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Revision as of 21:45, 23 May 2016
Contents
- 1 Last Week
- 2 This Week
- 3 Open Questions
- 4 Notes
- 5 Video Notes
- 6 Files
- 7 Assignment
Last Week
- Introductions
- Discuss Class
- Discuss Wiki
- History of the Internet
- How the internet works for us
This Week
- Review Last Week
- Hosting Your Sites
- Introduction To Digital Portfolio Techniques
- Photography Site Building (CMS) Solutions
- The "size" of the internet
- Tools: Text Editors
- HTML / CSS Review
Open Questions
Notes
Review Your Inspirational Website Submissions
Hosting Your Sites
Some of you will end up using a hosted web site solution and not need to setup a dedicated web host, others will end up needing to upload your website to a dedicated host.
- Do you need a dedicated host?
- Will you be building your website yourself (HTML/CSS) and uploading it? - Yes
- Will you be using indexhibit or Wordpress to build your website? - Yes
- Will be using a hosted solution like PhotoShelter, Squarespace or Cargo to build your website? - No
- Even if it is not your main website, will you need to export galleries and post them online for friends/clients to see? - Possibly
It's important to go with a Hosting Provider that you trust, one that you can contact when you need some help.
I have created a Hosting Providers reference page for you here.
Introduction To Digital Portfolio Techniques
This week in class I walked you through a series of slide presentations highlighting the foundation techniques for this semester.
Highlights Include
- Evolution of site design and technologies
- The Magic Poster theory
- Photographers should NOT have to learn code
We also talked a little bit about Responsive Web Design
- The article that started it all: Responsive Web Design at A List Apart
- 30 Responsive Portfolios For Your Inspiration
- If you are interested, the best place to start is A Book Apart: Responsive Web Design
- Fantastic repository of responsive sites: mediaqueri.es
Photography Site Building (CMS) Solutions
There was a time where a Photographer would build (or hire somebody to build) their website from scratch. Adding and removing content from these websites would require somebody to edit the HTML and upload the changes to a web server. Successful websites are no longer built like this... Content Management Systems (CMS) have redefined how the internet works. These tools are either hosted, or need to be installed on your webserver to run.
This week I introduced the class to the concept of Content Managed Solutions. We will be spending a lot of time looking at these options.
I have created a Site Building (CMS) Solutions reference page for you here.
The "size" of the web
Image Sizes Today
- Small - 800px wide
- Medium - 1200px - 1600px wide
- Large - 1800px wide and up
Optimizing Images for The Web
We covered many aspects/techniques related to optimizing your images for the web.
- Image Format Reference
- I also showed the excellent tool Imageoptim for further compressing your images
Reviewed Text and CSS Editors
- Quick solid overview on design and HTML editors are in a few of the slides here
- Tools of the Trade: Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Textmate, Sublime
The web inspector within your web browser is an insanely useful design/develop tool.
- And then there is Espresso, for visual CSS/HTML editing
- Tools of the Trade: Espresso
We discussed three separate HTML & CSS tools that you should be familiar with for this Semester.
I have created a Text Editors reference page for you here.
Refresher on HTML & CSS
Our first big task is to review HTML & CSS techniques in an effort to get everybody more comfortable hacking away at their websites.
Download the choppingblock / html-css-demos files from github.com here
- We reviewed the basic HTML tags:
- We reviewed the HTML tags used for styling regions of pages:
- I showed csszengarden.com and the possibilities that CSS can bring to your HTML sites.
- I showed how to format a basic page using Espresso.
Video Notes
Monday Session
- Domains and Transferring Email Review
- Review & Deconstruct Sample Websites Pt 1
- History of Web Making and Intro to CMS Options
Tuesday Session
Files
- Download the choppingblock / html-css-demos files from github.com here
Assignment
Your task this session is to simply become familiar with the tools and HTML shown in class.
- Download the files
- Look over the HTML in the first few folders
- Download and open up Sublime text
- Download and open up Espresso, see if you can edit some CSS.
And spend some time refreshing your CSS/HTML Skills:
- Complete the following lessons at Code Academy
- CSS: An Overview
- CSS Selectors
- CSS Positioning
Next week, make sure you bring some higher resolution files of your images to class.
