This is kind of cool

After trolling the 'net for a while, I came across a cool little ranking scheme. It's a periodic table of the elements for the fonts most popularly used on the net! I'm not sure how accurate it is, but table could be very helpful for those of us who want some variety on our websites but don't know what fonts are web safe.

Very cool.

--Josh Henning

Project #2

I was thinking about the class on thursday and I think this time it is going to be much harder than the frist project, since I am not familar at all with photoshop. The introduction to photoshop helped me a little bit to understand what it is about and how to use it but I think if you do not have the time and program to practice, it is going to be very difficult and time-consuming. Nevertheless, I am looking forward to the class where we present our projects.

-Maria Pistalu

Class Today

I missed class this morning because I had to spend it registering for my "Writing Proficiency Exam". It is what determines my graduation this semester. I hope I am proficient...Anyone able to fill me in on what I missed? When is the exercise due? What did you guys think? Any helpful hints? - Alan Fassonaki

Mac to PC, PC to Mac

I'm concurrently taking CTVA 361 and ART 201. We're pretty much learning the same things at the same time. In both classes, we learned HTML and then followed by Dreamweaver. I have a PC at home where as in ART 201 we use a Mac. The problem I'm most worried about is working on our assignment in class and editing at home or vice versa. I had a classmate in CTVA 361 who uses a PC at school but a Mac at home. When she created her website using TextEdit, she opened it up on the PC and her HTML were all in one line. All of her breaks she had in her TextEdit was ignored on a PC, making it difficult to organize any of the tags. Is there a way we could save the file on one computer without changing any of the content when opened in another computer? Or is there a way we can open the file up without changing it?

-Amy Truong

HTML 5

Just stumbled upon this website w listings for differences b/w the new version of HTML, which is supposed to be released this year, and the previous one. There is quite a few goodies among the tags, such as tags for embedding video and audio streams, drawing figures and time representation. One can only imagine what the websites utilizing this new version will look like.

-- Erik Hedberg

Project 1 Critique

Last Thursday was the day that I missed out on a great learning experience. I am upset at the fact that I chose to leave class because I could not do what was asked of me to do. As soon as I heard that we would have to stand up in front of the class and talk about our website I started to get nervous. Then I hear that we would have to critique a classmate’s website and that is when I ran out the door. I could not see myself as a criticizing someone’s work when I was not very proud of my own work. I later found out that I completely misunderstood the whole critique aspect. It was not about pros and cons, it was more about suggestions and positive feedback. I would have realized this if I would have stuck around, but since I just left I failed to see how other students were doing the critique. In addition to all of this I am extremely shy and if given the opportunity I would avoid all presentations. It is extremely nerve racking to stand up in front of a group of students and I honestly would chose not to do it, but in this case it is necessary to learn and get back feedback. If anyone has any helpful tips to get rid of the nerves I would love to hear them.
Ricardo Guzman

Charleneeee 3

oh dang! haha so i realized we had quizzes available!

since im in my night class right now, i'm probably going to do them this week... got to remember or else im going to forget...

:) wooot!! but everyone who presented last Thursday, did a nice job on their website...

compared to... mine -.-;;

anyways, we're learning dreamweaver this week.. *eeeeeek!!* im pretty excited about it...

-Charlene Kim

Project 1 Website in HTML

Overall i was pretty happy with the way my website turned out. Yes the background pictures were getting annoying because they cant be big files and at the same time you dont want the same picture repeating. So i sticked with one single line and repeating horizontally, which ended up looking perfect. I cant wait to actually start using dreamweaver that way we can get into more advanced web designing.

-Eddie Martinez
Web Design 8:00AM

First Project

Pretty happy with how my project turned out. It's a little annoying that we can't do backgrounds for buttons in html. Did a bit of research and found out it's possible in CSS, but I have no idea how to use that code. Besides, we're not supposed to :)
I was trolling around the net and actually found a few CSS templates. Probably we wouldn't need to use these, since we'll be in Dreamweaver soon enough. That is what I'm really looking forward to!

