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Web Design I is taught at Frederick Community College in the Spring semester.
Digital Illustration at Hood College is taught in the Fall semester.

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Final Class: What to bring so I can grade you

Class: Web Design

For the final class on May 16th, I will have everyone wait over in the other computer lab and meet with everyone one-on-one, review your projects from the semester, discuss some of your thoughts and opinions about web development, spot check your code and discuss your grade, giving you an opportunity to voice any disagreements [...]
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Personal Website part 3: Functional Prototypes and Style Tiles

Class: Web Design

For next week (April 25, 2012), I want to see functional “prototypes.” I say prototypes because we want to get site operational and functional. A working but boring site is better than a broken but pretty site, so get the site working before you try and add style. After the site is working, you can [...]
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Personal Website part 2: Code your HTML

Class: Web Design

After you get you work out the kinks in your wireframes based on the feed back you received in class, you can begin to code your HTML. Take all the content I asked you to round up last week, and make your HTML pages. Same process like we did for the Wikipedia articles. You can [...]
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Personal Website part 1: Chose the site and Information Architecture

Class: Web Design

Your final assignment, part 1, is to choose a website, gather your content and create a wireframe for it. Due next week on April 11. First, decide if you want to do a portfolio site or a small business. And if you can’t think of a business, just do the Frederick Coffee Co. or something [...]
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Assignment 9: Chapters 6 & 7

Class: Web Design

I want everyone to double up on these last two chapters about HTML. Read chapters 6 & 7 and follow along to continue work on the bubble under website. The rest of the book covers other areas of web development, some of which we will cover over the rest of the semester. When it comes [...]
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