art382 (interactive media)

instructor: ryanSmith
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Week 1

4:00pm - 4:45

look at syllabus

4:45 - 5:00pm

talk about what we should do next week:
*Uploading to a server
CSS, web design, Flash, animation, JAVA, Processing?

5:00pm - 5:30 (HTML)

Doctype declarations


<html> Basic XHTML
<br /> Line Break
<h1> Headings
<img src="image.jpg" /> Inserting an image
<strong> Bold text
<ul> Unordered List
<a href="http://www.website.com"> Link to a webpage
<p> Paragraphs


5:30 - 5:50

plain text (TextEdit)

Work Time?

Home Work

Make a web page that looks like this (view page source)

DO NOT add any CSS, or color, or fonts, or anything in the background.

USE: Basic XHTML, Line Breaks, Headings, your name, an image of your face, Bold text, an Unordered List, Links to other web pages, and a paragraph about yourself.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Ryan Smith's website</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>Ryan Smith</h1>
Baltimore, MD <br />
<img src="me.jpg" /> <!-- Comment: images should be 72ppi -->
<br />
<strong>Concentrations:</strong>
<br />
Photographic &amp; Electronic Media (MICA) MFA
<br />
Digital Art (MICA) MA
<br />
Graphic Design (Towson) BS
<h2>Projects:</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="project_a/index.html">Project A</a></li>
<li><a href="project_b/index.html">Project B</a></li>
<li><a href="project_c/index.html">Project C</a></li>
<li><a href="project_d/index.html">Project D</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>About Me:</h3>
<p>
<strong>Ryan Smith is a multimedia artist from Baltimore, Maryland. </strong><br />
After receiving his undergraduate degree in Graphic Design from Towson University, he attended the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) to earn an MFA in Photographic &amp; Electronic Media, an MA in Digital Art, a teaching certificate, and was awarded the Murthy Digital Arts Grant.
</p>
<p>During his time at MICA, from 2007–2009, he taught a number of graduate level workshops on web design and different types of computer software. For four semesters, he assisted in teaching the course Electronic Media &amp; Culture. And, in 2008 he was the assistant to the Director of Graduate Photography.
</p>
<p>Smith is currently an adjunct professor. He teaches Foundations and Digital Art +Design related courses at Towson University, and Interactive Media classes at University of Maryland Baltimore County.
</p>
<h3>Other websites I like:</h3>
<a href="http://ryansmithart.com" target="_blank">Ryan Smith Art</a> |
<a href="http://www.w3schools.com/" target="_blank">w3schools.com</a> |
<a href="http://www.aliflailasitar.com/news.html" target="_blank">alifLailaSitar.com</a> |
<a href="http://www.workly.com/prints/draws/instructions.html" target="_blank">Neal McDonald's Stuff </a>
</body>
</html>