sleduc on December 10th, 2009

This site allows you to see color pallets from other designers and to create your own at Kuler.adobe.com

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sleduc on November 29th, 2009

Why are some web sites easy to navigate and enjoyable? How does one build a great web site? Creating good information architecture, like a web site, is challenging. It involves iterative design, a cyclic process of prototyping, testing, analyzing, and refining a product or process. Iterative design is integral with [...]

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sleduc on October 16th, 2009

 
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Creating the little icon seen by the web page address in the top corner of the web browser is easy with http://favicon.cc

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sleduc on June 15th, 2009

Imagine the school of tomorrow. How would you design it? How would you integrate creativity, problem solving, collaboration, participation, and put all the tools together to help this happen? Explore the School 2.0 web site to see what some are imagineering.

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sleduc on March 10th, 2009

Want to create a web site for free?  How about a very nice looking web site?  How about an easy to make and manage site?  If you answered Yes! Yes!! and Yes!!!  The check out wix.com.  It’s pretty amazing.

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sleduc on February 28th, 2009

Make a folder named “surf” on your desktop.
Make another folder named “media” inside your surf folder.
Download the surf.html file into your surf folder.

http://hulk.osd.wednet.edu/sleduc/surf/

Download the surf.gif file into your media folder.

http://hulk.osd.wednet.edu/sleduc/surf/media/surf.gif

Open surf.html in Dreamweaver.
View the source code and look to see how the div tags work in the CSS at the top of the page and [...]

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sleduc on February 25th, 2009

 
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This screencast is for students working through the Head First HTML and CSS book.  Student from other classes may find it useful, because the process for publishing is the same for everyone.

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sleduc on December 12th, 2008

Example Mock-up

Creating a paper protototype is the first step in building a web site.  A List Apart, a web site for, “For people who make websites”, is a  great place to learn about web design and development.
Shawn Medero published an article on Paper Prototyping. Itn highlights the importance of creating paper mock-ups with great examples.  [...]

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sleduc on November 20th, 2008

 

Due Date: Tuesday, December 2nd at the end of day.

Must be placed:

in the folder

in the folder

on the hulk.osd.wednet.edu web server

Goal

Redesign McNashton’s business web site

Must include the logo and a Hawaiian theme in the design

Get better at the web site production cycle

Product

Rough draft paper sketch, scanned and saved in the  folder on the Hulk Server

Save as a .jpg file so [...]

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sleduc on November 10th, 2008

CHS Web Site Boxes Design

CHS Web Site CSS Code Box Design

CHS Commented Code

Details

Goal

Understand how to build a web page with numerous columns, positioning, padding, margins,and more!

Product

A web page with 3 columns

Tools

The Noodle Incident
W3schools.com

CSS Examples

Adobe Dreamweaver

Kompozer

Resources

Download the zipped copy of the Three Column Web Page within the folder

Three_Column_Web_Page (zip)

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