Lecture

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Highlights

1. HTML Boiler Plate
   
2. Misc. Stuff

Student Check List

Review

What do you recall from last week? Signoff... what does it mean You saw this in the FALL DB GILLES Professor New York University Tisch School of Arts Mr. M. colleague says it best in his book: In the tech world, there is a widely known, comically named behavior that takes over many a novice with they get into technology related arts. It's said they get:  GAS - Gear Acquisition Syndrome. The inexperienced think the more they buy, the more advanced the technology they have, the more amazing their work will be. It doesn't work that way. More gadgets and gizmos usually become a huge distraction. Novices may try to "buy" a sense of artistic accomplishment by getting all the glitzy stuff available them, but it seldom works,  because art is never about the technology. Employers will look for the raw talent and whether it's there or not. Fortunately, talent is NOT a function of money. ~ Quote from DB Gilles BOOK.

Tip of the Day

Student R&D Department

Thanks students for these: Thanks Dustan I was watching TV the other night and a commercial came on actually surprised me quite a bit to see it. http://www.1and1.com Its a website that makes websites for businesses really cheap I think I didn't really look into it.

Terms you gotta know...

Important terms you should know (i.e. with Googling them - like for a job interview, or verbal discussions) Terms: HTML Boiler Plate Best Investment you can make in yourself...

Lecture Topic: 

Mr. M. Forgot to cover

Movie:
http://youtu.be/KBluUZ4NnZg

Look at LAST week, you missed a few things

Mr. M. to do $1000 website assignment -- why would that  be??

Have you seen:

http://www.sandfantasy.com/



After the lecture in the Fall, in MM 118  Mr. M. asked Kevin Element (professional web designer, Bachelor of Art degree, has and STILL works in industry as web designer)






Mr. M. values "professional" opinions - of people that are actively working in industry and have been PAID


Mr. M. has been building websites since 1995, and has owned 50 domain names, but his company has ONLY done $25,000 worth of web design for clients...

ReadPlease Corporation (his company) chooses to focus on developing and selling software....  about $1_____ worth since 1995.
  

Remember, in MM "everyone is an expert"   <-- a source of frustration....


He asked Kevin to name 3 things he liked about the Sand Art site:
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2
3



Kevin said:
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and highlighted some serious and basic design flaws.


http://www.sandfantasy.com/


Mr. M. has suggested to all teachers, to DO every assignment, to check the "work load" required.

Mr. M. sometimes forgets, how LONG and how much TIME he had to put in to learn things... especially the basics.


Generally if Mr. M. can do this assignment in say 3 hours....
        it might take a student who is brand NEW to this, about three times that much ( 9 hours) to get a "B" grade.

If the student had to do another identical assignment, it would be much much faster.

Lecture Topic: HTML 5 Boiler Plate

SHow Joey's

Want to become an EXCELLENT hard-core programmer, with a reputation....

Join the BoilerPlate team... don't expect a few short courses  to give you everything you might want... it is impossible..

http://html5boilerplate.com/

- So, you want to do a lot more programming....

Why not sign up to contribute to boilerplate?  earn a reputation there...

Give it some thought.

Mr. M. found a text file in zip

http://humanstxt.org/

Lecture Topic: 

Proof of the Pudding - Practice What you Preach.

Message:

    Don't be impressed with expensive hardware, equipment and software...




Coming to a Lecture Theatre near you - January 21, 2012

AFTER reading DB's Book....

Five years ago,

Mr. M. entered a world-wide video contest for a 30 second video and came first and WON 1st Place --- $3,000 USD.

This lead him to work for a video production company in Ottawa for 1 year, as a freelancer.

Details:

Time to think of concept: 7 weeks

Time to learn: large amount of time

Camera: $159.

Storyboards: 9+ pages

Software: iMovie (free with Mac),  Audacity (free)

Lighting: DIY - Do it yourself

Music: http://icompositions.com  Creative Commons

Footage: 1 hour 15 minutes

Finished product 30 seconds.

Time taken:      a ton.

Since then, Mr. M. has learned a great deal and is currently focusing on the BASICS of audio and photography.

Mr. M. says, for a  well conceived 30 second clip

   will take him    100 hours, likely MORE.  But great fun,

and the most Mr. M. ever got for a 30 second broadcast TV commercial was $1,400...

but that is still $14.00 per hour for doing something fun... on the side... and learning a whole lot...

Big companies will pay $100,000's or much more... for a good 30 second TV ad.

Show 2nd Place

Parents Control Guidance   $1,000 WINNER...
What did Mr. M. learn from the guy...

More about technology, hardware, equipment - GAS  - Video 9 minutes

This looks like it is about VIDEO - but it isn't really.

While MANY are impressed with the latest most expensive,
  greatest cameras, hardware, software... Mr. M. is not....


This video drives home this point....

Usually GAS is a symptom of amateurs...

Field of View: The Recital (9:16)

The Wisest Investment You Can Make is In Yourself - 10 minutes

SEASON: 1  EPISODE: 101  RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 8, 2007

Chuck Peters reflects on what makes a pro a pro and challenges producers to shift the focus of their minds to think less like technicians and more like artists and to invest in their talent, not just their equipment.

http://www.digitaljuice.com/djtv/detail.aspx?sid=88

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Movie of the Week

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Lab

Highlights

1. Receive your .info from Mr. M. - get a Godaddy Account
   
2. 5 min favicon sing-a-long - be a pro!
   
3. Start your $1000 website Google Doc
4. Client Sign-offs
5. Work on your client website.
6. Lots to do... not sure if we can get it all done... let's try.
7. Feb 4 due date for assignment is extended.

Lab Topic: Mr. M. to demo the purchase of .info

Godaddy...

u: confederationcollege

p: fy st  gr  you know MrM.

and try to transfer ownership to you.

You MUST sign up for an account at

http://godaddy.com

PUT INFO IN YOUR

What I learned document

Lab Topic: 5 minute sing-a-long fav icon

Be a Pro Department

Do you know what a favicon is?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

It is required for Assignment.

DEMO - sing-a-long - Favicon

Steps

1. Go to Google images
2. Search for the word "logo"
   
3. Select ICON sized under advanced search
4. find a nice SQUARE image
5. save to desktop
6. upload to
   http://www.favicon.cc/
7. Create the favicon.ico and study how you would add it to a site.
   

Where does a favicon show up?

Suggestion:
Put the favicion.cc site in your What I learned in MM 218 document today!

Lab Topic: Getting your clients approval

In you Assignment Google Doc, add this.

---------START COPY ----------

Scope of Work

I will build a website for you for $1000

-(try to describe the project, in your own words as best you can)

- HINT: have you ever heard of "rounds of changes" - like from last week .au site...

- At least have a template screen shot, so Client knows what they are getting.

- did you agree to do a new logo for the client? if so, put it in here.

Terms of Payment

- 50% upfront

- 50% upon completion

Client Approval

Get the CASH.

Date: Jan __, 20__

Ask Mr. M. to APPROVE this BEFORE you go

- he will review and approve

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Homework

- Work on getting CONTENT into your Client's website, and building the site