Updated Website Reqs

WEB SITE

150 points due Monday, May 6

 

For the Web Site project you will create a prototype portfolio Web site of at least four pages based around your work (be it writing, photos, videos, or a combination). The program utilized here will be Adobe Dreamweaver, which is basically a program that will write code for you but also allows you to manipulate it yourself. Some Photoshop will still be necessary to complete this. Students will upload their Web sites from Dreamweaver to their Temple Web accounts. Students must submit a URL to their instructors along with a project brief and a flowchart.

 

Requirements:

 

• Students must gather the information for their Web sites (stories/photos/audio that you’ve created yourself) to showcase as a portfolio.
• Students are encouraged to use photographs and other images that they have created themselves as design elements.
• Students may use ONE photo from another source per page, but the image should not be sole focus of the design or content. If you use someone else’s work, you must credit it.
• The whole project must be created in Dreamweaver aside from any graphics that can be created in other programs (like Photoshop) and imported into Dreamweaver.
• All images must be properly toned and edited.
• The site as a whole must reflect a consistent design strategy.
• Web pages must be 1000 PIXELS (not inches) wide.
• Students must hand in the following material to their lab instructor:
  • A URL of the published Web Site
  • A project brief of your Web Site
  • A flowchart of your ideal Web Site (ie: What your ideal Web site would look like if you had unlimited time and money and way more than four pages.)

 

RUBRIC FOR GRADING THIS ASSIGNMENT

 

Focus – 30

Did the student adequately research what goes into a portfolio site? Is the site easily navigated and laid out in a manner that a potential client would be able to find the necessary materials from the person’s site?

 

Design, Layout and Image Editing – 80

Did the student create a cohesive design for the entire site? Did the layout take advantage of the properties of the Web? Did the student correctly link his/her pages? Did the students edit the images properly? Is there evidence that the student considered color adjustments, and brightness/contrast adjustments for his or her images? Did the student crop the images well? Did the images selection and composition reflect an appropriate tone for the intended audience?

 

Assignment Materials – 40

Did the student successfully publish his or her Web Site online? Did the student hand in a project brief and a flow chart for the Web Site? 

 

Assignment for next week

Please go to newseum.org and choose 3 front pages that you like for the following reasons.

1. For their use of fonts/ text.
2. For their use of photos.
3. For their use of graphics.

Once you’ve found 3 that you like, post them to the blog with a short explanation of what you like about each.

Design Test

 

 By NELSON LAMPE

Associated Press Writer

 

     OMAHA, Neb. (AP) … Wind-blown snow whipped across the northern Plains on Tuesday, closing major highways, as a powerful storm stalled over western Nebraska and South Dakota.

   Nearly 2 feet of snow had piled up in South Dakota’s rugged Black Hills, and the storm system also had generated tornadoes.

   The blowing snow cut visibility and piled up in drifts a much as 4 feet high in parts of Wyoming.

   “We have wind gusts to 62 mph at Valentine this morning,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Clifford Cole in North Platte, Neb.

   A wind gust was clocked at 80 mph in Rapid City, S.D.,early  Tuesday, and Hettinger in southwestern North Dakota measured a  gust to 55 mph.

   The weather service posted blizzard warnings Tuesday for western sections of South Dakota and Nebraska, eastern Wyoming and the southeast corner of Montana.

   Much of western South Dakota was shut down Tuesday for a second day, with Interstate 90 closed from the Wyoming line to Chamberlain, a distance of 266 miles, and the South Dakota Transportation Department advised against travel in most of the region.

   Visibility was so poor that the South Dakota Department of Transportation pulled snowplows off the roads.

   “It’s a safety concern primarily,” the DOT’s Gary Engel said. “In the November blizzard we didn’t do our closure quite as soon in that one, and we had trucks stopped right on the road. We had trucks stuck in the ditch because they couldn’t see where they were going.”

   North Dakota closed Interstate 94 between Bismarck and Dickinson, about 120 miles.

   “The plows couldn’t just even be out there. They just couldn’t see what they were doing,” Highway Patrol Capt. Eric Pederson said.

   Several state and national highways that lace the Nebraska Panhandle were closed because of icy pavement and near whiteout conditions, including a section of I-80 into Wyoming.

   Forecasters said travel conditions would gradually improve as the storm moved east Tuesday.

   On Monday, the storm dumped as much as 20 inches of snow on much of Wyoming. By Tuesday morning, the snow had mostly stopped falling there, but wind up to 60 mph kept many major roads and highways closed.

