
CD ROM production & cross platform issues
• How can you put your Web site onto CDROM?
• What are the issues for cross platform graphics?
Recommended: Lynch and Horton, Weinman, Seigel, Adobe Tips, Lopuck, DiNucci, Gillispie (http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdgraph.htm)]
Feb 29 : Creating Graphics with Photoshop READINGS X72-95 How to Hyperlink to an Image on the Net; How to Get and Manipulate An Image From the Web; Image processing with Photoshop 4.0; Photoshop Tips; Image Processing Check List; Collection of images / Image processing / PhotoShop. Consider the following questions:
•What is the relationship between file size, image dimensions, color resolution images and why is this important for the web?
•What is the difference between GIF and JPEG file formats?
•What is compression and why is it important for graphics?
•What are the color palette issues for cross platform Web delivery?
•What are techniques for scanning images for the web?
•What are some of the basic image processing steps in preparing a scanned image for the web?
recommended: Weinman, Seigel, Adobe Tips, Lopuck, DiNucci, Gillispie (http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdgraph.htm).• What is the difference between raster and vector graphics?
• What type of file formats does Photoshop create?
• Where do you set color palettes, image resolution and dimensions in Photohop?
• How do you use layers in Photoshop?
Recommended: Photoshop manual, Weinman, Seigel, Adobe Tips.
Mar 2 More Graphics and animation design
READINGS: LeMay 247-268 Animated Graphics; X 119, 128-37
Recommended: Liu Min's MMResources page (http://www.edb.utexas.edu/projects/mmdesign/
MMresource.html)
Mar 7 Sound Capture and Editing, Streaming Technologies. READINGS: X58-9, 96-118 Weinman, "Sound on the Web"; How to Get Audio Files from the Net and Attach Them to an Image; Using Macromedia SoundEdit16 v2; About SoundEffects; About Digital Audio; CIT Expands Streaming Media Activities
• What is digital audio?
• What are the file formats for digital audio?
• How do you capture and edit digital audio?
• What capture and output settings do you use?
Recommended: Rose, Manners
Mar 9 READINGS: Lemay GIFs; 269-310: Style Sheets
SPRING BREAK
MAR 21 LeMay 465- 541 Java, ImageMaps, Forms, 902 Forms and Imagemaps, 904 Java
MAR 23 READINGS: LeMay, 361-397 Frames and Linked Windows
MAR 28 READINGS: X 53-58, 119-127 About Adobe Premiere ; Steps for Capturing Video with Premiere
Introduction to Digital Video,
• What is digital video?
• What are the file formats for digital video?
• How is color and compression important for digital video?
Video Editing
• How do you edit digital video?
• What are the features that Adobe Premiere has for video editing?
• How do you create a Quicktime movie using Premiere?
• What are the output settings for QT movies?
• Why do you have to flatten a QT movie for cross platform delivery?
Video Capture
• How do you set up the equipment to capture video?
• What capture and settings do you use?
Recommended: Johnson, Waggoner, Ozer.
MAR 30 READINGS: Lemay 755-795; X62-64 Uploading to the Server, Index File and Correct filenames, Testing,; Advertising, Site Indexes and Search Engines, Web Rings, Access Counters
APR 4 READINGS: Lemay 797-820 Testings, Revising, and Maintaining: Validating the HTML Code, Browser Testing, Verifying Links, Usability Testing, Updating and Revising; 903 HTML Validators
APR 6 Lemay 543-615 CGI Scripts, JavaScript, 904 Java, 907 CGI
APR 11 PROJECT DUE: PEER REVIEW 1
APR 12 Attend Postman's lecture and respond in FORUM
APR 13 PROJECT DUE: PEER REVIEW 2
APR 18 Lemay 617-658 Dynamic HTML, Rollovers, Layers, Positioning Objects
APR 20 ISSUES: presentation and discussion of papers
APR 25 ISSUES; presentation and discussion of papers
APR 27 ISSUES: presentation and discussion of papers
MAY 2 ISSUES: presentation and discussion of papers
MAY 4 ISSUES: presentation and discussion of papers
MAY 13 FINAL DUE DATE