Here's the free hosting link:

http://ueuo.com/

And the time for the final is:

Wednesday the 13th, at 3pm. I estimate we'll meet for two hours.

Loading external swfs, and WINDOSiLL

Here's some info on loadMovie:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00001189.html

And here's a more extensive tutorial.

And here's that Flash WINDOSiLL game:

http://windosill.com/

Scrollable dynamic text areas in Flash

A couple students are using scrollable text boxes, loading the text from an external text file, in their flash pieces. Here's a good tutorial on how to set that up:

http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/loadvars_bc/

Button rollovers used to activate maps

That example of a button that highlighted areas on maps was here:

http://www.slate.com/id/2216789/

Marines in Iraq have fun with a flashbang.

I Will Survive

Some helpful links regarding flash components

Helpful Actionscript for deploying a Progress Bar component:

http://www.webwasp.co.uk/tutorials/b47-preload-progressBar/tutorial.php

Using the ScrollPane component to make a scrollable text box:

http://www.developingwebs.net/flash/mx_scrollingtextboxes.php

Online resource for components (you can also google "flash components"):

http://www.flashcomponents.net/

The Slideshowpro component:

http://slideshowpro.net/

le bucks proposal for flash doco.

My site will be a fictional documentary starring the imaginary world of a little monster.
the monster world will be set in present human type day. it will chronicle a day of the monster, sort of the the 'Office' show on NBC.
3 sections: morning, noon, night.
combine image/text: thought entries will scroll at certain moments.
audio: sountrack music.
simple animation: monster close up, smiling, walking. holding mail/coffee/baguette.

Heathers Flash Site

I would like to create a site exploring the donnerpass rd stretch between "downtown" proper and the round about. It will be a virtual walking tour of this section of the street that will introduce a few businesses and tell a few historic stories.

For audio I will record the train that goes by every hour.

For animation I will attempt to create my dog walking  down the street.

This may be too bland, but I think this is what I want to do...

Rylands Post

Indian music videos are awesome, and funny.

Flash site

My flash site will be a home for my angry rantings and utter contempt for modern society. My three sections will be as follows: a journal-like page for my “angry thought of the day;” a page for commentary on various things I find on the Internet that anger me; a page that offers solutions to the world’s idiotic conundrums. For audio on the various pages, I may use clips of people shouting, mumbling angrily and sections from heavy metal songs. For an animation in my site, I will likely create a little man that runs crazily across the screen as he appears to be screaming, possibly tied in with the audio clips.

Due on Thurs

Before Thursday's class, post up on the blog a couple paragraphs about what your flash "documentary" site will be about. Please address the four components of the project, further explained below below, in your summary (1. What are your three sections, 2. How will you combine images and text, 3. How will you use audio, 4. How will you incorporate some simple animation). The next few paragraphs give some parameters for the project. This project could be something you incorporate into your html site, or it could be a completely separate site.

Your next assignment -- which will take up most of the rest of the semester -- will be to make a "documentary" in flash. I put "documentary" in quotes because you don't neccessarily have to document a real thing -- this could be a fictional documentary. It could be a "documentary" about an animal or a historical figure who never existed -- who you simply invented. The visuals could all be drawings. In this way, you'll be using the "documentary" as a format -- a way of presenting information -- and not neccessarily as a jounalistic medium.

Of course, if you want to do an actual documentary, on a real subject that you research, gathering visual assets, taking interviews, etc, that would be great. And it doesn't have to be a document of something really grandiose and "historical" -- you could make a documentary about a day in your life, a documentary about your daydreams, about your favorite cereal, your pets, the various haircuts you've had, whatever. If you are doing some sort of historical piece, I may allow you to use some copyrighted material, though I prefer it if all the images you use are your own (talk to me if you intend to use copyrighted images). The main thing is to make it fun for yourself, so that you keep yourself engaged in the project.

There are a few things your project will need. These are:

1. There must be at least three seperate section the viewer can navigate to (if it's a documentary about an animal, for example, there might be a section on its anatomy, a section that has a map on its habitat, and perhaps a third section on its evolution).

