1. TC 310 The Computer in Technical Communication
Dr. Jennifer Turns
Week 6, Day 1 (11/4)

2. Day 11 By the end of class, students should be able to: What we’ll do…
Identify strategies for strengthening work submitted for grading
Identify lessons acquired from the HTML assignment
Identify the requirements for assignment 6 (Dreamweaver)
Configure Dreamweaver for a single site
Use basic Dreamweaver functionality to create/edit a site.
What we’ll do…
Discuss feedback on grading
Explore web pages created for assignment 5
Introduce Assignment 6 (Dreamweaver)
Introduction to Dreamweaver

3. Grading Results… Grades range from C+ to A.
Majority of solutions are strong, solid, professional
Common areas for improvement
Design rationale is missing information – complete rationale: decisions + goal + alternative
Design rationale are not improving: better rationales connect to users, connect to global goals, explore a range of decisions (not just decisions about color)
Professional activity not different from design rationale
Professional activity – items for resume, items for project plan, I spent time on this…
Self-directed learning is not evident.

4. Debrief – Asgn 5 – Effective Links
Design Effective Links (Farkas and Farkas, 2000)
Be sure that all links indicate that they are links
Work to ensure that users will view & notice links
Be sure that all links indicate their destinations
Making the heuristics work for us
Unpack the heuristics
For each heuristic,
Identify one good example.
Identify one instance that could be improved.

5. Looking backward and forward
Where we’ve been
Activated UW Web Publishing
Gained experience with HTML
Practiced publishing HTML files with FTP
Practiced debugging HMTL code
Emphasized web pages
Where we’re going
Work on multiple page sites
Use Dreamweaver to manage HTML
Explore design strategies made easier with Dreamweaver

6. What is a website. Definition A website can exist
A website is a collection of html pages that contain references to each other, and the images, movies, animations, etc. referred to by the pages.
A website can exist
Locally and Remotely
On a machine you work on directly or one you connect to via FTP
Accessible or Inaccessible to the Internet
Although for external parties to see the pages, they much ultimately reside on a machine connected to the Internet

7. Planning a website
Planning a website consists of determining the number of pages and the relationships among those pages.
What benefits are gained by planning the website before starting the actual coding of a site?

8. Thinking about Dreamweaver..
How does Dreamweaver facilitate web page / web site design?

9. The rest of the tutorial
Getting familiar with Dreamweaver
Update the site with simple edits
Publish the “TC-Topics-Web” website
Extend site with a third page, and publish

10. Looking Ahead Due Dates Next Class Assignment 6 Includes:
Tuesday (11/9)
By class
Includes:
Solution
Annotations
Next Class
In Lab: More on Dreamweaver

11. Hints Practice moving your site to another location
Move the website’s folder (or sites folder), then
Redefine the site in Dreamweaver (Site>NewSite).
This will ensure that you know are comfortable with the “define a site” functionality.
Know where you are saving your site.
I recommend that you save your websites in a consistent place (such as a folder called U:\sites\mysite (where mysite represents the name of the folder containing your site)
You can save the site almost anywhere
If you choose to save the site at another location, be aware of where you are saving it!

12. More Hints! File references in HTML are case sensitive
If a link/URL is not working, check that you have the right combination of upper and lowercase letters!
Test (publish) early and often
Be successful early
Extend your successes