introduction
The Web Development Camp is a hands-on week of classes focused on building accessible and effective web sites for instruction. The series covers the stages of planning and organizing a site, creating graphical content and navigation, creating HTML content, and maintaining a site. This series is aimed at technology staff who support instructors, but instructors are welcome. The Web Development Camp is restricted to UW Madison faculty and instructional staff teaching or supporting UW Madison Timetable courses.
Registration is required for this series. There is no registration fee. This series is restricted to UW- Madison faculty, instructional staff, or anyone supporting UW-Madison Timetable courses. Questions about eligibility can be directed to LTDE at 265-0330. To register, call 265-0330 or e-mail academictech@doit.wisc.edu.
date/time
June 2-6 | 1:00 - 4:30 pm
Location
Biology New Media Center Classroom
425 Henry Mall
1240 Biotechnology Center
topics to be covered
organizing content
The first step of creating a web site is organizing the content
which the site will contain. Learn how to organize a site taking
the following issues into account: purpose of the site, audience, and
the relationship between pieces of information.
Exercise
designing a site
A web site is only useful if people can find the information they
need. Learn about the basic interface design. Navigation
bars and menus, page headers and footers, and information access issues
will be addressed.
Exercise
interface design
Fireworks is used to create graphical content for web
sites. It provides an easy to use interface and a smooth workflow into Dreamweaver, which is used to create the HTML portion
of web sites. This session will provide an basic introduction to this
tool and will provide a foundation for the following two sessions.
Exercise
navigational design
Give a web site a more graphical feel by designing navigational
elements in Fireworks. This hands-on session will show how to create
interactive buttons and menus.
Exercise
creating graphical content
Adding graphics to a site can improve the aesthetic appeal
of a site. Waiting for a site to load, however, can be a drag. This
session will address the issues behind creating crisp, clear
and small web graphics. It will also cover how to export the images
and HTML source code to be used in a web site.
Exercise
building templates
Managing the content of a web site can be time-consuming. This
session will focus on using Dreamweaver templates to populate,
manage and update content across pages.
Exercise
formatting content
Ever wanted to change the way a heading looks across a entire
site? This session will focus on methods of controlling layout and appearance
of objects. Learn how use style sheets and library objects.
Exercise
managing and maintaining sites
Site maintenance can be as much work as site creation.
Dreamweaver has a host of tools to keep a site
looking good. This session will cover how to manage web site content
and how to upload that content into your MyWebSpace.
Exercise
creating web pages using contribute
Web development is difficult because the technical experts and the content experts are rarely the same people. Those who create content can find it difficult to use professional applications, like Dreamweaver. Contribute was created to help solve these problems. Learn how to use and deploy Contribute to users.
Exercise
publishing content to mywebspace
All UW-Madison faculty, staff, and students have accounts on MyWebSpace. Users can use MyWebSpace to deliver web content. Learn how to make content available to others using the MyWebSpace service.
Exercise