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=TO DO=
* adapt content from classes to changes in plan for 2016-2017
* find a book to be a supplement for classes. Maybe: HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World


=Common Ground: I am what I want=
=Common Ground: I am what I want=
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[[Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/01]]


* What do you I use the Internet for?
* Are the Internet and the Web the same? What is the difference between them?
* Are the Internet and the Web the same? What is the difference between them?
* Distinction between the Internet (the infrastructure, like a highway) and the Web (one of the vehicles of the highway)
* Distinction between the Internet (the infrastructure, like a highway) and the Web (one of the vehicles of the highway).
* (Brief) History of the Internet - a information highway build for the military
** Many services that existed independent of the Web, on the Internet are migrating to the Web: email, chat, word processors.
* (Brief) History of the Web - a wold-wide documentation system build for scientists
* (Brief) History of the Web - a wold-wide documentation system build for scientists
 
* Personal websites before Web 2.0
=== Films ===
* Tools:
Degoutin, Stéphane, and Gwenola Wagon. World Brain Stéphane Degoutin & Gwenola Wagon, 2012. http://worldbrain.arte.tv.
** [[Main_Page|Publication Station wiki]]
 
** HRO File storage system
=== Optional Reading ===
** [http://www.sublimetext.com/ text editor]
Stephenson, Neal. “Mother Earth Mother Board.” Wired, http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html.
** [http://www.getfirefox.com/ Firefox]




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* What is a Web page?
* What is a Web page?
* What happens when I save a web-page? What files do I save?
* What happens when I save a web-page? What files do I save?
* The Browser: the interpreter
* HTML: the language
 
** tags  
* HTML
** tags: are ways of saying this <nowiki>=</nowiki> a image, that <nowiki>=</nowiki> a paragraph 
** Essential HTML page structure
** Essential HTML page structure
** Basic content tags: p, b, i, img ...
** Basic content tags: p, b, i, img ...
** hyper-links
** hyper-links
* The Browser: the interpreter


* Prototype: scribbling a simple webpage
* Exercise: create the structure of your weblog and initial content about yourself - who you are, who you want, etc...
 
* Homework: Continue adding contet to your weblog
* Homework: save any website you want and change it into something else.
 


==week 3 - CSS style or the clothes of HTML ==
==week 3 - CSS style of HTML ==
[[Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/03]]
[[Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/03]]


* CSS as a way to visually present the content
* (HTML creates content and structure) CSS gives it visual style
* CSS style-sheet
* CSS style-sheet
* Id and Classes identifiers
* CSS rules and properties
* CSS colors: RGB and hex triplets  
* CSS colors: RGB and hex triplets  
* Inspector for CSS
* Inspector for CSS and in-browse CSS editor
 
* Exercise: save any website, keep its HTML content and structure as it is, but by simply styling its CSS, make it into something different.
* Homework: start styling your weblog using CSS
 
==week 4 - understanding CSS  ==
* IDs and Classes
* box-model: display property
* position: absolute, relative, fixed
* super-impositions : z-index


* Homework: save any website, keep its content and structure as it is, but by simply styling its CSS, make it into something different.
* Homework: Give a different "space" to each post in your weblog. For each entry create a different design


==week 4 - CSS for typography  ==
==week 5 - CSS for typography  ==
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[[Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/05]]
* CSS for web typography
* CSS for web typography
* Web Fonts
* Web Fonts
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** Open Fonts Licenses
** Open Fonts Licenses


==week 5 - Web to print ==
* Homework: apply custom fonts to different parts of the your weblog.
[[Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/05]]


==week 6 - screen-page dialogues ==
==week 6 - screen-page dialogues ==
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==week 7 - uploading webpages to server==
==week 7 - tutorials==
[[Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/07]]
[[Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/07]]
==List of deliverables==
# Create a webpage that is a minimalist painting.
# Build a short story using links. At each link the user learns more,
or gets more confused, about the story. It can simply be a labyrinth.
#  Find a text that you consider interesting; place it on a webpage;
Type-set it with CSS, so that the style either illustrates, contradicts
or is in dialog with the content ( use at least one custom font )
#  Transform the type-set text (from previous week) into a a ready to
print PDF and print it.
# (re)present a part of your fanzine to your web project;





Revision as of 19:34, 25 July 2016

TO DO

  • adapt content from classes to changes in plan for 2016-2017
  • find a book to be a supplement for classes. Maybe: HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World

Common Ground: I am what I want

Description

from http://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com

from http://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com

These and many other personal websites were a common sight in the World Wide Web of the 90s and early 2000s. Before the arrival of the templated designs of Wordpress, Facebook, Twitter, Tumble and Instagram, where profiles pages look similar from user to user, it was common to build and design your own website - your home on the Web - whether you were a student, a cat or the Belgian royal family.

