Introduction
In this course you will working with images, primarily bitmap. Most will be designed to be presented on the Web using HTML (Hypertext Markup Language).
The primary software you will using for images is Photoshop, with whatever version is available to you in your lab computers - usually Photoshop CC 2014. You may also download a trial version to your own computer to use free for 30 days.
Learning how to work with Photoshop: Photoshop Help
The best software for designing “what you see is what you get” Web sites is Dreamweaver, most lab computers have version Dreamweaver CC 2014, but you may use a free web editor or text editor, if you prefer. Both are available in most the lab computers and you can download the free editors to your personal computer.
Please do not use Frontpage or convert files from word processing programs to HTML.
The software we are using is the industry standard and although there is other software that can do many of the same jobs, I encourage you to use these so you will be familiar with the most widely used tools for making and showing images on the computers.
Required Text
Simple & Useful, A Guide to Web Design, 2nd edition
Jerrold Maddox
ISBN 9781465290526
The eBook is available at the Penn State Book Store, and from the publisher, Kendall Hunt.
Your grade for the course will be based on the quality of your individual work on your personal sites and on your work in collaboration with your group. You will have a one week grace period after the work is due to turn it in with no reduction in grade, every week after that will mean a reduction of one grade.
Each individual assignment will receive a grade within ten days after it is due.
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