Day 1: Planning

Introductions and Planning Your Website
Today you will be thinking about the structure and design of your website. What is the information that you plan to present? What is your intention? Who is your audience? What websites do you think work well and what presentation styles do you like?
Using paper and Photoshop, students will be mocking up their ideas and choosing colours and styles.

An Overview of Dreamweaver
I will do a brief demonstration in the afternoon of how you can take a Photoshop mockup and translate that into a web page using Dreamweaver. This process includes cutting out the graphics that will be used on the page, deciding on page width (always in pixels) and table widths.

Links:
Web Graphics Explained
Optimizing Graphics