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Web Graphics and Site Design
Animation / Interactive Presentation/Software Development
  
Website Design & Graphics
Session WGFA01: Saturday, 10am - 4:00pm; September 11
MAC members: $199 Nonmembers: $230

This course covers all the details of planning and designing a website as well as creating, preparing and optimizing graphics for web pages using Adobe Photoshop.

Topics include:
  • Server options
  • Design Templates
  • Flow Charting
  • File Management
  • GIF vs JPEG vs PNG format
  • Compression
  • Designing for different operating systems and browsers
  • Website Design Flaws to avoid
  • Interlacing
  • Creating Transparency
  • Graphical Buttons and Rollovers
  • Resolution
  • Animation
  • Seamless Background Tiles
  • Favicons

This class prepares users for work in Dreamweaver.
Class limited to 8 students. Specify Windows or Macintosh.
Prerequisite: Basic computer skills*.
Recommended companion course:
Dreamweaver (Package price eligible)
Instructor: Ted Maynard

Learn Website Design
Take Website Design & Graphics and Adobe Dreamweaver classes
for only $488. (Save $40)
(Courses may be taken at any time. MAC-Orange membership required. Cannot be combined with any other offers. No refunds on unused classes. Certificate of Completion included on request.)
 
Adobe Dreamweaver
Session DWFA01: Saturdays, 10am - 4pm; September 18, 25
Session DWFA02: Mon thru Thurs, 6-8:30pm; November 15, 16, 17, 18
MAC members: $329 Nonmembers: $375

This new class covers the basic of Adobe's flagship website design program, the standard for website creation.

Topics include:
  • CSS
  • Tag, Class and ID Styles
  • External and Embedded Style Sheets
  • Site Planning
  • Setting up a New Site Definition
  • The Dreamweaver Interface
  • Tables
  • Page Properties
  • Navigation
  • Rollovers
  • Remote Rollovers
  • Head Items
  • Meta Tags
  • Source Code
  • Inserting Graphics
  • Flash (flv and swf)
  • FTP Connection to a Server
  • Uploading and Synchronizing

Class limited to 8 students. Specify Windows or Macintosh.
Prerequisite: Basic computer skills*.
Recommended companion course:
Website Design & Graphics (Package price eligible)
Instructor: Ted Maynard

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Adobe Director
Private training available
$89 per hour

Director is one of the primary softwares used to create games, training and presentations on CDROM, and kiosk presentations

Topics can include: sprites, QuickTime digital video, sound effects & music, key frame, frame by frame and real-time animation, tempo, transitions, puppetsounds, basic Lingo scripting, buttons and navigation. Advanced animation techniques, advanced Lingo programming, registration points, external linking, alpha channel transparency, font embedding, Shockwave, QuickTime and projector export, behaviors, rollovers, and cross-platform file management, synchronizing audio and visual media, internal and external Xtras, fast start projectors, and multiple casts. Advanced Lingo code covers sound volume and fade control, timers, intra-movie navigation, sprite control, numeric & text variables, arguments, custom cursors and more.

Prerequisite: basic computer skills*.
Instructor: Ted Maynard


* Basic computer skills include opening a file from within a program, and the ability to click, double click and mouse down & drag with a mouse. Also, students should have experience opening and saving files from within a program and have the ability to navigate to different folders.
For more information on the Media Arts Center of Orange:
Telephone 203.795.6400
Email: Media Arts Center of Orange Information


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