Adobe Web Tech Curriculum

Revised for Adobe Creative Suite 2

Adobe Web Tech Curriculum has been completely updated to reflect the CS2 products. CS2 Update boxes have been added throughout the lessons to provide a reference point for those who may be familiar with the previous version of the curriculum and software. The update boxes identify significant changes in the software versions to help students build on previous knowledge.

This online year-long course shows high school students how to complete a Web site design project using five great Adobe products:

  • Adobe® InDesign® CS2 — prepare Web site design documents
  • Adobe Illustrator® CS2 — create illustrations for both the design document and the Web site
  • Adobe GoLive® CS2 — build the Web site
  • Adobe Photoshop® CS2 — create and edit images for the site
  • Adobe Acrobat® 7.0 — distribute information

Also available: The original Adobe Web Tech Curriculum for Adobe Creative Suite 1 software as well as versions prior to Adobe Creative Suite.

Adobe Web Tech CS2 Table of Contents

Internet Overview

Unit 1: Introduction to the Internet

Web Site Planning

Unit 2: Planning a Web Project, Part 1

  • Lesson 2.1: The Web Design Process
    • Overview of the Design Process
    • Design Considerations — Technical
    • Design Considerations — Usability
    • Design Considerations — Accessibility
    • Introduction to Web Teams
  • Lesson 2.2: Project Management
    • Project Team Members
    • Project Life Cycle
    • Project Scheduling
    • Project Maintenance Plan
    • Critical Path Analysis
  • Lesson 2.3: GoLive Basics
    • Creating a GoLive Site
    • The GoLive Site Window and Site Toolbar
    • The GoLive Document Window and Document Toolbar
    • Under the Hood — What is HTML?
    • Under the Hood — Why Understand the HTML Code?
    • Creating XHTML-Compliant Pages
    • The GoLive Objects Palette and Inspector
    • The GoLive Workspace
  • Lesson 2.4: Information Design
    • Information Architecture
    • Transcript of Gage Vintage Guitars Interview
    • Web Team Client Interview
    • Introduction to the Design Document
    • Design Document for Gage Vintage Guitars
    • Web Team Design Document
  • Lesson 2.5: InDesign Basics 1
    • InDesign's Default Palettes
    • Creating a New InDesign Document
    • Saving an InDesign Document
    • Opening an InDesign Document
    • Working with InDesign Palettes
    • Adding Text to an InDesign Document
    • Placeholder Text and the Character Palette
    • Selecting and Styling Text
    • Paragraph Formatting
    • Paragraph Effects
    • Creating Text Frame Shapes
    • Flowing Text to Other Frames
    • Drawing a Line
    • Using InDesign to Create a Design Document Sign-off Sheet
  • Lesson 2.6: InDesign Basics 2
    • The Document Grid
    • Integrating Graphic Images
    • Scaling Type
    • Leading, Kerning, and Tracking
    • Master Pages
    • Adding Page Numbers to Master Pages
    • Importing Short Text Files
    • Importing Long Text Files and Using Autoflow

Unit 3: Planning a Web Project, Part 2

  • Lesson 3.1: Site Design
    • Site Organization
    • Linear Structure
    • Hierarchical Structure
    • Random Access Structure
    • Mixed Structure
    • Architectual Blueprint
    • Site Navigation
    • Site Interactivity (Functionality)
    • Overall Site Usability
    • Design Document — Site Design Section
  • Lesson 3.2: GoLive Site Diagrams 1
    • Creating a GoLive Site Diagram
    • Site Diagram Elements
    • Creating Site Diagram Sections
    • The Diagram Section Toolbar
    • Adding Pages to a Site Diagram Section
    • Adding Individual Pages to a Site Diagram
    • Changing the Site Diagram Display
    • Annotating a Site Diagram
  • Lesson 3.3: Illustrator Basics
    • Getting Started
    • Opening and Importing Graphic Images
    • The Illustrator Toolbox
    • The Default Palettes
    • Saving Images
    • Illustrator's Document Window and Artboard
    • Drawing and Selecting Basic Objects
    • Working with Type
    • The Character and Paragraph Palettes
  • Lesson 3.4: Page Design
    • Major Tasks of the Page Design Phase
    • Page Layout
    • Sketches and Mock-ups
    • Web-Based Prototypes
    • Finishing the Design Document
  • Lesson 3.5: GoLive Site Diagrams 2
    • Creating Diagram Groups
    • Applying Box and Level Icons
    • Staging Site Diagrams
    • Submitting Site Diagrams

Web Site Development 1

Unit 4: GoLive, (X)HTML, and CSS

Graphics 1

Unit 5: Introduction to Graphics

Web Site Development 2

Unit 6: Hyperlinks, Lists, and CSS

  • Lesson 6.1: Acrobat Basics 1
    • Completing the Design Document
    • Acrobat Reader
    • Acrobat Reader Screen and Palettes
    • Acrobat Reader Toolbars
    • Acrobat Reader Toolbars 2
    • Saving with Acrobat Distiller
    • Adobe Acrobat Screen and Palettes
    • Adobe Acrobat Document Menu
    • Adobe Acrobat Toolbars
  • Lesson 6.2: Hyperlinks
    • Types of Link Destinations
    • Absolute and Relative Links
    • Anchors and Targets
    • Within-Web Links
    • Within-Page Links
    • External Links
    • Link Targets
    • E-mail Links
    • Linking from Images
    • Editing Links
    • Checking Links
  • Lesson 6.3: Acrobat Basics 2
    • Adding Bookmarks to an Adobe Acrobat Document
    • Adding Links to an Adobe Acrobat Document
  • Lesson 6.4: Lists
    • Numbered Lists
    • Unnumbered Lists
    • List Levels
    • Definition Lists
  • Lesson 6.5: Cascading Style Sheets 3
    • Introduction to Styles for Lists
    • Styles for Numbered Lists
    • Styles for Unnumbered Lists
    • Styles for Nested Lists
    • Styles for Lists Using Images as Bullets
    • Class Styles for Lists
    • CSS Box Model
    • CSS Box Model Applied in GoLive

Unit 7: Page Management

Unit 8: Page Layout and Tables

  • Lesson 8.1: Tables
    • Basic Components of a Table
    • Creating Tables
    • Working with Tables
    • Working with Table Rows
    • Working with Table Cells
    • Spanning Across Table Cells
    • Tables and Accessibility
    • Using Tables for Layout
  • Lesson 8.2: Layout Grids
    • Introduction to Layout Grids
    • Creating and Editing Layout Grids
    • Grid Objects
    • Editing Grid Objects
    • Converting Layout Grids to Tables
  • Lesson 8.3: Cascading Style Sheets 4
    • Introduction to Styles for Tables
    • Table Element Styles
    • Cell Element Styles
    • Applying Class Styles to Tables

Graphics 2

Unit 9: Acquiring Images for the Web

Unit 10: Intermediate Graphics

Web Site Management

Unit 11: Site Management

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