5. Documents and Pages
Tuesday
Activities will include:
- Discussion of Chapter 4
- Presentation on whole document design and media/format.
- Workshop on Word stylesheets and other formatting features. Download exercise file.
- Filling out your weekly schedule of free time for project partnerships.
Thursday
Activities will include:
- Discussion of unusually formatted documents that you bring into class
- Discussion of concepts from Chapter 5
- How to create visual hierarchy on a page
- General discussion of Grid Systems
- Grids are Good (PDF)
- Golden Ratio
- Section on grids in textbook
- Web example: I-Renew website, with GridFox overlay
- Blueprint CSS
- Settings for 12-unit pseudo-grid for Word:
| Word 2007 for Windows | Word 2008 for Macintosh |
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