Most of you are now working on your website. If you hadn't already, make sure that you have everything on the previous project on your blog. I hadn't specifically mentioned it before, but make sure you have your evaluation of your work up as well.
We haven't really talked about product testing this year, ask me for feedback and for now we'll consider that product testing.
Creating a website
You guys should be currently working on creating a portfolio website of your work from through ought the year.
Something I wanted to mention is tables. If you are working on a website in dreamweaver, tables are a new or some-what experienced web designer's best friend. Tables are an easy way for new or moderately experienced web designers to build website layouts. There are a lot of other options now too, but tables were the standard with the web was first emerging, and is still a pretty widely used way of creating a layout. There are a lot of people who speak out against it now, and with some of the newer software, there are other options. I wouldn't recommend newer methods for new / amateur web designers (or students just starting to play with these ideas).
A table is composed of rows and columns. Rows go side to side (left to right), and columns are vertical (up to down). Basically, a table is a bunch of boxes. Tables don't have to look like boxes though, the boxes can be invisible. The shape a position of these boxes can be used to contain different things. Sort of like a giant book case, dresser, or entertainment system- a bunch of boxes to organize and contain your things.
To create a website layout with tables, you'll need to use the insert menu in dreamweaver to insert a table. If you highlight multiple cells with your cursor, you can merge cells. Just about any website layout can be create with a table.
Lets look at how my blog could be broken down into a simple table.
I'll show more examples later.
We haven't really talked about product testing this year, ask me for feedback and for now we'll consider that product testing.
Creating a website
You guys should be currently working on creating a portfolio website of your work from through ought the year.
Something I wanted to mention is tables. If you are working on a website in dreamweaver, tables are a new or some-what experienced web designer's best friend. Tables are an easy way for new or moderately experienced web designers to build website layouts. There are a lot of other options now too, but tables were the standard with the web was first emerging, and is still a pretty widely used way of creating a layout. There are a lot of people who speak out against it now, and with some of the newer software, there are other options. I wouldn't recommend newer methods for new / amateur web designers (or students just starting to play with these ideas).
A table is composed of rows and columns. Rows go side to side (left to right), and columns are vertical (up to down). Basically, a table is a bunch of boxes. Tables don't have to look like boxes though, the boxes can be invisible. The shape a position of these boxes can be used to contain different things. Sort of like a giant book case, dresser, or entertainment system- a bunch of boxes to organize and contain your things.
To create a website layout with tables, you'll need to use the insert menu in dreamweaver to insert a table. If you highlight multiple cells with your cursor, you can merge cells. Just about any website layout can be create with a table.
Lets look at how my blog could be broken down into a simple table.
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I'll show more examples later.
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