Web Design 101

Yesterday, students presented final projects in two of my classes — Dreamweaver and Photoshop.

For Dreamweaver, most people designed a personal portfolio web site, which was the primary assignment. However, with the instructor's approval, I chose to redesign the web site for a friend of mine, quiltmaker and teacher Sally Schneider. We had had lunch over spring break, and I had mentioned that I would be taking a class in Dreamweaver at some point. At the time, I did not know that I would be taking it spring quarter.

A couple of days later, I received an email from the department's program manager informing me that my Flash class had been canceled due to low enrollment and I needed to pick something else.

So, when the final project was assigned about a month ago, I emailed Sally to ask her if it was okay with her if I redesigned her web site. She said, Sure!

It's still a work in progress, but here are screen captures of three representative pages. She likes what I've done (thanks, Sally!) and we're going to work together to complete the site.

Tomorrow, I will feature the movie poster I designed for the Photoshop final project. (It's awesome!)

Down to the Wire

Spring quarter is almost over. Next week is the last week of class. The following week is Finals week.

This has been a rather intense quarter. Advanced Photoshop, Beginning Dreamweaver, Typography, and a course in copyright law. Talk about forming new neuronal connections!

Today I finished up the last tutorial in my Dreamweaver class. We dipped our toe into the world of javascript, incorporating some javascript code into a simple web page.

That class has been fun, interesting, and challenging. Even, possibly, more than Photoshop. I knew a smattering of Photoshop before, but this was completely new. HTML, CSS and all that.

If I can, I think I'd like to take the Advanced Dreamweaver class, even though it's not require for my course of study.

Dreamweaver Class

At last night's Dreamweaver class, the instructor showed us how to upload our assignments to the department’s server.

If you click on this link, it will take you to a page I created, for an assignment to design a page telling something about myself. Also, at the bottom of the page, there is a link to my Midterm Project.