Chapter 9 Fireworks October 30, 2007

Animation. Wow does Fireworks make ugly example excercises (sorry to be negative).
 In another good example of how doing excercises from a book is a tough way to learn – my star animated properly in Fireworks and previewed successfully in the browser. Back to the drawing board AGAIN to try (here in my lonely atlier)  to [...]

Dreamweaver Chapter 7 October 28, 2007

Initially I ran into a problem with one of the excercises in this chapter.  I was trying to change the Box for h1, and  left “Same for All” checked. As a result, only the top box was available for making changes, the rest were grayed out. I redid the excercize, and the second time around, [...]

Dreamweaver Chapter 6 October 28, 2007

The link to the excercises from Chapter 6:
http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/128b/18/week9/
Chapter Summary: Control at a Price!
Wow, this chapter was packed with new concepts and vocabulary. It will take a few more reads/excercises and tons of real life experience before the nuances of Style Sheets are intuitive.  
Highpoints:
Cascade – indicates hierarchy – for the Browser (vs. designer’s need for organization). Style sheets [...]

Domain Names October 25, 2007

So, what extactly does SEO Moz stand for ? The author suggests that SEO Moz is a great website name because it is so obvious. The notion struck me as funny because the name wasn’t even remotely obvious to me and therefore kind of an odd example to use for readers who need advice on [...]

Week 8 Reading October 16, 2007

Article: A Dao of Web Design
Seems fair that like print, design conventions on the web are a collection of (evolving) notions about how best to convey information to the most people, the measurement tools are a bit different, but why wouldn’t they be?  Shedding points for percentages seems like it will be an easier transition than [...]

Final Project October 12, 2007

Final Project:  A List Party Rental website
I chose this company for a couple of reasons.   They’re new; they don’t like their logo; their website could use improvement;  I have worked with them in the past (nice people) and I have access to photos and content for the website project.  If I’m happy with the results at [...]

Week 7 Storyboard & Comp October 10, 2007

The link to my  storyboard is: http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/128b/18/FORGE_Storyboard.jpg, the link to the Fireworks comp is: http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/128b/18/fogewebpage.png.zip or http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/128b/18/FOGEcomp.png
This excercize brought to light the difference between conceptualizing and doing. I put alot of thought into my storyboard, but still made changes that were not part of the original storyboard. At the end of the excercise, I was unsettled [...]

Week 7 Reading October 10, 2007

Design Beautiful Websites: My quick recap:
Form via function.  Useability; visual appeal; consistency as a result of clear structure based on thirds/golden rectangle. This article provided good inspiration for sketching out layouts for our web sites/pages.
I was unable to print the pdf, and would have liked to have kept the article as a reference. The “fold” [...]

Week 7 October 10, 2007

Videos:
Using Layers: I am very interested in the color mixer and blender, but couldn’t get them to “go”. I made a vector rectangle, left it selected, and went to the color mixer palette, but the fill color on the main tools palette never changed so of course, neither did my rectangle.
Rollovers: This video was fast. [...]

Wk 6 FOGE Storyboard October 6, 2007

Here is my (rough) storyboard.