2. At least one section must use a combination of images and text that the viewer can read.

3. At least one section must use audio in some way (as voiceover, as musical accompaniment, as sound effects, or what have you).

4. At least one section must incoprporate some animation (this could be aimated text; it doesn't have to be a fully animted figure).

And here are some examples of web documentaries that use Flash, that you should raid for ideas and approaches:

These first two have a good depth of information and terrific design:

http://www.becominghuman.org/

http://www2.abc.net.au/arts/soundsliketechno/swf/default.asp#Scene_1

This is a simpler, but effective presnetation of images and stories:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/flash/photo/world/iraq/warphotogs/

The following two have a really nice design sense, using transtions and organizing their information effectively:

http://pem.org/yinyutang/

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2002/russian/

This site effectively uses a map as its narrative backbone:

http://www.curatingthecity.org/

The graphics are rather crude in this, but it's a sensible use of still pictures, audio, and a small video clip to get an idea across:

http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-content/permaculture.swf

Lightbox tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vv0QVP2CzE

walrus playing horn

me page

here is my page so far..... haleirwin.110mb.com, not even close to finished

Almost done!!

Here's my page so far:
sarahwirtanen.110mb.com

I still have to add more to the gallery page as you can see, but this is what I've got right now.

SUCCESS sort of

Here is a link to my site. 

in 24-48 hours it will work from heatherriver.com

Lightbox CSS

Here's a link to files and instructions on the portfolio lightbox CSS:

http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/

I finally found my flash drive and will post my first front page I made

home page yo

first page up!... needs a little more work though.

cool web site!

http://anotherwebsite.net/

Heather's choice video

Heathers Failed attempt

I have tried, but cannot get this to work.

uggh.

Web site homepage

http://flgoodman.110mb.com/homepage.html

CLASS CANCELED TODAY, TUES MAR. 3

Hi everybody. I was heading up Mt. Rose late this morning, and the big flashing highway sign announced that there was "Avalanche Control" in process, and to expect delays, so I decided not to try the drive up. Yesterday's drive was plenty gruesome, without any sort of avalanche shenanegins.

Before next class on Thurs, please have posted, to your 110mb site, your homepage and at least one other second-level page (and have them linked). And post the address of your homepage to the blog. We'll take a look at your progress in class. If there are still some tweaks you'd like to make on those pages, that's fine, but it will be good to have something up on the web to look at.

amazing...

Content test

At Chris's suggestion, I created a blog as a test for the sort of content I will place in my website - you can find said blog here.

longest cliff jump

What's due next Tues

Due next class:

1. Your two separate pages, both controlled by a single css style sheet, so that they look like two separate pages from the same website.

2. A polished-up version of the homepage design you've decided to pursue, along with a photoshop mock-up of one of the second-level pages.

For using CSS in Dreamweaver, read Chapter 5 of the recommended Dreamweaver book, or for a much less comprehensive view, read this online primer.

Video

Lanemiester. you da rasta

Due Thursday: more homepage designs

By the beginning of next class, please make adjustments to your initial homepage design, based o any helpful feedback from the crit. If you did a single design, do another homepage design that radically rethinks the look of the homepage (include placing the menus differently, but don't just do that -- try to make the page have the same content, but a much different feel).

On Thursday, we'll start to play around with CSS in Dreamweaver.

Music is wonderful.
Especially live music played by talented people.
When I am rich some day I want to get this instrument.
Props to Davide Swarup
WorD

Youtube clip #4

LSD is not for everyone.

CSS styling resources

Here are some links that might be of help as you begin to work with styling page content with CSS

CSS Formatting in Dreamweaver

The CSS Zen Garden

You tube clip #3.

The legendary L and P fizzy drink (soda). From New Zealand.....
...narrated by the equally legendary Jermaine, from Flight of the conchords.
My Dad and many others wore these short shorts (stubbies) in the '70s and '80s.
Yeah New Zealand!

Due Tuesday's class: First homepage pass

By the start of next class, have a first pass of your homepage design done. You have a wireframe of all the info that will be on that page -- now, you have to give us an idea what that page will actually look like. Photoshop is probably the best tool to use (and again, those of you who don't have a strong photoshop background, don't worry -- I'm more than happy to take the time to help you out there).

