Thursday, February 28, 2013

Week 8 Day 2 - Thursday, Feb 28- Homework

1. Based on usability testing results, make reasonable revisions and modifications to Project 1 and repost to your class site. Formal class critique will take place for project 1 on Tuesday, March 5, 8:30.


 What to submit to for final project 1 grade:

1. USB Flash Drive with following Proj 1 files (organized and labeled as follows)

 >>Main Project folder with naming structure: LastName_Proj1
      + "Process Docs" folder (with PDF of proposal, wireframe and thematic concept sketches, **include screenshots of original website layout design if applicable)
      + "Design Files" folder (save final Design Layout for 6 sections as JPGs)
      + "Web Files" folder (with appropriate HTML, CSS, javascript and images related website)

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

PechaKucha Students Speak Edition @ Pritchard Thursday, Feb 28, 8:20pm

List of vol. 4 Presenters:
Kathleen Burns: What, when, where, how, who? Public Art and Community
Hayman Wong:  To Live in a Cage
Bryce Blankenship: My Shortened Importance of Philosophy
Ellen Williams: Deep Sea: Shipwrecked
Miguel Elgueda: Living Communities:  Bringing live back into Communities
Sway Harner [:Moment of Thought:]
Tarin Leach: Art in Toms
Katelyn Dillon: The Underground:Recreating the Illicit
Avery Worrell: Enlisting in the Fun Brigade

 
 
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List of vol. 4 Presenters:
Kathleen Burns: What, when, where, how, who? Public Art and Community
Hayman Wong:  To Live in a Cage
Bryce Blankenship: My Shortened Importance of Philosophy
Ellen Williams: Deep Sea: Shipwrecked
Miguel Elgueda: Living Communities:  Bringing live back into Communities
Sway Harner [:Moment of Thought:]
Tarin Leach: Art in Toms
Katelyn Dillon: The Underground:Recreating the Illicit
Avery Worrell: Enlisting in the Fun Brigade


Monday, February 25, 2013

Week 8 Day 1 - Tuesday, Feb 26 - Homework

Usability Testing for Project 1 will take place next class, Thursday, Feb 28 at 8:30am.

 What to submit:

1. USB Flash Drive with following Proj 1 files (organized and labeled as follows)

 >>Main Project folder with naming structure: LastName_Proj1
      + "Process Docs" folder (with PDF of proposal, wireframe and thematic concept sketches, include screenshots of original website layout design if applicable)
      + "Design Files" folder (save final Design Layout for 6 sections as JPGs)
      + "Web Files" folder (with appropriate HTML, CSS, javascript and images related website)

2. Upload updated index.html to your personal class website that includes links to process, design and web files of project 1.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Foundation FAQ

How to remove the triangle icon seen in foundation's pre designed drop down menus





1. Open the foundation.css (or foundation.min.css, depending on the external css file you are attaching in your html file)

2.  Search for (cmd +f) the following css rule:

 .top-bar ul > li.has-dropdown a:after { content: ""; display: block; width: 0; height: 0; border: solid 5px; border-color: white transparent transparent transparent; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: -2.5px; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 50%; }

3. Delete or comment out (use  css comments /* */ around whole rule )

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Week 7 Day 1 - Tuesday, Feb 19 Homework

1. Continue web development for project 1. Be sure to check browser compatibility between Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Final critique will take place next week Wednesday, Feb 28.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Week 6 Day 2 (Thursday, Feb 14) - Homework

1. Create rough HTML mockup of homepage for project 1. Be sure to check browser compatibility between Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Upload for review onto your personal class site by Tuesday, Feb 19, 8:30pm.

Call for Submissions PechaKucha Night Moscow


The Prichard Art Gallery will be hosting PechaKucha Night Moscow vol. 4. Thursday, February 28th.  Proposal submissions for presenters (either solo, pairs, or groups) are now being excepted at uicaaexperience@gmail.com.  Proposals are still being accepted.  For more information on this call, please visit UI Art + Design PechaKucha Night's informational page
*PechaKucha Night – devised and shared by Klein Dytham architecture


Monday, February 4, 2013

Week 5 Day 2 (Thursday, Feb 7) - Homework

1. Continue Layout Design Process. Be sure to include actual text and image content (no placeholders or lorem ipsum) in each design layout for your chosen different pages/sections

Keep in mind PDF of 6 different pages/sections for project 1 due for review in next week, Tuesday, Feb 12, 8:30am.

