Course Calendar
Course Week ::
Calendar Notes:
- Exercises are homework assignments that are due at a future class period, while Lab Exercises are assignments that should be worked on and completed during the current class period. Labs are ungraded activities we will complete in class.
Week 01 | InDesign
Monday :: 01.05.2026
| Welcome | Course Introduction and Welcome Review of Course Syllabus and Calendar |
| Lecture | A Brief History of Desktop Publishing InDesign Overview: Work area, tools, menus, panels, & navigation. Introduction to Content Frames |
| Resources | Class Notes: Introduction to Adobe InDesign |
Wednesday :: 01.07.2026
| Lecture | InDesign Documents: Setup, Options, Pages, & Master Pages Understanding Imposition & Binding |
| Lab | Hands-on with Imposition |
| Exercise | Document Setup & Pagination |
| Project | Introduction to Portfolio Booklet Design Project |
| Resources | Class Notes: Document Setup, Pages, & Imposition Project: Portfolio Booklet Design Exercise: 01 Document Setup and Pagination Lab: Hands-on with Imposition |
Week 02 | InDesign
Monday :: 01.12.2026
| Due | Document Setup & Pagination Exercise |
| Lecture | Images in InDesign: Placing, resizing, specialty frames, & text wrap. |
| Lab Exercise | Working with Images & Frames |
| Resources | Class Notes: Working with Images in InDesign Exercise: 02 Working with Images & Frames |
Wednesday :: 01.14.2026
| Lecture | Managing Linked Images Working with Color in InDesign |
| Lab | Process Color Identification |
| Lab Exercise | Exploring Grayscale Images within Color Photographs |
| Resources | Class Notes: Working with Image Links & Color Exercise: 03 Exploring Grayscale Images within Color Photographs |
Week 03 | InDesign
Monday :: 01.19.2026 | No Class — Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Wednesday :: 01.21.2026
| Lecture | Precision & Efficiency Tools: Margins, guides, columns, & text frame options. |
| Lab Exercise | Precision Layout with Guides & Frames |
Week 04 | InDesign
Monday :: 01.26.2026
| Lecture | Formatting Type in InDesign: Character & Paragraph formatting options, rules, glyphs, & text editing. |
| Lab Exercise | Character & Paragraph Formatting |
| Exercise | Practice with Columnar Layout |
Wednesday :: 01.28.2026
| Lecture | Advanced Paragraph Styling: Tabs, Hanging Indents, & Bullet Points. Introduction to Paragraph & Character Styles |
| Lab Exercise | Long Document Formatting with Styles |
Week 05 | InDesign
Monday :: 02.02.2026
| Due | Practice with Columnar Layout Exercise (12:20 PM) |
| Lecture | Preparing for Print: Troubleshooting Fonts, Links, & Printing |
| Demo | Printing from InDesign using Print Booklet |
| Project | In-class time to work on & produce Portfolio Booklet Design Project |
Wednesday :: 02.04.2026
| Due | Portfolio Booklet Design Project |
| Critique | Portfolio Booklet Design Project |
| Exam | Over InDesign class demonstrations, exercises, and projects |
Week 06 | HTML
Monday :: 02.09.2026
| Lecture | HTTP, URL, HTML, & a Brief History of the Internet Understanding the Syntax of HTML |
| Lab | HTML Anatomy Lab |
| Demo | Introduction to Text Editors |
| Video | What Comes Next Is the Future |
Wednesday :: 02.11.2026
| Lecture | Introduction to Web Development Tools Common HTML Structures, Elements & Use |
| Demo | Building Your First Web Page in Nova |
| Project | Introduction to Personal Website Project |
| Lab Exercise | Formatting Content with HTML |
Week 07 | Linking & File Management
Monday :: 02.16.2026 | No Class — President's Day
Wednesday :: 02.18.2026
| Lecture | File Naming, Structure, & the Local Root Folder Creating & Managing Hyperlinks |
| Lab | Website File Management |
| Project | Intro to Portfolio Booklet Revisions |
| Lab Exercise | Creating Links in HTML |
Week 08 | CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
Monday :: 02.23.2026
| Lecture | Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets Coding CSS Selectors & Rules |
| Lab Exercise | Writing CSS Selectors |
Wednesday :: 02.25.2026
| Lecture | Web Color Primer Understanding Typography for the Web |
| Lab | Working with Google Fonts |
| Exercise | Applying CSS Rules for Typography |
Week 09 | CSS Selectors / Web Imagery
Monday :: 03.02.2026
| Due | Applying CSS Rules for Typography Exercise |
| Lecture | More on CSS: Understanding Class & ID Selectors CSS Layout Properties for Type Applying Styles Across Multiple Pages Using External CSS & Classes |
| Project | Introduction to Website Project Templates |
| Lab Exercise | Advanced CSS Formatting with Classes & IDs |
Wednesday :: 03.04.2026
| Lecture | Raster Image Optimization for the Web |
| Online Lecture | Working with SVGs |
| Lab Exercise | Image Optimization |
Week 10 | Website Project
Monday :: 03.09.2026
| Due | Portfolio Booklet Revisions Project (12:20PM) |
| Lecture | Uploading Websites using FTP |
| Lab | Open lab time to work on Personal Website Project |
Wednesday :: 03.11.2026 | No Class — Instructor Out
Week 11 | Finals Week
Wednesday :: 03.18.2026 @ 10:00–11:50AM
| Due | Personal Website Project (5:00PM) |
| Exam | Over HTML/CSS class demonstrations, exercises, and projects |
| Lab | Open lab time for help with Personal Website Project |