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CAOS/ARTS 113i-01Web Authoring: Dreamweaver CS3
This page is for students of the CAOS/ARTS 113i-01 class, Dreamweaver CS3 Fall Quarter, 2008.
Download the greensheet (syllabus) for the course.
Meets: every Friday, 2:00 - 5:40 pm, in AT204, beginning September 26 and ending on December 5, except for Friday October 24, Friday, October 31, and Friday, November 28. The class will not meet on those dates.
Text: Dreamweaver CS3, by Garrick Chow, published by Lynda.com, copyright 2008. Attention students: be sure to buy the book new, if you can. If you must buy a used copy make sure that it includes the CD with it. The CD contains video files that will be helpful, but more importantly, it also contains files that you will work on in the lab.
Assignments:
- Six lab assignments due at the beginning of each class on the following dates: 10/3, 10/10, 10/17, 11/7, 11/21, and 12/5. (10 points each)
- One mid-term exam on 11/14. (40 points)
- One five-minute final class presentation on the date of the final exam during which the student must demonstrate his or her web site highlighting the material and techniques used. (50 points)
The class is a Pass/No Pass class. A student must get 105 points (70%) or better to receive a Pass for the course.
Lab assignment material will be posted here for each class. (There will be an active link below when the assignment is made available -- usually during class the week before the assignment is due.)- Material for Lab Assignment due October 3
- Material for Lab Assignment due October 10
- Material for the Lab Assignment due October 17
- Material for Lab Assignment due November 7
- Material for Lab Assignment for November 21
- Material for Lab Assignment due December 5
Other interesting information:
Although the focus of this course is about Dreamweaver and not
hand-coding in HTML or XHTML, it is important that students have an
understanding of (or at the very least, a way to learn the fundamentals
of) coding HTML/XHTML pages. In other words, you will need to have at
least a very basic level of understanding about the code, tags, and
page design of web pages. There are a number of web sites that provide
a listing of HTML tags for you to review and, hopefully, learn.
Below are a couple of web sites that I think are particularly relevant to the course related to HTML code. As I find more, I'll add them.
- quackit.com (lists the tags alphabetically and you click on them to learn more) This site is particularly nice because at the bottom of each listing you can experiment with the tags to see what they do
- HTML Dog (for tags listed according to categories, e.g. structure, text, images, links, lists, tables, etc. and it also has tutorials for various skill levels) tutorials on XHTML coding at W3Schools site; this is a really good site for learning all the permutations of coding web sites, whether you just want to get something quick, or study it in detail
Also, it very important that you follow web accessibility standards (for those individuals who may have various impairments and disabilities) as you develop your web pages/sites. In fact, to reinforce how important that is, your grade will suffer if you don't do so. To help you learn more web accessibility, you should go to the authoritative source, which is the W3C evaluation site. You will find links there to various other sites that provide you with tools for evaluating your web site for conformance to accessibility guidelines. Use it!
Column by the New York Times Design Director
-- This site contains a lot of interesting insights into how a very busy
newspaper web staff maintains its huge, and constantly being changed,
web site. "All the news that's fit to print" is their slogan for the print version, but the web site has much more now (video, graphics, animation, etc.). The
Times is usually recognized as one of the leading news sources (not
just the leading "newspaper") in the world.
Guidelines for the final presentation will be posted here later in the term.
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