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Welcome to the Advanced Web Site Design wikispaces page.

We will once again use this wiki to extend our classroom time together. As before, you are responsible for all materials that appear on this page...check it at least once a day for updates.

__**Schedule Update**__

//We will **NOT** meet as a class on **December 29th, 2011** because of the Winter Break.// //We will meet again next year...**January 5th, 2011**// **//Please make a note of this!//**

**//Reminder://** You will be meeting with your client(s) tomorrow night You should have about 25 questions to ask based around our discussion from last week.

Go to the Lessons page for a reminder. After you meet with the client(s) we will meet, discuss your findings, and formulate a plan of action.

Plan of action will include: Project group assignments Deadlines and more...

= Seasons Greetings and Happy Holidays from all of us in the Advanced Website Design class at MCTI! =

As per our last class discussion, here are some links to the sites that the client wants you to emulate:

[|Cedar Crest College]

[|East Stroudsburg University]

[|Northampton Community College]

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2012 and week 4 of our 10 week adventure! Tonight, we will be finalizing the review of the meeting with the client and determining the game plan for the project Brainstorming ideas for the various pages you will be working on in groups Critiquing the page layouts for each mini presentation and adjusting the design accordingly Creating a rough layout of the site and its pages based on the review, and presentations.

Creating galleries with DW (time permitting)

Reminder As per last week's class meeting, these are the work groups for the ACE website: = REMINDER = Please bring the notes you took at the client meeting with you to each class meeting from now on. They are ESSENTIAL to designing the website that the client wants.
 * ~ Group ||~ Page ||
 * **Joni and Melissa** || Home Page [index.html] ||
 * ENTIRE CLASS || About Us Page ||
 * ENTIRE CLASS || Contact Page ||
 * **Mo and Janet** || FAQs Page ||
 * **Richard and Rebecca** || News Page ||
 * **Liz (rotating partner)** || Catalog Page ||
 * ENTIRE CLASS || Links Page ||

Check the wiki by 3pm tomorrow afternoon for any updates regarding the class meeting scheduled for 1/12/2012 = = =**Tonight's class will cover:**= Creating the site's ROOT DIRECTORY Creating an image folder for all the images that will go into the site Using a preset template Creating the Header Creating the Footer Adjusting the CSS attributes for various parts of the website Setting up a link to the school privacy policy Basic Navigation Adding (or deleting) information to the sidebar Adding a background image

//We SHOULD have enough time to cover all of these topics tonight...if we do not get to them, a complete set of lessons and their corresponding tutorials will be made available on this wikispace by Monday of next week.//

The cafeteria will not be open for a few more weeks until the spring semester starts. If you want to bring food with you to eat during the break, you may do so and either keep it in your car or keep it on the back table of the classroom until it is time for your break.
 * FOOD REMINDER**

We will be covering the following topics in class on 1/19/2012: Creating a Feedback Page Formatting Tables (a review for some) Forms Tag Accessibility attributes Buttons Scripting

If we don't get to everything, the PDF's for these lessons will be available on the wiki

Additionally, we will be having group meetings so I can get a status update on where you are with your various pages. Each meeting will be about 10 minutes each (give or take). Be prepared to discuss the following with me:
 * Page content
 * Page design
 * Navigation (are there any internal links that you plan on using)
 * Images

For 1/26/2012 and 2/2/2012 The next two class sessions will be work sessions. Please be prepared to come in early (if you can...but if you can't it’s ok because it’s not required) and stay later (9:30PM) and work straight through...we will discuss this further in class.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">Class for 1/26/2012 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Tonight will be an open lab. Be prepared to work on your web pages. You will incorporate skill sets you've acquired up to this point. I will be <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">around to guide you, but tonight is your opportunity to take what you've learned up to this point and make your pages for the site.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">Class for 2/2/2012

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Tonight will be an open lab. Be prepared to work on your web pages. You will incorporate skill sets you've acquired up to this point. I will be

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">around to guide you, but tonight is your opportunity to take what you've learned up to this point and make your pages for the site.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">Class for 2/23/2012

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">All good things come to an end. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Tonight will be our last class meeting. Be prepared to complete work on the website. Carol Sitroon, MCTI-ACE Supervisor, will be joining us at 8PM to hand out certificates of completion. We would like to be able to present her with the finished site at this point as well. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Finally, each of you will be asked to fill out an assessment sheet for the course.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Its been an honor and a pleasure spending the last 10 weeks with you, and for some the past 20 weeks! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Each of you have grown into capable web site designers. I hope you take what you've learned and go out into the workforce! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I am proud of each of you!


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 32px;">This site will be going offline on March 2, 2012. If there is any information you wish to get off of it please do so before that date. **