Attention to all lab monitors!

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Dear all: Keeping the lab clean and neat is one of your job responsibilities. So please clean up the main lab and the small room of the OP 1220 after you work. In addition, please collect those empty toners and inkjet cartridges to the recycle bin in the art office. I will send an email […]

Lab Service Notification for Spring Break

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Attention to all lab monitors: During the Spring break period, the Art Department Viscomm labs, both OP1224 and OP 1210, will be closing from Friday (April 6) @ 5:00 pm to Monday (April 9). The labs will be reopening on April 10. For those scholarship students, if you wish to make up the lost hours […]

Timeline in April_A-420 – Spring 2012

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4/5: Final project begins: Case study on portfolio sites / collect images for the slideshow; 4/10: Finalize the third project, and generate ideas for the final project’s page layouts; 4/12: Present the third project, and finish the online critique of the communication site; 4/17: No class due to Student Research Conference but please complete the […]

A-420 Final Project: Portfolio Site – SP’12

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Project Objective: Redesign your personal HTML site to an online portfolio site. A portfolio site is all about promoting yourself. You are a brand, and your name is a brand name. No one is going to know about your brand unless you get it out there; and if you are a graphic designer, it’s essential […]

jQuery JavaScript Library

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jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. jQuery is free, open source software, jQuery’s syntax is designed to make it easier to navigate a document, create animations, and develop Ajax applications. The modular approach to the jQuery library […]

AJAX Photo Gallery

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Sample: http://sandbox.scriptiny.com/slideshow/ <div id=”gallery”> <div id=”imagearea”> <div id=”image”> <a href=”javascript:slideShow.nav(-1)” class=”imgnav ” id=”previmg”></a> <a href=”javascript:slideShow.nav(1)” class=”imgnav ” id=”nextimg”></a> </div> </div> <div id=”thumbwrapper”> <div id=”thumbarea”> <ul id=”thumbs”> <li value=”1″><img src=”thumbs/1.jpg” width=”179″ height=”100″ alt=”1″ /></li> <li value=”2″><img src=”thumbs/2.jpg” width=”179″ height=”100″ alt=”2″ /></li> <li value=”3″><img src=”thumbs/3.jpg” width=”179″ height=”100″ alt=”3″ /></li> <li value=”4″><img src=”thumbs/4.jpg” width=”179″ height=”100″ alt=”4″ /></li> <li […]

Suckerfish Menu

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Exercise Overview In this exercise we’re going to make CSS-based dropdown menus. These aren’t average menus. They are rich menus and can contain anything-images, text, sign up forms, etc. This type of menu is strangely called a Suckerfish Menu. The original creators named it that because the concept was originally demonstrated on a site about […]

PXSTUDIO – Fall 2012
Course Schedule

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Art-341_Motion Graphics (Course ID: 6885) 1:30 pm – 3:20 pm / MWF (OP-1224) Course program: • Adobe After Effects CS5.5 • Adobe Flash Pro CS5.5 & Actionscript Art-201_Design Software & Process (Course ID: 6374) 3:30 pm – 5:20 pm / MWF (OP-1224) Course program: • Adobe Illustrator CS5.5 (Digital Illustration) • Adobe Photoshop CS5.5 (Image […]