IDCC 370: Web Design I   Spring 2008

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In preparation for your second assignment, you should be scouting the Web for sites whose design you admire. Also pick from three to five sites that offer free graphics. The best approach in discovering such sites is to begin with a Google search, using these terms: "web graphics free". You'll get 112,000,000 hits (as of 10/27/06), so start at the top and move down through the sites until you find some interesting material. Bookmark the good sites.
If you start to download free material, create a folder with the name of the site; for example, boogiejack. Then name any file you download into that folder with the name of the site as well; for example, boogiejack-pink-tile.gif. Remember, you need to credit all your graphics sources and provide links to the sites. It is very important that you keep all of these files straight, so take care.

In selecting the graphics sites and downloading your material, you should be thinking of the whole look and feel of your site: colors, graphics, and page design. Do you want your site to be light and airy? Dark and brooding? Serious and professional? Wild and crazy? Subdued and understated? Adventuresome? Cute? Tough? Nationalistic (e.g., Irish, Italian, American)?

Friday, October 27, we will begin to design your site graphically, starting with the banner for your template. Here is an interesting site for some very subdued watercolor backgrounds that you might want to use on your own site: http://www.brownielocks.com/backgrounds.html. We'll experiment with some of these in class.

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: boogie-jack, brownielocks, free Web graphics

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Wednesday, October 25, in 370.002 we will put the finishing touches on Assignment One, in preparation for handing it in at the beginning of class Friday, October 27. (370.E01 will hand in Assignment One, Wednesday, November 1.)

Those of you who have not yet purchased Dreamweaver, remember that you can work on your assignments in the CIS Clasroom Lab, Smith 212. The hours are posted here: http://www.bentley.edu/cis/CISLab.cfm

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: Assignment One, CIS lab

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What Can You do with an IDCC Major or Minor?

The answer is that the career possibilities are plentiful!

Alumni from these companies will be here to talk with you:
Pan Communications, Arnold Worldwide, Boston Celtics, Marriott Hotels, Reebok, Aldi Cell Signaling Technology, cMarket, Cogent Research, Comcast Digitas, Ian's Natural Foods, MaPs, TJX,WBZ/CBS Radio and more. . . .

You must register for this event via the eRecruiting system. Log into http://bentley.erecruiting.com, click on "Undergraduate Events" in the "Calendar" box on the left side of the screen. Find the event name and register. (If you've never used eRecruiting, your username is your Bentley e-mail address, and your password is Bentley.)

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: IDCC major, IDCC minor

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Here is the "greeked" text you should use when pouring content into a template:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

Copy the paragraph above, and insert it into your template.

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Labels: greeked text, lorem ipsum, template