Michael T Ganschow Green: My name is Michael ghanshyam group, and this is the first class of JRC 175 I suppose I shouldn't call them classes we've had some confusion about that us.
Michael T Ganschow Green: a bunch of people emailed me all concerned when I mentioned that we would be doing these lectures on Tuesdays and Thursdays, that there were scheduling conflicts and the the class in the in the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: On the catalog didn't say anything about about meeting and technically it doesn't this is what's called an asynchronous online class and what that means is that, in theory, it functions, like a regular online class, ie.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I would normally be giving you assignments and resources and things like that, and then kind of turn you loose to work on your own time and at your own schedule, but I found a lot of students struggle with that format, particularly the kind of lack of engagement, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And a lot of students learn better when we do this, this this kind of formalized lecture format so i'm going to go ahead and have lectures and kind of open labs and all of that um, even though this class doesn't technically have them now, the upshot of this for you guys is that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: These lectures are entirely optional for you to attend and if you can't attend them don't worry about it because i'm pre recorded pre recording excuse me i'm recording everything is i'm making it and there will be.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Links posted on the class website and links posted in the Sunday announcements that kickoff every week, through the Semester so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You have links to all of the recordings that I make so when you so if you miss a class or or you want to go back and examine, something that I was lecturing about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Or you know, take a look at a technique and review a technique these recordings will be available to you so that you can you can.
Michael T Ganschow Green: review them and bring yourself up to speed so For those of you who are watching this in a pre recorded format welcome as well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This is the very first day of GMC 175 so just wanted to allay some confusion that I had received in in emails already.
Michael T Ganschow Green: When people saw the first announcement that I made and were concerned that I was talking about classes and all of that no.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The only you're not required to attend these um you know they're obviously nice to attend but i'm not going to take role or anything like that the only thing basically.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The only things I require of you in these classes are to turn in particularly these asynchronous online classes are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To turn in your preliminary critique on the preliminary critique due dates turn in your final critique on all the final critique due dates provide critique in the preliminary critique and in the final critique everybody has to give everybody else feedback.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then that's pretty much yet oh and uh and whatever you have problems don't like bottle it up ask me questions.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Also, because the schedule is so flexible, basically, the only hard points are the assignment due dates throughout the Semester, if any of you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: want to do a one on one or a small group zoom meeting to go over things i'm perfectly happy to do that i'm broadly available weekday evenings and on weekends, to go over anything you want scheduled beforehand, and we can get together on zoom so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For those who are just joining i'm Michael ganja green on your cruise director on the ship amanda's.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Today is the most boring day of the Semester in the class, this is the housekeeping day where we're going to go over the syllabus go over the class forum, how to register for and how to use it, what i'm expecting for you out of class forum and that kind of thing but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: don't worry it'll get it'll get more fun from here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And I don't know if any of you, I don't think any of you've actually had one of my classes before but you've probably heard of me.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And everybody be like he's really yours, yes that's true I tend to throw in a little bit of the old razzle dazzle because For those of you that have gone out and looked up web tutorials on your own.
kianabohm: there's a lot of very dry.
Michael T Ganschow Green: speak to you very softly, and in a monotone voice about what web design is about the base programming language of web design.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Is html an acronym and so on and so forth until you're basically just you know it's to, as Mr new to sleep so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I I make an interesting I use a lot of weird examples and i've been doing web design for 25 years so that means i'm not normal, as it is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and none of you will understand that gag until you start building websites and you're slowly start shedding the human, as this goes through.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Because web design will put micro fractures in your consciousness for sure so um before I get started does anybody have any questions on the announcement, I put out or anything about the class or the format or me i'm happy to take questions.
Michael T Ganschow Green: um my background oh yeah we got a chat all right, yes, yes, yes, my background so um I started um I I came at web design and graphic design about the same time I got started basically.
Michael T Ganschow Green: very early on in the history of the Internet right around 1995 or so, when I was 15 I got started building websites.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Because nobody knew how, and so there was a lot of money, if you knew how so I taught myself html the basic programming language of the web, we didn't even have we didn't even have the pretty cascading style sheets language at that time so websites were.
Michael T Ganschow Green: were pretty ugly and we had a hack to them into place using a variety of tools that I will never show you just so that you're not tempted to use those terrible tools anymore and shade the right way to do it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: um so I got started when I was 15 basically building websites and i've been graphic design and doing web design for.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Basically, since then, I am an art brain a little bit more creatively minded and programmatically minded so a lot of.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For For those of you who are coming in from a programming background you're going to be mildly horrified how I write code i'm sure, but I come at it from the design side, one of the reasons why I.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Like teaching this class is because the bulk of you are coming in from the design side, although there are a few CIT people in here as well, and so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I kind of approach it from an art brain side and that and that I think helps in teaching it um so as I was building websites pretty much all through my teens I looked at mcc for a graphic design degree i'm an actual graduate of the program you know it's.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Not just the President i'm also a client I am i'm a graduate of the program and I got out in the early 2000s and went to work for a whole variety of studios around town doing graphic design web design did a lot of freelance work too so i'm.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A good chunk of it and I got it I got.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For the first two years that I was going to mcc I didn't have a car, so I just sort of hung around campus pretty much from sunup till when.
Michael T Ganschow Green: When the campus police told us the campus was closed and shuffle this out.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So my handling around campus got me doing instructional aid work I a work so For those of you who have who are veteran TMC students, you know that graphic communications runs a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: or GA and empty now runs a set of open labs so I used to run the open labs for years, basically blowing up toner cartridges all over myself and getting paid good money basically to do my own homework.
Michael T Ganschow Green: which was, which was pretty cool and that combined my industry experience led them to offer me a teaching position about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This 1515 years ago i'm officially an old man 15 years ago, then I was offered a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Teaching position here and i've been teaching whatever they want me to teach ever since then typically it's basic and intermediate web design this class and the next class above it but i've also taught the photoshop class I taught the illustrator class i've taught.
Michael T Ganschow Green: One of the intro classes at the time GR C.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Which is basically the intro to print class i've taught a bunch of a bunch of different things and ran labs for for for a bunch of the years as well, so I felt out on all sorts of questions so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: that's pretty much my background is that I made by day i'm a graphic designer and a web designer and then by night I am infecting young minds with.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The joys of graphic design and web design and you guys this case web design fresh crop of new brains, who want to take your design skills and add them to the web so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Welcome aboard so do we have other questions cool cool cool excellent excellent yeah so um be my style is a little odd I take a little getting used to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Because i've been I got I got my brain broken by web design the formative age and it's just it's been all downhill from here, but I promise you, if you stick it out with me you'll learn you'll learn stuff I promise.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I crank out some good students and for those of you who have taken classes with people who've taken my class i'm sure you've heard that so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I promise you, if you're if you're willing to stick it out with me yo you're going to learn stuff because my priority, and if I could I would.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I would basically.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I really don't like the paperwork aspect of education and all of that i'm all about trying to teach you are trying to get you guys.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In education and learning and I go out of my way to to make sure that you guys learn stuff that's my priority here is to is to get everybody learning all about web design.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And how to apply their existing design skills into web design so basically this first month is going to be along with software demonstrations.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's going to be there'll be a class each for the first couple of weeks here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: On design principles, because you guys are coming from all different design class backgrounds and you might not have had a topography class or a color class or page layout class or whatever so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Over the next few classes will be going over those design principles in a very basic kind of reader's digest level, to make sure that everybody's got kind of a basic.
Michael T Ganschow Green: plane of knowledge and then we'll be diving into how those apply to web design the the web is um.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For those of you that have had page layout a topography classes, a lot of this is going to be very familiar because.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Everything you learn in page lana typographic class is pretty much applies one to one to the web it's basically page layout with interactivity layered on top so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: From a design side if you've had page layout you have a bit of an advantage you're gonna you're gonna you're going to know a lot of the design shorthand.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In order to make a website look really good, well, the other half of what i'm going to teach you are really more like the other three quarters this semester is the technical aspect.
Michael T Ganschow Green: will be revisiting design throughout the Semester and and using design examples, but i'm also going to show you guys how to build a website.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The class says dreamweaver and we will be using dreamweaver as the tool to do it, but we will be using very little of.
Michael T Ganschow Green: dream weavers interface or wizard we're essentially going to be writing code through dreamweaver, and the reason why I want to get you guys started writing code is because.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You might not have anything as fancy as dreamweaver available to you to build websites when you when you're when you're on the bottom if you've got an adobe subscription cool you'll have dreams, but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I want to teach you guys how to write the Code and the reason why I want to do that is because.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Once you know how to write the code, you can literally put a website together and any text editor you know simple text notepad you could you could put it together in notes on your phone.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Save the file out of notes as a dot html file loaded on the Internet, and it would work.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Because everything that is that we build in the web, all of these different file formats, other than images which are the whole nother file format that's but um the the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: By and large, the code that displays on the web, all of the little files, they are there are just text files dot txt.
Michael T Ganschow Green: with different file extensions on the end of them to tell a browser what they're showing So if I teach you guys how to write the code.
Michael T Ganschow Green: pretty much anything that a little edit a text file you guys know how to build a website out of fully functioning website straight out of a out of a text editor so I want to teach you guys that to really empower you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That you can use about anything to write code on the Internet, and of course there are text editors that are focused on.
Michael T Ganschow Green: On coding we'll we'll go over a couple of those two as the Semester rolls on but, for the most part we're going to be using dreamweaver now the clients also mentioned photoshop.
Michael T Ganschow Green: As another software and we do work with photoshop I even do the layout demos and photoshop and for those of you who know anything about page layout are probably trembling and horror and wondering if I know anything of what i'm talking about I do.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The reason why we use photoshop and here's because photoshop has the best image exporting tools have about any program there is so you can do your layout and whatever program you want.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Basically it's just best to wash it through photoshop to get the very smallest fastest loading files.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Out of there so i'll be doing some photoshop demos, but if you guys are more comfortable laying out your websites in in indesign or more comfortable you know doing layout in illustrator.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Whatever you want to lay them out and that's great photoshop is really just there is an export tool, however i'll be playing around and i'll be showing you all sorts of basic photoshop you know effects and things like that all fun things, but the Web for mocking your websites up.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So will be will be going over a lot of that but will be branching out as well, but the the the class description is the starting point of where the classes, basically, and by the end of it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You guys will know how to build fully functional websites that are that are maximally browser compatible that will look as best as you can make them.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That will that will you'll be able to load online your second project in fact you're going to be putting online.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So that anybody in the world can see it, we don't I don't I don't use the mcc ftp i've hosted my class on this server that i'm gonna have you guys loading to for 1112 years 12 years now 12 years now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And so there is 12 years of previous student work on there, so you can go through and see what they've done.
Michael T Ganschow Green: you're loaded up to this server and it's going to be fully public everything that you put up you'll be able to show your friends and family, you know basically by just sending them a link.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So this is you're going to be able to I guarantee you you're going to be able to well you surprise yourself, I want to spoil too much I.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Think of spoiled enough as it is so other questions about the class or about me or about what's going on, I don't know what's going on, so maybe one of you can enlighten me.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So um since we're using zoom just a couple of zoom protocols um you can you always can ask questions in the chat i'll usually have the chat running whether i'm technical demonstrating or whether i'm lecturing.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm I tend to prefer on everybody to be muted, to avoid background noise coming in, and then you just unmute yourself to ask questions feel free, by the way to verbally ask questions well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Sometimes I may have to react because you'll talk under talking and you'll have to ask again but um.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Oh yes, the textbook yeah that's a good question okay so um it has come to my attention that there was a little booboo with the with the library about the textbook so here's my textbook policy, as I have, as I have emailed a couple of you about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The only reason I have a required textbook in here is because the mcc makes us not every client says required to issue a textbook.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And so I picked what I thought was a really good reference book mostly because i'm on my second copy because my other one literally fell apart for you guys to use as a reference Now this is, I understand it at the library is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The textbook was supposed to be this oh look at that the background is fading it out let's see here the principles of beautiful web design here it's.
Michael T Ganschow Green: backgrounds eating it it's too much of a Mano con or principles of beautiful web design, this is my beat up second copy, because the cover fell off of my last copy and then the pages went all over the place, I use this thing quite a lot this was supposed to be.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The turn the background off.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Let me see if I can switch the background off real quick to do to do to do and it doesn't let me do it now that i'm broadcasting great so um.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's see if I can hold it in a way, there we go, so this was this was supposed to be the textbook principles of beautiful web design, however, they ordered the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The GR see what the 275 the advanced class textbook called don't make me think, which is a, this is by the way, my third copy of this thing.
