COAP:COAP-3150 - week 1
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Part I
Course presentation
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
- environment set up
- palettes
- positioning
- customizing the desktop
- shapes
- basic colour tools
- transform
- layers and transparency