And as a reminder -- the "safe" screen size to shoot for, in figuring out how much of your homepage the viewer will see if they're looking at it with a typical computer setup, is 1024x768 pixels. To give yourself a decent buffer, considering the screenspace the browser bar will take up, think of that initial "footprint" of your site as falling within 900x700 pixels. Your entire homepage doesn't necessarily have to fit within that footprint, but that's more or less what the typical viewer will see of it when s/he first opens your site. To get an idea of that sizing, create your photoshop file at 900 pixels wide by 700 pixels high, at 72 dpi. And then work outward from there.

For those of you working on portfolio sites, here are the good reference sites Chris Maniet dug up:

http://www.arludik.com/index3.htm
http://chriscmerritt.com/
http://grafikas.com/index.html
http://digitalmash.com/photo/
http://lukelarsen.com/
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/

Due on Thursday's class

Make a flowchart and wireframe for your own site (or, if you already did that for today, switch it around and do a flowchart and wireframe for one of the sites you picked as being in a similar "genre"). We'll kick those around next class.

try the links agian

http://www.davehillphoto.com/
http://www.elizabethcarmel.com/
http://www.paulbiddle.com/

HTML TABLES:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_layout.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_table.asp

me page

I was thinking along the lines of a portfolio site. I really just want to exhibit or show my work, I would like to have it sleek and simple with an easy to use layout. it would be nice to have a profile page with my info...

sites that appeal to me...

http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

this one has a lot going on... but I still like the lay out

Sarah's site!

I want to create a site to showcase my more recent photography because my current site is pretty out of date. I also want to make it a bit more personal than the one I already have which was created using a template. Hopefully I can link my site to another that can sell my work. Here are some good examples of portfolio sites I might take ideas from. For me, the simpler the better when it comes to a portfolio.

christychaloux.com
nickbrandt.com
trevorgraves.com

This one sucks. There's too much going on:
599productions.com

Due next class (Tuesday) -- wireframe and flowchart

By next class, have:

1. A website wireframe prepared for one of the sites you picked that is in the same "genre" of the site you'd like to make, their first and second level pages. A wireframe example (click to enlarge):



2. Make a website flowchart as well (you can do a google image search for "website wrireframe" and "website flowchart" to see examples).

 A flowchart example (click to enlarge):



Be ready to talk about the sites you analyzed (via drawing up the wireframe and flowchart) with your fellow classmates next class. Draw up a list: what were the elements you liked about the site? What are the elements you disliked about the site? What elements would you like to incorporate into your own site?

As I said in class, I usually use illustrator for doing up wireframes and flowcharts -- if you have any familiarity with Illustrator, it's a good tool for dealing with text, lines, and boxes. There's a tutorial here that has some good time on wireframing in Illustrator.

Photoshop would be fine too -- though if you're unfamiliar with both Photoshop and Illustrator, I'd recommend just drawing these out by hand. Just make sure the names for all the navigation and content are legible. It might help to use graph paper.

As a recap (and for those who weren't in class): the wireframe is to give an idea of all the pieces of content you need on a particular page. There might be some layout information in it, but it's far more about content than design. And since most sites have homepages that function differently than their interior pages, it's necessary two have at least two wireframes (for first and second tier page functionality) to give an idea of what's going on.

A flowchart, on the other hand, doesn't give an idea of everything that's on a page, but rather gives an idea of how the site as a whole is organized -- how the menu breaks the site into various sections, that may or may not have subsections. You don't need to draw out every single page, but you do need to draw out each section or subsection of your site.

The reasoning behind this exercise is to get you to dig deeply into the site architecture of a site that is trying to solve the same sorts of problems you'll want to solve for your own website. It will hopefully give you some ideas on how to organize your own site (or how not to organize it, as the case may be).

The website that I am planning on designing is a reference for tricks of various extreme sports. Basically I plan on having various sports with subcategories within each sport for different tricks. If a sports enthusiast is trying to find out what a trick is then they can go to my website and look it up to find out what it is. Also, if i reach this point then i hope to have people submitting videos of themselves doing these tricks.