   In the turbulent warmer air on the eastern side of the huge storm, tornadoes were reported Monday in eastern Nebraska and Iowa.

   Meteorologist Clifford Cole in North Platte, Neb., said a  “fairly minor” twister hit near O’Neill on Monday. It destroyed at least one barn, but “we didn’t lose any houses; we didn’t lose any people,” Cole said.

   Near Lincoln, the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency said five people were hurt, none seriously, and several buildings were damaged by a possible twister.

   Having a blizzard on one end of Nebraska and tornadoes on the other isn’t all that unusual, weather service meteorologist Jim Meyer said Tuesday.

   In early spring, Meyer said, “Mother Nature is still trying to decide, ‘Hey, do I want to have winter or get into spring and summer?’ … You could draw a line roughly down the middle of Nebraska yesterday afternoon.”

   Farther south, high wind toppled 13 vehicles on a stretch of I-70 in central Kansas. Highway Patrol Lt. Mike Murphy said most of the vehicles were tractor-trailers. Several people were taken to hospitals for treatment.

   Wind gusts of more than 60 mph were recorded in Salina, Kan., and gusts of more than 90 mph were reported at a prairie research site about five miles south of Manhattan.

   ………

   Associated Press writers Timberly Ross in Omaha, Neb., Dennis Gale in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Phyllis Mensing in  Bismarck, N.D., contributed to this report.

   ………

   On the Net:

   National Weather Service: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ 

Budget

CONGRESS-TWITTER

Some 117 members of Congress have jumped on the Twitter bandwagon, including 79 Republicans and 38 Democrats.
Mug shot of John McCain

Breakout box of how to use Twitter

 

Border Violence

Hundreds of federal agents, along with high-tech surveillance gear and drug-sniffing dogs, are headed to the Southwest to help Mexico fight drug cartels and keep violence from spilling across the U.S.-Mexico border, Obama administration officials said Tuesday.
1 photo
Breakout box of statistics (needs to be formatted)

 

Grocery Auction

When Kirk Williams held his first grocery auction in rural Pennsylvania last month, nearly 300 people showed up. Astonished by the turnout, he’s scheduling auctions at locations throughout northeastern Pennsylvania.
Photos

 

Adair Student-Japan

Beef and Beer held to raise funds for educational trip: Nicole Snyder, an eighth-grader at Adaire Elementary School is hoping to travel to the orient in the near future and is currently working to save up the much-needed funds to afford the trip. The 15-year-old Port Richmond resident said she is excited about going to Japan, but is worried about affording the costs associated with the visit.

Photos

If you go Box

 

Ireland-Police Killing

2nd person charged in N. Ireland police killing: A Northern Ireland teenager charged with the dissident IRA killing of a policeman had an assault rifle and 26 rounds of ammunition, a detective testified Tuesday, and police in the province said they were charging a second person with participating in the murder.

Photos

 

Afgan TV

Afghan TV station falls under government crackdown: The manager of an Afghan television network who refused to censor images of women dancing in short skirts and plunging necklines was arrested in what appeared to be a new sign of the government’s struggle to define the role of Islam in a country once led by extremists.

1 photo

 

Israeli Government

Centrist Labor joins new Israeli government: Israel’s Labor Party voted Tuesday to join the incoming government of Benjamin Netanyahu, lending a moderate voice to a coalition dominated by hard liners and easing concerns of a head-on confrontation with Washington over Mideast peacemaking.

Photos

 

Coatesville Arsons

Investigators are trying to determine if a firefighter charged with the latest suspicious fires in an arson-plagued Philadelphia suburb could be responsible for any other unsolved blazes. Robert Tracey Jr., 37, of Coatesville, was charged Monday with lighting two small trash fires a few blocks apart in Coatesville on Friday. The fires caused no injuries or significant damage.

Photos

 

China Currency

China is calling for a new global currency to replace the dominant dollar, showing a growing assertiveness on revamping the world economy ahead of next week’s London summit on the financial crisis.

Photos

 

Plains Blizzard

Wind-blown snow whipped across the northern Plains on Tuesday, closing major highways, as a powerful storm stalled over western Nebraska and South Dakota. Nearly 2 feet of snow had piled up in South Dakota’s rugged Black Hills, and the storm system also had generated tornadoes. The blowing snow cut visibility and piled up in drifts a much as 4 feet high in parts of Wyoming.