Michael T Ganschow Green: One of them was stolen another one completely disintegrated and this one is now coming apart as well, because I use them so much this is an absolutely fantastic resource as well, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm the textbooks, I am not going to require anything out of the textbooks if you don't wish to get either the textbooks.
Michael T Ganschow Green: deal free i'm not going to make you okay there's not quizzes there's not any readings out of it only because we required I make you get textbooks that are actually really good reference books okay.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That I use all the time, and these in and don't make me think it's hilarious because it has a bunch of like it's the book is super old right, so all the examples are like these hilarious I.
Michael T Ganschow Green: turn to the turn of the 21st century websites, but the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: User interface principles that discusses are top notch like everything that it talks about are things that we're using today, so I always recommend this weird old school book also i'm weird an old school, so it fits.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So if you want to get either of them.
Michael T Ganschow Green: that's great, but they are not required, but this like this principles are beautiful web design, this is everything we're going to be covering in the layout.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In class it's a great reference guide don't make me think we talked a little bit about user interface here, we talk a ton about it and JRC to 75.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This is a great reference book for that as well, so i'm there i'm mostly syncing make me make you buy a book I try and give you a book that you will actually use in your web design and graphic design career.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Over time, and these are these are very, very useful books, I have a bunch of recommended to that are really good.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All sorts of smashing magazine stuff some idea books things like that really good stuff.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That i've got on my shelf that are that are all beat all the crap because I use them um they're also I will be.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'll be talking about there's also these really, really cool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Reference guides put out by a book apart publisher called a book apart and a book apart releases these these little teeny bathroom reader books they're like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I don't know they're like 100 pages tops that, like the size of a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: of a small catalog or a big brochure, and they do a really deep dive into individual topics.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And they're written from designers point of view and there's a lot of great ones i'll be recommending various ones constantly you guys they're really they're these like super thin.
Michael T Ganschow Green: book to sell them as ebooks elements as physical copies all kinds of things so you'll be.
Michael T Ganschow Green: you'll be hearing a lot about those two i've got a couple of them, the recommended textbooks but yeah i'm don't worry too much about the textbook if you want to go get one feel free it's a fantastic resource.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The book and if you're if you're going to continue on the web design track and take to 75 the one they have in the in the bookstore is that textbook we use for that class so you're already had.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i've contacted the bookstore hopefully they will change the listing and possibly get some of the regular book in otherwise you can snag it through Amazon.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And I just said that out loud and i'm probably going to get fired but the mcc So if you get another instructor here next week you'll know what happened but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can snag the you can you can snag both these textbooks at a lot of different places lots of relatable retailers amazon's got them both.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That kind of thing, so no huge pressure, one way or another, at the textbooks they're required and that i'm required to give them to you, but their reference books i'm and i'm going to be providing you with a lot of great references online as well, this is cool other questions.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All right, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm gonna do some really boring things like Oh, the syllabus um i've been getting some emailed questions on the syllabus already so you guys reading excellent.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But I just want to go over it, to make sure that everybody has a chance to ask me questions about it and to make sure that everybody's gone over it, I am I am by requirement in my contract required to make sure you guys gone over the syllabus in here so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's see here share screen we're going to i'm going to show you a syllabus so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now here question.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Oh, I thought I heard a question okay um so let me share a screen here so we're going to go share it we go oh look at that you guys are all over on the side excellent so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm going to go and we'll just go over the syllabus to make sure that i'm chat down to scope that would go open chat so, then you guys can all ask me questions.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So if you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Do to do school there we go open up.
Michael T Ganschow Green: straight to eclipse anything with the interface here again.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There we go there, we are all right so um OK OK.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So i'll make sure i'm just hopefully nothing's too in the way of the screen i've got the chat open and the video windows open alright, so the the syllabus.
Michael T Ganschow Green: is available on the course website do, by the way the class website, but those who have not read through my announcement, yet this is the class website.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This is GR C 175 dot com.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Really really difficult to remember URL and we're going to go over the syllabus here here is where to get a copy of that it's also available on canvas I have a link on the front page of course canvas to go get it as well, so you guys can go and snag whatever.
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Michael T Ganschow Green: here's the syllabus GR C 175 web design and publishing one this is section 3001 meets online physical meetings as needed.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So if you guys need to meet in a lab or something like that i'm available to do that as well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We they just released the open lab schedule, by the way I did not mention the open lab schedule in the class announcement because they've not released it yet, but we have an open lab schedule.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Here looks like Tuesdays and Thursdays 10am to 2pm and Sierra to 17 friday's 1pm to 5pm and 217 and Saturdays 1pm to 5pm So if you need our open labs they are available at the campus.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And i'm of course happy to meet you in the lab with some pre scheduled alright so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This is spring 2021 semester it started to technically yesterday and will end technically on 515 21, although the actual last day of classes, the 13th and your final projects are due on Friday, the 14th so i'm Michael ganesha green on the crazy man is running the show.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I have a I technically have a phone with an extension it's mostly a voice mailbox you want to get Ahold of me hit me up at that email.
Michael T Ganschow Green: or message me in canvas bunch of you have it on both of those and So you see, like how quickly I get back so this course, what what is this what what, what are we doing here Well, this is three credits and web design the prerequisite is GR C 116 or my approval.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And I don't particularly much care for prerequisites I figure you'll come in and sink or swim on your own merits, so pretty much everybody who asks me for approval gets it as those of you who did know.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So this is introduction to authoring for the World Wide Web using industry standard software applications topics covered include planning designing and building a website aesthetics, creating optimizing computer graphics for the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: web information architecture navigation and interactivity web publishing web hosting and site management so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Here we go assuming that you stick it out and you do everything you'll be able to have a basic understanding of how the Internet works which you will, by the end of next class.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Understand computer directory structures file naming conventions computer graphics file format specific to the World Wide Web so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This sounds terribly dry and basic but if there is one thing that you will have to learn in order to do web correctly understanding how what your files are and how they interrelate on the web is incredibly critical we'll talk about this extensively through the class because.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If I had a nickel for every time a student broke their website through just miss placing a file in the wrong folder like totally trashed your whole website.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I would own a private island and none of you would seem so um well understanding how files into react, and what files to use when.
Michael T Ganschow Green: is very important, and we will be going over that extensively through the Semester.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Understand target audience an end user consideration, such as browser differences playback technology they end with limitations and file size considerations, yes you'll be learning how to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: build websites that are simultaneously attractively designed as well as relatively small and load relatively quickly we'll also talk about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Particularly with project.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Three we're going to talk about target audience and and how to hunt down who you want to use your website.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then you're going to apply learned concepts and dreamweaver photoshop and other web authoring software applications text editors by creating a website you're not just going to create a website, you can create three of them.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your very first project, but those have gone through the web, the the classes are the website is a pure design exercise by the end of it you'll have basically design files ready to build into a website then your second project is to build that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: website okay it's usually a single pager but some of you are masochists and we'll put together a 10 page website advertising or talking about yourself that's fine whatever I.
Michael T Ganschow Green: don't mind if you if you want to work a little bit a little bit more, and you know start start grinding on the risk there but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But you don't have to, for the first project.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now the other projects will be small, what are called a prototype wire frames there'll be a few pages a few page chunks of.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Larger sites, the the third project is to find a bad website and redesign it, which has gotten so many of my students jobs it's nuts.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Basically, every other semester or so a student takes a website redesigns it and then present it to the company they redesigned it for the building of the actual website form.
Michael T Ganschow Green: is really cool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then the fourth project is basically design a better TMC website to advertise the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The the the program I want to, I want to I want you guys to like really you know get cool and creative with your layouts and build a really cool website to advertise the program So those are your website, you can be building.
Michael T Ganschow Green: learning outcomes you're gonna learn web design, but creating three class project websites, indeed, you are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: you're gonna have a working knowledge of how the Internet works Oh yes, and you will you will rue the day that you learned how the Internet works, because it is all faintly terrifying.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And just a giant cluster that you have to keep track of it's going to be beautiful students will gain an understanding with computer directory final structures file formats and naming conventions again, this is the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's so boring and dry and, frankly, it is, but i'm.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Knowing how to name your files correctly where to put them where they are and and how to make them into react with each other is is really prime and making sure you're very proudly designed website functions so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There you go um so our textbook is technically the principles of beautiful web design see if see if that shows so print technically it's the principles of beautiful web design, even though the apparently the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The bookstore is decided to order the 275 one let's see if we can get that corrected the recommended one is don't make me think, which is the one that's half, which is nice and i've got a few other recommended kind of.
Michael T Ganschow Green: resource books really that are very good um so oh oh oh hang on a second i've already seen my first thing I need to redact on the syllabus because I wasn't thinking when I went over it so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: um do you see under supplies, where it says three blank recordable CDs or blank flash drives you're not going to need those because you're not turning in any physical files to me.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Everything you are turning in is going to be uploaded to your folder in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The class server so you will not need to receive yours are blank flash drives if you already gotten gone out and gotten them well cool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now you got to flash drives to us no problem, and then the portable media for saving your work that's just you know if you're moving around from computer to computer if you're primarily doing your class on one computer you'll need that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: grading grading grading grading all right for projects will be signed it almost be turned into be eligible, in order to pass the class yeah you got to give me everything.
Michael T Ganschow Green: project, one is worth 50 points project to is worth 50 points are two halves of one bigger project project three is worth 100 points and project for us worth 100 points on, since this is a project based course.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Subsequent project make use of and build upon the skills from previous projects total points possible for the classes 300 and then the final grade totals break down below.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now student may requested w great at any time but going online to buy at mcc are going person who admissions records around 319 see.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The cutoff date for requesting a w for the spring semester is Thursday April 1 April Fools at 11:59pm realistically it's probably by close of business 5pm that day.
Michael T Ganschow Green: After the cutoff date the student may only receive an eighth grade and the instructor can't give it a w grade.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I don't have the ability, through any my tools to give you a w braid So if you don't w yourselves before that date you're along for the ride so welcome aboard.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Duty competencies and skill levels required to graphic art to media technologies classes, a D plus CD minus or F grade will not be accepted as completion of a prerequisite of a higher level GR C slash business class.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Projects your preliminary REPS and wire frames must be posted to the class forum and ready for critique of the beginning of class and the projects preliminary critique due date.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Final critiques must be uploaded to the class website posted the transform and be ready for critique by 11:59pm on the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: On the project final due date a late project will have 10% of its overall points deducted and an additional 5% deduction for each class session after the following them critique that the project is handed in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All projects assigned must be completed receive a passing grade in the class and all late work must be turned in by Friday may 14 2021.
Michael T Ganschow Green: projects will be graded based on the following criteria preliminary work technical use of software design and creativity and presentation and participation and so basically the the the critiquing process in here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's pretty interesting i'll go over this and then we'll discuss it a little bit.
Michael T Ganschow Green: critiques in order to maximize instructional contact hours and student learning project critiquing will take place entirely online and the GR C 175 class forum somebody just got a text, I heard it project websites will be posted online by the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Beginning of class on the due date.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For preliminary and fight up got a text again but preliminary and final critiques are critiques and final presentations are where a lot of learning graphic arts and media technologies happen.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And it's not just the responses of your own preliminary work presented in the forum it's observing how other students in the class solve the projects.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And the feedback they received from the instructor so in our case 30 heads there's 30 people in this class, by the way, this is the largest 175 class i've ever taught.
Michael T Ganschow Green: 30 heads are better than one, so you put your heads together see how you solve problems and kind of inspiring each other yeah.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Students will have one week following the assignment due dates to post critique so after each preliminary work, you will have you will have preliminary critique, you will have one week to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To post critiques for everybody.
Michael T Ganschow Green: every student is required to post feedback for every other student and must post at least one comment on how another students project is successful and one comment on how it could be improved so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Basically what i'm looking for the bear the bare minimum i'm looking for is each of you to make a post on each of on everybody else's project post.
Michael T Ganschow Green: With a paragraph a sentence really on what they did well and another sentence or paragraph on where they where they could stand to be to improve so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You could write a post that's like two or three or four sentences and it would satisfy this, I want to make I want you guys to go through each other and give each other good.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Feedback I don't need.
Michael T Ganschow Green: war and peace on everybody, but the same time I just I also don't need it okay that's that's pretty cool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: um tell me why you like it, and why you think it's good so you'll have a week to do this because, like I said 30 people, so I want to give you guys plenty of time to critique.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So if you just do a couple of critiques a day over the course of that you'll be able to paying out everybody by the due date.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's see all in class critique rules apply keep your comments respectful both in class and online we don't have a class online only.
Michael T Ganschow Green: As your instructor has no patience or desire to police flame wars be polite everybody come on now, so when presenting your work online introduce yourself describe what you're presenting define how it solves the project, make sure you posted work as a high quality, unable to be.
critiqued.
