Session 5 - Completing The Structure For The Links Page/Briefing On Site Analysis

If You Were Absent
Many of you were away today. If you were absent, please get up to speed before next session by using the session outline for Session 5 [Wed 030811] here. Here is a link to the final code for the links page. This code represents what students had at the end of the session. Also, check the briefing for the site analysis task in the same session document.

Homework

• Next session [Mon 080811] we start in Photoshop. Please complete your final homepage sketch and bring it in next session as a guide for production.


• Here is an Example Comp for you to study. Please download it, open it in Photoshop and examine the structure of the file. In particular look in the Layers Panel to see what's going on.
  
  If you are not experienced with Photoshop you can gain a good understanding of the Layers by turning them on one by one. From the bottom of the Layers Panel turn each layer on, one at a time, to understand all the comp's components from the background upwards.
  
  The layers are comparable to physical layers of acetate. Starting from the bottom and stacking up they form the final composite image - in this case it is a web page layout that is formed through the accumulation of the layers.
  
  As your layers become many and complex you can further organise them into Layer Groups. You can see how these gather your layers into logical groupings as you examine the example file.
  
  PLEASE NOTE - There will be a short quiz on this example comp file worth 2.5% of your final grade.

See you all next time.