Web Design Skills - Keeping your Site Fresh with Evolutionary Design - Week 9
Lecture/Demo:
- Presentation on Evolutionary Design
- Keeping your site and Content Fresh
- Use CSS to evolve your site
- Make use of Javascript libraries
- Add interactivity using Flash, Javascript and JQuery
- Pros and Cons of Flash, Javascript and JQuery
- Keep your site fresh with blogs
- Creating andusing Adding galleries
- Adding javascript to your XHTML
- CSS Layouts - Uses Classes
- Jquery Gallery Lesson using s3Slider Plugin
- Getty Images - How to login and search for images for your portfolio.
- Free Backgrounds - Choose a background for your portfolio
Lab:
- Work on your final project.
Homework:
- Keep working on your final project - due week 11
Resources
Javascript Libraries
- 10 jQUERY Galleries
- 30 scripts for Galleries from Smashing Magazine
- jQuery Library http://jquery.com/
Blogs and CMS
WordPress (http://wordpress.org) is a good choice