Some websites that relate to my website are:

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002561F/Basic%20Trick%20Dictionary.htm
http://www.ugo.com/channels/sports/features/trickGuide/Category.aspx?cat=snowboarding
http://snowboard-city.com/snowboard-trick-tips
http://www.how2skate.com/

The main audience that I would be shooting for on my website would be any extreme sports enthusiasts looking to find out how to improve their game or just figure out a new trick. Da End.

Victoria le bucks website.

I am going to make a website of things that i enjoy, my daily life, my findings....i love finding random notes of importance or of none, children's drawings etc etc.
The site will be hopefully interesting!
sites i like:

marq spusta.com
free people.com
needles and pens.com

Ryland's Site Ambition

I want to make a website for the store I run. It is a skate and snowboard shop, some of you might know it. Out of Bounds in Carson City. I want to have flash integrated with in the site. For photos, and I think it would be really good to show our snowboards, possibly customers could set up a board. I also want to sell stuff and keep it up dated.
Here are some sites similar to mine.

www.boardkindom.com

www.eternalsnow.com

www.darksidesnowboards.com

www.waveravesnowboardshop.com

sea creatures. =]

I want to make a website about sea creatures. Specifically: jellyfish, sea cucumbers, starfish, stingrays, sea snails, and deep sea fish. I took an interest in marine biology during high school and developed a love for sea animals. I want my website to have facts and details about the creatures I listed above, and also have pictures. The facts I want to include would be about; if the animal is poisonous, where they like to reside, what colors they come in, what they eat, the climate they thrive in, and so on. I also want to put in pictures that I have taken personally and pictures from the internet. I would make it possible for people who visit my site to add pictures and stories from their own experiences with sea animals. My goal is to create a simple, yet informative website. My audience will be anyone who likes sea creatures.

Four sites that I find to be simial to what I want to make and that I think are designed well are:

http://www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/pub/seascience/jellyfi.html
http://www.nwoca.org/~hol_www/OceanAnimals.html
http://www.fcps.edu/KingsParkES/technology/oceanani/sea_animals.htm
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Corbmiester Ketelsen's Site

My site is going to be a spot where you can go and get local booze and beer prices as well as specials in order to figure out where to make that late night beer run and also how much money you are going to need to gather from your friends. It'll start with local prices at raley's, seven eleven, and incline spirits. Hopefully it'll catch on and prove useful to SNC and Incline Locals. people will be able to update the site themselves if they want or have any useful info on good deals or specials. It'll be like a booze wiki. heres a site that isn't very good. Its a gas price update deal where you can check prices of local gas, or even nation wide. Also Gasbuddy.com  is a sweet site. It even has this little temperature map deal here. Target audience will be incline locals, SNC students and Billy Euller. 

my five year goal is to be able to plan a cross country road trip and hit up the cheapest pit stops at the best booze sales across the nation. It's a pretty tough goal, but I strive for Excellence. 

Corben.110mb.com

Heather's site

I plan to create a website dedicated to showcasing my clothing and sewn goods. I will have my site link to my Etsy site in order for customers to purchase items. The target audience for my site will be women ages 20-38 who frequent local handmade clothing shops. Sites that I feel fit with the same genre would be:

stuartandbrown.com

mrlarkin.net
shebible.com

I plan to have the site be both a comprehensive portfolio and an up to date stock list of available styles. I also would like to have a complete list of links of sites I frequent. I like the way this site displays the collections, but I find it hard to get a complete view of the company from their site. I absolutely love this site I feel they do an amazing job keeping it up to date and fresh. Can't wait to get started!

Lane's Portfolio Website

Hey guys,
My website will hopefully be a design based on showing a lot of my work. I plan to have plenty of pictures of previous and possibly upcoming works, with a brief discription, and contact information. These styles of work may include but are not limited to, ceramics, design, digital art, life drawing,knitting, and anything else I feel like posting. I am hoping to borrow a friends camera and upload pictures of things I made in my design class from the last semester, along with hats that knit, and pottery that I am working on or have already made.

