hello world


show and tell

Questionaire

How has the web/desktop consumer digital media affected the look/style of older media?
How does the new media still use tropes of the older media?
McLuhan quote on the new media using the forms of the old....

Homepage
POSTED to your CCAC account. 
INCLUDE:
Placeholders for portfolio and assignments to come.
Links to 3 exemplary URLs that use HTML and no plug-ins
CONCEPTS/PRACTICES:
Folder structures. 
Above "the fold" (old media metaphor)
Optimizing images (gif v. jpg v. png {png works in all modern browsers, no? but, still: audience}).
-- 1:
-use graph paper to draw the layout; collect images and text
-construct tables by hand in class
-- part2:
After completion, view in multiple browsers/platforms --> css

Major Project Proposal
INCLUDE:
Links to research, e.g., what similar or related backgrounding work already exists online (consider how the work of others can extend the range of your project {show: MAp and AsIf})

EXTRA CREDIT: DWR submission in HTML

5 javascript pages

Portfolio

RESEARCH:
The web is both the medium and the Resource.  
Find and use an appropriate javascript.
Find and use an appropriate actionscript.
A successful practice depends on knowing how to borrow/adapt the work of others, both what they openly share, and what you can get from reading their code.