Client questions:
Generate a list of questions for the client. Everything you think you will need to know in order to create the web site and interactive componed: Ask. Write up your questions in a Word document. Post the document to the Doc Sharing section under “Client Questions” category (Dropdown menu labeled “View”).
Project Discovery Research
You are to spend time researching/viewing:
What did you discover? What observations did you make? What lessons should we learn? What should we avoid? What is useful to us? Type of your answers/thoughts on what you found. Bulleted lists are ok. We will discuss findings during our chat. Post your typed thoughts/findings to the doc sharing section under “Project Discovery.”
Online Chat
Scheduled for Monday, January 21 from 5pm-6pm. You should see a link to Chat in the main menu along the top. When I’ve accessed it, a pop-up window appears with a warning that said pop-up window needs to remain open while the chat is in session. There should be a little button in the center of the window labeled “Enter Chat” (or some such). If the button doesn’t appear initially, try right-clicking in the pop-up window. That should make the button appear (weird bug, it looks like). Our back up will be Google Talk. IM request me so I have your address (mine’s on syllabus). I will set up a multi-person IM. IM me via gTalk if you have questions or problems.
Using the instructions and guidelines in this week’s assigned readings, create a CSS style sheet for printing your DC Wild Animal web site pages.
A process book is the term we use in the WDIM department to refer to the packaging of all the material generated towards making an interactive project. The purpose of the process book is to show the thought behind the project. The individual pieces within the process book can all be considered sign-off points on a project between you and a client. All projects in your portfolio are expected to have documentation showing process–whether required by the instructor or not. For presentation purposes, you are required to have your process documentation assembled into one, nice, neat package.
After weeks of figuring out what our projects are about, it’s now time for the actual building of our sites. Creating a collection of web pages can seem daunting, but to make the process a little more streamlined and a little easier (work smarter, not harder), we introduce the concept of templates.
Templates are files that work out all the technical kinks (much like the comps work out the the design kinks) before full-blown production. Rather than building all the pages at once, you focus on on template file. When this file and it’s accompanying files are completed and working, you can easily duplicate it to create all the other pages in your web site.