-Josh Henning

Project 1 and Critique

During our first critique we were able to learn a lot about everyone in the class. Since we had the opportunity to work on a site with any sort of content people were able to work on subjects they appreciated the most. I found it very constructive since we were able to learn a lot from other students designs and ideas. I felt everyone had some really good ideas and I am certain everyone's site looked better than it did on the projector. - Alan Fassonaki

Project 1

Everyone's websites came out amazing last class. A couple looked like they were actual websites like the Nike SB one for example. It motivates me to want to work harder on upcoming assignments of any sort. I feel I will learn a lot by the end of the semester.
-Rikki Bentley

1st blog

this is the first blog thingy that i have done... so here goes!
i am not a morning person, an 8am class is the bane of my existence because i need my sleep. however, if i do have to wake up way too early, than i am glad that it is for this class. this class is fascinating, i am amazed that i am understanding the coding language. it's like i am absorbing it like a sponge. we just finished the first major project and i am excited about using that dreamweaver program... EXCITED!... this doesn't happen to me, especialy not at 8am. the material is all just so interesting and i know that i am going to need to know how to do it later on.

... i wonder if we are going to get into actionscripting for flash or any other program...

Project 1

This is my first time writing a blog so I really don’t know exactly what I should write about, so I will just write about the first project. First of I will like to say that I have never-ever done any web-design work in my whole life which makes it a completely new thing for me. It is pretty crazy to see how talented/creative the students in this class are. While working on my first project I was able to look around the class to see some of the work that other students were doing and it made me realize that I have a lot to learn. While I was able to successfully complete and turn in my first project on time I could not help but feel negative about my work just because it did not compare with the amazing work of others. I know that I have a long way to go, but with time, practice and patience I will hopefully get better and appreciate my own work. In the end this first project gave me the chance to see and get a better understanding of what goes on when dealing with web design and html coding.

SORRY. I forgot to add my name..... Ricardo Guzman

Project 1

This is my first time writing a blog so I really don’t know exactly what I should write about, so I will just write about the first project. First of I will like to say that I have never-ever done any web-design work in my whole life which makes it a completely new thing for me. It is pretty crazy to see how talented/creative the students in this class are. While working on my first project I was able to look around the class to see some of the work that other students were doing and it made me realize that I have a lot to learn. While I was able to successfully complete and turn in my first project on time I could not help but feel negative about my work just because it did not compare with the amazing work of others. I know that I have a long way to go, but with time, practice and patience I will hopefully get better and appreciate my own work. In the end this first project gave me the chance to see and get a better understanding of what goes on when dealing with web design and html coding.

Project One

I really enjoyed making a cool little website for project one. For my first time using coding and web design techniques, I think my project was a success...I hope. Although it was extremely tedious trying to see what certain mistakes were...too much coding EVERYWHERE!

Now to start a completely new program...dreamweaver. Scary.

-Chelsea

Coding

So a lot of the coding paid off. I remember messing around with tables and not knowing exactly what the coding meant but the class explained it so well. Now I know to go to that section of coding to do a specific thing to it. Also google helped with finding resources like this one: draac.com....Project one is done yay!

Jesselyn

HTML Tables

It's been interesting to go back to using tables for web design. I remember when I first started out hacking HTML, the tables were so much of an ease to me. They offered control over the content, which previous tags hadn't offered. As I became more experienced, I slowly moved over to CSS and scrapped the tables. But I thinks it's necessary to start out with tables when one is introduced to HTML. The technique offers rapid coding, with good results.

/ Erik Hedberg

Keep working

I think HTML isn't hard at all. It takes time to create a website. All you have to do is keep working on your website nonstop. It took me more than 6 hours to do my first Project. All i had to do was keep testing the website with my code. You don't like it, you have to read your code again, think about your code, refine your code, and make sure you use the right code. I didn't know much about HTML but i'm willing to spend a whole day just to test the code and apply it on my website. I hope everybody will do a great job on their first project.

Phuong Nguyen

Project 1

Well, project 1 was a bit tedious, but after focusing like crazy and spending 5 hours of straight html coding i was pretty happy with the outcome. The only thing that bugged me was the fact that i could not get certain table data borders to erase. I tried putting in but it did not work so i left it like that. I guess i'll try to get help on this because it's annoying me. If it is not possible then oh well.

