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10:00 Group 1

Kelly
– Portfolio multimedia — video, sound, imagery (lots of types)
Michael
– Portfolio for design website — video
Diana
– not_sure

10:30 Group 2

Kathy P.
– Portfolio for design/illustration
Sarah B.
– Artist website. Coding/Technical expedition research.
Sarah M.
– Portfolio site

11:00 Group 3

Nate
– Redesign of company website
Mark
– Medical Services website (2-D designs)
Franziska
– Company website – but not there
Kate
– not_sure

11:30 Group 4

Cansu
– Musical Theater club. Small group website.
Angi
– Small company website / about food /
Miyoung
– Teacher website
Meaghan
– Website for Staffs homeless shelters. Signup, calendar. Existing site.

9am: Meet as a class

• Recap Greg’s presentation & process

10am-12pm: Small group meetings with John/Jerel

1. What do you want to make?
2. Split up in to 4 Groups of 3/4 based on type of website
3. Set up meetings with John/Jerel at 30 minute intervals starting at 10am. Put groupnames in comments below.

1pm—3pm: Individual meetings as needed

3pm: Present initial research to your small group

Weekend: Sketch, continue research

Dan Wood is a letterpress printer based in Providence. He’ll be showing his work in the One Room Museum inside the Benefit Street entrance to the RISD Museum.

More on Dan at dwriletterpress.net

Jennifer Niederst Robbins has been a Web designer since 1993. She designed the web’s first commercial site, O’Reilly’s Global Network Navigator (GNN).[1]

Since 2000, Robbins has lived in Providence, Rhode Island, where she has worked as a freelance designer, teacher, lecturer and consultant through her company Littlechair, Inc. She has taught at Johnson & Wales University and at the Massachusetts College of Art.

See more about Jen at jenville.com

Then go to lunch, meet back at 1pm

1. CSS was part of the HTML4 specification (1999) and authored by the w3c
2. Structure, structure, structure
3. Model example from yesterday
4. New York Times without stylesheets
5. Look at “Welcome to Locally Made” coding
6. Look at a few other websites via the HTML