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Holmes
• FIRST DAY • CLASS
1• CLASS 2• CLASS
3 • CLASS 4 • CLASS
5 • CLASS 6 • CLASS
7 • CLASS 8 •
FTP Help
• CALENDAR •
ART LINKS • CLASS
ZINES
CLASS 4
HOMEWORK DUE
Assigned Reading: Harvard Business School's Jerry Zaltman: http://www.fastcompany.com/online/14/zaltman.html
Assigned Writing: One paragraph response to assigned reading (emailed
to instructor from artic email account)
Studio Practice: Gif animation
Technical Objective: Students will learn to create a simple HTML page
and upload it to their SAIC web space.
HTML Basics: Using simpletext (basic tags, links, email) , information architecture/folder
hierarchies, using fetch/uploading.
Naming conventions to observe: no spaces, eight characters or less, use underscore mark to denote spaces (as opposed to a dash), use proper file extensions (.jpg, .gif, .html, .mov, etc.)
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Tutorial 1 Download 2 images of food. Create a root folder called "yourname_html."
Use a separate folder for your Photoshop files if you choose to edit these
images at all. Inside this folder make these subfolders: "docs"
and "images." Place your two final images of food in the "images"
folder. See picture at left for organizational help. |
Tutorial 2: Create two linking pages, an index page (index.html), and a page devoted to fast food (menu.html). This second page must be placed in your subfolder titled "docs" and linked to the index page using a relative path (docs/menu.html). Each page will contain a title, minimum 10 words of body text, one image and one link.
Tutorial 3: Uploading sample web files to the SAIC server using FETCH.
Also: updating/backing up/overwriting files on server
gif builder/shareware (http://macware.erehwon.org/Graphic.html)
*Teaching Assistant will prepare master site of students web sites to allow class access to menu sites.
Screen web sites: Rtmark, Mouchette
(flesh and blood), Etoy
HOMEWORK: Make a sample site that deals with the notion of "MENU"
creatively •Create a minimum of 3 subpages describing menu items on your
site. Upload this sample menu in progress to personal web space.
Online reading: Selection (scroll down to where you see "introduction")
from Eric Schlosser's
Fast Food Nation
Email your reading response to the entire class!
HELFUL LINKS:
html
tags • webmonkey cheatsheet