Week by Week
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Tuesday, January 25 |
Housekeeping & Introductions Discussion: Practicum: Structuring a Document |
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Tuesday, February 1 |
Reading: Carrie Brickner, Web Design on a Shoestring Internet Visits: CSS Tutorials Designing with CSS in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 How People Evaluate a Web Site’s Credibility Practicum: Standards-Based/CSS Design |
Tuesday, February 8 |
Reading: Robin Williams, Non-Designers Type Book Internet Visits: Typography Erin Kissane, Typography Matters Jenny Lyn Bader,"Forget Footnotes, Hyperlink" Gertrude Himmelfarb, "Where Have All the Footnotes Gone?" Jean Baptiste Piggin, Macro-Typography: A Style Guide Paula Petrik, Scholarship on the Web: Managing Footnotes Practicum: The Problem of the Footnote CSS PAGE DUE |
Tuesday, February 15 |
Reading: Dan Cederholm, Web Standards Solutions Internet Visits: More Standards-Based/CSS Design Jakob Nielsen, Differences Between Print Design and Web Design CSS-Discuss Three-Column Layout CSS-Discuss How Do I Size Fonts Owen Briggs, Sane Font Sizes Max Design Listutorial Max Design Floatutorial Accessify List-o-Matic Evolt.org, Ten CSS Tricks You May Not Know Tantek Celik, Ten CSS Tricks—Corrected and Improved Practicum: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) |
Tuesday, February 22 |
Presentations: Type Assignments TYPE ASSIGNMENT DUE |
Tuesday, March 1 |
Reading: Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations Internet Visits: Color Spectacle, Color Schemes Ideabook, Tip Sheet: Color Strategy Luke Wroblewski, Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature Clagnut, Compendium of Color Tools Sherwin Williams Color Preservation Palette Practicum: Photoshop/Colorizing |
Tuesday, March 8 |
Reading: Katrin Eismann, Photoshop Restoration and Retouching FortyMedia, Web Design in 2005 Cameron Moll, That Wicked Worn Look Paula Petrik, Scholarship on the Web: Managing Engravings Practicum: Photoshop/Engravings |
Tuesday, March 15 |
NO CLASS-SPRING BREAK |
Tuesday, March 22 |
Presentations: Image Assignments IMAGE ASSIGNMENT DUE |
Tuesday, March 29 |
Internet Visits: Accessibility Joe Clark, How Do Disabled People Use Computers Human Factors, How a Blind Person Will “See” Your Web Page Disability Rights, Inaccessible Website Demonstration Mark Pilgrim, Dive into Accessibility Paul Bohman, An Accessible Method of Hiding HTML Content |
Tuesday, April 5 |
Reading: Steve Krug, Don’t Make Me Think Internet Visits: Design Jakob Nielsen, Guidelines for Visualizing Links Ideabook, A Graceful Palette Luke Wroblewski, Visible Narratives Carole Guevin, Visual Architecture: The Rule of Three Douglas Bowman, A Design Process Revealed Netdiver.net, Compendium of Design Examples |
Tuesday, April 12 |
Reading: Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Pat Harrigan, eds., First Person Internet Visit: Historic Tale Construction Set Forum: History & the Web (GMU E-Journal) Practicum: Interactivity |
Tuesday, April 19 |
Presentations: Design Assignments DESIGN ASSIGNMENT DUE |
Tuesday, April 26 |
Reading & Playing: Myst IV: Revelation J.P. Gee, Learning by Design: Games as Learning Machines K.D Squire, Civilization III as a World History Sandbox Discussion: Myst IV: Revelation |
Tuesday, May 3 |
PRELIMINARY WEB ASSIGNMENT DUE PRESENTATION OF ASSIGNMENT SITES |
Tuesday, May 10 |
FINAL WEB ASSIGNMENT DUE SELF-EVALUATION DUE |