Michael T Ganschow Green: No cell phones shots of a napkin sketch on a table.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I the things that people think can be critiqued you're required to use a graphic software to create preliminary work i've had.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i've had enough variety of qualities marker comps and sketches and things like that that now you're going to put it together and whatever whenever your graphic software choices, so that we can at least have something to give you feedback on.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So this will allow your instructor and your fellow students greater ability to see your intended color scheme.
Michael T Ganschow Green: layout and type biography and allow us to provide proper feedbacks and students have one full calendar weekly feedback on the fellow students projects.
Michael T Ganschow Green: there's no excuse for missing critique you miss a critique you not only miss giving feedback on you're getting feedback on your work, but you'll also deprive your fellow students of your advice and encouragement all so any questions so far on the syllabus basically for projects.
Michael T Ganschow Green: critique is going to take place entirely on the class forum which i'll go over how to use that and a little bit.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and
Michael T Ganschow Green: You get a week for preliminary in a week for final on each of them basically to to give your two cents, which is, which I think is is is plenty of time.
Michael T Ganschow Green: um any questions on any of that on the withdrawal date April fool's day just apparently because somebody has a sense of humor at the mcc.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright audits withdrawals is incomplete students may change from the letter grade to an audit prior to the cutoff date of Thursday April 1 2021.
Michael T Ganschow Green: students receive no passing grade or credit, but can remain in the class last day to receive a full refund is Sunday January 31 2021 yes, that is, this coming Sunday that you know, in a few days from now, is the cutoff for the full refund the last day to receive a 50% refund.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Is February in about three weeks is that a question.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Do we have a quiet.
Michael T Ganschow Green: moment.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There we go alright so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All right, so I think that you cover that alright so um any questions.
Michael T Ganschow Green: they're not screaming yelling and that didn't sound like a question to me okay so um.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's see here the last day to receive a 50% refund is Sunday February 14 2021 11:59pm so in about three weeks here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can withdraw yourself class to the class.
Michael T Ganschow Green: From the class prior to the cutoff date of Thursday April 1 2021 11:59pm students receive no passing grade or credit it's the students responsibility to request a w grade.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The instructor cannot withdraw the student from a class and after Thursday April 1 the student cannot request a w great now, the reason why I hit this the second time is, I want to make sure that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That you guys know the withdrawal date so if you're at all unsure before the withdrawal date hit me up, and I can discuss it with you on whether it would be better for you to withdraw and whether we be better for you to stick it out don't don't.
Michael T Ganschow Green: feel that you have to withdraw and then realize that it's after April fool's day and you can't withdraw, so I wanted to basically put that in there just to repeat it and get it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Clear with you guys after the deadline of student loan the receiving a through F letter grade if you're considering withdrawing from a class.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Please talk to your instructor before you do you like you to succeed in the class and maybe able to work with you to accomplish this you intend to retake the class consider an audit instead of withdrawing from the class yeah I recommend that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That viewers one out that's fine you can withdraw you're gone, but if you have interest in taking the class again, or if you'll need to take it again I highly recommend flipping it to audit, so you can kind of see what the class is about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: participate, a little bit and maybe learn some additional web skills as the class goes on in that case you won't have to submit a great so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's see here do to do to do a Papa Papa Papa okay i'm a temporary great of incomplete, maybe granted if the student is performing passing work.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And their extenuating circumstances beyond the students control the prevent the student from completing the coursework This allows.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You one Semester to complete the remaining work incomplete grades will not be issued, unless the reasons very compelling you know we have a lot of.
Michael T Ganschow Green: junk and complete requests, so we go over those with a fine tooth comb.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Attendance since this class is a hybrid of online lectures and independent study attendance will not be taken each lecture is effectively workshop open lab.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we're instructor will be presenting techniques skills and tips that he thinks won't be grow as designers and developers.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That also be extensive Q amp a opportunities, as well as student chosen lectures from time to time yeah i'll hit you guys up, as the saying goes on, what do you want to what do you want to talk about and sometimes I and i'll build a lecture around that and we will we will.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Will will discuss that i'm happy to to expand and build out on things you want to learn attended to these workshops lectures is purely optional.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And it will all be recorded like this one is right now, they will all be recorded and put up on the class website and on the weekly announcement that I put out.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Computers this is purely for lab stuff but they make us include it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All GMT lab computers require the students to mcc username and password access, so if you're.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Using a lab computer, you have to remember that, please be sure to have this information ready when updated.
Michael T Ganschow Green: by the beginning of the second class of the Semester so required work can be completed well you don't have to worry about that because you're on your own computers chugging along here, so you know that's all that's good.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So let's see he to do to do alright so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's see even with the latest operating systems cross platform issues and problems will still exist.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So if you're gonna be using windows based computer make sure it's got at least windows 10 and the current photoshop and dreamweaver software versions for windows don't minimize potential conflicts.
Michael T Ganschow Green: don't worry too much about that you guys are all you're not bringing them to class, you know you're not gonna be bringing files to class unless you're going to use the lab so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Whatever you got should be fine as long as it can run a text editor or, if you want to follow, along with the dream we read photoshop stuff as long as it can run adobe creative cloud.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I recommend well your students and you have a nice active.edu email jumping in on that lovely lovely educational pricing that adobe gives for.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For creative cloud I believe it's like 18 bucks a month for students, I think something 1518 something like that it's really nice and cheap fully take advantage of that if you can swing it, because that is as good a deal as you're going to find on a creative cloud subscription anywhere.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's see even with the latest operating systems on Oh, there you go if you own an apple computer.
Michael T Ganschow Green: should be set up, similar to the computers in the classroom and MAC os 10.15 and the current photoshop and dreamweaver software versions for the back in the spring 21 2021 semester we're using photoshop CC 2020 and dreamweaver CC 2020.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Actually that's not strictly the case i've upgraded my laptop with the newest versions, so will be will and I keep it updated because I also use this laptop for professional work as well, so we'll be we're going to be using whatever the latest one is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: As as the updates are released all these applications are available with substantial discounts for students, via the student adobe.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Creative cloud subscription yeah yeah if you can take advantage of that do so, you get a bunch of fonts you get adobe's old type library you get.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A gig of storage you get a bunch of software that they only they only run through the subscription creative cloud, you can all kinds of things, so there is a lot of.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Good resources available to you via adobe.
Michael T Ganschow Green: With that 15 or 18 a month I forgotten exactly what the educators cost is but it's it's a good deal.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But pop up a bone let's see here fonts can create problems you're moving from one computer to another again this is this is boilerplate if you're going to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Work in the labs if you're just using your home computer or or work computer to do this on one computer all the time, not going to be big issue.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But the GR C computers are loaded with over 500 adobe open type fonts as well as on the MAC os X system fonts the best way.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To have your computer fonts match the fonts of the gene and T labs is to purchase the 500 fun adobe portfolio education essentials package.
Michael T Ganschow Green: available online through adobe or St the fonts through adobe type kit if you have a creative cloud subscription yes adobe's entire type libraries available to you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If you subscribe so again, please subscribe student if you if you can swing it not necessarily need to stretch, we can we have if you can't swing the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Creative cloud subscription we have student accounts, we can loan out if you're interested in that, let me know and i'll get you in touch with RON who is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Who is basically quarterbacking all the low notes on.
Michael T Ganschow Green: On adobe CC subscriptions and even if you if you're concerned your computer doesn't quite have the chops to work on this.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we're also loaning out laptops as well, so again if that's the thing you think you need hit me up i'll get you in touch with RON and and we'll see what we can do for you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: See here to do blah blah blah GMT program strongly recommends to use an external hard drive for all computer.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Based classes good 250 plus gigabyte hard drives are available for less than 35 bucks in addition to portable hard drive or USB flash drive students can also use cloud based storage, such as dropbox or Google docs to conveniently move files around.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So let's see here um let's go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Okay, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Do to do to do okay um USB flash drives are great for transporting files only.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I never worked directly off the Flash drive almost copy files from flash drive to the computer's hard drive and work on those files then it's that goes for you guys as well if you've got flash drives and you're storing things on.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I would not recommend it the thumb drive style flash drives they are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: They they are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: notoriously breakable and unreliable, they are there.
Michael T Ganschow Green: huh.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i've had students lose so many files, because they kept their only copy of a file on a thumb drive also i've had thumb drives go bad if people write to them too many times.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Saving I don't know exactly what causes that or if there's a specific amount of saves or you know how the thing is made, I don't I don't particularly know, but if I.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If I had a that's another Fiat an ECHO, I had a nickel for every time some student blew their their their class projects up i've had students who are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i've had students who are who have stored their entire like all of the projects they've ever done to the gic program on a thumb drive and radical bad and lose like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: here's the class work so store them on something that's a little more stable, a big portable hard drive or locally, on your computer.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and make backups so if you've got a backup on a thumb drive that's fine, but if that's your only copy please put those file somewhere else before it causes an incident and Michael has to listen to you cry about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: misplacing your all of your coursework I had a student who, who was in my God to 75 class was in portfolio.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And for those that don't know the portfolio class is a retrospective class of everything that you've done throughout the program you basically pick.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your 10 favorite pieces of student work you've done and redo them to the current to the to the standards, you have at that point.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Fully updating everything and making it look awesome and I had a student who was also taking my web class and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Their thumb drive blew up and they lost everything they had redo their 10 favorite project from scratch and they lost all the files all their original files and all their projects, it was it was.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It was quite a show we'll just put it that way, so I.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I highly recommend keeping I am OK so i'm a paranoid backer rapper, this is a little bit of like michaels own like twitchiness because.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I am i've lost data in a big way a couple of times, and so I have.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Copies on my local computer, I have a backup drive and then I have that backup drive rotates I have another backup drive in a safe deposit box and I change them out.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and basically what that does is that, if anything, burns down.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If my house burns down I have copies of my files and i'm only last a month work or if our office burns down our office, does the same thing if our office burns down.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We only lose a month of work, so I highly recommend getting a good stringent offsite backup system even physical drives or clouds or something like that, because you never know what might happen.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Due to due to do let's see here so don't trust USB flash drive Students must must.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If you're working in a lab we also have to shut down the computer, because that will wipe it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: They have deep freeze on them in the labs basically what that does is that they make a what's called a disk image it's basically a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: installed set of software's and file settings and everything on the hard drive and every time the computer is restarted it goes to that image and resets the computer from it, to make sure students can you know, use the TMC labs for bitcoin mining asked me how that happened so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It makes sure that that they that they've watched themselves off each time, so if you're if you're in the lab don't store anything lab computers, because as soon as they get shut off gone as it was never there.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so Questions questions on any of that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: He paranoid about your files.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so class websites.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So we have one that is our main class website, which have already posted in the chat GR C.
Michael T Ganschow Green: 175 calm and then we have this one here called GR C resources COM now glc resources is a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: site that I put together because I teach web design and development workshops for washoe county school district from time to time, and so all of the various classes i've taught, as I discover resources to use them.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This I build out this website so this website is like a whole ton.
Michael T Ganschow Green: of web design resources that I have accrued over years and years and years and years running workshops for the washoe county school district, and I want to make it available to you guys to peruse and go through and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Look things up on and find things I want to make that resource available to you as well, you also have on the forum, a resources some forum that has.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It goes sticky posts up at the top for resources for programming design and software as well, so and I keep those pretty decently updated as well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so let's go back to the syllabus So those are the two class websites for you Java syllabus back open there goes almost like i'm using a lot of my Internet with 30 people in my computer okay so let's see here do to do to do to do.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Evaluations when instructor course evaluations becoming available you receive an invitation in your TMC email with a link to complete the evaluation and also complete the evaluation.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your your canvas course be sure you keep your contact information and mighty MTC up to date, so we can contact you your responses kept confidential.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your responses are used to improve teaching methods and to improve all to mcc course offerings please provide honest concise and constructive comments I actually really look forward to getting my.
Michael T Ganschow Green: teacher evaluations back in the POP it in at the end of the Semester, for us, they basically have somebody transcribe it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and make sure there's nothing identifying that you post in there, so it remains anonymous.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then they send the scrubbed versions as instructors and it's really, really fascinating feedback, I really like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm getting it so as soon as you guys get the evaluation invited through canvas or through your email go and fill them out, I really, really want to hear what you guys have to say about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: My teaching and how i'm running the class and where I could stand to improve I really, really like that that kind of feedback it's one of my.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's actually one of the highlights of my semester is a couple of weeks afterward when I get the evaluations and I can I can see what you guys thought.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Because I really like kind of keeping an open dialogue and some students, though.
Michael T Ganschow Green: don't feel comfortable dialoguing with the instructor hey can you, you know, could we go over this we do this, and so they feel that they're most.
