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 […]