COAP:COAP-3150 - week 1

Part I

Elements of web design

• Web design principles
  • principles of good/bad web design presentation
• Assignment 1 - find examples of principles
  • K.Benetos' pearltree of sites containing examples of good and bad web design
• Assignment 2 - project ideas

Part II

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Elements of web design

• Review of examples of good/bad web design
• Criteria,
• Anatomy of a web page
  • headers, fonts, breadcrumbs, links, columns, grids

Photoshop basics

NOTE: GIMP, an open source photo editing software may also be used for all exercises and assignments presented. In this course we will be using Photoshop CS3.

• open, save, save as,
• import images
  • Digital Web Magazine - Resolution
  • Understanding Images: A Guide to Resolution and Size
  • images to work with image1, image2
• environment set up
  • palettes
  • positioning
  • customizing the desktop
• shapes
• basic colour tools
• transform
• layers and transparency