Building your own website was the way to present yourself to the world in the nascent medium of the Web. Since this digital environment allows you to present yourself as you feel like, you can choose to design who you are online and how the world will see you. Online identities can be affirmed, confused, or invented. You can decide you want to present yourself to the world by inform it on every move you make and photo you take, or you can pretend to be someone else by coming up with a fictional character, or anything between these two extremes.

Dog meme.jpg

In order to achieve this goal in Design & Technique you will learn how to design web-pages from scratch. Will be focusing on the use of HTML and CSS, which are the essential tools for web design, but are also becoming more and more relevant for the creation of ebook, apps and even paper publication.

Instruction

Weekly classes will take the form of an seminars where specific aspects of HTML and CSS be presented, explored and applied. Examples of web-based works that explore identity, fictional characters and stories will be presented and discussed. Each class will combine both expository and hands-on work. Between each classes, students are expected to experiment and apply to their deliverable the subjects explored in classes.

Deliverable

From the very beginning of this course you will be asked to start constructing a weblog or timeline that follows you (or whom you choose to be) and present who you are to the world.

You are what you ... think, eat, buy, walk, write, read, browse, listen to, collect... While do these activities you create or run across their traces in: shopping lists, receipts, emails, chats, browser history, maps of your location, selfies, etc. You'll be asked to assemble some of these traces and build your weblog with them, in order to give the world an idea of whom you are (or choose to be). Every week you'll add more traces and grow your weblog

In addition you'll have to make decisions on how these traces are communicated visually. You'll have to explore the design of weblog so that it helps you present yourself in away that you wish.

References



Tools

  • Publication Station wiki - where classes notes are stored, which you can contribute to
  • HRO File storage system -- try
  • Sublime text editor - install in your computers
  • Firefox (latest version) - install in your computers
  • Chrome - install in your computers




Classes

week 1 - The Internet and the Web

Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/01

  • Are the Internet and the Web the same? What is the difference between them?
  • Distinction between the Internet (the infrastructure, like a highway) and the Web (one of the vehicles of the highway).
    • Many services that existed independent of the Web, on the Internet are migrating to the Web: email, chat, word processors.
  • (Brief) History of the Web - a wold-wide documentation system build for scientists
  • Personal websites before Web 2.0
  • Tools:


week 2 - HTML: a language for browsers humans

Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/02

  • What is a Web page?
  • What happens when I save a web-page? What files do I save?
  • HTML: the language
    • tags
    • Essential HTML page structure
    • Basic content tags: p, b, i, img ...
    • hyper-links
  • The Browser: the interpreter
  • Exercise: create the structure of your weblog and initial content about yourself - who you are, who you want, etc...
  • Homework: Continue adding contet to your weblog

week 3 - CSS style of HTML

Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/03

  • (HTML creates content and structure) CSS gives it visual style
  • CSS style-sheet
  • CSS rules and properties
  • CSS colors: RGB and hex triplets
  • Inspector for CSS and in-browse CSS editor
  • Exercise: save any website, keep its HTML content and structure as it is, but by simply styling its CSS, make it into something different.
  • Homework: start styling your weblog using CSS

week 4 - understanding CSS

  • IDs and Classes
  • box-model: display property
  • position: absolute, relative, fixed
  • super-impositions : z-index
  • Homework: Give a different "space" to each post in your weblog. For each entry create a different design

week 5 - CSS for typography

Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/05

  • CSS for web typography
  • Web Fonts
    • Default fonts
    • Embedded Fonts
    • Open Fonts Licenses
  • Homework: apply custom fonts to different parts of the your weblog.

week 6 - screen-page dialogues

Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/06

  • Post-digital moment - analog and digital reading coexisting
  • Examples of projects that embrace the 2 forms and establish a dialog between them
  • How can the work developed for the web exist also in physical?
  • How can the physical and analog publication make its way to the screen?
  • Discussion of work in development


week 7 - tutorials

Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/07



http://www.w3.org/Talks/2012/0416-CSS-WWW2012/ CSS galore


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