General
Title: Design for the Internet I
Term: Fall
Number: 93117
Course: GDT 150
Section: 1
Credits: 4
Perquisites: GDT 100 and GDT 142 or PHO 127
Times: 2:30 - 5:25 PM
Days: MW
Room: TI104
Instructor: Paul Fortier
Dates: Sept 5 - Dec 19 (15 weeks)
Outline: http://orchard.wccnet.org/~pfash/GDT150
Prerequisites
-Mac proficiency
-Foundation in Photoshop
If you would like to enroll in a similar course that does not
have prerequisites, look into INP 200.
Course Focus: priorities
This course is designed to develop your:
1.) web design skills
2.) technical skills
3.) software skills (Dreamweaver, Photoshop)
Course Work
Exercises, Presentations, Demos & Discussions (in-class)
Homework
Projects
Quizzes (in-class, time stamped)
Internet Access
Much of your work and assignments will be posted in your server
space rather than submitted in paper form. If you do not have
Internet access at home, plan on spending time on campus to post
your work. All students should have a WCC student (web space
and email ) account. If you don't have one, you must get one.
Go to http://nwmail.wccnet.org/
and follow the instructions. If you have problems, check with
the technicians in TI 108.
Advanced Work
If the assignments and material presented in this course are below
your skill level let me know and I will provide you with advanced
work and different grading criteria.
Deadlines
All assignments will have specific due dates. An assignment or
exercise should be posted by 9 am the morning of the day it is
due. If the work is turned in one day late without consulting
with the instructor, the grade will be lowered one grade. Each
week late after the due date will result in another grade lower.
(For example, an assignment, one day late, that would have earned
an A will earn a B. If that same assignment is a week late it
will earn a C and so on.) Keep in mind that there may be several
assignments overlapping and each may have its own due date. See
your Course Work page for due dates.
Supplies
(Bring to every class) One Mac Formatted Zip Disk 100mb, labeled
with your name and class number.
Optional: Notebook and writing tools, pad of 8"x10"
quadrille paper (grid planning pad), ruler, colored pencils.
Books
Required: Web Style Guide, Yale Press, Patrick Lynch and
Sarah Horton
Recommended: Photoshop 6.0 for Windows and Mac Peachpit
Press
Optional: Dreamweaver Hands on Training 4.0 (Lynda Weinman)
& Visual Quickstart Guide for Dreamweaver (4.0?) Peachpit
Press
Available in the WCC Bookstore or check out another
option.
Grades
Grading scale
-quizzes 10%
-exercises 40%
-homework 10%
-final project (original content) 35%
-participation in discussions, critiques, activities 5%
Letter grades are awarded as follows:
A 90%
B 80%-90%
C 70%-80 %
D 60%-70%
F 60%
Considerations: extra work or effort beyond assigned work.
I have never given an incomplete. If you expect to have this
option available to you I would suggest you take this course from
a different instructor.
Access to Grades
Your grades will be available to you via the Web through an
individualized, password protected account. Your last name
will be your log in name and the last four digits of your social
security number will be your password. If you choose not to
have your grades made available to you in this way then you have
the responsibility of contacting me and requesting that your grades
be sent to you. These will be sent within one week of your request.
Attendance
Students are expected to attend class regularly. Assignments and
material covered must be completed outside of class if class time
is missed. Attendance is taken every class. If you know you will
be absent on a certain day, please leave me a message before class
begins.
Contacting Instructor
Mail Box: Room TI 214
E-mail address: pfash@wccnet.org
Feedback on course activities is appreciated.
(Your GDT 150 Course Work page will link to a feed back form where
you may send correspondence to me.)
Class Activity
You are expected to come to class at the beginning of the
class meeting time and to stay until the end of class. There will
be scheduled breaks during class time. During class time, all
students will be expected to work on assignments for this class
as well as participate in discussions and class activities. Working
on assignments for other classes, surfing the web or using e-mail
during class time are not appropriate activities.
Homework
Students will be assigned reading from required texts. Written
assignments (covering reading material and design concepts) will
be assigned. Although some class time for working on projects
will be scheduled, students will also need to work outside of
class time to complete assignments, projects and tutorials.
Open Lab Time
In order to allow enough computer time, the Mac Labs (TI-102,
TI-104, OE-108 and OE-152) will have monitored, open lab time.
Lab hours will be posted in the classrooms, outside next to the
door. Please keep in mind when you use open lab time:
* No eating or drinking at the computers, no downloading or installing software on the machines.
* Lab time is for students to complete GDT and PHO class assignments. (The computer commons in the LRC is a better place for e-mailing)
* The lab monitor is not a tutor and may not know every version of software.
* Printing on color printers is not permitted during open lab.
* Save your work and gather your materials a few minutes before lab time ends so as not to interfere with incoming classes.
Current open lab times (check postings in office for additions/changes) Mac labs: TI 103 and TI 104
Help with some of the technical and software issues is available in the TI 108 lab. The LRC Computer Commons also has assistants who are trained on some of the GDT software. Call 734-973-3420. You may also access the Learning Support Services for tutoring help at: http://www.wccnet.org/dept/eels/lss/
Technical Issues
WCC teacher, Sheila Bourgoin has
developed some very helpful documents on the following issues:
Mac-PC
(transferring files between Macintosh and Windows platforms)
FETCH (Using the FETCH program to FTP
files to your server space)
Image Ready (Instructions for using
the Image Ready software)
Defining and Naming (Rules for naming
files and defining a site in Dreamweaver)
to minimize problems with FTP programs and operating system incompatibilities:
-never use non-alphanumeric characters or spaces in file names
(eg; instead of "products & services.html" use "products.html")
and
-always use lower case. (If WSFTP_LE begins changing your names
to upper case upon FTPing then go into WSFTP_LE preferences and
choose "force lower case" option.)
Replacing older content on your disk: When replacing a
folder with another with the same name (eg; when you are finished
working on your content and will put the folder back on your disk
and you want to replace the folder on your disk with the newer
content) drag your newer folder onto your disk NEXT TO the older
folder with the same name. DO NOT DRAG THE NEWER FOLDER ON TOP
OF THE OLDER FOLDER.
New
Site Tutorial Step by step guide to definine and creating
a new site in Dreamweaver for Mac. (Windows
version)
Scanning This page has basic
tips for using a scanner to get the best final product.
Resources
HTML
Cheat sheet from Webmonkey.com
Free JavaScript is a good place
to find free scripts for your Web pages.
World Wide Web Consortium
Web Standards Project
Well
Appointed Web Developer This a great resource site compiled
by WCC teacher, Cheryl Gracie. (application, image, design and
tutorial resources)
Tucows.com is a site where
you can download free software (like an FTP client which will
allow you to post to your Web space
from your home computer. For Windows find the studentware: 'WS-FTP
LE').
Discount Software This lists sites where
software can be purchased for academic discount.
Journeyed.com
Academic priced software including some high end graphics
software.
www.usavedotcom.com
$15 per year for domain name registration.
Discount
Domain Registry About the same as above.
Free CGI scripts
CGI and other scripts for Web developers
Free Custom Graphics - These sites
allow you to create your own high quality graphics (headers, buttons,
etc.).
photodisc.com
-images
https://creative.gettyimages.com
- images