COURSE CALENDAR | WEEK 08 CLASS OUTLINE |
- Browser Cam introduction and user set up.
- Midterm Project Critique
The purpose of this project is to give students experience preparing a client presentation, outlining the site planning and development phases. Designers with the ability to prepare and present a professional verbal and visual presentation will be better able to compete in the highly competitive field of design.
Students should be prepared to present their well-crafted presentations to the class in a professional manner. Imagine you are presenting to a room full of people who have no idea how a web site is created. You will field questions from the class (board of directors) and attempt to keep the presentation organized and on-track. The final goal, to get approval from the class to begin the next phase of the site development.
- Check the Midterm Project requirements to ensure you have all required elements prepared.
- Your site must be loaded and functioning on the FTP server in order to receive a passing grade. Check the Student Portfolio page to make sure your site is set up properly.
- Make at lease one BACKUP of your work on CD!!
- Late projects will not be accepted. Your site should be finished and uploaded to the FTP server. You will not have time in class to upload your files. UPLOAD BEFORE YOU COME TO CLASS (instructions).
Next week please have your file structure set up in the clilent_site folder. This means all dummy pages and folders in the site are created and named, including an images folder to hold site images. Base your file structure on your site map main sections and sub-sections.
Have a template page created for each level of your site, with properly structured, semantically correct XHTML. We will be defining your containers based on your finalized Photoshop mockups and adding divs the template page(s). If time, we will begin slicing and optimize in Image Ready.