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
Resources	Class Notes: Precision & Efficiency Tools in InDesign Exercise: 04 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
Resources	Class Notes: Formatting Type in InDesign Lab Exercise: 05 Character & Paragraph Formatting Exercise: 06 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
Resources	Class Notes: Paragraph & Character Styles, & Controling Text Flow Exercise: 07 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
Resources	Class Notes: Troubleshooting Fonts & Printing

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 Web Development Tools
Video	What Comes Next Is the Future
Resources	Class Notes: Introduction to HTTP, URL, & HTML Lab: HTML Syntax

Wednesday :: 02.11.2026

Lecture	Understanding Browsers & Rendering Engines More on HTML: Common HTML Structures, Elements & HTML5
Demo	Building Your First Web Page in Nova
Exercise	Formatting Content with HTML
Resources	Class Notes: Browsers, Rendering Engines, & More HTML Exercise: 08 Formatting Content with HTML

Week 07 | Linking & File Management

Monday :: 02.16.2026 | No Class — President's Day

Wednesday :: 02.18.2026

Due	Formatting Content with HTML Exercise
Presentation	Spring Term Group Advising
Project	Introduction to Personal Website Project Introduction to Portfolio Booklet Revisions
Lecture	File Naming, Structure, & the Local Root Folder Creating & Managing Hyperlinks
Lab	Website File Management
Exercise	Creating Links in HTML
Resources	Class Notes: File Naming, Folder Structure & Hyperlinks Exercise: 09 Creating Links in HTML Project: Personal Website Project: Portfolio Booklet Revisions

Week 08 | CASCADING STYLE SHEETS

Monday :: 02.23.2026

Due	Creating Links in HTML Exercise
Lecture	Web Color Primer Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets Coding CSS Selectors & Rules
Lab Exercise	Writing CSS Selectors
Resources	Class Notes: Web Color Primer Class Notes: Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets Exercise: 10 Writing CSS Selectors

Wednesday :: 02.25.2026

Lecture	Understanding Typography for the Web
Lab	Working with Google Fonts
Exercise	Applying CSS to Type
Resources	Class Notes: Introduction to Web Typography Exercise: 11 Applying CSS to Type

Week 09 | CSS Selectors / Web Imagery

Monday :: 03.02.2026

Due	Applying CSS to Type 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	Working with CSS Typographic Properties
Exercise	Advanced CSS Formatting with Classes & IDs

Wednesday :: 03.04.2026

Due	Advanced CSS Formatting with Classes & IDs Exercise
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 (10:00AM)
Exam	Over HTML/CSS class demonstrations, exercises, and projects