Michael T Ganschow Green: comfortable way of addressing it with the instructor is through evaluation so For those of you who have any concerns about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: talking to me well don't just send me an email or message, or whatever i'm pretty harmless the but go through.
Michael T Ganschow Green: go into the evaluation and and let me know what you thought of the class, I want to hear your feedback, because this is like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This is, you know the class equivalent of project critique know.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Let me know, let me know what you liked what you didn't like all of that, so that I can make this better because this is this class is unprecedented i've never taught a 30 person class, so this is brand new and i'm.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Really excited to see what happens so let's see here academic dishonesty academic dishonesty is against the standard set forth by truckee meadows Community College and the Nevada system of higher education.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Academic dishonesty is defined as cheating plagiarism or otherwise attaining grades under false pretenses.
Michael T Ganschow Green: plagiarism is to find a submitting the language ideas, thoughts to work and other as one zone or assisting in the act of plagiarism by allowing one's work to be used in this fashion.
Michael T Ganschow Green: cheating is defined as one training providing on authorized information during an examination through verbal visual or unauthorized use books notes texts or other materials to obtaining are providing information.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Concerning all or part of an examination prior to that examination three taking examination for another student or arranging for another person.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To take an exam in one place for altering a changing test answers for some middle for grading grades after once grades been awarded or other academic records once these are official.
Michael T Ganschow Green: disciplinary procedures for incidents of academic dishonesty may involve of academic action.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and administrative action for behavior against the campus regulations for student conduct the procedures involved the determination by the Faculty Member pursuing concerns.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Over a legend cheating or plagiarism as to whether administrative action is warranted in addition to making.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A determination as to any academic consequence academic action may include one canceling the students enrollment in the class, with or without a grade.
Michael T Ganschow Green: to finding the final great event three awarding a failing mark and the tester paper and question for we're going to student retake the test to resubmit the papers, he can excel.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In the TMC college catalog rules for displaying procedures for members of the university community for further information on disciplinary sanctions.
Michael T Ganschow Green: At a statement truckee meadows Community colleges committed.
Michael T Ganschow Green: to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act section five before the rehabilitation act which state.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Know otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States chill solely by reason of his or her handicapped be excluded from the participation in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: be denied the benefit up or be subject to discrimination under any Program.
Michael T Ganschow Green: or activity receiving federal financial assistance students who feel they may need an accommodation, based on the impact of the disability encouraged me privately with your instructors.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To discuss their specific needs, we must contact the disability resource Center to establish documentation that disability and to coordinate reasonable accommodations.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can contact the disability resource Center three ways by visiting their offices and red mountain 122 calling them at 775-673-7277 or visiting their website@tmc.edu.
Michael T Ganschow Green: slash Dr C yeah um if you need anything in regards to that feel free to reach out to me i'm happy to accommodate whatever you need in order to succeed in the class so again feel free to reach out to me.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Academic assistance college level courses can be demanding so academic assistance is offered when possible.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The GMT program has opened computer labs of lab assistants that can assist students who are having difficulty in the choir computer software and hardware.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Open computer lab dates and times are posted by the beginning of the second week of the Semester, the department does not offer individual Tutoring yes here is the lab schedule, by the way, I forgot to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Post this in chat So here we go for those who need the open lab schedule, if you want to use the TMC see open lab there you go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: See here where did it right away Okay, now the chrome isn't the way Hello back and still have us thank you get that out of there Okay, so do to do to do so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The Department does not offer individual Tutoring now, these are the academic assistance offices, the Tutoring and learning Center it's on the first floor of the library.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I can call them at 6747517 or you can visit them on the TMC website at the mcc.edu slash.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Tutoring academic environments in red mountain the 111 you can call them at 775-673-7062 and they're at mcc.edu slash advisement financial aid offices redman 315 see you can contact them at 6737072 on their tmc.edu slash funny.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A counseling and career services that's red there in red mountain 325 and they are available at 6737060 tmc.edu slash counseling.
Michael T Ganschow Green: um there is and, just in case you can't make the the graphics labs there was a general access computer lab located in Sierra one to nine downstairs the Sierra building.
Michael T Ganschow Green: As well as computers available in the library, the Sierra 109 has three I MAC computers, with the same graphic software and fonts as the GA and empty lab computers.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The windows based computers and Sierra 109 and the library do not have the required graphic software.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Microsoft Office business software and Internet access, they also have text editors.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So you guys can learn how to program so you don't necessarily need dreamweaver to build a website you just need some with a text editor you can build a website on your iPad if you feel like it because I.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I did just to prove that I could, and I can I don't ever want to do that again but yes, you could let's see here at mcc offers a variety of.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Computers to have Microsoft Office business software Internet access, the general access lab dates and times are posted outside of Sierra one to nine.
Michael T Ganschow Green: TMC offers a variety of academic assistance programs the Tutoring learning Center is open on the TMC library, you talked about that a little earlier.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To give tips on how to write essays reports and research papers I in column or visit tmc.edu Tutoring slash Tutoring to make an appointment we're going to schedule.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And there's also a general access computer lab.
Michael T Ganschow Green: repeated that i'm going to have to tear that paragraph out that is an old paragraph look at that I completely skipped right over the top of that, when I was making the syllabus so that's one to delete as well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Excellent we're we're finding things to clear out of the syllabus right i'll be i'll put up a fresh PDF soon.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So the new one for this semester dmca coven 19 policy truckee meadows Community college is committed to maintaining safe learning environment for all students faculty and staff.
Michael T Ganschow Green: During these unprecedented times the concept of community and the title of our institution takedown special meanings we all commit to safe practices and ensure a healthy community that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: protects and addresses the needs of all of us this and we must remain flexible diligent and compassionate you know efforts.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Students faculty and staff will be encouraged to remain at home if experiencing any symptoms of ill health at TMC properly one masks are mandatory.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In all classrooms workspaces and public spaces, at all times in the event of a positive coven 19 tests to mcc will follow the quarantine recommendations from the Washington county health district.
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Michael T Ganschow Green: Thank you in advance for supporting the health and well being of our campus Community now a good chunk of that does not apply to us because well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I don't know about you guys but i've not heard of a strain of covert that can be caught over the Internet.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But if you have to go to TMC just remember wear a mask keep your distance wash your hands and keep a thing hand sanitizer on Yun.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And scrub them regularly i'm a few up in the labs I believe that computers have been separated out in the lab so there should be room between the computers now a nice social distance room i'm not 100% sure on that, but I believe they were working on that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Actually, working on that, like last summer, so I think it should all be there, but i've literally not been back up to campus since March so some of you have probably been up to campus more recently than I am, how is it up there.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Because I have not i've only been interacting from various holes in the wall, ever since then so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: somebody like me out I think there's an outside world out there.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So yeah I as far as I know, they've got it all set up for it, but I don't know that 100% for sure, because I actually haven't been up there.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For our online class we don't have to worry about that, but that is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: T mcc mandates that in every syllabus so questions on anything i've gone over on the syllabus so far.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Like I said this most boring day.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Remember the draft names remember the last day to what's was April fool's day so remembering a form.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Remember the fatigue, so this is this is literally the most boring day so For those of you who came in expecting little razzmatazz I apologize, it will get better I promise, so I know we have the course calendar.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This is very general, this is kind of my sort of general thoughts on what i'm going to be going over.
Michael T Ganschow Green: On in these lectures everything here is subject to change based on time and on availability.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Everything here is subject to change based on student request as well if there is something you guys would like to learn.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Please.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Please, please let me know, and I will see if I can shimmy and I have a lot of kind of open space to move things around in here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You will also notice that all of your class websites because we're a digital class and we're not doing any even when I met physically in this thing I didn't do critique in class all those all those are taking place online, so all of your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All of your projects are do on Fridays That gives you more time to work on them there's an open lab on Friday, have a campus if you need it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There is a there is all kinds of availability and usually the lecture before then, is a Q amp a focused open lab basically I just log in and you start going.
Michael T Ganschow Green: out and brown can i'm in one thing and my cascading style sheets and now my images are blank help and and I will assist and we will to together by beating our heads against your project fix it and make it work fingers crossed so.
Mai Vo: i'm excuse me, Professor.
Mai Vo: yeah Sorry, I have to go now just wondering if I was able to watch the rest of this zoom meeting.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Later i'm recording it yeah.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm recording it as we speak, and and it will usually take zoom about or TMC zoom account anyway about 24 hours to rip one of these and convert it to a recording.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Once it notifies me that I have a recording of the class i'm going to download it and i'm going to put it on the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: On the class website so if you see here on JRC 175 up in the navigation up at the top over on the right side here class recordings the page is blank right now, but I will be posting up downloadable files of the class recordings every time zoom rips me one um.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So it's probably i'm going to guess tonight's class will be available probably like Wednesday morning or afternoon, depending on how long it takes it to rip it and then I will toss it online so probably like Wednesday evening you'll be able to see the rest of this.
Mai Vo: Okay Thank you so much is really nice meeting you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All to pleasure meeting you as well.
Mai Vo: That really cool hair, by the way.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Thank you, thank you, yes, it keeps getting clipped up on the background here but yes it's this is, this is my quarantine not.
Michael T Ganschow Green: haircut so it's in quarantine not shave so i'm gonna look ever more like a mountain man as the Semester goes on or oh finally snap and go get like a dog grooming kit and just.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And just you know turn myself into a fuzzy tennis ball I don't know we'll see we'll see how long how long my psychology holds out.
Mai Vo: All right, thank you stay with.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You and I will see you Thursday.
Mai Vo: Night correct Thank you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: cool beans have a good one out there.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So other questions.
Michael T Ganschow Green: alrighty then so this schedule, as I said, is very flexible and provide a lot of lab time, but if you guys need other zoom sessions like you want to go over something you want to show me something or even if you want to meet physically in one of the labs i'm fine doing that as well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Just just let me know and i'm happy to schedule a zoom session.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So that we can meet and talk about your project or you know, whatever whatever thing you need a little extra help with or whatever i'm i'm one of the real benefits of an asynchronous online class.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Is that basically we don't have a schedule like at all like like our schedule is you know, basically, the due dates are our schedule so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You know if if if you guys feel like coming to class, you know feel free show up, excuse me lectures I can't call it class because there's class that have to take attendance coming to these lectures.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Or if you don't feel like it, you know, have to pre recording everything sort of pre recording recording as i'm doing this, so you guys will.
Michael T Ganschow Green: be able to download these later, you get all the incriminating clips of me throughout the Semester acting very strange and beating my code possibly so hard my webcam shakes as i'm.
Michael T Ganschow Green: As i'm smacking that computer around to try and get it work and one of my lectures explodes that will happen, by the way.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Probably probably by month three of the class once we get into like the interaction between cascading style sheets and my projects and all of that, while i'm being optimistic my three but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we'll Have a nice lecture explosion and you get to watch Michael problem solve when I got a comment on this actually in my.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Feedback last spring, my my instructor evaluation last spring, that they really liked it when one of my lectures broke, because I demonstrated my problem solving.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In the in the middle of the because I can like rig up a fake problem have demonstrated, but apparently they didn't like that demonstration as much as.
Michael T Ganschow Green: When I went to had a cascading style sheet just completely not do what I wanted it to do and went through my troubleshooting so you get to learn how to fix things by watching me fix one of my lectures terribly terribly wrong.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Every semester at least one does it so sometimes more to 75 it's a bi monthly occurrence, so you can see, I fix things to um so any other questions there.
kianabohm: Another question.
kianabohm: yeah i'm just looking at the calendar is there does it say when project to prelim is on there I couldn't find.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It so here's the dirty i've already i've actually i've actually gotten this from a couple of people, because you guys are reading the syllabus and reading the schedule or legal i've got i've got achievers here, this is cool no curve grading i'm.
Michael T Ganschow Green: project to has no design components so basically the way this class used to be, is there used to be three projects where project one was entirely a design project and then for project to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You would redesign your bad website, as well as build the page that you had designed and project one.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That over the years, turned out to be a little too much for some people, that was basically the big inflection point where i'd get a bunch of drops when I signed that thing, so what I did was I broke the building of that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Of that one page out of project three and made it its own project and the project to the project to is entirely technical you'll have all of the design settled by.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The end of project one because you're taking practical and design and building it out now that's, not to say because we're making everything up.
Michael T Ganschow Green: As we're going along, if you would like to upload your building progress on the website and any point on the server and then post a link in the forum.
