Date | Classroom Assignments |
Day 1 | Classroom Rules and Introduction to Web Design Lecture: Target Audience, Logo, and Slogan Student Introductions Assignments: Pick 6 Web Sites and complete a Web Site Evaluation Internet Search: Web Site Search |
Day 2 | Lecture: Good and Bad Sites Assignments: Find the 6 Worst Sites and 6 Best Sites complete site Evaluation Internet Search: Web Site Search for poorly designed sites. |
Day 3 | Lecture: Twelve Types of Sites. Introduce the DreamWeaver CS5 environment. Assignments: Find an example of each of the twelve types of sites. Internet Search: Web Site Search Homework: None |
Week 2 | Lecture: DREAMWEAVER CS5 Chapter 1 Creating a DreamWeaver Web Page and Local Site - Describe DreamWeaver and identify its key features - Define a local site - Create and save a Web page - Add a background -Use Panels and Property Inspector - Format and Modify text elements -Insert a line break. Assignments: Montana Parks Web Site, Apply Your Knowledge, Extend Your Knowledge, Make It Right, In the Lab 1, 2, & 3, and Cases and Places |
Week 3 & 4 | Lecture: DREAMWEAVER CS5 Chapter 2 -Adding Web Pages, Links, and Images - Add pages to a Web Site - Describe DreamWeaver's image accessibility features - Describe Image file formats - Insert, resize, and align images within a Web page - Describe the different types of links - Create relative, absolute, and e-mail links - Describe how to change the color of links - Edit and delete links - Describe Code view, Split view, and Design view - Use Live view. Assignments: Montana Parks Web Site, Apply Your Knowledge, Extend Your Knowledge, Make It Right, In the Lab 1, 2, & 3, and Cases and Places |
Week 5 | Lecture: DREAMWEAVER CS5 Chapter 3 Tables and Page Layout - Understand page layout - Design a Web page using tables - Create a table structure -Modify a table structure - Describe HTML table tags - Add content to a table - Add a border to a table - Format table content - Format a table - Add borders to images - Create head content. Assignments: Montana Parks Web Site, Apply Your Knowledge, Extend Your Knowledge, Make It Right, In the Lab 1, 2, & 3, and Cases and Places |
Week 6 & 7 | Lecture: DREAMWEAVER CS5 Chapter 4 Templates and Style Sheets - Describe a template - Create a template - Add a banner image to a template - Specify editable and non editable regions in a template - Describe different types of style sheets - Display the Css Styles panel - Create a Cascading Style Sheet - Apply Cascading Style Sheet attributes to a template - Use Expanded Tables mode - Create a Web page from a template - Specify links targets - Describe CSS style properties. Assignments: Montana Parks Web Site, Apply Your Knowledge, Extend Your Knowledge, Make It Right, In the Lab 1, 2, & 3, and Cases and Places |
Week 8 & 9 | Lecture: DREAMWEAVER CS5 Chapter 5 Absolute Positioning, Image Maps, the History Panel, and Date Objects - Explain the concept of AP elements - Insert, select, resize, and move an AP Element - Display the AP Elements Panel - Name an AP Element - Align AP Elements - Add an image to an AP Element - Create and select stacked AP Elements - Describe an image map - Create an image map - Use the History panel. Assignments: Montana Parks Web Site, Apply Your Knowledge, Extend Your Knowledge, Make It Right, In the Lab 1, 2, & 3, and Cases and Places |
Week 10 | Lecture: DREAMWEAVER CS5 Chapter 6 Forms - Discuss form Processing - Describe the difference between client-side and server-side form processing - Add a horizontal rule to a Web page - Create a form - Insert a table into a form - Describe form objects - Describe and add text fields and text areas to a form - Describe and add check boxes and radio buttons to a form, Describe and add lists and menus to a form - Describe and add form buttons to a form - Describe form accessibility options - Apply behaviors to a form - View and test a form. Assignments: Montana Parks Web Site, Apply Your Knowledge, Extend Your Knowledge, Make It Right, In the Lab 1, 2, & 3, and Cases and Places |
Week 11 & 12 | Lecture: DREAMWEAVER CS5 Chapter 7 Using Spry to Create Interactive Web Pages - Describe the Spry framework - Describe Spry widgets - Add the Spry Collapsible Panel widget to a Web page - Add headings to a Collapsible Panel widget - Copy and paste text to a Collapsible Panel widget - Add and customize a Spry Menu Bar - Format a Spry widget - Describe Spry effects. Assignments: Montana Parks Web Site, Apply Your Knowledge, Extend Your Knowledge, Make It Right, In the Lab 1, 2, & 3, and Cases and Places |
Week 13 - 15 | Lecture: DREAMWEAVER CS5 Chapter 8 Advanced Spry Activities - Insert a tooltip - Create a Spry Tabbed Panels widget - Add content to the Spry Tabbed Panels widget - Format a Spry Tabbed Panels widget - Add a Spry Accordion widget to a Web page - Format a Spry Accordian Widget - Apply a Spry Effect. Assignments: Montana Parks Web Site, Apply Your Knowledge, Extend Your Knowledge, Make It Right, In the Lab 1, 2, & 3, and Cases and Places |
Week 16 - 18 | On Your Own Website and Holiday Wish List Web Site Using all features learned. |
