Digital Portfolio Design2010

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Session I

Digital Portfolio Production Workshop

AAA 408/508 – WRK DIGITAL PORTFOLIO

Instructor – Scott Huette

Scott Huette

• BFA in Photography – 1993

• Master’s Degree in Arts Management – 1996

• Art Director for Computer Games, 8 Yrs. – 1997 to 2005

• Teaching for 6 years – 2002 to Present

• Professional Photographic Artist – 2005 to Present

• Board Member and Artist Services Chair at DIVA – 2005 to Present

Introductions To Each Other

• Pair up with someone you do not know already.

• Share Name, Major

• Important/Interesting Tidbit of information

• Overall Technology Skill Level

Information Design

What Is The Product?

Critical Tasks of Information Design

• Define goals of the product

• Define what the audience wants

• Decide how the product will reach its audience

• Choose the authoring tool

• Create a content inventory list

• Organize the content

• Produce a Site Map

Design a Site Map

Development Choices

Comparison of Development Options

ToolsMultimedia Authoring

Online Publishing

Portfolio Templates

Examples FlashXHTML

CSSDreamweaver

Artician, Coroflot, Moonfruit, Wordpress

LimitationsSteep Learning

CurveSteep Learning

Curve

Limited capability to customize experience

Skill Level Advanced Intermediate Basic

Content Is King

Resolution

Are They The Same Resolution?

213 x 320 pixels.71” x 1.067”

300 ppi

213 x 320 pixels2.958” x 4.444”

72 ppi

Anti-aliasing

Anti-aliasing Fringe

Colors and Palettes

8-bit

16-bit

24-bit

Palettes & Dithering

Compression

Introduction to XHTML, CSS & DreamWeaver

The Tech

What is XHTML?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Untitled Document</title></head>

<body></body></html>

Example XHTML Elements

• Paragraph <p></p>

• Break <br />

• Heading 1 <h1></h1>

• Heading 2 <h2> </h2>

• Unordered List <ul><li></li></ul>

• Table <table><tr><td></td></tr></table>

• Anchor <a href=”#”></a>

• Image <img src=”image.jpg” />

• Bold <strong></strong>

• Italics <em></em>

What is CSS?

A CSS Rule

h1 { color: navy; border-bottom: 1px solid black;}

“h1” is a selector. It identifies the html element to style. In this case all <h1> elements.

“color” is a property and “navy” is its value.

There are over 100 css properties.

CSS Selectors

h1, h2 { color: navy; } – this is an element or type selector.

.blogentry { color: navy; } – this is a class selector.

<p class=”blogentry”>...</p> – classes can be assigned to any html element.

#logo { position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; } – this is an id selector.

<img id=”logo” src=”logo.gif” /> – id’s can only be used once per page.

Attaching a Style Sheet

…<head>

/*this is an internal style sheet*/<style type=”text/css”>

h1 { color: blue; } </style>

</head>…

…<head>

/* this is an external style sheet*/<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”path/to/stylesheet.css” type=”text/css” />

</head>…

Homework – Due Feb. 5

Tier 1 & 2

• Digitize content

• Read Designing A Digital Portfolio Ch. 1 & 2

• Create Site Map

Tier 1

• Explore Portfolio Creation Tools

• Create an account on the System of your choice

Tier 2

• Read DreamWeaver Ch. 1 & 2