GDT 150 Design for the Internet: Fall 2002
Welcome
This website serves as the main resource for Fall 2002 GDT 150 Section 2 "Design for the Internet" at Washtenaw Community College. The class meets Mondays and Wednesdays, 6:00 - 8:55 pm in GM009.
This syllabus is subject to change, partially based on your feedback. If there's something you'd like to cover in class, make sure that you let me know, and I'll try to work it in.
| Date | Topic Covered | In-class Work | Reading | Homework (due the following class) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.4 | Class Introduction | Take the survey | none | Project 1.1: Website Critiques, buy book(s), get WCC email account |
| 9.9 | Introduction to HTML & FTP | Project 1.2: Convert critique paper to a webpage | none | Complete Project 1.2 |
| 9.11 | Introduction to Dreamweaver, CSS | Download this document and add CSS styles Project 1.3: Style critique page with CSS in Dreamweaver |
Review Lesson 1 pp. 6-28, 33-42, 52-55 | Complete Project 1.3 |
| 9.16 | Site Management, Images | Lesson 2 Exercises, Project 1.4: Add Screenshots to critique page | Lesson 2 | Complete Project 1.4 |
| 9.18 | Review Images and Site Management, Links | Lesson 3 Exercises | Lesson 4 | Complete Lesson 4 exercises |
| 9.23 | Page Layout with Tables | Lesson 4 exercises | Lesson 4 | Lesson 4 exercises to the point that we finish in class |
| 9.25 | Page Layout with Tables cont. | Lesson 4 exercises | none | Lesson 4 Bonus Exercise |
| 9.30 | Cutting Graphics | Start Project 2 | none | Project 2 |
| 10.2 | Project 2 Workday | Work Day, Project 2 | none | Project 2 |
| 10.7 | Project 2 Workday | Work Day, Project 2 | none | Project 2 |
| 10.9 | Project 2 due | Project 2 critique | Lesson 6 | Writing Assignment |
| 10.14 | Page Layout Strategies | Layout page with provided content | none | Complete in-class work |
| 10.16 | Interactivity with Behaviors/ Javascript | Exercises, Lesson 5 | Lesson 5 | Cut the graphics for the layout exercise |
| 10.21 | Exercise workday | Build page from WCC design | none | Complete page in Dreamweaver |
| 10.23 | Dreamweaver Templates, Dreamweaver Libraries | Create template from exercise page, 3 pages from template | Skim Lessons 8, 9 | Finish template pages |
| 10.28 | Workday | Catch Up | Read Web Style Guide: Page Layout | Catch Up! |
| 10.30 | Project 3 Workday | Discuss Reading Project 3 |
none | Project 3 |
| 11.4 | Project 3 Workday | Project 3 | none | Project 3 |
| 11.6 | Intro to Forms Project 3 Workday |
Project 3 | none | Project 3 |
| 11.11 | Project 3 Workday | Project 3 | none | Project 3 |
| 11.13 | Project 3 due CSS revisited |
Project 3 Critique | Lesson 13 | TBA |
| 11.18 | Project 3 Critique | Read Web Style Guide: Interface Design | ||
| 11.20 | Discuss Reading | none | Final Project | |
| 11.25 | Frames Final Project Part 1 due |
Work Day, Final Project | Lesson 12 | Final Project |
| 12.2 | Work Day, Final Project | none | Final Project | |
| 12.4 | Work Day, Final Project | none | Final Project | |
| 12.9 | Work Day, Final Project | none | Final Project | |
| 12.11 | Work Day, Final Project | none | Final Project | |
| 12.16 | Work Day, Final Project | none | Final Project | |
| 12.18 | Final Project Due | Critique of final project |