Photos

 

PortRichmond-Oz

It was a week before the Theatre Company of Port Richmond’s upcoming production of The Wizard of Oz, but the Lithuanian Music Hall at East Allegheny Avenue and Tilton Street already looked like a tornado hit it.

Photos

If you go box

 

Obama-Astronauts

The 10 orbiting astronauts talked up green energy with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, describing the benefits that will come from the international space station’s new solar wings.

Photos

 

Car dealers dead

Third-generation car dealers Gregory and Randolph Graham watched helplessly over the past year as their business collapsed under the weight of the recession. Now the Graham brothers are gone, too. Gregory, 61, went out to the dealership lot in the middle of the night last month, set fire to some of his vehicles and died of a heart attack next to the burning wreckage. Then, over the weekend, Randolph, 51, was found dead, slumped over the wheel of his car in what may have been a suicide.

Photos

 

Fishing boat sinks

A fishing boat sank in rough seas off New Jersey on Tuesday morning, killing at least one person and leaving four missing in the icy ocean as relatives gathered at the water’s edge to pray for their safe return.

Photo

 

Geithner-AIG

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner asked Congress on Tuesday for broad new powers to regulate nonbank financial companies like troubled insurer American International Group whose collapse could jeopardize the economy.

Photos

 

Nutter Budget

Last week, just moments before he would deliver this year’s budget proposal to City Council, Mayor Michael Nutter stepped into a meeting room adjacent to the Council Chamber. A group of maybe 15 Philadelphia residents, mostly neighborhood block captains, quietly mingled there. These few representatives of the city’s populace spoke in hushed voices about their reverence for City Hall and the excitement of being at the budget event.

Photos

 

Pregnant Woman Killed

A judge has ordered an 11-year-old western Pennsylvania boy to stand trial in the shooting death of his father’s pregnant fiancee.

Photos

 

Immigrant grave

Researchers may have discovered a mass grave for nearly five dozen 19th century Irish immigrants who died of cholera weeks after coming to Pennsylvania to build a railroad. Historians at Immaculata University have known for years about the 57 immigrants who died in August 1832, but could not find the actual grave. Human bones discovered last week near the suburban Philadelphia university may at last reveal their final resting place … and possibly allow researchers to identify the remains and repatriate them.

Photos

 

NEHospital Closes

Temple University Health System on Monday announced its intention to shutter Northeastern Hospital in Port Richmond by June 30. Long rumored to be facing the ax, the hospital has served the community for more than 100 years and with the closure as many as 800 employees could lose their jobs.

Photos

 

Selection Tools

Photoshop Selection Tools

First thing you have to do when figuring out which selection tool to use on your image is to diagnose the situation. If your background is a solid color, you can use the Magic Wand tool. If your background is not a solid color, and your area you wish to extract from the background has all straight edges, you can use the polygonal lasso tool. If your background is not a solid color, and your area you wish to extract from the background is not all straight edges (like a person) then you would use the magnetic lasso tool.

Next, is executing.

Magic Wand
· Select the Layer you would like to edit.

· Select the MAGIC WAND TOOL from your Photoshop toolbar

· With the Magic Wand, select the background color that you wish to get rid of from the image itself.

· Go to SELECT>INVERSE on the top menu bar.

· Select your MOVE TOOL from your TOOL BAR.

· Slide your selected area to your new document.

Polygonal Lasso
Select the Layer you would like to edit.
Select the POLYGONAL LASSO TOOL from your Photoshop toolbar.
With the POLYGONAL LASSO, select a starting point around the object that you wish to extract from the background and click your mouse once. THEN, trace around the perimeter of the object clicking each time the lasso changes direction (even if it’s just a slight change). When you get back to your starting point click one more time and your outline should turn into what looks like marching ants. If not, click enter/return.
Select your MOVE TOOL from your TOOL BAR.
Slide your selected area to your new document.
Magnetic Lasso
Select the Layer you would like to edit.
Select the MAGNETIC LASSO TOOL from your Photoshop toolbar.
With the MAGNETIC LASSO, select a starting point around the object that you wish to extract from the background and click your mouse once. THEN, trace around the perimeter of the object. When you get back to your starting point click one more time and your outline should turn into what looks like marching ants. If not, click enter/return. (You do NOT have to click each time you change directions with this tool like you do with the Polygonal Lasso.)
Select your MOVE TOOL from your TOOL BAR.
Slide your selected area to your new document.
For all of these tools, when you get the piece you wanted onto your project document you may need to do a few things.

