Web Design 101: Study Group

My website idea is simple, I need to build a website for my church, but I would like it to include the ability to have: all the static information about the church, an active blog for myself, the ability to include the audio from the messages, the ability to update contact information directly on the site, and the ability to have RSS feeds for announcements, audio messages, and the main blog.

I am assuming that I can make a template design for the home page and hopefully a single CSS style sheet and then several sub-pages built from the original template. My plan would to build the site in a simple structure first, and then add the "fancier" things like java-script rollover stuff, etc.

I love learning all things computer and have played with a few languages (VB, C#, and Flash and Actionscript3) I learned BASIC on a Tandy TRS-80 III (with 16k of ram) that I bought for $50 when I was in 6th grade. I've been hooked ever since! (And I have still never forgiven my mother for throwing it away while I was in college!)

Here is the link to a church page that I would like to emulate www.egreenwood.org

I have learned enough XHTML in last 2 weeks to be able to build a simple 2 column site, and enough CSS to make it look pretty good. I am excited about this class and appreciate the opportunity!

I would like to make a website for sharing music locally with information about gigs and bands and the artistic community involved in producing local independant culture.

The basic structure I would like to acheive with this course apsires to the level of this local website: http://www.korova-liverpool.com/

1. Home page: recent news, upcoming gigs, and featured artists.

2. Gigs: Upcoming gigs - who is playing, entry fee, times, directions, bands website or myspace links

3. Media: pictures and videos of bands, gigs, song downloads, artist info
-Pictures - thumbnails, click to view. Want to use Lightbox: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
-Videos - uploaded on youtube and embedded. structured more like this: http://creativecommons.org/videos/ where they are all listed with thumbnails but you have to click to go to each video to avoid making the page too heavy.
-Music - song downloads of artists who allow us to feature them, band profiles and whereabouts.

4. Promotions: information about Creative Commons licenses and how we can help artists record and promote their music
-Licensing - information about licensing and the Creative Commons and what different licenses mean.
-Policies - our policies about licensing and what support we can offer in regards to producing and promoting music.

5. Community: contact information, advertisments for local independants who can provide recording, mixing, mastering, artwork, printing, burning, practice space, equipment, gigs, etc.
-Contact us - telephone, hours, post address, come to gigs
-Recording Services - names, numbers, hours, provisions, websites
-Artwork - " "
-Production - " "
-Promotion - " "

The presence of a hyphen in front of a title for the purposes of this course will begin as headings but leave room for expansion as the content grows.

Hey Guys and Gals,

As someone who is looking to web development as a career change, I'll be looking at building a site that showcases the following:

Examples of my work;
Links to sites that demonstrate great craftmanship and design;
Llinks to tutorials/blogs about web design and development;
Contact information;
Possibly a blog;

Being a newb though, I'm basing my style and structure on exisitng sites but hopefully I can be somewhat original. Some sites that are serving as inspiration include: www.awayback.com, www.snook.ca and www.jontangerine.com

Can't wait to get going and look forward to hearing more about everyone's ideas!

Hello!
I'm a graduate student working in history education/educational technology. Right now I work with a great team and we need to update our research institute website. I'd love to be able to help in any way with this and also think that having general knowledge is this area will do nothing but help me in the future.

I know that upgrading our institution's site will be a huge undertaking so I am not going to propose that as something I could possibly achieve in a couple of months through this course - but what I would like to do is create a personal CV / portfolio type page that would include many of the elements (though on a much smaller scale) of what might be on the larger site. This would include things like:

- links to research papers and past works,
- descriptions of current projects
- video demos of tools we are developing,
- links to relevant blogs, feeds, etc. (ie. links to work being done and the people doing it in important and contingent fields of study)

I like blog style sites that provide links to stable resources but also have space dedicated to new and continuously updated information. An example, with some adjustments to make it appropriate as a personal portfolio page of course, would be this site newly designed for the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto:
http://hub.kmdi.utoronto.ca/ It's pretty simple, which is what I like.

As I read through everyone's descriptions I think that there is a lot to be learned from other people's projects and, since I tried to teach myself HTML and some CSS once before and failed miserably, I'm looking forward to some collaboration and help this time round!

My reason for taking this course is so I can help my wife display and publicize her artwork. Currently, she is working with ceramics, but she is also a painter and illustrator. She is able to sell a few items, but she really needs some more PR material to get the word out. I thought we could make up a simple flier with a few images and contact information; she has been talking about wanting to have a website to give her artistic statement and display her work. This seems like a great idea, but she is not very computer literate. She is starting to read up about web site creation, but she's just starting on climbing up the learning curve and I would like to help her. I'm a bit better with computers, but I'm not very knowledgeable about creating websites. I've made simple websites using the “easy button” method, but things like css and xhtml are currently beyond me. That's why I want to participate in this class/community environment. We can put the web URL on a flier or business card, which she could hand out to people.

My idea for the website would be pretty simple: a home page with an artistic mission statement, contact information, some of her beautiful artwork , and links to pages containing images and information about her various artworks in different media such as ceramics, ink, pencil, etc. You understand this is just my thoughts – Liz (my wife, the artist) may (probably will) have other ideas. She's the client here. I'm looking forward to this class.

i want to make an anime website discussing about anime..

http://www.theanimeblog.com/

Hi Everyone,
My web site idea is to create a portfolio of my work, with a bio page, and some pages with other projects.
I know some basic html programming, and actionscript 3.
http://www.albertocerriteno.com/portfolio/rainyday.html
http://www.kontra.ws/index.html
http://www.christinadescaro.com/
http://www.bentheillustrator.com/

I would also like to tie my timeline to technology. For example, crayons invented 1950, refrigerators invented 1945, first crayon refrigerator art hung 1956.