Michael T Ganschow Green: that's cool just let me know you did that, so that I can summon the rest of the class and pointed match it to give you feedback so there's no official critique.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But if you want to run an unofficial critique either get the classes opinion or if you just want my opinion you can email me or message me and canvas your link or your files and I can take a look at it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: that's great but but there's no official preliminary critique for that was just because effectively project, one is the Berlin critique for project too so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But if you would like feedback on how you're building it and how it's going, and if you want just buying messaged me or.
Michael T Ganschow Green: or email me or, if you want the classes, you can toss it up on the forum just let me know you've done that, and I will post a link in a class announcement and say go forth go forth go go go give them all of your words.
Michael T Ganschow Green: every word that you have empty empty your words out and and they can give you feedback so i'm perfectly happy with project to to to kind of run unofficial critiques as you guys need them.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And of course i'm also available to give my two cents, I have a lot of change rattling around in the said, you can practically hear it is I shift my head back and forth, so I i've sensed a spare on all of your various projects, so I hope that answered your question.
kianabohm: yeah it does, thank you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Not a problem, not a problem.
kianabohm: let's see here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I think mine was the one who spoke up earlier, you know you're not going to be missing out on anything my.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I will promise you so i'm speaking of that, by the way you all have student folders on the server I will show you how to access them toward the end of project one when you're going to be putting your stuff up.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Mostly to put your preliminary work up, but if you guys take a look on the website, you will see that you have folders with your name on them, and if you click on any of these folders it takes you to a folder if you look up in the URL up here, it takes you in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now it doesn't Hello hey hey hey hey hey zoom stop popping down your bar up here I didn't mean to click that hi Thank you do get you out of the way, thank you, there we go alright, so if you click on any of these, you will find that they go to folders that are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Basically, individual student folders now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I made these before I knew any of you are in fact I started building these as the roster started assembling and I would check the roster like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I don't know every other day, and every like five new people, so I built these off of the names that appear is of rosters now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If you would like another name on here to represent you that's cool I just have to know who you are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But if you want, but if if your name is wrong on here or wrong in the roster let me know i've talked to the roster people too, but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If you want a different name on here, please feel free, let me know on a rename your folder and I will rename the button that links to it, but this is just how you appear to me in the roster so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: again feel free to to message me or email me or whatever hey can you change that to yeah no problem I can change that as long as I know who you are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: yeah no problem I probably change the name so take a look through these make sure your names are correct also make sure, because I was constantly updating this is the roster was updating make sure I didn't miss anybody missing, let me know.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And i'll add you and I might preemptive apologies if i'm missing you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I was like I said building these with the roster wasn't quite a bit of flux recently.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Okay, so that's pretty much the schedule the syllabus the class website um any other questions so far.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So let me give you a little care and feeding on the forum here real quick so and, of course, the stupid thing drops down I need you to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Go back up Thank you okay nope yeah I can go back up alright well i'll drive down and click them okay.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So um i've got a lot of questions on the forum and also number of you have already registered for the forum excellent so i'm your first real homework assignment effectively, aside from project, one which we're going to go over in a minute is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: registering for the forum, which is, this is a very yes, I know a forum Michael what is this web two point O garbage Yes, this is we're all going to pretend to 2005 and we're using a discussion forum.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I get a lot of flack for the forum, but the reason why I do, it is because it has.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It has 12 years I think 11 or 12 years of student work posted on it so everybody can go back through previous semesters and use them for inspiration.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Plus, I am an old fart so of course you guys are going to use old fart technology can be blacksmith and your websites here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Over a furnace so a bunch of you have already registered for the forum which is nice, I just want to walk you guys kind of threw some Karen feeding stuff on the forum.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Because most of you are probably unfamiliar with with forums, given the fact that they got pretty much entirely eaten by social media about eight years ago, or so i'm like the last one.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The forum currently has registrations open registrations will be open for another two weeks so but I would like you guys to register as soon as possible.
Michael T Ganschow Green: registration is pretty straightforward on the forum you basically click here and say ooh i'm registering for the forum, please agree to the boilerplate to basically means behavioral ban you yes.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There we go and then you give a username oh look at that it's already filling in my instructor username oh no we're going to do a we're going to do a boy where did my writing utensil go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Let me look at that a pen was defeated him I was going to jot down my password here so that I can use it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: hang on one moment I must go fetch a writing utensil and I will to write my password down.
Michael T Ganschow Green: shall return.
All right.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, he returned okay.
Wonderful.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All right, oh my God disappeared whoa cool i'm gonna cut my own head out that's nice alright so look at that it's auto filling my instructor login alright so um the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: registering for the forum is pretty easy well I shouldn't say that the last time I DEMO this in the spring, it would not accept my various contradiction.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Like five of them so we'll see how this goes so registers, the forum you basically pick a username and the username can be whatever you want it to be so i'm going to call myself not mtg g.
Michael T Ganschow Green: My password is going to be.
Something terrible.
Michael T Ganschow Green: don't tell anybody.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Go and we're going to confirm that password.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You guys might be able to guess it just from my keystrokes hearing my keystrokes okay and give it an email will do one of my other emails.
Michael T Ganschow Green: will do my work email for this one so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Then I get to put this in here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You see yells at me about having a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Smith see that likes me all my email address is already in use alright cool, well then we'll use my wine and what which one will use.
Michael T Ganschow Green: very old spam limiting doing yeah.
Michael T Ganschow Green: hey your accounts been created, however, this board requires activation by the administrator group and emails been sent to them and will be informed when your account has been activated Okay, so one of the things this does is this.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Is the board require the board requires me to activate it now, the reason why I do this is because there are so many spam logins for this board that I get.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That I get completely inundated with them, so let me show you a login is instructor here hi login there I am hi let me in alright so i'm logged in as an instructor I have 108 notification, since I last clear this out, I have.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I have some of these look genuine I recognize couple of these names I think you guys are registering in the forum, I have so many.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Spam registrations it's not even funny that coming in, I turned registration on and off for this thing actually just at the beginning of the Semester to make sure so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You guys have to email me or message me in canvas regardless I don't care which one's your username on the forum, and the reason why is because I have to go in and activated This basically okay so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I was a young naive 3130 year old instructor when I built this for them first and I just set the thing loose is open registration.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Three weeks later, I wind up having to IP van the entire country the Ukraine.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And scrub some of the most vile porn i've ever seen off of there because bots we're covering this website in just terrible imagery so i've IP fan now three countries from the forum.
Michael T Ganschow Green: started with Ukraine, we now got Azerbaijan, so if you're if you're traveling to answer by john anytime this year you'll be able to post to the forum sorry.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And what was the other one oh i'm Georgia, not the state the country i'd been them to and and it was just a it took me a week to clean all the yeah it was terrible so i've been i've since basically set it so that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You guys have to get clearance from me to do it now another part of my scheme here is that TMC sees rosters frequently include a lot of bad emails in them, I you notice when I sent the message out.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To you guys an email I said hey I please respond to me from the message I can make sure your emails are good.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This class alone i've gotten for bounces which actually pretty good.
Michael T Ganschow Green: percentage wise for one of my classes and because what happens is way back when when you registered for TMC you give them some email and it's one you don't use anymore, and it either has been closed down or changed or whatever.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And TMC still thinks that true official email but it's not and it's long gone and most of you are using an empty mcc email, thank you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So those I know are good, but a few people are not and i'm getting some bounces so part of this is also reiterating what's a good email to reach you guys by as well, when you either email me or message me in the canvas I don't care if he messaged me either messaging is just fine.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I check canvas all the time and and and I get flagged if I get anything I get the APP on my phone, so my phone yells at me yeah so it says posting a message.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So you'll be able to get Ahold of me regardless, but you have to message me or email me your username on the forum, because the way the form is rigged up right now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I can't you won't be able to post until I tell you, you can't so basically what happens is you email me your username there's not mtg there, he is totally not the instructor totally not know, and I basically have to go into the board controls.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then.
Michael T Ganschow Green: manage user.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And I go in here and I find you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: down here, and I say activate account now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I would like to you know who you are, I would like to once again apologize.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To the person that I that I banned your IP instead of activating your account this this semester sorry your IP is on band, you know who you are your IP is on band essentially an email on that sorry about that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: you'll have access to the forum again so i've come in and activate the account so that that account can then post to the forum so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: With that account able to post, let me show you a couple of things that that you can do with the forum once you have your account all set up or how to set your account up and how to go and play around there so let's log me out because i'm not real.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And i'm instead going to log in as by total sock puppet Hello come in now i'm not an instructor I am not anti GG.
Michael T Ganschow Green: My mighty and incredibly difficult to guess password.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Again, so alrighty then so we're going to go it's no not now please, and thank you get out of my way zoom chrome there you go okay so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A couple of things to set your account up here so once you've created an account, and I have now I have my not mtg all set and ready to go it's beautiful.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can come into your account, and you can modify your account as needed, so you go up to here to your user control panel, and you can modify your account now there's a bunch you can do with your account.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In here, you can subscribe to thread so it'll email you any updates on the thread, you can bookmark threads so show up commonly on anything you can set draft, so you can type out an email and save it so that you can always come back and post it later.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can manage any your attachments that you've attached to your posts like you'll be attaching your project one stuff to your posts, by and large and manage your notifications.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But there's a couple of things that I would like you guys to do just so I can I know who you are because some of you have usernames that are nothing like your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your actual name, so I need to know who you are so that if you make a particularly insightful point in the critique or whatever I can be like all right.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You know that's that's really great we'd horse for 20 that's an excellent point so that I know who the hell, you are so one of the things that I asked you guys to do.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Is create a signature and to do that, you go into your user control panel, so you come up to your user controls up at the top, if you see in the top left top left top right corner my browser here there's a user control panel.
Michael T Ganschow Green: which gets you this tab set here when you click on this second profile tab over here and it lets you change some things you can add in profile information in here I don't really care if you put anything in here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can add your signature, though this is this is this is kind of important I want you guys, to make sure in your signature is your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: real name.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So that we all know who you are no matter how bizarre.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your username is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now, if you want to add things to the to this to this guy it's pretty easy, you can use simply highlight the type you want to add stuff to anything I had bold and italics you can add underlines.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can add code snippets to display them if you want to DEMO a problem you're having or something like that you can do bulleted lists, you can do ordered lists, you can you can insert individual list items.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can drop images in here, you can.
Michael T Ganschow Green: insert linking URLs.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And you can change the color of your fonts so you can come in here, and you can be like well I don't know me and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Maybe i'm just really going to get on plenty with this and make my last name green, because it is green well part of a tiny part of it is green the other part, is tremendous eyes, Polish and so now, I have a green green for my last name and I will add a little bit of boldness to that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and
Michael T Ganschow Green: We go so it's all and just for fun z's i'm going to take this whole signature and i'm gonna make it big this drop down right here, you can shrink it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Make it just kind of small keeping the regular size, make it larger making enormous so i'm going to make the entire thing large just because that seems like the kind of thing a person who's totally not actually just a sock puppet account for one dude would say.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And I can put let's see a nice quote yeah wasn't.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It was the one armed.
Michael T Ganschow Green: tilde a fugitive.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Right and we'll make it Nice and Italic so this signature, will be able to let me know who you are regardless of what your username is and what all to put one of these signatures in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: When you when you create your account if you already got an account created cool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Go at you can go back in and add this signature once you're all set with how the signature is going to look, you can actually preview the signature.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To see what it will look like i'm going to have there's my nice segue yeah cool alright so we're going to go submit, and that will save the signature and it's all set and ready to go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now you can also add an Avatar if you so if you see fit in your profile avatars i'm not going to require, but they are optional and fun.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So I think i've got an Avatar stored one second here I think i've got an Avatar stored in previous classes, do I have it in my let's go to michaels dropbox and we will grab it dropbox Michael all right let's go to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Do a quick search and we'll go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: see what I saved in under homeboy will go search Michael go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: rectangles where did I leave it because i'm forgetting a file name right as i'm here there's no Avatar the blanks it out.
Michael T Ganschow Green: know I know what i'm going to do.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Only bring it to your sock face in here I areas alright cool we're going to grab Brigadier sock face, and we are going to put him in the website so we're going to go back.
Michael T Ganschow Green: copy Brigadier sock face so that I have a copy of him ready to use and put him in here because it's totally not a sock puppet account right guys it's totally totally real and normal.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So we're going to go here and we'll just dump it in the class website, why not, because that's important oh.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, and we're going to stop he's already there I did this before all right let's let's insert This guide and so we're going to go in here and i'm going to add in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The mightiest Avatar Avatar type, you can choose your Avatar from a gallery or you can upload me i'm an upload an Avatar why, because I can alright so let's go to my files oh look we get the spinning beach ball or death already.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Michael.
Michael T Ganschow Green: website yes and we're going to put in Nice name areas and put in Brigadier sock face just because open air is and submit.
