Flash Text, Buttons, Anchors, Email

Week 09: Mid-Term Exam

Here is a sample session for the mid term exam.

Prepare a Web Site with a Drop Down Menu with five items.
Set up a Sites Folder
Set up a SIte Definition
Test the connection.
Create a Web Site with the following specifications:
Create a menu page with a drop down menu.
Each item in the menu will link to a web page.
Each web page will link back to the menu page using an image map.
All pages will have meta tags: a title, keywords and description.
All graphics will go into an images folder at the root level of the web site.
A Spash (index.html) page will link to the main menu.
Include a picture of yourself.
Include your five strengths and a description of each strength.
All files will be posted to a Remote SIte.
Save the menu.psd and all html files to the root folder of the web site

TIME YOURSELF: Try and get all of this finished in 120 minutes.
ALSO: Be sure to take time to back up the work on an external USB or local HARD DRIVE.

Week 08: Mid-Semester Break

Relax...
Practice 20 minutes per day Photoshop and Dreamweaver....

AND

Start the major project.
• Start sketching the interface now!
• Start sketching the navigation map now!
• Start gathering and scanning design work into digital file formats.
• Start a check list of what needs to be done (technical, artistic)
• Plan to attend a help session ( Monday's 11-12, Room 139) to solve any technical design issues.

Week 07: Review For Mid-Term Exam

Please review the following for the Week 09: Mid-Term Exam:
• Site Organization
• Site Definition in Dreamweaver
• How to create a page wrapper using apDiv & CSS
• Inserting meta tags (title, description, keywords)
• Using Photoshop to create slices
• Using the Slice From Guides technique in Photoshop
• Naming files and images correctly in Photoshop Save for Web
• Saving for Web HTML & images - All Slices, Images Only - Selected Slices
• Saving for Web a Drop Down Menu from Photoshop
• Wrapping the table from Photoshop
• Applying Set Nav Bar Behavior in Dreamweaver
• Applying Timeline Behaviors to a drop down menu
• Adding more layers and placing them inside the Page wrapper.
• Creating a trigger and drop down layer for a drop down menu
• Using the Timeline to hide a layer, applying a Behavior in the Timeline
• Connecting and uploading files to the Remote Site
• Creating a navigational structure (index.html, menu.html, and sub-folder pages)
• Using Image Maps
• Create a splash page (index.html) that links to the menu.html.
• Create Flash Text using Dreamweaver
• Create a Flash Button using Dreaamweaver

Practice creating a Site with a drop down menu. Link to two pages using the drop down menu.
index.html
menu.html
page1.html
page2.html
images folder

Week 06: Moving Files AND Flash Text & Buttons

Today we will work on the following:
1) File and Folder management on Remote and Local file areas
2) Flash Text
3) Flash Buttons
4) hypertext & CSS a:link, a:hover, a:visited, a:active
5) anchors (local)
6) anchors (non-local)
7) mailto:

the lesson for week 06:


Files can be dragged directly from the Remote Site to the SItes Folder or to another folder in the Local Files area.
Folders can be created on both the Remote Site and Local Files areas to hold files and folders.

See tutorial below:


Creating Flash Text and Flash Buttons using Dreamweaver.
Both Flash Text and Flash Buttons can be used to hyperlink to another web page.

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, October 15 - 19

Volunteer for imagineNATIVE!
A volunteer orientation session will be held Sunday, October 5 from 4pm-5.30pm at the Al Green Theatre at 750 Spadina Avenue.

The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, October 15 - 19, is an international festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples at the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio, and new media. The screenings, parties, panel discussions, and cultural events attract and connect filmmakers, media artists, programmers, and industry professionals from Canada and around the world.

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!

As a non-profit charitable organization, we depend on the support of volunteers. As well as being a lot of fun, volunteering can provide a way to gain valuable experience and meet key players in the entertainment industry while helping out a community-oriented organization and supporting Toronto's art scene.

We are seeking enthusiastic volunteers to fill a number of positions before and during the festival, October 15 - 19. Some positions include:

- Guest Relations
- Airport Greeters
- Theatre Ushers / Ticket-Takers
- Workshop Attendants
- Party set-up
- Office Prep (pre-festival)

ImagineNATIVE volunteers are rewarded for their hard work with a Festival Pass, which gives access to festival screenings, special presentations, workshops, and parties.

If you are interested in volunteering please contact: Amy Rouillard, Volunteer Coordinator, web volunteer@imagineNATIVE.org
http://www.imagineNATIVE.org

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Account Access Problem Solved

For example:
MESSAGE READS: Safari could not open the page http://198.96.86.36:16080/~graf2024_025/Week05/up_trigger.html because the server stopped responding.

SOLUTION: Remove the port number :16080 from the url.
Use: http://198.96.86.36/~graf2024_025/Week05/up_trigger.html.
***** Be sure all the hyperlinks ( NAV BAR links) do not include the port number :16080.

Thanks.
P.E.R.