2 Web Page Planning &Execution

Objectives:

• To understand how to create or revise web pages
• To critically examing methods for design information
• To define a direction for the term's work

I. Announcements

• Katalin's hours:  Tues 3pm, Fri 11am
• Nancy's hours: MW 11-12 + hours to be arranged

II. Activity: Critical examination of web pages (Daylighting, FIEDAD)

• What elements define the site's graphic identity?
• What tools do you have to navigate and how well do they work?
• How successfully is the technology employed? How could it be used better?

III. Content Introduction & Sign-ups

• Bernard Maybeck's Unbuilt Brookings
  • Highlights of Maybeck's work
  • Maybeck's attitude to landscape
  • Brookings drawings & examples of student work
  • Resources for Maybeck
• Alvar Aalto's Daylighting
  • Evolution of Aalto's skylights
  • Pensions Building
  • Academic Bookstore
  • Seinajoki Library
  • Aalto resources
• Sense of Place
  • Place factors
  • Memory & place
  • Ways to record place
  • Bookstore Example
  • Sense of Place resources

IV. Planning & Executing a Web Page

• Content Structure: 
  • Chunking information
  • Diagramming relationships
  • Planning File Management
• Designing & Creating Graphics
  • Sketching on studioDESK
• Making the Web site:
  • Defining a GoLive site, Importing content
  • Layout tools
  • Creating graphical components
  • Making Stationery Pages
  • Defining Cascading Style Sheets
• Example:  rehabbing an existing page (arch 222 logo), Place page

V. Options for group effort

• Ways to move from one site to another
• Ways to parse team efforts (territory, time, tasks or roles)

VI. Activity: Groupwork on Websites: define tasks, roles, schedule, create structure & graphics

• What sort of graphic identity makes sense for the site?  Technology?
• What information will go into the site and who will contribute it?

VII. Tour of 204 Pacific, pressure-sensitive tablets