So far, so dark

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So far, so dark
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Thank you for
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whoami

• History of life

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Before we starts

• Why University
• Why this course
• Rules of engagement

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A few words about Education

• You can lead a man up to the university, but yet
  cant make him think. 
• Finley Peter Dunne 
• Education makes a people easy to govern,
  difficult to rule and impossible to enslave. 
• Henry Peter Brougham

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Course overview esp level 1

• Systems Computing
• Digital Media Design
• Internet Web Technologies
• Multimedia Studio

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What is MMTD?

• Multimedia
• Technology
• Design

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Why Multimedia Studio

• Overview
• Core content
• How it can help you

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Web Design

• Your Journey over 24 weeks

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Why web design

• Web design and multimedia
• Web design and professional life
• Web design and personal life
• Opportunities

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Well-rounded web designers

• Transferable skills
• Design Development skills
• Commercial skills

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Core web design skills

• (X)HTML
• Graphic Design
• Dynamic technologies
• Internet fundamentals

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Getting into web design Your challenge

• Technologies
• Market status anyone can do it?! Example.
• Not-my-cuppa skills

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Web design trends

• Past
• http//intranet.brunel.ac.uk/eesthhn/gamma/gamma.
  html
• Present
• http//tombrew.co.uk
• http//dimavolos.co.uk/
• Future

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Web designs Bermuda Triangle - CVT
Content
Visual
Talent
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Content

• Copy (for now, textual content)
• Graphical content
• Other

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Visuals

• Presentation of content
• Layout
• Design graphics

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Talent

• Content organisation and distribution
• Creative design
• Unique contents, features, etc(e.g.
  interactivity)

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Examples
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History-related websites

• http//www.hyperhistory.com/
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/history/
• http//www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml
• http//www.history.com/
• Quick analysis CVTs

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funky / modern(?) design

• http//thomasedison.org/
• http//blattnerbrunner.com/blattnerbrunner/
• http//designschneider.de/
• http//www.pass.be/index.jsp
• http//insearch.nl/

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Informational/gateway websites

• http//www.google.co.uk/ig?hlen
• http//www.yahoo.com/
• http//www.altavista.com/
• http//www.faqs.org/rfcs/

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Starting web design

• Your first steps
• Tools

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Your first steps

• Background
• Understanding the web - fundamentals
• Technological obstacles
• Best route
• Time

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Tools

• Graphics
• (X)HTML
• Web authoring applicationse.g. Dreamweaver,
  Front Page, etc
• Web technologies applications e.g. Flash

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Web design Quick Tour

• This is just a quick techie demo