This website will be designed for viewers that are interested in art. Although there are many sites already hosted for people to upload there works, I think it will be unique to have my own. If people see my work and like my site they will be able to contact me to arrange sales. Although, only certain pieces I will sell, because some of them I like too much ;o.
Here are some sites that might have similar styles.

Flickr.com
Deviantart.com
Ebay.com
etsy.com(courtesy to Heather)
Two of these sites are more sale based(ebayandetsy) and the other two are for viewing, but also involve sales. I would say i like them all equally, I probably can't get something of these crazy programmers calibur, but would like to do my best to get something going.

I am also interested in helping my mom make a website to sell her sheep products. sheepwool sheepskins, yarn, and things knit by me from her stuff :)

See all yee maties in class.
peace

Website Proposal

I propose to create a website that examines conspiracy theories. There will be discussion and comparison between various theories and pieces of news. A large number of links will be provided for site visitors, causing the website to be a nexus for their conspiracy theory needs. Videos and images pertaining to the subject matter will also be posted on the site. This site will cater to the conspiracy theory crowd, as well as anyone else who simply wants to look at the world in a different way.

Websites of similar content:
http://www.earthfiles.com/
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
http://www.abovetopsecret.com
http://www.infowars.com/

Two I like particularly:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
http://www.davidicke.com/index.php/

web page

http://flgoodman.110mb.com/

http://sarahwirtanen.110mb.com

me page

here is me page

http://haleirwin.110mb.com/

youtube pick #2

Resources, and Assignment for Thursday

Your assignment for Thursday's class:

Post a one or two paragraph description of the website you'd like to make for the first major "website project" for this class, and provide at least four links to websites that are in the same "genre" of the website you'd like to make -- make sure at least two of the links are sites you think are designed particularly well. In your paragraph, be sure to include who you think the audience for your website will be.

Some resource links:

The SPAN tag:

http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_span.asp

http://www.webheadstart.org/xhtml/span/

HTML linking syntax:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp

Link styles with css:

http://www.echoecho.com/csslinks.htm

Free web hosting:

http://www.www.110mb.com

Here's the Borges story formatted as a hypertext story:

http://www.geocities.com/papanagnou/cover.htm

And, for our in-class assignment today, here's a paragraph of Borges:

I said out loud: I must flee. I sat up noiselessly, in a useless perfection of silence, as if Madden were already lying in wait for me. Something--perhaps the mere vain ostentation of proving my resources were nil--made me look through my pockets. I found what I knew I would find. The American watch, the nickel chain and the square coin, the key ring with the incriminating useless keys to Runeberg's apartment, the notebook, a letter which I resolved to destroy immediately (and which I did not destroy), a crown, two shillings and a few pence, the red and blue pencil, the handkerchief, the revolver with one bullet. Absurdly, I took it in my hand and weighed it in order to inspire courage within myself. Vaguely I thought that a pistol report can be heard at a great distance. In ten minutes my plan was perfected. The telephone book listed the name of the only person capable of transmitting the message; he lived in a suburb of Fenton, less than a half hour's train ride away.

Due next class (Tuesday)

1. Bring in the html page of your poem, so we can look at them in class.

2. Read the Borges story I handed out, "The Garden of Forking Paths"

3. Read the below article, which uses that story as a jumping-off point:

http://www.nomadpete.com/files/fivestanding/hype/hyper-text.htm

4. Write a short paper answering these questions (in response to the story and the linked reading):

a. List three ways in which reading on the internet is different than reading from a book.

b. How is the web-reading experience "non-linear"? And how does linear thinking differ from non-linear thinking?

c. In what way does non-linear reading invite us to be the "author" of texts that we read, even if we didn't in fact write those texts?

Link: The Helvetica Hegemony

http://www.slate.com/id/2166887/slideshow/2166963/

youtube pick #1

yay for snow!

hows it goin yall, my name is Hale Irwin i am originally from the great state of New Hampshire.... live free or die! although i am from the east coast i tend to like the bigger mountains, and deeper snow of the west coast. here is the link to the web site i shared in class. pray for snow!


