ATS 342 - Art and The Internet| Course Work and Deadlines
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January
 
Monday
Wednesday
Week 1
 
27

Introduction

Project #1

 
February
Week 2
1

Assignment:

Lesson 1: in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Text
3

Hand Coding

  1. Hand Coding html Exercise

Assignment:

  • html exercise
  • Bring in at least 3 images of your own work
  • Lesson 2: in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Text

 
Week 3
8

Begin Project Part II

Optimizing and sizing images

Assignment:
Lesson 3: in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Text

Calendar Exercise

 
10

Class Cancelled

Assignment:
Lesson 4&5 in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
Save your work!

Prepare for online studio creation:

  1. Project area - optimize imagery - have it ready to go.
  2. In a word document prepare a paragraph of information pertaining to your cause. Discuss the cause and your interest in it. Optimize an image that will be on this page. Supply 3 links for more information.
  3. In a word document prepare a list of url links that reflects your research and interests. ( a minimum of 10)

 
Week 4
15

Online Studios

  • Checking links site wide
  • Spell check
  • Interior and exterior links
  • Making your web site live

Assignment: Chapter 6 in Adobe Dreamweaver Text

 
17

Critique

Project #2

Text and CSS Assignment: Chapter 7 in Adobe Dreamweaver Text

Review Lessons 4 & 5 for text and CSS
Week 5
22

Work in class

CSS Examples
24

Work in class
 
 
 
Week 6
1

Work in class

In progress critique

 
3

Project #2 Critique

 

Projects #2 due posted by Monday

March
Week 7
8

 

Field Trip
10

Review Project #2

Research for
Project#3

Stealing code and CSS

Check exercises and tutorials
Week 8
15

spring break
17

spring break
Week 9
22

Project #3 - Melissa
24

Journal Research & Blog entries Due

Bring imagery to work with that pertains to your subject.

For Monday:

  1. Lessons 9 & 10 in Text
  2. Home page of your website completed
Week 10
29

Studio
31
 In Process Critique

April

Week 11
5

Studio
7

 
Week 12
12

Project#3 Due - critique
14
Begin Final Project
Week 13
19

Part 1 and 2 Due

Image optimization and buttons
21

rollovers and animated gifs

For Monday:

Photoshop Lesson 12 (lesson files are on the server)

Sign out video camera from the library and shoot video. Bring video and digital video camera to class. ( you may have to share cameras)
Week 14
26

In Progress Critique

Video Demo
28

Sound

May

Week 15 3

In Progress Critique

 5

Studio
 
10

Final Critique

Online studios Due ( final needs to be posted on cortland server)