Sorry for the duplicate posts, but it said my captcha was incorrect but it seems to have taken it anyway.

Hi guys !

My idea is to make an interactive website so as to learn children about computers, technologies and so on...
HTML5 would be cool because of its canvas, which could permit to get drawings, writings...from the youngs :)
So we could examine their comprehension and improve the site experience

EDIT : excuse my english (french...) :)

I am really interested in this course for the following reasons: I have just registered officially as a freelance Spanish-English translator and English editor and copywriter. I have roughly ten more years to work to qualify for a pension in Spain but I want to use these ten years of professional practice to help others to do business in an ethical and environmentally-responsible manner. This summer I created a wordpress blog: http://jennilukactranslations.wordpress.com as a way of learning how to use internet technologies to create an identity and communicate what I have to offer. I know very basic html but I am in the process of creating second wordpress blog that will be my professional website. Although I have started with the option of not using html, I would like to redo all the pages in html when I am technically able to do so. I invite all the class participants to visit the first page, but I would like to know how to open the page in progress to the professors and students of this class without opening it to the public in general. Is there a way to do this?. At present, I have this page categorized as "private". Is there a way to open it only to the participants in this seminar? This new page, whose URL will be "jennilukaclinguisticservices.com" now has 60 pages - 30 in English and 30 in Spanish. I am currently writing the content for these pages that includes "how to decide what kind of language services one needs", "what are the types of editing services one can contract" and "the services that I offer". Although this is a commercial proposition (I must pay my bills, taxes and make my social security contribution), the different pages suggest sustainable and ethical ways of doing business in sectors such as tourism,academic practice and social sciences,etc. I hope to build not only a client base, but a community of people who are interested in doing business and generating new ideas along ethic and sustainable guidelines; a website that will, for example, make people see the connections between tourism and environmental and human rights issues, respect for other cultures and sustainable development. I'm really interested in the projects proposed by Monica Resendes and Susan Place. Greetings to everyone!

I would like to get a local disc golf club's website up to date. I wanna move away from frames. Really though, I would just like to learn.

KYLe

I'd like to make my Drupal 6 into a multi-site. Ideally with a shared database for a new life-hacking learning disability site.

I have experience with FLOSS CMS GUI and following recipes but I want to be a professional Drupal developer.

www.jasonjohnwells.com

Hi,

My Website, will be more of a command center for all my digital consumption. A personal space where all my daily feeds, mails, schedules, blogs, social stuff flow into.

Always wanted to do everything from within one browser window, without all the ctrl+t and ctrl+n.

A Layered, customizable, fun site just for me!

I would also like to develop a website that allows my family to view a live webcast of my 2nd wedding (the expensive church one), and follow it up with photos for only my wife's and I facebook friends to see. Would think that would be a cool project, but know I need to start small for now...

I am John from India's North East. Retired teacher of english, communication and media and diehard Boy Scout trainer. I never made a website in my life and now that I have some time I want to learn to get on the White SuperHighway to keep in touch with my tech savy students and scouts. I would like to create a site that is spiritual like belief net.Since we are pretty musical it should be like some music sites, like Musiccloud.com perhaps and it must have forum for scouts to meet and plan adventure activities, orienteering with Google maps, camping, Star gazing the works.Help me.

Hi all. Here is my concept:

My application:

I want to create a website that offers guidance in self-study in certain areas that are not well-covered in traditional education, including reading lists iwth images, descriptions, and links to the books, lists, descriptions, and links to other websites, a forum for discussion, possibly a wiki for participants to work on defining and laying out the structure of the topics we're focusing on. Perhaps there is also room for participants to have profile pages to get to know each other and network.

I want to learn this because this is very similar to the mission of my new job with an open education institute, and I've long felt that my lack of knowledge of website creation and management are a major impediment to doing my job well. I probably won't be our web developer, but I need to understand how it works.

As far as a target style, this community page sure stands out!

Hi all, here is my website concept:

I want to create a website that offers guidance in self-study in certain areas that are not well-covered in traditional education, including reading lists iwth images, descriptions, and links to the books, lists, descriptions, and links to other websites, a forum for discussion, possibly a wiki for participants to work on defining and laying out the structure of the topics we're focusing on. Perhaps there is also room for participants to have profile pages to get to know each other and network.

I want to learn this because this is very similar to the mission of my new job with an open education institute, and I've long felt that my lack of knowledge of website creation and management are a major impediment to doing my job well. I probably won't be our web developer, but I need to understand how it works.

As far as a target style, this community's site sure stands out!

I want to create an online community for Austin, TX that focuses on the growing interest in minimalism, simple living, the take back your time movement, etc. and how it can be implemented locally (especially by young people and minorities, who are often left out of simple living writings.) In addition to a blog, I would like to have separate spaces for event announcements, news stories, social networking abilities, and photos/videos. My intention is for it to become a collaborative network rather than a personal page, but I am such a newbie that I am having trouble even articulating what this kind of network would be called. I'm all for reading up on it as much as I can, so basic search terms and recommended books/resources are greatly appreciated!

Hi Everyone,
I am so excited about this site. I am a Kenyan- in East Africa starting up a research and training consultancy firm and I may wish to develop a website that will market us worldwide. Thanks