Week 19 | Lecture: DREAMWEAVER CS5 Chapter 9 Media Objects - Describe Media Objects - Insert FLASH Text into a Web page - Insert a FLASH Movie into a Web page - Add a background sound to a Web page - Embed a sound file in a Web page - Insert a video into a Web page - Insert an animated GIF file into a Web page - Use the Results panel group to validate a Web page and check links - Describe Shockwave and how to insert a Shockwave movie into a Web page - Describe a JAVA applet and how to insert an applet into a Web page - Describe the ActiveX control and how it differs from plug-ins. Lecture: DREAMWEAVER CS5 Chapter 9 Media Objects - Describe Media Objects - Insert Flash Text into a Web page - Insert Wacky Tacky Website |
Week 20 | Lecture: FLASH CS5 Chapter 1 Getting Started With FLASH - Understand the FLASH Workspace, Open a Document and Play a Movie, Create and Save a Movie, Work with the Timeline, Distribute an Adobe Flash movie, and Plan an Application or a Website. Assignments: Lessons 1 - 6 All Steps pages 2-45, Skills Review pages 46-47, Project Builder 1 & 2 pages 48 & 49, Design Project page 50, Portfolio Project page 51. |
Week 21 | Lecture: FLASH CS5 Chapter 2 Drawing Objects in Adobe FLASH - Use the FLASH Drawing and Alignment tools, Select objects and apply colors, Work with drawn objects, Works with text and text objects, and Work with layers and objects. Assignments: Lessons 1 - 5 All Steps pages 2-51, Skills Review pages 52-53, Project Builder 1 & 2 pages 54-55, Design Project page 56, Portfolio Project page 57. |
Week 22 | Lecture: FLASH CS5 Chapter 3 Working With Symbols and Interactivity - Create symbols and instances, Work with Libraries, Create Buttons, Assign actions to Frames and Buttons, and Import Graphics. Assignments: Lessons 1 - 5 All Steps pages 2-33, Skills Review pages 34-35, Project Builder 1 & 2 pages 36-39, Design Project page 40, Portfolio Project page 41. |
Week 23 & 24 | Lecture: FLASH CS5 Chapter 4 Creating Animations - Create Motion Tween Animations, Create Classic Tween Animations, Create Frame-by-Frame Animations, Create Shape Tween Animations, Create Movie Clips, and Animate Text. Assignments: Lessons 1 - 6 All Steps pages 2-49, Skills Review pages 50-52, Project Builder 1 & 2 pages 53-55, Design Project page 56, Portfolio Project page 57. |
Week 25 & 26 | Lecture: FLASH CS5 Chapter 5 Creating Special Effects - Create a Mask Effect, Add Sound, Add Video, Create an Animated Navigation Bar, Create Character Animations Using Inverse Kinematics, Create 3D Effects, and Use the Deco Tool. Assignments: Lessons 1 - 7 All Steps pages 2-43, Skills Review pages 44-48, Project Builder 1 & 2 pages 50-51, Design Project page 52, Portfolio Project page 53. |
Week 27 | Lecture: FLASH CS5 Chapter 6 Preparing and Publishing Movies - Publish Movies, Reduce File Size to Optimize Movie, Create a Preloader, Use HTML Publish Settings, and Create and Test Applications for Mobile Devices. Assignments: Lessons 1 - 5 All Steps pages 2-31, Skills Review pages 32-33, Project Builder 1 & 2 pages 34-35, Design Project page 36, Portfolio Project page 37. |
Week 28 | Lecture: FLASH CS5 Chapter 7 Importing and Modifying Graphics - Understand and Import Graphics, Break Apart Bitmaps and Use Bitmap Fills, and Trace Bitmap Graphics. Assignments: Lessons 1 - 3 All Steps pages 2-19, Skills Review pages 20-21, Project Builder 1 & 2 pages 22-23, Design Project page 24, Portfolio Project page 25. |
Week 29 | Lecture: FLASH CS5 Chapter 8 Building Complex Animations - Plan for Complex Movies and Animations, Create an Animated Graphic Symbol, Create a Movie Clip Symbol, Animate Buttons Using Movie Clip Symbols, and Edit an Animation Using the Motion Editor. Assignments: Lessons 1 - 5 All Steps pages 2-30, Skills Review pages 32-33, Project Builder 1 & 2 pages 34-35, Design Project page 36, Portfolio Project page 37. |
Week 30 | Lecture: FLASH CS5 Chapter 9 Introduction to ActionScript 3.0 - Understand ActionScript 3.0, Work with Instances of Movie Clip Symbols, Use Code Snippets, and Work with Variables. Assignments: Lessons 1 - 4 All Steps pages 2-39, Skills Review pages 40-43, Project Builder 1 & 2 pages 44-46, Design Project page 547, Portfolio Project page 48-49. |
Week 31 | Lecture: FLASH CS5 Chapter 10 Using ActionScript to Enhance User Experience - Create Complex Interactivity, Load Movies at Runtime, Work with Conditional Actions, and Use ActionScript to create External Links. Assignments: Lessons 1 - 4 All Steps pages 2-37, Skills Review pages 38-40, Project Builder 1 & 2 pages 41-43, Design Project page 44, Portfolio Project page 45. |
Week 32 | Lecture: FLASH CS5 Chapter 11 Adding Sound and Video - Work with Sound, Specify Synchronization Options, Modify Sounds, Use ActionScript With Sound, and Work with Video. Assignments: Lessons 1 - 5 All Steps pages 2-31, Skills Review pages 32-35, Project Builder 1 & 2 pages 36-38, Design Project page 39, Portfolio Project page 40-41. |
Week 33 | Lecture: FLASH CS5 Chapter 12 Working With Components - Use Components in a FLASH Movie and Work with Components and ActionScript. Assignments: Lessons 1 & 2 All Steps pages 2-21, Skills Review pages 22-24, Project Builder 1 & 2 pages 25-26, Design Project page 27, Portfolio Project page 28-29. |
| Business/Marketing Web Site |
| Informational/News/Advocacy Web Sites |
| Personal/Entertainment/Educational Web Sites |
| Assignments: FLASH Movies Final Exam Web Site |