Web Publishing for Journalists
by Dr Christopher Scanlon
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Description
Journalists are increasingly being expected to possess some basic skills in online production. In this subject, students develop and edit a web publication. The subject introduces students to the basics of web design, including HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and the skills necessary to create and prepare graphics for the web.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoWorkshop 09: An Image Slideshow in Adobe Bridge | In this week's workshop, we'll use Adobe Bridge to create a slick photo slideshow powered by Flash. | 10/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoBuilding an Audience: Social Media | By the time you read this Facebook may be dead and Twitter may be in their death throes. Or they may be thriving. | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoWorkshop 08: More Layout and SEO tips | In this short workshop we'll look a closer look at the tag. We'll also look at some ways to use — an reuse — HTML tags through using the "id" attribute. | 10/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoBuilding an Audience: Search Engine Optimisation | This lecture will introduce you to basic techniques of search engine optimisation. | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoWorkshop 07: Introduction to Photoshop | In this workshop, we'll be using Photoshop to prepare some images for the web and then use the tag place them in a page. | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoWorking With Images on the Net | This week, we take a bit of a break from coding, to look at how to prepare images for the web. | 9/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoWorkshop 06: Layout and Positioning | Over the last few weeks, we've been looking at the details of designing web pages in isolation from one another. This week, we begin to bring these isolated skills together, by exmaning the different ways of laying out pages. | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoLayout and Positioning Content in the Browser | This lecture provides an overview of the different ways to position content in the browser window. It covers some of the new HTML elements for laying out pages, including header, nav, article, section, aside, footer and div. | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoWorkshop 05: Navigation | In this week's workshop we'll combine the HTML unordered list and list item tags with some CSS to create horizontal and diagonal menus. | 9/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoNavigation, Page Layout and Design Principles | This lecture builds on the theory of the design considerations and issues about accessibility and useability from previous weeks. | 9/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoWorkshop 04: Introducing CSS | In this week's workshop we'll be using styles to alter the appearance of the HTML pages we've created. | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoThe Basics of CSS | It would be a dull old web without Cascading Style Sheets — not to mention a time-consuming one to maintain. | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoWorkshop 03: More HTML | Introduction to some more HTML tags and attributes. In this workshop, learn how to force a link to open in a new instance of the browser, create a title for a link, create internal page anchors and a mailto: | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoUsabiltity and Accessibility on the Web | What makes for a good user experience? In this lecture we'll look at what the research says about usability and accessibility for the web. | 8/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoWorkshop 02: HTML | Practical HTML demonstration, and how to organise files on your website. | 8/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoHTML: A First Look | A first look at HTML, how it works, and some basic code. | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoWorkshop 01: Setting up a WordPress.com Account | How to set up and customise a wordpress.com blog account. | 8/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoIntroduction and Overview | Introduction and overview of web publishing for journalists. | 8/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 18 Episodes |
