AMERICAN STUDIES LAB
Week of 09/01:
General introduction to working on/for the web.
- During this Lab we'll explore the Web Browser, discuss fundamentals of HTML coding, create a basic homepage, and discuss the ways in
which content can be generated and installed.
- We'll begin working on this HTML Tutorial in class.
- We'll also review this material on
copyright, fair
use and web citation.
- We'll also decide on editors for sections of the American Studies Yellow Pages.
- For future reference, you may want to bookmark these pages:
Week of 09/11:
Basic HTML
NOTE: Whichever tutorial you use, please try to preview the materials up to Tables and Frames for this lab.
After class, install home page links to subordinate pages for 1) American Studies
resources and 2) technical resources for web design. These will be the places where you can build both your personal resource base for doing American Studies and your toolkit for web design over the next two years.
For next week, sign up for a section of Walter Lippman's Public Opinion and on the tagging sheet on my office door (Bryan 427); follow the directions and post your section to your homepage by next Wednesday.
Week of 09/15:
Intermediate HTML: Tables and Frames
Week of 09/22:
Scanning: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Photoshop I -- ASLAB
Before the lab, sign up for one of the photoshop exercizes and one of the scanning exercises.
Photoshop for the Web: Making Great GIFs
Week of 09/29:
Web Design -- ASLAB
Also useful:
A Designer's Sampler
Week of 10/06:
Dynamic Media: Audio and Video -- Clemons Media Center
Also: Video Digitization: A Guide
Before Class, sign up for one of the video exercises and one the audio exercises.
Week of 10/11:Tricks and Tools
- imagemapping
- MetaTagging
- submission to search engines
- Introduction to HomeSite
Week of 10/20: Dreamweaver?
Week of 11/27: Fireworks?
Week of 11/03:Advanced Dreamweaver?
Week of 11/10:Advanced HTML?
Week of 11/17:Workshop I
Week of 11/24:Workshop II
Week of 11/24:Workshop III