RESIZE
Select the Layer that you want to resize
On the top MENU BAR select EDIT>TRANSFORM>SCALE
Hold down the SHIFT key and drag out the corners to size the image to fit.
Double-click in your image to APPLY CHANGES.
2. ROTATING

Select the Layer that you want to resize
On the top MENU BAR select EDIT>TRANSFORM>ROTATE
Hold down the SHIFT key and drag out the corners to rotate the image.
Double-click in your image to APPLY CHANGE.

Magazine Cover Requirements

Magazine Projects

Requirements:
Photograph
There should be one main photograph on the cover of your magazine. There can be more than one but this is not a necessity and you WILL NOT get any extra points for using extra photos. This is a creative decision.

Banner/Nameplate (whatever you want to call it)
Your nameplate is everything that goes into the title of your magazine (ie Elle, Maxim, Time). As for your magazines you will make a new nameplate for a new magazine. Do not recreate Sports Illustrated or ESPN magazine. If you are making a sports magazine you must come up with a NEW name.
All of the design elements come into effect here (size of your nameplate, size of the text in your nameplate, font color, anything that you can/want to do to make your nameplate look good)

Teasers
Teasers are the text items on the front of a magazine that ‘tease’ you into the stories inside. You need a minimum of THREE teasers and a maximum of FIVE teasers. Any more will lose points as will not having at least three. Again, font size, color, placement, everything comes into play here. CRAP!

Extras
There are countless extras that can go into the front of a magazine. I want to see what your imagination and your knowledge of magazines can come up with. What else goes onto the front of a magazine? (Hint: I am talking about things like the bar code and such)

Remember you are DESIGNING so BE CREATIVE…have fun and envision your project and work to get it done that way. Don’t just get to a point where something gets hard and you give up. Ask questions, post to the blog, send me an E-mail, send the class an E-mail.

REMINDERS
1. EVERYTHING goes on a new layer STARTING WITH YOUR MAIN PHOTO. Don’t set your photo as you background cause then you will lose control of it for the duration and will have to start over. Set the background as a white/clear layer and LAYER 1 should be your photo.

2. Edit your photos separate from your mag cover project. Get them ready first, then start laying out.

3. SAVE EVERYTHING AS A .PSD FILE UNTIL YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY DONE.  PSD should be the default for you when you click SAVE AS, if it’s not then just change the FORMAT on the SAVE WINDOW.

STARTING YOUR PROJECT
1.    Open Photoshop and click FILE>NEW
a.    Name your project
b.    Select CUSTOM from the PRESETS menu
c.    Make the dimensions 8.5 INCHES wide and 11 INCHES tall. (If the dimensions are set to PIXELS or something else, just click the menu and change it to INCHES.
d.    Set the RESOLUTION to 300
e.    Make the BACKGROUNG COLOR TRANSPARENT
f.    Click OK

REMEMBER…EVERYTHING FOR THIS PROJECT WILL BE CONTROLLED BY THE LAYERS WINDOW.

2.    Drag your MAIN PHOTO (which should already be edited) onto a NEW LAYER (should be able to just drag the already edited photo onto your new project document that you just created.)
3.    CREATE ANOTHER NEW LAYER for your NAMEPLATE

a.    You can design your nameplate right on your mag covers.
1.    Use the TEXT TOOL on your TOOL BAR to add text.
2.    Use the OPTIONS BAR and/or the CHARACTER BAR to edit your text.

4.     CREATE A NEW LAYER FOR EACH STORY TEASER
a.     You can edit these the same way you edited your nameplate.
b. If you want to add photos, do so the same way you added your main photo.

DESIGN TIPS 

Duplicate a layer:
1. Drag the layer on the layer window down to the the CREATE NEW LAYER icon. This will COPY your layer, so you will have two.

Create a shadow on a text layer:
1. Duplicate the text layer in question
2. Change the colors to however you want them
3. Offset the background layer to create the shadowing effect

Apply a stroke/border to a photo/text layer:
1. Select the layer in question
2. At top, click LAYER>LAYER STYLES>STROKE
3. In the options window you can select the color and the thickness of your stroke.

When you are absolutely done…click FILE>SAVE AS and save a COPY of your project as a .JPEG file. Post that to the section blog.

 

GOOD LUCK!

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