Michael T Ganschow Green: me my sock your profiles been updated, I think, shows the various yes excellent totally not a sock puppet not at all so once you've created your account on the forum, then you can go back to the or once you've got your account all set apple.
Michael T Ganschow Green: will only bring bringing your sock face alone, you can now go back to the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: board index and before you do anything else on the forum, I want you to go into the introduction support Look, we have people already posting introductions look at that already.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Already, look at these achievers already posting introductions so you know say hi to each other, you learn each other's form names, you can say hi and get to know each other for those that don't know each other already I know.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A number of you have had classes together before so in order to make a post on the forum you basically go to whatever some form you want, in this case the introduction some form you you press new topic.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Then you can come in here, and you can say hello.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm there on oh Hello there and they can say hi guys.
Michael T Ganschow Green: will do an enthusiastic exclamation point i'm totally not your instructor in disguise.
Michael T Ganschow Green: watching.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The proceedings.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Through a realistic human shaped yo.
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Michael T Ganschow Green: Look at that I just completely blew that word up real yes stick.
Michael T Ganschow Green: shade periscope.
Michael T Ganschow Green: cool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And post a nice little introduction and he say I have a go and then sure you go submit think there I am Hello there, yes i'm you're totally not your instructor and then the instructor comes along.
Michael T Ganschow Green: After he locks out of his sock puppet account instructor comes along logs in as himself.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And says.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Here I am I know some of you are going to start posting responses to it as well, so yeah i'm going to reply to this by clicking the post reply button and i'm going to say uh.
Michael T Ganschow Green: huh.
Michael T Ganschow Green: italics.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You.
Michael T Ganschow Green: suspicious.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You sure and you're from around here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And you know what on a bold and italics size that word to boot, it would go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And just for fun i'm going to throw in a link to just for fun i'm going to throw in a link to all right so just a DEMO Lincoln cuz you guys gonna have to do, linking as part of your project stuff so I want to demonstrate some linking here so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm sure you're from around here so we're going to put the first kind of link a link.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Is a text link which you want to do a text link you take this guy.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You click on this little chain, right here which inserts a URL and then.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Then you get to post like oh i'll put it to a link to the syllabus then inside that little bit of code right there.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Go a link URL equals and you post, the link you want it to link to and that piece of type will link to it, or you want to link elsewhere, like say to the class website Oh, I know we'll get to the recordings.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can also.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That I have 111 messages like 40 registrations, you can also post in just a regular link like this just a regular URL and then you click on the chain and you wrap it in that and that turns it into a link as well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: By the way, if you feel like embedding a YouTube movie you click this YouTube you can see if you handled by the way you want to know how many of them work just hover over them and these little instructional pop up venues will come up so, for example, you wanted to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: add a YouTube movie to your post, you can do that by coming over here and clicking adding YouTube link into the in between a set of YouTube tags that will embed the movie and help us all.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So, once you post is ready, you can click submit, and there is your response to totally not mtg now if there's something in one of these that you want to change.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Or if you don't like your post it on you want to delete it, you have posting controls up here as the writer of that post, so now I have them on everything, because i'm master administrator blah blah blah blah blah, but I have.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I have posting rights here, so I can so i've posted this post, so I can come back and I can click this edit post, and I can say now look at this now look.
Michael T Ganschow Green: At this i'm editing.
Michael T Ganschow Green: My post.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To say more things.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And another bold Italic.
Michael T Ganschow Green: underline things as well sure that what people think it's a link and start clicking at it and then hit submit.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And pink, there is the edit to go in and you can edit your post as well, if you think the whole thing is trashed like totally trashed like completely destroyed like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This is just this is unworthy of my good name and it taints my very nature by existing you can delete it by clicking the delete button up here and then wipe the post out they can't delete other people's posts otherwise to form them would be chaos, but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can you can delete your own post, if you think that that that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can also report this post to me holy crap Michael this guy's just I don't know what he's on but it's not it's not good man that's not good, I think it's better report this guy right here, because this guy just.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I don't know about him um let's see what an automatic banning I can ban him and got campaign myself oh cool a band myself one of these days as a as a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: David they just added that with the new version of php bb i'm paying myself i'll pay myself it'll be awesome.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If i'm another person who wants to quote something out of the post, though, I can also click this little reply here, and it will quote the post and even trim that down to the bit you want to reply from in the post and use that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And also collect information and it'll it'll go and it'll say oh here's all the information about this post political the edit and the folks who've looked at it oh snap.
Michael T Ganschow Green: know if you want to go play around in the forum if there's if you're not sure exactly how to do something, or what you want to do, I created a sub forum for that down here called test so test is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: where you can go in here, and you can test attaching images, you can which you will you have to do for your project one and for all your preliminary critiques when you're putting wraps up I you can test posting all sorts of things to make sure it works.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can you can test for errors i've got a video of God, I think i've got embedded video okay good no that's the old video code yeah so we can we could.
Michael T Ganschow Green: embed a YouTube video to just for fun, I might just in that sock puppet post, if you guys are not careful, so I questions on the forum you're going to be using it to post your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your roughs for your preliminary critiques, which are all probably going to be jpeg or pings that you're going to that you're going to attach to the post unless you upload them somewhere and post links to them just just fine and then for your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For your final project should be uploading to the to the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To the student website and then posting.
Michael T Ganschow Green: links to those direct links to those so, for example, you know if you take a look at.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Some recent project ones that students have done this one so she's got her whole description I here's my final blah blah blah blah blah she did a yarn website there's a little frightening so there's her attached images for that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: grab another one here let's see here is eaters was awesome yeah there we go so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You know where they've attached imagery for their website for their critique and then for the project to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: People put up their project tues notice it is a link and you click on the link, and it goes to their website.
Michael T Ganschow Green: stormy it's such a cool website um so your finals will by enlarge all the links you preliminaries by and large i'll be attached files.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So again, care and feeding questions on the forum or questions on anything i've been going over so far.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Oh, and allison says that's a wonderful choice in the chat was that the not mtg yes yeah I rather liked it to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: also bring it to your sock face for the sock puppet yes, I came across him bringing your sock face that came across on a forum years and years and years ago and i've used him ever since then, for you ever see them that's Magnus we get people don't want people posting things.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If you ever see this guy that's that's me posting as a fake account, I have a few of these now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I may I may switch out my profile sure sure sure you want to like like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I would recommend making a different one, so you guys don't get mistaken for one of my terrible sock puppet accounts, you know if you want to go syphilis Ali, or you want to go, you know.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Some horrifying like you know, one of those drawings, where they were people draw sock puppets as if they were really realistic creatures, like those terrifying drawings.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And kelsey registered her account excellent I messaged me or email me the account name and i'll get you rolling so let's see your will go realistic sock puppet all right here we go now you got me on a tangent, but I want to see what this gives so we're going to go sock puppet.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I think i've got I think i've got safe search turned off this could be this could get me fired right now let's see really.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Nothing to horrifying but yes, there are some very nice sock puppet photos.
Michael T Ganschow Green: check those.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Good so there's not too many that are too horrifying psych.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Realistic cookie monster now that's and terror I use I actually use him as the background, so if you guys may have noticed that I throw image backgrounds and all my sites on glc to 75 calm I use.
Michael T Ganschow Green: One of these realistic cookie monster's as the background image on there and it's here Oh, here we go it's this one.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Is this one where it's cookie monster in the venom suit because that's just that's just entirely appropriate whatever you know that's perfect so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: yeah feel free to have fun making your avatars there are a couple of limitations, the Forum has because well it's a forum, the software was made, years ago, your profile PIC has to be your Avatar has to be 125 pixels.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Maximum of 125 pixels wide maximum of 125 tall it doesn't have to be 125 but 125 so it helps and the file size, has to be under 10 K be so it has to be a nice.
Michael T Ganschow Green: image realistic sock puppet might just be my newest static, yes, yes, the i'm like to bleach my eyes now hey I know you're.
Michael T Ganschow Green: you're welcome livia this is, this is nothing yet there's gonna be lots of weird tangents in this class but that's Okay, you can you can that's why attendance is optional of these things.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But yes let's see here i'm going to change my all you're all you're all going to be sock puppets the whole lot of you're going to be sock puppets this will be great alright everybody find go find your best sock puppets they make your Avatar sock puppets enjoy it enjoy it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So I do we have questions on the forum or on anything like that let's see.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Anything real today, or should we pump that to the next class.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Oh, there we go alright, I do have something real that I want to go over with you guys i'm.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Actually, two things that are real just realized it today is technically.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Technically, the day that project, one is a song, so you know what let's assign project one while we're here, why not so while you guys are picking out horrendous sock puppets i'm going to go over project, one for you there's the link to it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And here is the oh my phone is going crazy you guys are blowing my phone up with messages with probably these are i'm registered for the counts, so I know what i'm gonna be doing tonight.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so project one please allow myself to introduce myself this first project meant to get you familiar with the design and layout web pages and photoshop you don't have to use photoshop for it, by the way, it's.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The class description says photoshop but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: What it pick your poison one indesign we won't do an illustrator you want to do it and paint the feel free but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we're basically just do the export into photoshop because it makes a graphic super time.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You design a website for posting all of your work online for this semesters class, so this is going to be kind of be the grand Central Station the central clearinghouse and a lot of people use it as.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A way to start testing out concepts for their portfolio website in portfolio class one of the things you have to do is, you have to build a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: An entire website to advertise yourself it's basically got your portfolio in it it's got ways to contact you it's got a its got whatever you want to release to the world about yourself and all of that, and so a lot of people use this bit as kind of a trial run on that so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The homepage of the connecting point for all the other class projects, so this is kind of a portal to your own creative process could you show.
Michael T Ganschow Green: me and your fellow classmates what inspires you to create so if your requirements for it's going to be connection for two for everything so it's gotta have your name and a paragraph about yourself.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Some students write factual paragraphs about themselves others just make up the most bizarre paragraphs in the history of mankind.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I had a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i've had i've had students make up all kinds of fun paragraph, so it doesn't necessarily have to be factual you want to write a fictional biography of yourself as a CIA assassin feel free and I have to have at least one image, most of your designs will have more than one image.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And that's to have the text GR C 175 web design and publishing one spring 2021 and to mcc or the truckee meadows Community college.
Michael T Ganschow Green: or or truckee meadows Community college or the official logo and I give you a nice zip file for the TMC see logos there for you to download for your designs.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i've got your email address don't worry i'm going to teach you how to make an email link in project to that will not get your spam out of this thing.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Or you can make or you can register email at a free email place and use it for that if you're concerned about spam bots finding.
Michael T Ganschow Green: plenty of room and or links for the next two projects, yes, because you're going to be this is going to be a project to and you're going to link your project three and your project for to it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and plenty of room and are links to references and resources section with links to websites that provide inspiration and useful.
Michael T Ganschow Green: information regarding web design, you may need to have you'll need to have at least four links in this section to start that's kind of the homework assignments go find some good links that are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: creatively inspiring and teach techniques for your website so you have to have at least four links in the section to start and then you'll have to it as the Semester progresses.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Research again look critically at the design and aesthetics websites that you come across when will use the Internet take some time.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To look around for attractive or unattractive websites look at other people's personal portfolio sites find at least two websites that creatively inspire you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And to that provide useful information tutorials articles etc about web design these cannot be taken from the resources section of the glc 175 class forum you got to find them on your own.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Creative process, develop a meaningful concept by brainstorming mind mapping list making and anything else that stretches your creativity, be sure to document this discovery as you'll need to turn it in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You need to sketch at least 12 thumbnails I require pretty much 12 thumbnails like one of them has 18 thumbnails is a requirement that it says 12.
Michael T Ganschow Green: on how you might design your homepage try on a wide variety of compositions and your thumbnail sketch simply moves the location of one image is not a different idea, only a variation so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A lot of people when they hit my class here get a little concerned because I don't provide thumbnail handouts, you know the the little with the squares on it, because frankly we're all adults here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We don't need squares and a piece of paper you guys can take a piece of scratch paper draw some rectangles because websites.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Computer websites are horizontal rectangles phone websites or vertical rectangles I trust that you can draw some rectangles and sketching them you I so i'm not going to provide you with.
Michael T Ganschow Green: With a thumbnail sheets, because I tend to think that's a little insulting to like spoon feeding here comes the airplane so you guys can draw.
Michael T Ganschow Green: thumbnails now because we're not going to be meeting physically out of turn these, then you can either scan them.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And upload them with your project or you can shoot a photo of it and upload that with your project as well, I just need I just need a clear your scanner a very clear photograph of your thumbnails so I can see him, but I need at least 12 of them.
