Welcome to Web Design I

In this course, you will design a web site with transception, using evolutionary guidance media.

A five phase development structure will help shape the design and delivery process.
There are two major deliverables:
1) prototype and
2) the final site.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Slicing Up a Graphic in Photoshop

Slicing is used to cut up a graphic for individual graphic file optimization and hyper-linkage.

The following videos demonstrates how to slice up a graphic image in Photoshop.
NOTE: These videos may not relate directly to the most current software used.

Content includes:
1) Using the Slice tool
2) Layer based slices
3) Promoting layer based slices
4) Using the Slice info box to name a slice, including standard naming conventions (no caps, no spaces)
5) File types (GIF, JPEG, PNG) and optimizing the file (# colours, transparency, quality)
6) Selecting multiple slices
7) Saving files as html and images



It All Starts With A Root Folder

The following video shows you how to do the following:
1) Set a Root Folder
2) Name the first file: index.html
3) Create a hyperlink to a Web page.


Four Types of Web Sites

The following video demonstrates four types of Web sites.
They are listed below:



Friday, August 22, 2008

Believe The Impossible, The Web is only 5000 days old.

Kevin Kelly speaks about the Web.