New Jersey City University
Web Design, ART 430, Fall 2002
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FALL 2002
Ji-Young, An
Nick Perseghin
Roberto Da Terra
Monica Gilburt
Julio Gil
Joe Lee
Hyung Min
Si-Young Chang

   "An advanced design course designed to explore the field of design for the World Wide Web. Students will learn how to design websites using various software and programming solutions. Presentation design will take advantage of the nature of hypertext and the non-linear structure of online information. Students will learn the theory, practice and solutions of online challenges, such as digital imaging, 2-D animation, image maps, tables and frames for page design and interactivity for the web environment. Technical aspects of site design such as modem speeds, browser capability, and color management will be covered. Design topics will allow students to explore design strategies, usability and structuring information in hypertext environments."  

FALL 2003
William Coronado
Charlie Fuentes
Michele Sison
Marcus Smith
Shanelle White
Jhmil Johnson
Michael LaRosa
Angel Quintana

         

Assignment 1
Assignment one concerned an initial design and build of a small biographical website, using a Macintosh software called BBEdit. The goals of the assignment were to gain a beginning understanding of HTML by hand, make and use various file types and graphics, begin the study of interface and user-centered design, and present these findings in a graphical interface.

  Assignment 2
Assignment two continued the use of HTML, only now in a graphical editor, Macromedia's Dreamweaver. This assignment created the skills necessary to make framesets, and within that skill, presented a conceptual idea of American culture. 		  Assignment 3
Assignment three had two parts - in the first, the class was diveded up into two groups, each group having responsiblity for the information architecture of the Career Center website of Carnegie Mellon University. At that time, the site for the Career Center was strictly text, and afforded the opportunity for a beginning understanding and use of the science and art of information architecture. When the groups completed this phase, each individual was given the opportunity to design the graphical look and feel for the architecture their group had created.		   Assignment 4
In this assignment, each student was responsible for the design and execution of a professional portfolio website. All students created digitized versions of their work, and then applied that content into structures and interfaces of their own design. Instruction was given as to file transfer protocols and space was obtained on the college servers for practice in the remote control of files.