Fall 09 week 9:—11/09/09: Wed. 9:00 - 12:00

Hi Everybody,
It was a nice class we had this week. It seems that most of you have gotten what we worked on in class. As mentioned, I will go back to the issue of drop-down menus in class next week; however, there is one small piece of homework that I'd like you to take care of over the weekend and bring to class next week.
Carter-

WEEK 9

1. Classwork
• LINK    This week's class files



2. Homework
• exercise 1— Please look at your midterm project and make some modifications to your menu. You should include any drop-down menus that I ask for below. These do NOT have to actually link to pages yet, but make certain that you've begun to design your page to accommodate them. This means I want you to have made space for the drop-down menus that I ask for and to put something there in their places even if you don't get them to work properly as we did in class. In addition, you should begin doing the research to gather all the necessary information below to fill up your pages:
1. Make certain that your INDEX FILE has a total of at least six links in your menu. These links must include the following:
1. Home;
2. Bio/Biography;
3. an Image Gallery (of Art Works)—This should be a drop-down menu with at least 3 links and each page should have 8-10 images;
4. Video—This will be explained in class;
5. Your own link—depending on who your artist is and what he/she does, you should come up with an idea for an additional page all your own. This should NOT include a contact page;
6. Information: This should be a drop-down menu which contains two buttons—
   1. Information about gallery or museum Exhibitions;
   2. Information about your research and what can be discovered about the artist: this is known as a Bibliography—This part of nearly everyone's project was VERY weak. Please make sure that you use good sources both online and, I advise, offline; and then, make certain that you document where you got your information. This page should be thorough: all of you have chosen famous artists, so make sure you do some research and put a list of sources for more information here. Also, categorize them according to whether they are books, articles websites, or something else.
      
      Other good sources of information are your Art History teachers, or me;


• exercise 2— If it is not already, make sure that the size of your pages is at least 800px X 600px landscape.



• EXTRA CREDIT— As you may have discovered, the use of the text array did not work properly in class on Monday. This is due to the fact that the type of symbol that we used was a button. It would only have worked if we had made the buttons out of movieclips as demonstrated a couple weeks ago.
  
  Extra credit goes to the person on Monday who can show me how to create a drop-down menu using movie-clips that do three things:
  1. change color when the user mouses over (and changes back when the user mouses off); and
  2. displays the text from the array;
  3. opens up a URL (a website) when the buttons are clicked on--the other (wk10) file that I have in the .zip folder shows how this can be achieved;