_design_for_the_WWW

_weeks: 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 .
Notes:

Instructions on how to use the "Actions" window in Photoshop, to resize your images:

1)
Once Photoshop is open, and you have images (saved in a single directory) to work with, open the "Actions" window.

2) Open an image, create a new "Action" (just like a new layer in the layers window), name your actions, and start recording.

3) All images should have a resolution of 72 pixels per in. I'd recommend keeping your full size images under 1000 pixels, approximately 400 - 700px; while thumbnail images should be 200px or less (roughly 100 - 150px).

4) If you record these actions, resize, desaturate, etc… Then, using Photoshop, you can choose FILE > AUTOMATE > BATCH. The "Batch" window allows you to add actions to multiple files in a single folder. Be careful, there's no way to go back (no "command Z"), so you might want to back up your own work!

Week #4


* Talk about "PROJECT #1"

examples :
Beatriz Martin Vidal
Chuck Close
Banksy

Class work:

Open up TextWrangler or Dreamweaver
*experiment with some CSS, maybe try something we haven't talked about...
CSS3


Review:
**External Style Sheets
<link href="365.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" >

an example of a CSS page

body{background-color:black;}

styling links

a:link {color:#FF0000;}

h1{
background-color:#CC0;
padding:.5em;
text-align:center;
}


Hexadecimal System (RGB)


View image gallery

open "image_gallery.zip"

Open up Photoshop:

review file formats: . jpg, gif, png, pdf, txt, html

Using the "Actions" window
*FILE > AUTOMATE > BATCH


*CSS Opacity



More CSS (continued from week #3)

Center divs using CSS:

#wrap{
text-align:left;
max-width:1000px;
min-width:600px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;

width:60%;
background-color:white;
padding:10px;
}

****changing the background with CSS


....... CSS3:

html{
height:100%;
overflow-y: scroll;
background: url(images/bg.gif) no-repeat center center fixed;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
}


Google fonts
why not use "daFont.com" ?

ID vs. Classes
* htmldog.com
( review : reading materials )


* CSS styles can be applied to general page elements, CSS Classes, and specific items:

img { border: solid #000 10px; }
this applies to every image tag in the HTML document

.classy { color: red; }
this applies to a CSS class called classy.
<span class="classy" > Example of classy red text </span>

#about { background-color: #ccc; }
This rule applies to just the specific element that has an ID value of about:

<div id="about"> About stuff goes here </div>







Example of good CSS positioning
Here's the CSS code
by Larry Ullman

One more example...

HTML div tags:

<div id="title"> Week 3 </div>
<div id="other"> most of stuff </div>
<div id="scroller">--scrolling div section-----------</div>


CSS:
#title{
background-color:#000;
color:#FFF;
top:0px;
height:50px;
left:0px;
width:100%;
}
#other{
top:70px;
background-color:#FFF;
color:#999;
width:500px;
}
#scroller{
padding-left:10px;
background-color:#000;
color:#FFF;
width:100px;
height:50px;
overflow:scroll;
}





Homework :

Complete "PROJECT #1"

*due: at 2:00pm (tuesday)




Next Week:


- Project #1 should be completed
- Tuesday : Presentations