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Geoffrey Sauer	Class: T & R, T: 3:40 - 5:00 pm, Durham 91 · Office Hours: W: 1:00 - 3:30 pm, Ross 433

For Friday, May 7th:
Continue to work on your final projects. Turn in the URL address of your group's project in person or via e-mail by 12pm on Friday, May 7th.

Course Goals

To analyze specific audiences and rhetorical situations in the design of large-scale Web sites.
To apply the principles of information architecture to the creation of intuitive navigation systems and a seamless user experience.
To learn how hypertext markup language (HTML) renders Web pages and supports the use of graphics, video, and other media.
To learn the basics of visual design and production as they relate to Web photographs and graphic images.

The Students

Student Personal Websites

These are the personal home pages of the students enrolled in the course, developed as part of an assignment to generate an online resume or portfolio:

Jonathan Berg	Stacy Beeler	J.R. Cook	Jenae Eckroth
Paul Friemel	Ryan Kamps	Patricia Law	Chris Malven
Warren Miller	Jenifer O'Neal	Craig Oldakowski	Nick Stanerson
Heather Stanley	Saichand Sunkari	Kelli Teno	Brian Tucker
Peter Wagner

Student Project Websites

E-Week 2004 (Jon Berg, Jenae Eckroth, Ryan Kamps, Peter Wagner)
ISU Graphic Design Department (Chris Malven)
Patricia Murillo Portfolio (Patricia Law)
The Political Science Club (Stacy Beeler, J.R. Cook, Jenifer O'Neal, Saichand Sunkari)
The Salt Company (design A , design B) (Heather Stanley, Brian Tucker)
United Deist Church (Warren Miller)
VEISHEA.org (Paul Friemel, Craig Oldakowski, Kelli Teno)
Weiser Precast (Nick Stanerson)

Textbooks

Nielsen, Jakob. (2000). Designing Web Usability. Indianapolis: New Riders.
Lynch, Patrick J. and Horton, Sarah. (2001). Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites. 2nd Ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Niederst, Jennifer (2001). Web Design in a Nutshell. 2nd Ed. Cambridge: O'Reilly & Associates.

Software

I recommend using GoLive CS as your site authoring tool, though you may use Dreamweaver or any other Web editor if you want. Course instruction, however, will be geared only to GoLive, so if you use another program, you're on your own. For image production and editing, we will be using Photoshop CS.

Geoffrey Sauer (gsauer@iastate.edu) - 1/06/2004