My assignment for week 4 is located at bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/128b/10/week4/mapexample.html, I hope.
Chapter 2 of the Fireworks book went over copying, rotating, masking, adding filters, importing graphics, and trimming the canvas. The only question I had, I answered myself. In case others had the same problem, I will mention it here. I had trouble deselecting the circle (page 56), but then realized I had to have the pointer tool selected first.
Assignment 3 Continued
The first chapter of Fireworks was presented very well. It presented many different methods for cropping, deleting backgrounds, erasing, and smoothing. The author walked us through the methods and provided examples for hands on experience. Two images are presented showing the lessons learned.
In the article, Designing for the Web, By Joshua David McClurg-Genevese, Published on January 9, 2006,
the author defined the areas of concern when designing for the web; namely, resolution, differing browsers, web-safe color, graphic compression, and text. He defines pixel dimensions and spatial resolution and how they affect each other. He discusses browser trends. He discusses how you have to take into account the browser space in addition to the size of the monitor. He mentions fixed-width vs. percentage-based designs. He mentions the 216 standardized colors. He discusses the three acceptable image compression formats: GIF, JPG, and PNG. He also discusses text fonts, computer limitations on fonts and that the browser’s default font will be used if the specified font is not available on the computer. Accessibility is another important consideration. Usability and audience are also discussed as important considerations to design. I don’t have any questions about this article.
The Web-Safe Color Dilemma, by Lynda Weinman, Lynda publishes the 216 (256-40 colors that vary on Macs and PCs) color palette developed by programmers as a way to design for 8-bit color systems. Although most computer systems in use today are not limited in this way, a lot of the small electronic devices, such as cell phones and PDAs are. I don’t have any questions about this article.
Both articles were interesting and well-written.
I watched the following five Adobe videos:
These videos were great to watch on my own. They were quick and only discussed one topic, making them easy to watch and retain the info. The first video stressed the importance of defining the site first. The second stressed the ease of creating a new page by right-clicking on the site file. It also shows other longer methods for creating a new page. The third video discusses the different methods for creating links – link to email, link to image, link to page within the site or outside. There are many different ways to accomplish each type of link. It is best to point to it or browse for the file vs typing in which could end in error. The fourth video demonstrates the GUI in Fireworks and Dreamweaver. . The fifth video demonstrates the methods available to add images to your web pages. It stresses adding the alternate text along with your images. The fourth video is presented by Joseph Lowery. The other four of the videos were presented by Garrick Chow. Both of these presenters spoke very clearly and demonstrated the procedures with ease. I prefered watching these videos at home vs in the classroom. Thanks to Jenn for providing us with the links to view them at home.
My website for the class assignment is located at bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/128b/10/index.html
The other pages are linked to this page.
This was a good assignment to become familiar with linking and the different ways to accomplish it. There was no mention in the assignment about naming titles. I found that all my pages were marked untitled, so I added names to the titles of each page. The Target _blank made a new page appear with the link – very useful.
My website can be viewed at bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/128b/10/Laura.html
Page 2 can be found at bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/128b/10/page2.html
or by clicking on Page 2 on the first website page.
Adobe Seminar Discussion
This was a decent overview of Dreamweaver. However, since I am totally new to this program, a lot of it went over my head. I’m going to note the link of the seminar so that I may revisit it when I’m more familiar with the software:
: Click here to view “Introduction to Dreamweaver” (1 hour approx)
Is there a way to rewind the seminar? Many times as I was trying to grasp a concept, I missed the next one. I would have liked to rewind and listen again. For example,
How did they delete the background from the chosen CSS?
The Library concept sounds good.
From the spry tab – Accordion panel – this is a new concept for me. I don’t believe I’ve seen it used in websites before. Sounds good.
He talked about validation widgets. How do we put in validation widgets?
There’s so much info discussed here – I hope we don’t have to know all this just yet.
I understood about the fact that Fireworks is good for optimizing pictures, but I
didn’t understand the rest (of why Fireworks vs. Photoshop).
Just noting another website mentioned in the seminar to check out (for later reference):
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/
AJAX widgets – I don’t know what they’re talking about
I didn’t hear the answer to the question about vista ready. Is Dreamweaver vista ready?
For further questions email Abbas Rizvi at: rizvi@adobe.com
I read the article “FTP: For the People” at http://www.webmonkey.com/02/36/index4a.html,
and have the following thoughts and questions:
This is the first time I’ve ever heard of a port number. Active and passive FTPs – another new concept.
What is a CGI script?
Are the people who run the FTP servers volunteers?
What is an FTP client vs using the browser?
On an editor’s note, two ans should be ands.
On Chapter 1 of “Dreamweaver HOT,” my thoughts and questions are:
I’m confused about the XML namespace.
Is CSS part of XHTML?
Is JavaScript allowed in XHTML?
Hi classmates! Welcome to my blog. This is my first time blogging, so I’m sure that automatically puts me in the “old” group. As required, my picture is presented above (if all goes well). This picture is only posted because it’s a requirement of this class; otherwise, it would not exist. I cut myself out of a family photo, so it’s a little awkward.