Michael T Ganschow Green: um 12 as a minimum, if you want to go more I highly encourage it, because the whole point of thumbnail and the creative process is basically to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To get the design hairball so you have to get the bad designs out first and thumbnail and enables you to mentally cough up all these bad hairballs first.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Before you get to the good designs out and also it lets you take a look at the design outside of your own mind, because your mind has like a little set of rose colored glasses.
Michael T Ganschow Green: buried in there and every design that's in there looks good until you lay it out in front of you and you're like oh oh crikey what is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: What have I done here so i'm thumbnails are very important, if you want to do more thumbnails and 12 highly encouraged.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But not required.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Choose at least two different design sketches for your basically your best to thumbnails take a look through them what would be like this, or whatever you think is the best design.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Choose at least two different sketches and then you're going to develop.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To roughs each okay and we'll talk about rocks and all of that, when we get into creative process next class but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: you're going to create a mobile size rough 640 pixels wide by 960 and a computer size rough.
Michael T Ganschow Green: 1920 pixels wide by 1080 pixels tall for each for a total of four roughs so to best thumbnails give me what it looked like on a phone and what it looked like on a computer can.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The rough layouts must be created on a computer and a software of your choice must include color typefaces navigation and composition of images and or text basically enough, we can give you feedback on it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm now those sizes, by the way, are not fixed sizes for designing when we get into web designing you'll find out that there.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Well, one of the things that will turn into like a crazy nutter butter, like me, is.
No fixed size for the wind.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There was no fixed size for the Web so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Basically, you kind of lay it out as a rectangle and then as a vertical rectangle and then you take the thing.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And you basically squishing and stretch it in browsers until it starts wherever it starts looking bad, then you go in and Edit it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: At the different resolutions, where it starts looking bad so when we're when we're wrapping things out I used to basically just have you guys.
Michael T Ganschow Green: make a horizontal rectangle and a vertical rectangle for proofing but I got so many requests for sizes, that I kind of pulled these ones, out of my backside a 1920 by 1080 pixel is a two K, monitor and not have to K it's a it's a 10 EDP monitor.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And a 649 60 is a is basically a modern iPhone in portrait mode basically in vertical mode so but they're very loose.
Michael T Ganschow Green: sizes for when you're actually building real websites, you really just kind of want to create a horizontal rectangle and a vertical rectangle and a kind of a squared horizontal rectangle for your tablet previews.
Michael T Ganschow Green: When you're actually building real websites for real people I don't count i'm a figment of your collective imagination.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright preliminary critique posted for roughs online in the forum and be prepared to discuss your concept in detail.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Post a link here to inspirational websites, I like seeing creatively inspired you guys I love having you guys posted two links in your preliminary critique and tell us why you found them inspirational I just.
Michael T Ganschow Green: is not an acceptable answer tell us why you like them why they inspire you why they bring things up.
Michael T Ganschow Green: site construction after preliminary deacon one directions been selected creating prepare your content and lay out your page designs it just skills and knowledge increase continue creating and refining your website.
Michael T Ganschow Green: upload finding critique and turning in the completed project Once this has been completed post your final design layouts and your to useful information websites.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To the forums, along with the post introducing yourself and explaining how you design solves.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The project and why you designed the way you did also include a foundry informational websites helpful and or educational so, but the preliminary posting your to inspirational websites for the final you're posting your to informational so a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: kind of a little separation there photograph or scan any of your physical preliminary work and load the photos into a working underscore graphics folders technical working dash graphics is going to change that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Along with your original PSD files and flatten tiff and PDF copies of your design zip otherwise compress the working graphics folder using supplied ftp information handout going over that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And the methodologies are describing class to upload your files to student folder on the class server that way I can have all your preliminary work.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If this was a physical class you'd stick all your preliminary work in a Manila envelope, and you would hand it to me the next class after the Friday that this thing is due, so preliminary work is due on.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Tuesday on Tuesday the ninth yep and that's that's in a couple weeks, he got some time to to to put some designs together for your for your page, by the way.
Michael T Ganschow Green: yeah minimum one page, if you want to build out more pages in your little personal individual grand Central Station website feel free that's on you, but i'm not gonna require a minimum one, and then the project is finally do Friday to 26 which is basically a month from now and Friday.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So a nice little kind of get your feet wet project get we're gonna be talking design for most of this first month anyway we'll be getting in technical stuff toward the end of it so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Maybe we will be sprinkling some technical in as well you're there to do you got to kind of keep it in mind you're laying stuff out questions on project one.
Michael T Ganschow Green: See all googling up sock puppet images right now yeah yep I bet.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I see you, I see you uh huh yeah all sorts of terrible avatars i'm going to regret this.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Okay, so let's see here alright so we're going over the syllabus we've introduced project um let's see here Internet will go over history of the Internet next class that's a little too real right now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: How webpage works we'll we'll kind of talk about that in a second here file creation file formats and file organization so file creation will get over on how you make the various files throughout the Semester um.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Let me, let me talk file formats for a little bit here and how I want you guys to organize your websites, so you don't go insane when they break on you, because websites are very oh God this have you done.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i've got a sock puppets downloading right now alright so um so you don't go crazy i'm setting up your files is very, very important.
Michael T Ganschow Green: On your website it's a paramount importance in fact of the functioning of the website so I make you guys set up your folders in a very specific way, so you don't go insane so file formats on the web Okay, so there are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Probably.
Michael T Ganschow Green: 10 different file formats overall as a professional web designer, you will have to worry about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Did it download what is that what what what have you given me i've got a site some oh God let's see what this is click to open.
Michael T Ganschow Green: mind if I do oh boy somebody sent me something terrible I preview yes, and I would like to open this nice image that this is a realistic cooking.
Michael T Ganschow Green: stopper the sock will get it okay all right well that's um that's the thing look at that yeah he's even crying that's that's it's hard core that's harsh Nice.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Nice, what do that okay yeah alright so um this sets the tone Okay, I see what kind of classes, is going to be alright fair enough well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Just in this little discussion with sock puppets i'm really looking forward to seeing what your web designs look like because particularly your when you start redesigning bad webs.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And what you come up with, for your project for including all the fake instructor bios and stuff this is going to be insane you people are mad, this is wild I love it alright so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: there's like 10 file formats, you really have to worry about in web design throughout your career and i'll go over a handful of them right now on ones you'll have to worry about right now, so that your brains don't crack under the strain so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The very base file format in web design.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Is what's called an html file html is an acronym it means hypertext markup language and it's a very, very specific type of programming language that we will.
Michael T Ganschow Green: explore in depth, when we get into actually building these things but suffice to say html is a programming language that tells a web browser what to display in the browser so basically tells it locations of things you know left Center right where the text goes, where the images go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's sort of the it's sort of the overall organizational structure of an individual web page so each individual page and a website is typically its own html file.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Or if you're dealing with a more complex website that's procedurally generated itself.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Then you then you're dealing with what are called php files, but we don't want those later don't don't think about that, right now, the base structure is these html files and each html file roughly correspond to one webpage.
Michael T Ganschow Green: An html is a type of simple text file so basically in order to make an html file and a text editor just do a save as and change the file extension for txt two dot html and a Viola you've made yourself a brand new shiny.
Michael T Ganschow Green: html file so html files very nice, but the language.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The language is built, for, as well as learn next class when we start talking about the history of the Internet html the programming language is built for the sharing and promulgation of research papers.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So there's not a lot of design in there, you can pretty much have a paragraph have a boulder header down on the left side centered right side of your page is there a picture here where's the picture here very, very basic layout stuff in it and um and so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The the in order to add more complex design we actually have a whole nother programming language we use for these these files are called dot CSS files.
Michael T Ganschow Green: of ideas, my glc to 75 class website with a bunch of lectures built down into it and he's dot CSS files are appearance controllers so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: CSS itself can't be displayed in a browser but what it can do is linked to one of these html files and through its own language move things around adding colors add effects rotate things adding close to all kinds of razzle dazzle.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In order to turn a web page from basically Microsoft word document into a beautiful like magazine layout.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So these dot CSS files, this is another, by the way, another flavor of simple text, if you save a text file instead of a dot txt save it as a dot CSS file congratulations, you have made a cascading style sheet file yep.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So those are those two that you have to worry about right now there'll be a third will worry about later on called a.js file, which is where behavioral scripting lives we'll get into that later.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Very much toward the end of the Semester so don't worry about that js now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The other format you'll have to worry about other formats for your images will get a little more in depth into that when we get into exporting, but there are a few that are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: that are used extensively, so you and you've encountered, most of them, you have dot jpg dot jpg which is used for photographs, it has great color density.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And you can really compress them down next to nothing in terms of file size very, very good format for pictures or any imagery that has a lot of detail.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For imagery that doesn't have so much detail or imagery you want to add a little animation to we have gifts yes i'm old school I pronounce it with with the hard g.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We have gift files gif files, I can be compressed by reducing colors out of them and they're really, really good for.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For very simple images that don't have a lot of color in them so things like illustrations things like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: logos things like cartoons, we have a very limited color palette that you're playing with those are what gifts are good for you can also use them for animation as well and that's really the only reason why the file format is still around that GIs so if dot jpg not GIs.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then there's another format that kind of encompasses both of those ads in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Some interesting pieces, so one of one of the other things that you can do with gap I just realized I forgot we'll talk about this more as the when we get into how to export these things and make them look Nice is the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can do transparency with so you basically cut out a portion of the government can be transparent, show through whatever's underneath.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now there's a format that that also does this called Ping dot PNG PNG come in two flavors one it's called a PNG eight and, as a limited color palette like a gift punches through like a gift.
Michael T Ganschow Green: As great all or nothing transparency, like a gift basically duplicates get functionality minus animation which one should you use a try and both whichever one is small.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And there's another type of PNG called a PNG 24 a PNG 24 is basically a jpeg very detailed image gradients all kinds of fun things minus the transparency.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's basically like a and also minus the compression So if you want to have an image, be very high quality, and you don't really give a care about load speeds pink 24.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now there's also another flavor of pink color pink 3232 as all the advantages jpg.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And all the advantages of gifts minus animation What can it do it can also do transparency which J pigs can not but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It even better tips on paying eight one way, because it can do Alpha and, as you can do partial transparency, you want something to be see through but not invisible, all together, paying 30 to help you out isn't actually apply what's called alpha which is basically.
Michael T Ganschow Green: When you're in a graphic software and you go in the transparency slider most things will go either zero or 100 on the opacity sliders right alpha is anywhere in between, if you want to 50% transparent, so it shows some things through, but it's still there being 32 is your name again.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Why use jpg and why us gifts when we have things available well Jay pins do a lot of the things that pink 24 guys, but they are that can be crunched much smaller so and load speed is a factor use a jpeg.
Michael T Ganschow Green: esper pinging versus yep doing both check hundred smaller use that one and pink 32 ain't nothing duplicates a pink 32 brings there's no other image format that does alpha transparency, well, except for my last one.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The last one or dot svg files, we may play around with them a little this semester i'm not 100% sure we'll see where we get but done svg files are vector files.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The basically like an APS file or an illustrator file for the web, so instead of using pixels they use little points all over the place they calculate the distance between the points and fill it with color.
Michael T Ganschow Green: they're really cool to do a lot of things like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: modify svg files on the fly with all kinds of different programming languages to have images that dynamically update based on data being fed to them or places on the website or all that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: very, very advanced we don't we don't cover a whole lot of svg here, but it is one, you may have to worry about later on.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then another one is what's called a dot php which is basically we're not going to deal with them at all really in this semester, they are a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There, a file format that, basically, is used for communicating with databases and for assembling complex websites on the fly with you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So that is the format you're gonna be playing with html CSS little bit of js toward the end of the Semester jpg or gif Ping.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Maybe a little bit of svg will see.
Michael T Ganschow Green: questions on any that have questions on anything else see we got some chat going on here i've been talking to forget to look at the chat.
Michael T Ganschow Green: ya know that really was a very strong choice Isabel on that sock it's um.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's it's sort of hard stabbing, so I think that makes it a nice good Avatar right there um.
Izzy Bento: You get speaks to everyone.
Michael T Ganschow Green: yeah yeah it's very.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's very like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Where we all are um yeah it's a little too on the nose but yeah I get you I get you I get you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: yeah yeah that's that's pretty solid.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So any questions on anything i've gone over so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: don't worry, we will be hitting file formats again question about using external hard drives.
