READING:   Lyndia Tutorial 02 (log in to lynda.uni.edu), selections from Ch. 7 and 8. CLICK HERE FOR EXACT CHAPTER INFO

READING: Lynda Tutorial 03 (log in to lynda.uni.edu), selections from Ch. 12, and selections from Ch. 13 CLICK HERE FOR EXACT CHAPTER INFO.

DUE: HW5 (part 1)

ASSIGN: HW6

Positioning practice; z-index

Interactive Digital Communication (COMM 2555)is a foundation class for the .ids program and a core class for General Communication Studies students. The class gives you a solid foundation in creative digital production skills and creative problem solving, and prepares you for the 21st century workplace. You'll learn HTML, CSS to begin mastering the design and coding of websites; Photoshop to manipulate digital images; animated gifs to get a taste of motion graphics; and if there's time, emailer services such as MailChimp to understand some of the most popular visual tools for business and organizations. It’s not just a skills class - you'll also learn about Copyright and the Creative Commons, visual design, writing for the web, and typography to give you powerful visual communication strategies to amplify your ability to articulate and digitally communicate big ideas.

• Demonstrate an understanding of basic technological principles of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
• Demonstrate an understanding of basic principles of graphic and web design.
• Demonstrate an understanding of basic issues dealing with digital copyright and the Creative Commons.
• Become proficient at using an image editing program to create and modify digital images.
• Become proficient at using HTML and CSS to structure, position, and style the content of a web page following web standards.
• Create a web site and upload it to a server.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of the following software: text editor, image editing program, FTP client, web-based database administration tool, web-based content management system.
• Become an effective collaborator and self-learner.
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CODE SAMPLES from HTML & CSS Book 

HTML TEMPLATE 

FTP Clients
For Windows WinSCP
For both: Cyberduck

Code Validators
W3C HTTP Validation Service
W3C CSS Validation Service
JSFIDDLE (helps detect code errors)

HTML + CSS
HTML CHEAT SHEET
CSS CHEAT SHEET
CSS3Maker

Browser code inspectors
Chrome Inspect (Control, right click in Chrome). Also Firebug and Web Developer Extension for Firefox

Color Pickers
COLOR PICK for Chrome

Font tools
Fontface generator: convert ttf files into web fonts
FonttoWeb: convert ttf files into web fonts
Myscriptfont.org: Handwriting creator

Text edit tools
Brackets
Sublime Text

Homework assignments (6)
HW1
HW2
HW3
HW4
HW5
HW6

40%

12 Labs
Lab 1
Lab 2
Lab 3
Lab 4
Lab 5
Lab 6
Lab 7
Lab 8
Lab 9
Lab 10
Lab 11
Lab 12

ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT  
Plagiarism, cheating, improperly sourced work, and other academic misconduct will not be tolerated.  The UNI Catalog is clear on this: “Students at the University of Northern Iowa are required to observe the commonly-accepted standards of academic honesty and integrity. Except in those instances in which group work is specifically authorized by the instructor of the class, no work which is not solely the student's is to be submitted to a professor in the form of an examination paper, a term paper, class project, research project, or thesis project. Cheating of any kind on examinations and/or plagiarism of papers or projects is strictly prohibited. Students are cautioned that plagiarism is defined as the process of stealing or passing off as one's own the ideas or words of another, or presenting as one's own an idea or product which is derived from an existing source.”

Code assignments
The same ethical guildelines that apply to text and multimedia assignments, apply to coding assignments. You will be expected to understand the code you submit as your own, unless otherwise indicated.

CLICK HERE FOR UNI'S ACADEMIC ETHICS POLICY.

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