Class:Digital Portfolio 2016/Week 3

Last Week

• Review Last Week
• Hosting Your Sites
• Introduction To Digital Portfolio Techniques
• Photography Site Building (CMS) Solutions
• The "size" of the internet

This Week

• Recap Optimizing Images for The Web
• Tools: Text Editors
• Image Processing & Image Renaming Tricks
• HTML/CSS Quick Review

Notes

Recap Optimizing Images for The Web

Last session we covered many aspects/techniques related to optimizing your images for the web.

• Image Format Reference
• I forgot to show the excellent tool Imageoptim for further compressing your images

Image Processing & Image Renaming Tricks

In class we discussed a few different solutions for streamlining a photographers batch processing needs.

I have updated the Handy Utilities reference page for you here.

A Better Finder Rename (http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/)

Insanely quick and useful way to rename files and folders.

Trial download available from the website, also available in the Mac App Store here.

Dr (Russell) Brown's Image Processor Pro (http://www.russellbrown.com/scripts.html)

http://photoshopscaresme.com/new-version-russell-browns-image-processor-pro/

Fantastic image processing extension for Photoshop/Bridge

Direct link to download right here.

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.

Quick 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:
  • HTML Headers: <h1> to <h6> Tags
  • HTML Links: <a href="#">link</a> Tags
  • HTML Unordered Lists: <ul></ul> Tags
  • HTML Ordered Lists: <ol></ol> Tags
  • HTML Images: <img /> Tags
  • HTML Paragraph: <p></p> Tags
• We reviewed the HTML tags used for styling regions of pages:
  • HTML div: <div></div> Tags
  • HTML div: <span></span> Tags
• 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.

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.

Video Notes

Sound did not record this week in a few of the videos' 3 of these are from last year - similar content.

• Responsive Websites Overview
• Image Compression for Photographers 101
• Tools: TextEditors: TextMate, Sublime and Espresso
• Using the Web Inspector and basic tools to help hack/edit your web projects

Files

• Download the choppingblock / html-css-demos files from github.com here