Developing an enhanced website

http://imedia-web.posterous.com/

Course aimshttp://imedia-web.posterous.com/pages/about-the-web-unit

Course assessmenthttp://imedia-web.posterous.com/pages/assignments

Week 1, Session 1

•Session Aims:•To introduce the course structure and modes of assessment•To introduce learners to design principles for portfolio websites•To outline using a personal SWOT analysis for uncovering skills and talents•To introduce learners to using blogs for digital diaries(Learning Outcome 1)

•Learning Outcomes•By the end of this session all learners will be able to:•Summarise the course content and modes of assessment•List the groundrules for the group•Set up a blog for their digital diary (posterous)•Analyse their skills and talents using a personal SWOT analysis.•List at least five design principles for portfolio website design

Web quiz• World Wide Web Test

• Here is a quiz about the Internet! See how knowledgeable a websurfer you are!

Objective: Answer at least 8 questions correctly.

• 1. What does WWW stand for?

• World Wacky Web Wide World Wumpus World Wide Web Wide World of Why?

• 2. Which one of the following is a search engine?

• Netscape Java Altavista Internet

• 3. What is the URL of the search engine in question 2?

• http://www.yahoo.com http://www.altavista.net http://www.yahooligans.org http ://www.altavista.com

• 4. What does URL stand for?

• united route link uniform resource locator unknown redirection link up real late

5. What is the name of the language you use to write a web page?

•HTTP FTP URL HTML

•6. What do you do if you accidentally end up at an inappropriate web site?

•Hit "Back" button, and continue surfing Yell out "Hey look at this everyone!!" Hit "Back" button immediately, and raise your hand to tell the teacher or tell your parent Leave it on your screen until the teacher finds out

•7. What are the consequences if download files from the Internet to your computer?

•You can play lot of games Or listen to lot of music Your computer will get full up of junk You might download a virus and put your computer and other at risk, always check if the download site is trustworthy

•8. Which of the following terms is a "browser"?

•NetscapeWorld Wide WebLauncherE-mail

•9. All web addresses start with which of the following?

•htphttp://http:/WWW

•10. A word that looks underlined on a web page is usually what?

•an important wordthe web addressa "link" to another web pagea mistake

posterous https://posterous.com/

Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/

taking screenshots for your digital diary

Taking Screenshots in Mac OS X• Shortcuts

• Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop

• Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop

• Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop

• Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard

• Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard

• Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard

• In Leopard and later, the following keys can be held down while selecting an area (via Command-Shift-4 or Command-Control-Shift-4):

• Space, to lock the size of the selected region and instead move it when the mouse moves

• Shift, to resize only one edge of the selected region• Option, to resize the selected region with its center as the anchor point

Screenshot - PC

• 1. Open up the window or windows you want to have in your screen shot.

• 2. Arrange them so you can see all the information you need on-screen.

• 3. Press the PrtScr button (shown below) - this will copy the image of your screen to the "clipboard", meaning you can now paste is as an image.

• 4. Open your favourite image editing software (MS Paint, Adobe Photoshop, Jasc PaintShopPro, GIMP etc.).

• 5. Paste (CTRL + V) the copied screen shot into the program.

• 6. Use the selection marquee tools to highlight the area you want to save.

• 7. Use the crop tool to remove everything except the area you selected.

• 8. Save the image as a .jpg.