2. Create homepage for your own ART370 site (file should be called index.html and placed in webpage folder on shared space). Spend some time applying HTML tags to personalize your personal class website, which will be used primarily in this class for demo/exercise submission. Home page should include: Your name and links to recent assignments (PDFs of project 1 process files --flowchart, wireframe, proposal, foundation tutorial). 

3. Explore Foundation components in additional to basic setup covered in today's demo. Upload foundation basics demo exercise (to your UI webspace) that includes a logo (placeholder), navigation (placeholder), image slideshow (using foundation orbit js), and footer (with contact information).

Accessing your UI class Webspace


URL to UI webspace will be in format of:
www.webpages.uidaho.edu/art370-vand1234

For example:
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/art370-moll234/

To publish or upload file to webspace
1. Cmd +K on mac to open connect to server window

2. Type in server address:
cifs://files.uidaho.edu/shared

3. Type in your vandal username and password

4. Look for webpages folder, drag and drop files to your folder (that lists your vandal user name)

Foundation Basics Demo

1. Download Foundation CSS (recommend selecting customize foundation css). This download will provide all css and javascript files necessary for foundation frameworks to work. To apply create a responsive layout website using foundation, you will need to include all files provided by zurb.

2. To assemble a responsive layout website using foundation, create a new html document, and  replace doctype tag with:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

3.  After doctype tag, delete existing opening <html> tag, and insert following code below. This is required for responsive layout to work with Internet Explorer

<!-- paulirish.com/2008/conditional-stylesheets-vs-css-hacks-answer-neither/ -->
<!--[if IE 8]>    <html class="no-js lt-ie9" lang="en"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 8]><!--> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="no-js" lang="en"> <!--<![endif]-->

4. Add following code inside <head> tag. This is required for responsive layout to adjust in size for mobile devices

  <!-- Set the viewport width to device width for mobile -->
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />

5. Insert the following code inside head tag. This will attach Foundation supported stylesheets (css files must be placed in folder called "stylesheets")


<!-- Included CSS Files, use foundation.css if you do not want minified code -->
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/foundation.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/app.css">

  <!-- Custom Modernizr for Foundation -->
  <script src="javascripts/foundation/modernizr.foundation.js"></script>


6. Insert following javascript code before closing </body>


  <!-- Latest version of jQuery -->
  <script src="javascripts/jquery.js"></script>

  <!-- Included JS Files (Unminified) -->
  <!-- [JS Files] -->
  <!-- We include all the unminified JS as well. Uncomment to use them instead -->

  <!-- Included JS Files (Minified) -->
  <script src="javascripts/foundation.min.js"></script>

  <!-- Initialize JS Plugins -->
  <script src="javascripts/app.js"></script>
  
  
    <!-- Attach Orbitz Plugins -->
    
    <!--this script function will trigger the slideshow to activate-->
<script>
    $(window).load(function(){
      $("#featured").orbit();
      $('#featuredContent').orbit({ fluid: '16x6' });
    });
    </script> 
    
    <!-- attaches javascript file that controls slideshow settings -->
     <script src="javascripts/jquery.foundation.orbit.js"></script>


7. Explore the following resources to find code examples to integrate Foundation's grid structure, button styles, javascript add ons.

Additional Foundation Basic Setup 
Foundation Components (set up grid, type styles, buttons, drop down nav, etc)
Foundation Javascripts (Orbit - slideshow)
Foundation Framework Forum (find answers to FAQ issues)

Orbit Extras

*To hide Orbit timer, add the follow CSS rule in the app.css. This will keep the slideshow self running, but will hide visibility of the timer interface


.orbit-wrapper .timer { visibility: hidden; }

*To hide and show navigation buttons (< >) on hover, add the follow CSS rule in the app.css.


.orbit-wrapper .slider-nav span { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=0); opacity: 0; -webkit-transition: opacity 400ms; -moz-transition: opacity 400ms; -o-transition: opacity 400ms; transition: opacity 400ms; }
.orbit-wrapper:hover .slider-nav span { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=100); opacity: 1; }