Resources and links for Erdington 'Web Page Design' classes

Term 1 - Sept to Dec 2003

Week / date Subjects covered Relevant resources
Wk1
18/09/03

Induction
 General introduction to course and resources.

 Introduction questionnaire & exercises questionnaire.pdf
or// questionnaire.doc

This site for most literature and back-up materials:-

www.luvvit.com/college
Google, search engine:- www.google.com
City and Guilds e-quals - course details www.city-and-guilds.co.uk/e-quals
Wk2
25/09/03

Setting up Dreamweaver

  • Setting up the Dreamweaver environment
  • Setting up a home directory
  • Setting up a site with Dreamweaver site management
  • Setting up a page - content based HTML
 Setting up the Dreamweaver 3 (and 4) jacquie/dw3.doc
Setting up a home directory for your work planning.html
Dreamweaver site management (first part only) jacquie/exercises.doc
Wk3
02/10/03		 Cancelled    
Wk4
9/10/03		 Cancelled    
Wk5
16/10/03

HTML - Structure tags and Colours

  • what is HTML?
  • header tags
  • body tags
  • special characters
 HTML programming tutorial and fist web page template html_programming.html
Wk6
23/10/03

Text formats and embedding images

  • content vs style
  • content: paragraphs, headings
  • content: emphasis
  • content: lists
  • style: fonts & sizes
  • style: preformatting
  • placing an image

Caputure HTML page from internet

"Fashion is something so ugly
it has to be changed every 15 minutes
but style is something versatile
and in the way you move and in the way you smile"

 first.html
half term      
Wk7
6/11/03		 Consolidation of knowledge exercise Exercise 1:- Making charcoal exercise1/exercise1.html
Wk8
13/11/03

Hyperlinking
Preparation for next exercise

  • anchors
  • hyperlinks to anchors
  • hyperlinks to files
  • hyperlinks to external URLs
  • using images as hyperlinks
 HTML programming tutorial html_programming.html

Exercise (old assignment 1)

 assignment1/assignment1.doc
Wk9
20/11/03		 More Hyperlinking & page design - recap on last term with an exercise HTML programming tutorial html_programming.html

Exercise (old assignment 1)

 assignment1/assignment1.doc

Wk10
27/11/03

Graphics - types and converting: Vectors and Bitmaps, compression types (JPEG & GIF)

 C&G 7261-425 manual (p50 - 51) 425.pdf
Sizing images in fireworks: tutorial is GIFs but can be used for JPEGs image_sizing.html
Wk11
04/12/03 		Completion of practise assignment - marking, then Fireworks tutorials Exercise (old assignment 1) assignment1/assignment1.doc
Wk12
11/12/03		 Graphics - Creating tiled backgrounds Exercise 2a - creating a background assignment2/ex2a.htm
Wk13
18/12/03

Tables

  • standard vs layout view
  • tables, rows, data, and headers
  • attributes
  • how they are constructed and computer gravity
  • hand coding
  • nesting
 Simple tables puzzle docs/tables.html


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