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April 24, 2006
Favorite Sites and Website plans
Use the handouts to write about your favorite sites and plan your website.
Everyone should have a good start on their site. I will make sure each of you is working toward a goal. Use the My Website handout to decide on what you will focus your site on and keep track of stuff you find to put on it.
We will begin working on our group site soon. I want to make sure everybody has a chance to create their own personal site first.
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at 02:58 PM
April 10, 2006
Adding pages, sounds and making things move
SO, now that you've got a pretty good start to your pages, you can begin customizing and adding sound and movement to it.
Sound
We will use the embed tag. You can also use the bgsound tag, but it only works with Internet Explorer (not any of the other web browsers)
Example:
(This will add the sound and create a small controller for turning it on and off)
<embed src="thesong.mp3" loop="true" autoplay="false" width="145" height="60"/>
This will add the sound without the controller:
<embed src="thesong.mp3" loop="true" hidden="true" autoplay="true" />
With the BGSOUND tag:
<BGSOUND SRC="thesong.mp3" loop="infinite" AUTOSTART="true"/>
Movement
We will explore animation during the next few weeks.
Today, use the story board sheet to plan out a short animation.
Visit the Flipbook site. Try making a short animation and saving it.
(you can use somerville21@gmail.com for the email address)
Also, you can create animations with KidPix and export them as either flash or QTmovies.
What happens in your story?
Something moves from point A to B
Something grows
Something changes from one thing to another
Characters interact
HTML Templates
(hints for customising your pages even more.)
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at 03:16 PM
April 07, 2006
Friday Club: West Somerville
Update: The files were found and restored to their proper location. So, all is well again. :-)
The student Web Club folders were accidently deleted from the shared server. We probably won't be able to get them back until Tuesday, so today let's work on two things.
Animations. We can use FlipBook today to explore simple frame-by-frame animation.
Students who would prefer to use a storyboard can draw their animations and I will scan then and make GIFanimations from them for you (you can download free software to make these at home).
Planning Your Web Pages
Before web designers create websites, they plan them out and decide how many pages the site will be and how those pages will link together. Use the planning handout to organize your site ideas.
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at 02:20 PM
April 03, 2006
Your First Web Pages
Today we will make our first web page using simple HTML codes, called tags. All webpages use these tags.
Note If you are taking this class for a second time, you should know how to write a simple HTML page from scratch. Do this exercise or open your existing index.html page and add some images and hotlinks to it, or you may help your fellow club members.
Making your first page:
1) Find your folder in Web Club pages on the school server.
2) Open Notepad (windows simple text editor) to write your HTML page
3) Follow the directions on the My First Webpage handout. Add some of your own text to the page.
4) Save the page as index.html (not txt!)
Important: You will need to save and open your page while Notepad is set to show "all filetypes" for it to work correctly.
5) Your page should show the Explorer "E" icon (because it's HTML), click it to open it in the Internet Explorer browser.
Wow!
Once you have your first page ready, it is time to add a link to the art you made last week.
Look at the Handout Formatting Your Page to learn how to do this.
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at 01:51 PM