-over and out

APB: Corbmiester haxzorz interwebs

yo im corben, i have very unprofessional typing skillz. prolly cuz i facebook all day. watevs. my last post didnt include the pic so i guess i gotta redo. i just had some grog and grist pizza. soooo goood. i love putting pitchers on the  interwebz. im gonna put two.

this is my website

LANE IS HERE

Hey my name is Lane. I am originally from New Hampshire. I love the outdoors, art, and computers. I am trying to find a way to link all of these together in a major. Right now I am focused on Digital art and Ceramics. My friend Cody is majoring in Digital art also here is his blog site.
Make sure you try to snowboard while you are in Tahoe ;o.

Some resources for current assignments

A basic HTML intro, from a great web design resource site, W3schools:



http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp



A guide on how to write html in TextEdit:



http://webdesign.about.com/od/textedit/a/aa122006.htm

Here is a battery of links that may be useful to you in the formatted poem:

Links to CSS text and font info:



http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_text.asp


http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font.asp




Web colors:



http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp





Link to CSS examples:

http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/css_examples.asp

An online resource for getting the text of a public domain poem:

http://bartleby.com/

Emily Dickinson, defaced via CSS:



http://sncweb.110mb.com/class/EMILY_PLAIN.html

Insert Something Creative Here

My name is Dan.  I grew up in Davis, Ca.  I like fun.  This class should be cool cuz ill be able to learn how to build that website that ive been thinking about.

Its raining right now, which really sucks.  

I primarily like to bike and snowboard and pretty much anything thats fun.  I have a risk taking personality, which has its ups and downs.  Because of it I find plenty of thrills and the occasional trouble.  You can see one of my favorite websites here.

Free falling is one of the most liberating feelings out there...

if its raining at my house way up on the mountain...then that is bad. so, it needs to snow.

Hey, my name is Kat, I am 19, and this is technically my 3rd semester at SNC. I moved here for the snowboarding, so i obviously love snow and cold weather. I am originally from the bay area, specifically, Benicia, CA., but, now i live way the eff up on Tyner and couldn't be happier. I love getting new tattoos and piercings. I am excited to take this class because I have a nerdy side and I like computers. =]

I am very much obsessed with the weather, so this is one of my favorite websites.

Hi!

This is how I feel about starting the web design class! Just kidding...

I'm from Placerville, Ca and like photography, cats, and thrift stores. This is my website, and this is the website of The Manipulator. She makes kids cry for a living.

I like le' bike


I am from sonoma county. I was there before the grapes, I ate lots of apples in my youth. I rode horses when I was young, now I ride bikes. I really like this site and this is my shop if you want to see a picture of me, HERE it is He He He

forget about the last one, get yourself another.

I am from New Zealand.
It is green there, and the ocean is close.
I miss the ocean.
Open space feeds my soul, as does good laughs, music, and food.

Greetings

My name is Forest Goodman. I speak to you now through the infinitesimal void of time and space via your computer box.


This is my fifth semester at SNC. My girlfriend, Jeannie, is the center of my universe, even though we are separated by an entire country most of the time. I am a writer who enjoys Metal, horror movies and electronic games, among other things. I may appear to be serious most of the time, but really I'm not, especially since I get kicks out of stuff like adult swim.

Yo Watup Classmateys

^^^Thats my little cuz makin out with my girlfriend Taryn. 

I’m Corbmiester Ketelsen. This is my second year at SNC. I'm learnin' me some webdesign so lets do this. 

I make these deals called SkiWineRacks

I did alotta of businasty over christmas. 

Hi Everybody,

My name is Ryland I grew up in Incline, my mom is Sheri, most of you might know her.  I'm pretty much down for anything.  As most of you I live for the winter, although it already caused me to hurt myself.  Last week I blew out my left shoulder, super lame.  And skateboarding is dope.

Welcome, & first assignment

Welcome to the blog for the web design class.

You have one assignment to bring in for next class, this Thursday.

Make a post on this blog. You should: a) write a short paragraph about yourself, b) include a picture of yourself, and c) provide one link -- it could be a link to your own website, or a link to a website you like.

Lastly, here's the book I highly recommend you purchase as reference for the class: