IDCC 370: Web Design I Fall 2009

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Our focus in class will be on creating a number of CSS rules that allow you to float callouts and graphics left and right. The float, as many of you have learned already, is an essential design concept in CSS. Using your exercise six cleanly scrubbed, XHTML-ized, Semantic Web-proofed, well-formed and valid text, Open Communication Climate, you will plant two callouts and two graphics, both left and right, making necessary adjustments to the graphics and text to improve design for readability and overall aesthetics. You will want to pay special attention to the relationship of the graphics, callouts, paragraph size, and headings: a full-bore design experience is about to be yours.

The graphics above left and right are the ones you will use for this exercise. I will provide written instructions and will work through the design and rule-writing with you in class. I think you will find working with the float to be a lot of fun.

While you will be receiveing printouts of the exercise in class, you may want to have electronic access to them in pdf form:

1. Exercise 6a: Optimizing a Word File in XHTML
2. Exercise 6b: Callouts and Graphics Floated
3. Exercise 6c: Contents with Style

At the bottom of your newly designed page, you will add this source note after the Buchholz source note:

Microsoft Office Clip Art Photographs: j0406569.jpg (Shaking hands) and j0289517.jpg (2 women in office). (n.d.). Microsoft Office 2003. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation.

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. Note also that each announcement has a permanent link, available through the announcement title and posting date.

Labels: CSS, Float, Graphics, Microsoft Clip Art, Open Communication Climate, scrubbed, Semantic Web, source graphic, spell-check

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Next class, we will begin our assignment three design project using this Word doc about open communication in the workplace. In class, I will provide specific directions on how to handle this document, which will become exercise 6. The basic idea is to show you how to import a Word doc. file and then to scrub up the XHTML in preparation for named fragments and style rules application (readied for the Semantic Web). This will be practice for assignment three, due no later than 4:30 p.m., December 14 (day) and December 16 (eve).

Here is a character set code that will be important in this assignment: iso-8859-1. I will explain why this is important and how to use it as you move toward styling your own essay for assignment three. Don't forget where this code is.

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. Note also that each announcement has a permanent link, available through the announcement title and posting date.

Labels: Assignment 3, iso-8859-1, named fragment, Open Communication Climate, scrubbed, Semantic Web, Word doc

Check this out:

Next class, we will begin our assignment three design project using this Word doc about open communication in the workplace. In class, I will provide specific directions on how to handle this document, which will become exercise 6. The basic idea is to show you how to import a Word doc. file and then to scrub up the XHTML in preparation for named fragments and style rules application (readied for the Semantic Web). This will be practice for assignment three, due no later than 4:30 p.m., Friday, May 1.

Here is a character set code that will be important in this assignment: iso-8859-1. I will explain why this is important and how to use it as you move toward styling your own essay for assignment three. Don't forget where this code is.

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. Note also that each announcement has a permanent link, available through the announcement title and posting date.

Labels: Assignment 3, iso-8859-1, named fragment, Open Communication Climate, scrubbed, Semantic Web, Word doc

Check this out:

Our focus in class will be on creating a number of CSS rules that allow you to float callouts and graphics left and right. The float, as many of you have learned already, is an essential design concept in CSS. Using your exercise six cleanly scrubbed, XHTML-ized, Semantic Web-proofed, well-formed and valid text, Open Communication Climate, you will plant two callouts and two graphics, both left and right, making necessary adjustments to the graphics and text to improve design for readability and overall aesthetics. You will want to pay special attention to the relationship of the graphics, callouts, paragraph size, and headings: a full-bore design experience is about to be yours.

The graphics above left and right are the ones you will use for this exercise. I will provide written instructions and will work through the design and rule-writing with you in class. I think you will find working with the float to be a lot of fun.

At the bottom of your newly designed page, you will add this source note after the Buchholz source note:

Microsoft Office Clip Art Photographs: j0406569.jpg (Shaking hands) and j0289517.jpg (2 women in office). (n.d.). Microsoft Office 2003. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation.

Remember: when you hand in Assignment Two, due Thursday, November 20, or Friday, November 21, turn in the annotated Assignment One, so that I can make sure you had no trouble making your corrections. Be sure also to take advantage of shift-F7 in Dreamweaver; (spell-check is your best friend in Web design.)

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. Note also that each announcement has a permanent link, available through the announcement title and posting date.

Labels: CSS, Float, Graphics, Microsoft Clip Art, Open Communication Climate, scrubbed, Semantic Web, source graphic, spell-check

Check this out:

Next class, we will begin our assignment three design project using this Word doc about open communication in the workplace. In class, I will provide specific directions on how to handle this document, which will become exercise 6. The basic idea is to show you how to import a Word doc. file and then to scrub up the XHTML in preparation for named fragments and style rules application (readied for the Semantic Web). This will be practice for assignment three, due no later than 4:30 p.m., Friday, December 12.

Here is a character set code that will be important in this assignment: iso-8859-1. I will explain why this is important and how to use it as you move toward styling your own essay for assignment three. Don't forget where this code is.

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. Note also that each announcement has a permanent link, available through the announcement title and posting date.

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