-Aaron Gonzalez

-Art 201 TuTh 8:00-10:30

Project One

So i was almost finished but decided to look back at my page and just had to change the background image due to the background taking too much attention from the actual page. I changed my page to a diffrent one background that made me happy and worked out perfectly fine. It's good to look at every page and try and figure out wether you need to do last minute changes to make your page better.

Eddie Martinez

Finalized Project 1

Hey I finished project 1!! I don't know how you feel but after I finished it I was really surprised what we've learned it that short time.

-Maria Pistalu

Great site for design colors

It's not always easy to find/figure out some really good color combinations for websites. Adobe Kuler can really help with that. Though many of the color schemes aren't web friendly, you can find a few that nail it perfectly- combining good artistic choice and internet friendliness. I highly recommend checking it out.

/Josh Henning

A Perfect Balance

Hi there all art 201 Tues/Thurs class... seeing as many of you have already posted, I guess it is time I share as well.
Similar to the many of you whom have expressed knowledge of various WYSIWYG platforms, I too, have been submerged into the realm of "point and push" web design. Though my use of Dreamweaver is fairly limited, I have tremendous experience using Microsoft's [rapidly evolving] SharePoint Services (better known as: MOSS/WSS). I like to believe that I am proficient amongst the current 2007 platform while tirelessly ramping up for the soon to be released 2010 updated version. For those of you wondering why I use SharePoint? I currently work for an occupational medical provider which maintains clinics nationwide, with their primary headquarters in Valencia, Ca. Hired as an intern for intranet based web design / IT administrator, I spend the majority of my working hours communicating with endusers to further site development.
Thus, the day to day exploration of this "design" tool in addition to the research of third party applications, advanced capabilities, and the ever increasing need for improved efficiency, customized scripts and Visual Studio created workflows for our many users utilizing this tool.
So even though SharePoint is a visual "drag and drop" web design tool, like Dreamweaver, the need to know programming and code is crucial to the needs of the company; especially for purely customized reporting/tracking/etc. of stats and data.

After that far longer than intended introduction, in regards to this class and on learning HTML coding for our first project - I need to admit, albeit tedious and sometimes grueling, the knowledge we are obtaining from understanding such basic design concepts is such a solid foundation for future opportunities. And from a totally personal perspective, the ability to explore my own creative intents and desires while being one hundred percent in control is the perfect balance for my creative hunger.

- Katie Grayot

Finalizing project 1

I'm about to finish project one. It will hopefully be ready by the end of this class. The theme I've chosen is a brief introduction to the seasons of Sweden. Hopefully someone will find this useful and interesting ;)

/ Erik Hedberg

Fun Times

I've done web design with Dreamweaver but have never done the entire page on HTML and i have to admit it is good practice from doing everything from scratch becuase you get some good ideas of what there is to come later. I enjoy they class very much, and the Professor is very helpful when you get stuck on things. I cant wait to finish my website and show her what i've done.

Eddie - Eduardo Martinez

Liking the Class

Well I've done coding in the past, but i was never taught anything about tables and the wonders they provide. Exercise 3 was tedious in trying to get the tables to align correctly and make the text in each table data line up properly.

Luckily, nothin is impossible and I was able to figure out how to creaet the webpage properly. I had some trouble at first trying to link the pages because the local address was incorrect, however, once I corrected the pathway the links worked perfectly.

Professor Anderson does a great job of teaching HTML.

-Aaron Gonzalez

TuTh 8:00am-10:30am

i thought Art was hard,
but html is even harder xP

Charleneeee :)

Post 2:

excercise three was so confusing today! BUT i got it done :)

now... its time to do project one

i didnt know what i wanted to do so i picked Winnie the Pooh -.-;

im still debating though whether or not i should change it....

ahh being indecisive is hard hahahahaa :P

-Charlene Kim

Web Design

Hey class!...For those of you who don't know me...my name is Jesselyn nice to meet everyone...So everyone get their classes?How do you guys like the class?

All the coding is really tedious!Really fun seeing the finished coding though!Just think in a few weeks we'll be designing fancy pages.