Class 26 Notes are in progress and are subject to change

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Discourse

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Important concept: You can make a webpage with many different programs - Dreamweaver, SeaMonkey, Expression Web - and you can go back and forth among them to suit your purposes. You can also hand-code inside or outside of these programs.

Movies and video: Windows Live Moviemaker

• Photos
• Video

Demo:  - follow directions in class to upload to YouTube and also to save to computer.

Slide show using Bridge

22 Galleries for your website

EXTRAS:

• Making an Interactive Button
• How to Make a Thumbnail Picture
• Make a button using PSE 6
• Transparent GIFs
• Animated Photogifs
• Bevels
• Changing the File Name of Your Home Page

Check you site before we publish

• Do you use a standard font for your text blocks? Why is this important?
• Do you have good clear contrast in your text blocks/backgrounds?
• Do you have titles for your pages, not just Untitled 1?
• Do you use tables or some other method to keep your text and pictures in order?
• Was your web folder saved in the correct manner in the right place?
• Are your navbars centered when appropriate?
• Do you have an email link?
• Do you include a thumbnail image?
• Do you include an animation or other dynamic effect?
• Do you use a consistent clear layout and color scheme?
• Are your images clear, not "pixelated?"
• Are your images distorted or out of proportion?
• Do your viewers have to scroll a long way to reach the end of the page?
• Do your hyperlinks work, both internal and external?
• Are your hyperlinks clearly marked, logically placed, and easy to follow?

HANDS-ON: Publishing Your Website on the Trinity Server

For safety, backup your 26myweb folder onto your Y drive in case you want to continue to update it . . . . . .

Open your HTML-Documents folder on Sol and copy and paste the folders and files from inside your Web folder (26myweb). The  page named index.htm is your home page.

To open your HTML-Documents folder:
start >> run>> \\sol.cs.trinity.edu\userid\Local\HTML-Documents (substitute your own userid)

 

url: http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~userid

Publish Web on Sol and view Webs on Internet.
Check title that appears on title bar on each page.
Have someone else browse to your web and check for broken links and images.

Unpublish Web on Sol (if you ever need to):

Delete the files in your HTML-Documents folder in your Sol account.

Homework:

1. Make at least one change or correction to your website that you feel necessary.  Re-publish the page(s) with changes. Be prepared to show your site and write about what changes you made in Discourse on Thursday. They will not be fully evaluated until the end of class next Tuesday.

 

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