Michael T Ganschow Green: um Okay, so if you've got a PC format and hard drive but you're working on a MAC.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I forget which way, this goes one way or another, but I believe as a MAC you'll be able to save to a PC format at hard drive if the hard drive was formatted for a MAC or a PC wouldn't be able to save to it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I would just give that a test by just test saving to it, but if you save to it um you if you can save to it, you should be you should be just fine I don't think you'll have any problem Cathy in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In in in working with Max as far as I remember, pretty good with PC format and hard drives PCs not so much with MAC format of points.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So just try saving to it if it's.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If it's the PC hard drive is fat 32 formatted you may run into that's Ms dos you may run into so not letting you okay that's interesting.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Then you may either have to you may have to check what format your hard drive is in you can right click and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So here, so if you if you've got a plugged in hard drive I don't have one handy, but you can go, you can control, and you can get info you can see what it's formatted for.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Because it may be DAS formatted which can cause some issues, I was actually just going to mention that interesting.
Michael T Ganschow Green: um DAS format and can sometimes cause some issues, both in terms of saving to it windows nt that's interesting I thought I thought, a MAC could save to windows nt Dr let's have a look here let's see if there's anything special you need to do to save to it, hang on one second.
Michael T Ganschow Green: seeding to windows nt Dr could save those let's see you test the Internet because the Internet knows everything.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And he was empty fs Dr MAC right let's see if there's anything special do to do to do MAC versus PC blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Michael T Ganschow Green: blah blah blah MAC os nt fs format, but not right to them okay all right, in other words, is MAC user, you can only open and view files and windows can copy new files into empty vest and this guy discover solutions okay so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If you want it to be able to use both.
Michael T Ganschow Green: looks like you'll have to format it to fat 32 which is.
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Michael T Ganschow Green: The you may have to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: format it to fat 32 which is Ms dos formatting because everybody can read fat 32 the the catch with.
Michael T Ganschow Green: With fat 32 is that you run into file naming length limits, they have character limits and how many characters you can use naming files, but everybody will.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Save to it so you'll probably have to reformat your drive to to fat 32 either on the PC or on the MAC either one will will reformat it fine i'm just make sure to backup your files before you do that, because of reformat will.
Michael T Ganschow Green: wipe out all of your files on the drive, so I would copy that copy the drive file somewhere format, the drive to a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It doesn't have any fun oh cool Okay, so you just format and go yeah then then depending on what computer you're on.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can either on the PC it's formatted for you can you can format it to fat 32 there, or you can format at the fat 32 on the MAC and it should go cross platform, really, really easily.
Michael T Ganschow Green: MAC makes it super easy they have a disk utility you basically right click wants to disk utility you're like I want this to be this format.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So so yeah fat 32 will work for both of those so fingers crossed.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So um let me know if you are having any issue with your Dr Cathy and we'll see if we can we'll see if we can iron that out other questions that was a good one that's gotten to drive format and question in a while that's a good one.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright cool so we've talked about file formats, let me show you real quick how I want you to set up your website files Okay, this will keep you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Going insane Okay, I have a very specific file setup that I make you guys do for this class and i'm going to go over it again and again and again throughout the Semester, so you will remember it, I promise.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It really helps This basically keeps all of your files.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Properly stored in the right places, so that you don't have.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Broken links happening all over the place where like your CSS file disconnects from one of your pages, or you your images disconnect in your book and image links and all of that, if you file that final this.
Michael T Ganschow Green: New ship, this should kill about 95% of linking issues Okay, so when you're making your project folders.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can name them whatever you want will use my class folders as examples here so who's gic 175 you can name them whatever you want, however, there are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Immediate restrictions that you have to worry about with file naming conventions for the Web okay fine web file naming conventions are surprisingly specific.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And really what they're the reason why they're so specific is because they're made so that a server does not accidentally treat anything you put in the file name as a command.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Because they can and things can get a little bit interesting if you do so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So rules of thumb on file naming and the Web before we get into I want I want everything to be laid out one.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Know capitals, the web is an entirely lowercase place when it comes to file naming now, you may have found files that have uppercase in them or capitals in them.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And yes, they do exist and servers are getting better about recognizing capitals and file names, but it does still cause some issues so in order for smooth function, you want to make sure you don't use any capitals in your name.
Michael T Ganschow Green: that's one.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Number two no special characters in naming so no exclamation points no at signs, no question marks.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You know no stars know anything that you would see in a cartoon swear word that's not welcome in web files no special characters exclamation points, no question marks and punctuation the stars, no, you know, no, no.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Tell days, no none of that no no special characters if if, when a cartoon character swears and you see those characters those are the characters you don't want in your filing.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Three, and this is really bizarre no spaces, no spaces at all in your file names okay none zero why, because when you upload a file with with a space in it to a server.
Michael T Ganschow Green: server will fill it with junk characters the space, I mean, which will a break the link to the file and your websites and make loops you ever just gone or oops but I CSS I didn't need the website to look good I guess.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And so, also sometimes it'll fill them with special characters because servers are funny and weird and literal and when it does that sometimes i've written a command for myself and run something.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So no spaces to save your sanity so well capitals, especially characters no spaces well what if I want to have a space in my name well that's easy that's easy you substitute the space with either an underscore or a dash I recommend using dashes because a lot of.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Advanced website.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Pre builders of content management systems and things like that will generate files with dashes in them, so I recommend using dashes in the place of spaces, on your website.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So.
Michael T Ganschow Green: No capitals, no special characters no spaces if you're gonna run spaces, you see the dashes or underscores in them.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Now, when you are putting your site files together in your folders these are called route folders okay what we're setting up here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: route folders and why they're called route folders is because they are the central based directory that your website lives in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Central based directory that it lives in now, you can you can call the folder whatever you want I typically recommend for project folders in fact i'm going to change the name of this one, I can make another.
Michael T Ganschow Green: gic 175 folder I typically recommend for the project here in fact we'll put it in the Center he hey hey hey i'm gonna put you oh yeah that's right i've got it set to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Use stacks unchecked, yes, thank you now, I can move you around hey no stop snapping.
Michael T Ganschow Green: group stack show view options turned grouping off boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo look at cool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Well it's not going to turn off, is it all right fine and we will.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I will go okay cool so now here we go now it moves alright so i've got this guy out in the Center now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So typically what I recommend in my.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In it, for naming your files, particularly for your projects is to name it.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Project, whatever the number is dash your initials that way it's separate you know it's yours, you know, a project is stored there i'm not going to require you to name your projects this way.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I don't I don't ever requirement of what the overall root folder is named I do require our names on the inside of it, though, but so notice the name has no capitals, no special characters and no spaces.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So now inside here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We were going to put in a set of folders I have setting loose leaf a an html file a little a webpage this guy is named index Okay, this is important.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The very first page you want to show in a browser in your folder regardless of whether it's the homepage or not, or whether it's a splash page or whether it's a landing page whatever you want to show people first okay.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You want to name that index because browsers are trained programmed to look in folders and look for.
Michael T Ganschow Green: files named index, and you find this html and php whatever you want to display first name index in all lowercase nine times out of 10 it's a homepage but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Whatever it may be index.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Then, Nice and lowercase now i'm going to make you make for folders when you're putting your route folders together inside them.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You won't be using them all of them for a little while but i'm going to make you make them for every one of your projects okay.
Michael T Ganschow Green: First things first their first folder.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A CSS folder a CSS folder contains all of our cascading style sheets Okay, these are the other text file that controls the appearance of our web pages.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This CSS will make sure that we are that your honor cascading style sheets are in a good place and make sure that they're not all in a bunch of random places where links can get broken.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All right now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Next, one images.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Images is is well i'm lying teeth images, is a great life here's why.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Images is the folder where yes, you stick images all your pictures all of your images your your your your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: logos your illustrations your pictures all of that goes in images, yes, but it doesn't only contain images images contains.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Every file okay that you want to show in the Web browser that is not a web page so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All of your pictures all of your images all of your downloadable files pdfs things like that that goes in your images anything you want visible in the browser or as a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Low double file in the browser that in an html CSS or behavioral script goes in images, I used to call this folder assets in my classes.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But every automated site writer from from a big cms like wordpress all the way down write it as an images folder so fine.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Fine, you guys find the Internet wants it to be an images folder it'll be an images folder but it ain't just for images for every linked item that you want to show in a browser window, that is not an html CSS or behavioral script.
Michael T Ganschow Green: well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Speaking of behavioral scripts That brings us to a folder called scripts scripts is a home for our little what are called J s files dot J s another text edit that you can save this js these files and behaviors.
Michael T Ganschow Green: of things that shift and move around and interact on your website, a good chunk of the very basic ones we do a CSS more advanced ones we, as the scripts to handle.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we're not gonna deal too much with that until oh probably somewhere midway through project three so don't worry too much about it will just be making them.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Each time we do one of these, to make sure you have this folder in place and to make sure that you're set and then lastly.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We have a housekeeping folder called working graphics and working graphics is for all of your original files your pstn your as your imdb word docs.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All of the stuff you're using to make optimized images and optimize pictures and write the text for your website before you put it in your html everything that you're using to build the website you put in this working graphics folder.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And the reason why this thing exists is a so you can turn in your preliminary work for me be so you can turn in your your non web related files to me, but if this was a real website, we would never put this working graphics folder online ever period.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Because it's just a waste of server space to have pst sitting there clogging it up.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Or, I am de de files clogging it up or ups files clogging up or anything that we're not actually going to use in the Web browser clogging up, however.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm gonna make you guys clogging up my server with all of these things so that I can get your original files and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You guys can can show me your work, so this would be where your preliminary work goes in and all the pictures of your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: of your thumbnails and you know all the scans of anything you're using his research and all of that all of that will go into working graph so all your preliminary work goes in there.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then, all of this will go online.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So this file structure we're going to go over this a lot, because this is a and make it mandatory and be to preserve a little.
Michael T Ganschow Green: sanity that remains any little shred of it that remains.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Throughout this so you don't have so you lose your mind over things that are worth losing your mind about like how do I do this rather than holy crap I put my site up and it broke what happened.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And if you follow these guidelines you stick of CSS is in the CSS file.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You stick all of your link files and images you stick your all of your html pages loose leaf, and you stick all of your behavior scripts and scripts.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And you link nothing out of the working graphics folder I don't want to see.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your html is pointing into the working graphics folder to find pictures or images or downloadable files or any of that you're going to if you do that, you know.
Michael T Ganschow Green: there's only heartbreak I may in fact make you zip you're working graphics folder before you put your stuff up to break those links, so you can see that happening might require that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: will see as projects get closer to due dates so working graphics is strictly for original files that interaction, no other way with the website.
Michael T Ganschow Green: questions on this file format stuff.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Have you scratching your head about it seems awfully strip we show you something Jason.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This is an ftp software, right here Okay, this is my local computer right here, and this is Austin Texas, where my web where our class website lives.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Our class websites structure.
Michael T Ganschow Green: huh huh CSS images script oh.
Michael T Ganschow Green: whoo indexes where's my index dot html my project one my project to my project three my project for there's that student work page I was talking about um there's that class recordings page I was talking about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This same structure is powering the class website, as we speak it absolutely works and you absolutely want to use it to keep your brain saying so you don't have linking failures okay.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Because linking failures are the number one cause of insanity in this class Okay, I promise you, the number one cause of insanity in this class so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Not more than I can't get this to do anything or how do I fix this design problem, no thing drives people up the wall, why will this not link.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There it is by the way, your student files live in here and look at all these semesters all these semesters yes that's how much student work is here and it's all linked up on the forum, so you can go look.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then you all are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Just like that so questions on anything I went over tonight.
Michael T Ganschow Green: alrighty then because I.
Michael T Ganschow Green: vacuumed out the inside of my brain giving you all of the class care and feeding things we covering a lot of this in bits and pieces in the future.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But I wanted to make sure that young gun over the syllabus whenever project one whenever the forum, whatever file structures so now that you know that hopefully you're prepared.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For what lies ahead because next class we're going to go over how does webpage work exactly where the Internet come from how does page layout applying the Web designer other science facts so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If you have questions feel free to message me canvas.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I am I am why i'm pretty broadly available in evenings and weekends for other zoom sessions to answer questions I have.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But you guys that have emailed me know I get back pretty quick or I try to anyway, I can't guarantee it during the middle of the workday because I have a day job at the studio but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I will attempt to as best as I can, so you have any questions you know where to find me, and you can for sure find me twice a week Tuesday Thursdays here doing weirdo lectures, except on spring break on taking spring break off too.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So all right any other questions.
kianabohm: stopping you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You are very welcome.
Izzy Bento: Thank you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: you're welcome.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And I towards.
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Michael T Ganschow Green: All right, I will go into the preview then we'll end every sock puppet action taking.
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Michael T Ganschow Green: All right.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Thank you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Later later so For those of you are watching the pre recorded version of this class, this is, this is why there's sock puppets all over the forums, I make no apologies.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Later recording people stop cloud recording.