Class Blackboard for January 25

By Wednesday morning (assuming we complete both exercises in class on today), post your Liquid Design Web page to the Web and send the URL to the discussion "Liquid Page Design"

For Thursday:
Come with materials for your Personal Course Home Page Project (PCHP): information, images (in digital form if possible).

Roll
Questions?
Questions about the Personal Course Home Page Project?
Scanning Pictures

Sketching Real Estate: Let's spend five minutes making a sketch of your Personal Course Home Page Design.

Start with the principles of "Screen Real Estate, which says that the space on the page is valuable:

• because research shows that readers don't like to scroll and search, and so the first screenfull is all some viewers will ever see of your page
• because you can never predict what will actually show in the first screenfull since you can't control how much space the viewer's computer screen is giving to your page.

Some possible signs of bad use of screen real estate:

1. upper left corner of the screen is empty, or contains less important content (the upper left is prime real estate because it's the one part of the page you're sure everyone will see).
2. lots of centered content that creates a "totem-pole" design and leaves rivers of blank space on either side of the page.
3. white space is trapped in large blocks, rather than flowing around the content to highlight and organize it.
4. important content or naviation is pushed below the the scroll line by blank space or less important content.
5. more scrolling is required than necessary to see all the content.

Now, look at the required content, and think about where these chunks and pieces will go....

Today, we'll continue our exploration of Dreamweaver by taking the Web page we created for the exercise "Liquid Page Design (Dreamweaver)," posting it to the Web, and visiting that page with our Web browser, and finally sending the URL to our Webx discussion board.

See the in-class handouts, "Moving Files to the Web with Dreamweaver MX" and "Logging into the Webx Discussion Board."

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