Jan. 20

We won't meet in class tonight, as I will be in SF at a Ruby on Rails training class, so we can better cover later in the semester! For tonight, just make a post to the blog (same as last semester, new people will be invited) and make sure you refresh your memory on HTML and CSS. We will not be reviewing!

Jan. 27

Dale

Group SXSW Project Discussion
Web Development Presentation

Intro to Wordpress Handout

Wordpress CSS Guides
WordPress.com Custom CSS Page
WordPress FAQ Custom CSS
Wordpress.com vs. Wordpress.org
Wordpress Widget Guide

Feb. 3

Roberta

Read: "Renegades at the New York Times" NY Magazine, Jan. 11, 2009

Forms and Templates

• Forms and Form Processing
• Dreamweaver Templates

Advanced Video Techniques

Final Cut Express

Feb. 10

Trey

Read the following articles from Online Journalism Review:

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070523ruel/ - About Online Infographics

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/060605niles/ - Interview with Adrian Holovaty

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070210ruel/index.cfm – When to Use Multimedia

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070614paul/ - Navigating Through Slideshows (added later, read if you have the chance)

Animated Infographics

• NY Times Interactive Wealth Calculator
• NY Times VA Tech Shooting
• NY Times Rent vs. Buy
• NY Times Election 2008
• NY Times Tracking Flight 1549
• NY Times Michael Jackson's Billboard Rankings
• NY Times Inaugural Words
• NY Times Best Places
• MSNBC Bridge Tracker
• Las Vegas Sun - Prescription Narcotics Consumption
• Hudson Valley Public Salary Database

Tufte - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

More CSS

• Flyout Menu 1 - vertical
• Flyout Menu 2 - landscape
• Rounded Corners CSS

Intro to DW Spry Assets

Feb. 17

Eric

AJAX and XML concepts

AJAX, Javascript, XML handout

(Use Ctrl-Click to download files)

Load Data Into Table

• xml.html
• ajax2.js
• xml.php

Create a simple calculator

• index.html
• ajax.js
• backend.php

W3 Schools Tutorials

Feb. 24

Leslie

More Action Scripting

• Advanced AS3
• Using Flash to design an interactive quiz - download files
  • quiz.xml
  • quiz.fla
  • quiz.swf

Search Engine Optimization
Five Ways to Optimize Pages

March 3

Jesse

Flash Variables and Forms

• Flash Variables Handout
• Sample Files - simplevar.fla, text_scene.fla, radio.fla, flashform.fla

Using Streaming Video

Streaming Video Handout

March 10

Spring Break

SXSW Project

March 24

Josh

SXSW Wrap Up

March 30

Carly

PHP/MySQL

PHP Handout
• What is PHP?; easy PHP scripting - Hello World (file: helloworld.php)
• Using Server-side includes vs. iFrames (files: footertest.php, stuff.inc)
• Writing to a database (files: discuss1.php - form, d1.php - form processor, d1-reader.php - reader)

• PHP.net
• W3 Schools PHP Tutorial
• Lynda.com PHP Essentials Tutorial - Several of the modules are free to view as a preview.
• MySQL.com
• MySQL install documentation

April 7

TC

Google Maps/Google Wave

• Read - Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World by Evan Ratliff, Wired July 07
  
• Google Maps API - register for a key and use the handout to create a simple map. The Google Maps API gives you a great deal of flexibility in creating your own maps applications. Developers use it for doing mashups with other applications and data. Applications are hosted on your own server.
• MyMaps - click on MyMaps in the Google window. This is a simpler, graphically-oriented method of creating your own Map applications. You can annotate maps, create markers, add photos and video. Maps are hosted on a Google server. Directions can be found here. Photos must be hosted somewhere on the Web. Videos must be hosted by YouTube or Google Video.

You must have a Google or Gmail acct to access these features.

Assignment - Using both techniques, create a map that might support some element of your project. Try both the photo and video techniques for MyMaps.

April 14

Scott

April 21

Jackie

April 28

Andrew