Things to Consider III

Previously mentioned

Image Compression (brief review)

• It’s time for them to put what was taught to the test. Proper selection of image formats and compression techniques are essential to a well-made website and one that loads instantly verses next week.

CSS vs. HTML formatting

• Why and when to use them as a separate document and in document formatting, along with strengths and weaknesses.

Website snooping and or saving

• It would be beneficial that the students know how to and understand how to find snipits of code and extract and apply them. this information can also aid them in debugging their own site if the need arises and can be preformed either in note pad (not recommended) or a full editor like Dreamweaver.

New Considerations

Standardize the work environment.

• Establish the adobe work environment that the class will be taught in. I suggest the one called “Designer Compact” as it provides access to common menus without cluttering the screen. My work environment is also not far off from this one.

On Role Over events

• It is possible to change images and text once a mouse is over top of it. I have seen this used to great effect before on sites and think it could prove useful to the students.

Pop Ups

• Love them or hate them, they are handy.

Audio Embedding

• A proper way to embed audio that doesn’t involve play back plugins using HTML5 tags.

Video Embedding

• At least one demonstration of video embedding threw either external services or threw HTML5 tags. If tags are used, then we have to cover proper video export for playback. (two formats required for proper browser support)

Photoshop Web Slices

• This would allow them to place legacy hotspots in images and design some more visually appealing layouts of pages. It would also allow those who are more familiar with Photoshop to do most of the design stage in Photoshop.