A basic course in the designing using Macromedia Dreamweaver CS5 for the Macintosh and PC. Topics covered include: Introduction to the thought process in organizing, and creating a simple web site with hypertext links to secondary pages, e mail addresses, and graphic link. In addition, lectures will cover what formats are required for photographs and graphics and optimization, site management and creating files compatible for all web browsers. Other areas covered are functions of Dreamweaver’s toolbar, tables, css positioning.
Welcome to VCOM 55
04/11/12 No class Spring Break
- Spring Break, no school from 04/09 -04/13.
02/15/12 Lect. & Homework Corebrand css 18-33
- Video: Corebrand css 18
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- Video: Corebrand css 20
- Video: Corebrand css 21
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- Video: Corebrand css 33
02/15/12 TBA Hour for VCOM 55/155
- I have a TBA hour that is in my office from 3 to 4 pm. There I can hope you on your website problems.
- Rm. 4136 in the Barbara Fracisco Mertes Center for the Arts Bldg 4000, next to the LPC radio station.
- PDF: Office map (Office area circled in Yellow)
02/08/12 Lect. & Homework corebrand hyperlinks 14-17
- Will lectured on corebrand css hyperlinks, a link, visited, and hover next week.
- Video: Corebrand css 14
- Video: Corebrand css 15
- Video: Corebrand css 16
- Video: Corebrand css 17
- Homework: continue to work on Corebrand css page, match line height related to pstable.html, and blog type color and capitalization. Look up on Google, html ul, html ol, html li. I’ll query the class next week.
- Make sure the index.html is on the root level of your site
- Make sure there is no spaces in file names nor capitalization of file names or folders.
02/08/12 Lect. & Homework Corebrand css 9-13
- Lectured on insert divs, .boxgray255, #activision, #text, #blog and considerations in measurements.
- Video: Corebrand css 9
- Video: Corebrand css 10
- Video: Corebrand css 11
- Video: Corebrand css 12
- Video: Corebrand css 13
- Homework: I am going to grade you on having your measurements on your printed layout as I explained in past videos so if you have lost it, you’ll have to recreate since I’ll be collecting it in the next few weeks.
02/01/11 Lect. & Homework Corebrand css 1-8
New Office Hours location
- Due to Jason’s Photography class in room 300, I had to move my office hours to Rm. 4136 in the Barbara Fracisco Mertes Center for the Arts Bldg 4000, next to the LPC radio station.
- PDF: Office map (Office area circled in Yellow)
01/25/12 Lect. & Homework Simple website, tables 1-8
- Reviewed simple 2 page website and graded.
- Reviewed resampled exercise and graded
- Video: Simple website part 1
- Video: Simple website part 2
- Video: Slices part 1
- Video: Slices part 2
- Video: Slices part 3
- Video: Save for web print screen
- Video: Print Screen
- Video: Tables part 4
- Video: Tables part 5
- Video: Tables part 6
- Video: Tables part 7
- Video: Tables part 8
- Video: Tables part 9
- Homework: Duplicate root folder before working on corebrand table site. Remember to create a new site in Dreamweaver to inform Dreamweaver where your site is.
- Homework: Double check alignment of cells and tables before insert images in tables
- Homework: Watch videos and if complete corebrand tables, removing paragraph tags, start and end tag, with non breaking space with it first, then non breaking spaces only using Find/Replace function in the html code.
Emails to me
- Since I have another photoshop class at another college, when sending me an email, include in the subject area of the email, first and last name, VCOM 55 (graded class) or 155 (credit / no credit).
- Since the semester is new, I have not memorized your names or face with your names.
- Email at: mjaylocation@yahoo.com
01/18/12 Simple site videos
- Video: Simple website part 1
- Video: Simple website part 2
- Homework: Create simple2 page website, links to and from home page (index.html) and second page in pages folder, external link (example: apple.com, etc.) and a Contact Us link.
- Homework: Resample a high resolution image from Stock Exchange, or your own image (2000 pixel minimum in size either width or height). Bring original file, the saved as photoshop version, and the resampled jpeg, named filename(whatever the file name is) 72ppi.jpg
- Video: Resampling
- Bring both homework exercises to class next week to put on server, 01/25/12, for grading.