Thursday, July 19, 2007
Trends in New Media | Summer 07
Edited on 31 Jan 2008 around 12pm
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010
A look at how web sites and projects can be managed and edited online
Edited on 03 Dec 2010 around 3pm
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Friday, November 26, 2010
In this lecture I cover the basics of XML, it's history and how it can be used.
Edited on 19 May 2011 around 9am
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Friday, December 10, 2010
This is fun...
How to build an ePub ebook from InDesign... Up to the point of making it look really good. Check out the WIKI page.
Edited on 07 Dec 2010 around 1pm
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
During this session we look at the basics of blogging as a way to deliver content to a web site. Each student will be given a web space and a blog. From this day, students will be able to post items to their blog using a basic template but without styling.
Edited on 26 Sep 2011 around 10am
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Thursday, October 06, 2011
In this session we are going to look at Photoshop as a means to build a web site prototype.
Edited on 30 Jun 2011 around 9am
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Friday, October 14, 2011
What lies behind a well structured web page? We look at the basic principles of mark-up, and how web browsers (and mobile devices) interpret the HTML language.
How can we change the appearance of the element within the browser and how to keep this presentation separate from the structure?
Edited on 23 Sep 2011 around 3pm
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Lets look at some design issues and then from our Photoshop 'comps' we will create a sample page in HTML and use CSS to style according to our prototype.
We also look at using Dreamweaver as a prototyping tool.
Edited on 06 Sep 2011 around 9am
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
ExpressionEngine (like other Content management systems) uses special code to pull our content from a database on the server. During this session we look at the basic principles of this and how we can edit these templates.
We can use Dreamweaver to help us modify the CSS for re-styling and this will be demonstrated during this session.
Edited on 27 Oct 2011 around 10am
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Thursday, November 03, 2011
How to add more than just text and images to the blog entries.
Edited on 03 Nov 2011 around 10am
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Since most people find our web sites through Google. How can we structure our web pages and write our content to be sure that we will be found easily and be ranked high on Googles pages?
Edited on 06 Sep 2011 around 10am
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
How to create audio content and publish on the web as a series of episodes.
Edited on 30 Jun 2011 around 9am
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
An aspect of web design that can significantly enhance the user experience:
Fonts - can we go beyond the system's fonts?
Edited on 28 Nov 2011 around 1pm
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Thursday, December 01, 2011
Looking in detail at markup and how to use validation in the process of getting things to look right.
What improvements can we make to the navigation?
Edited on 01 Dec 2011 around 12pm
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Thursday, December 08, 2011
How to publish the podcasts with RSS.
Edited on 01 Dec 2011 around 12pm
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
There will be no formal lecture on this day. Just help with any technical issues as needed.
Edited on 30 Jun 2011 around 9am
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
This lecture sets out the goals of the course for this semester.
Edited on 26 Jan 2012 around 10am
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
The focus of this session is to introduce the concept of the computer and screen based devices as a medium for the delivery of a reading experience. We will look at eBooks in relation to the assignment as well as an introduction to the blogging system that each student will use throughout the semester.
Edited on 10 Jan 2012 around 10am
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
So you think you know all this?
Hypertext markup; the basics
Edited on 06 Feb 2012 around 4pm
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Issues for delivering text to the screen. From computer text to text that it structured for the screen.
Edited on 08 Feb 2012 around 9am
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Edited on 15 Jun 2011 around 9am
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
In this session we are going to look at Photoshop as a means to build a web site prototype.
Controlling the appearance of a web page with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). During this session we will look at Dreamweaver and ExpressionEngine in combination and then make changes to our CSS. This will enable us to change the appearance of our 'blog' and other pages.
Edited on 03 Dec 2011 around 12pm
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
We look at ePUB and other formats
Edited on 15 Jun 2011 around 10am
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
We will make use of InDesign and consider the relationship between style, content and final markup and how this will affect the ePUB format ebook and the PDF eBook .
You will have decided the public domain text that you are using for your ebook by this week and you should post a blog entry about this.
Edited on 03 Dec 2011 around 12pm
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
We look at the basic principles of design as it applies to a cover image.
In this session we are going to look at Photoshop as a means to build a cover image for the eBook. We look at example book covers (bring in any books of your own!).
Edited on 02 Mar 2012 around 1pm
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
By default your web site starts at the blog; a page that lists all of the blog post titles and summaries. Can this be different? Can I make a 'landing page', or can I control how the blog posts are shown on that first page.
Edited on 15 Feb 2012 around 9am
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Mostly InDesign!
Edited on 10 Jan 2012 around 9am
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Mostly InDesign!
Edited on 15 Jun 2011 around 10am
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
We look at ePUB and other formats
Edited on 03 Dec 2011 around 12pm
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Edited on 10 Jan 2012 around 9am
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Just me here to help
Edited on 03 Dec 2011 around 12pm
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
In this session we will re-visit the concept of document structure, keeping the style separate.
Edited on 15 Jun 2011 around 10am
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
We look, in detail, at how we may enhance our designs with the fonts that we use.
Edited on 29 Mar 2012 around 5pm
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
We visit the Digital area at the London Book Fair
Edited on 15 Jun 2011 around 10am
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Looking at more detail of markup for both the web site and the eBook. We will look at validation and what this means.
Edited on 10 Jan 2012 around 9am
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
ePUB format eBooks can be constructed by hand coding, but we don't expect you to do this. InDesign will export to the ePub format.
Edited on 15 Jun 2011 around 10am
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
We have been using HTML5, CSS3 and ePUB 2. What are the future of these technologies and what might we expect next year's cohort to have what we haven't.
Edited on 25 Apr 2012 around 9am
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Technical support all day - date subject to change
Edited on 15 Jun 2011 around 10am
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Chris Jennings will be available all of this day in the IT Suite to help with any technical issues.
Edited on 03 Dec 2011 around 12pm
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