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Week 1
(Introductions + HTML)
1/13, 1/15
Monday
- Introductions
- Syllabus
- Walk through class website
- Software and materials
- Overview of terms and technologies
- Website examples + my work
- Make first website!
Wednesday
- HTML Basics Slideshow
- HTML exercise
- Start Article Exercise
- Make GitHub account
- Make are.na account and post 1 favorite website and 1 discovered website to class channel
- Article Exercise parts 1
<p.1> 1/20, 1/22
No Class Monday!
Wednesday
- Reading discussion
- CSS Basics
- CSS Article Exercise
- Introduce p.1 "Poem"
- Finish Article Exercise parts 1 & 2
- p.1 levels 1-3
Monday
- Review CSS position and flexbox
- Positioning exercise
Wednesday
- Introduce GitHub Pages
- Set up Class Site
- Favicon
- p.1 level 4
- Finish setting up your class website and email me the link
make sure to add your reading response, article excercise, and p.1
<p.2> 2/3, 2/5
Monday
- Interaction exercise
- Make a small website sketch that incorporates some form of interaction (hover-state, transition, button...) and add it to your class site
- Start implementing a navigation system for p.1
Wednesday
- CSS Animation exercise
- my own website sketches
- make a small website sketch using animation in some way and add it to your class site
- Introduce p.2 "Story"
Monday
- p.1 Poem
- Show p.1 projects
- Work on concept/ideas for p.2
Wednesday
- Work Day
- Add everything we've done so far to your class site and publish the changes
- Get started on p.2, start working on concept, gather/make materials
- Start surfing the web for examples, references, and inspiration for p.2. Add 5 sites to the class collection
- Browse the Net Art Anthology and choose one piece to respond to
Monday
- Reading discussion
- Responsiveness tutorial
Wednesday
- Work Day
- Make a website that has at least 3 different responsive states (3 different media queries) and publish it to your class site
Monday
- Work day
Wednesday
- p.2 Story
- Class will meet at 6pm today!
- Show p.2 projects
- Introduce Final Project
- Publish p.2 on your class site
- Start thinking + sketching your ideas for the final project
- Add 3 artist websites to class collection
- Frank Chimero - The Web's Grain
- Re-read Laurel's "My Website is a Shifting House..." again
~ Spring Break ~
~ Spring Break & Quarantine ~
<final> 3/23, 3/25
The Week
- Watch this javascript introduction video
- Watch my javascript tutorial
- Make a small sketch website that utilizes javascript in some way and publish it to your class site
The Week
- Individual (Virtual) Meetings
The Week
- Come up with a domain name that you want to attach to your final project and purchase it using a DNS registrar (some are listed in the domain name exercise)
- Follow the Domain Name exercise
The Week
- Final Project check-in
The Week
- Debugging
The Week
- Final Project
- Make sure final site is posted on your class site by class-time on Wednesday
- Respond to each other's final sites
- Final work all due on Friday, May 8. Make sure everything is published on your class site!
I'll be looking for:
- p.1 (poem)
- p.2 (story)
- final
exercises:
- article
- flexbox
- animation
- interaction
- responsive
- and at least 5 reading responses