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 […]

Gutters

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Gutters are the gaps in between columns. They are there so text, or image, from different columns don’t run into each other. Gutters are seperate to the columns. Generally the columns we create, using Web Standards, are ‘divs’ which are given widths and positioned and styled using CSS. So, ideally, if we’re creating these columns, […]

“HTML Language Code Reference”

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Language Code The HTML lang attribute can be used to declare the language of a web page or a portion of a web page. This is meant to assist search engines and browsers. According to the W3C recommendation you should declare the primary language for each Web page with the lang attribute inside the <html> […]

Student ADDY & Student Work Published by Creative Quarterly Magazine

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Reina Koyano’s poster campaign, “Yummy Girls”, was created in Art-421 VisComm IV, Advertising Design, class in Fall 2011. Her work was published in April 2012 in Creative Quarterly magazine, 27th issue. Also, it was selected and exhibited in Cross Connections 2012 International Design Exhibition in Belgium, China, Mexico, and the U.S. Student ADDY – 2010 […]