This class will introduce students to Macromedia Dreamweaver as a web page authoring tool. Dreamweaver is widely used by Stanford students and teachers. It's easy interface belies its ability to provide sophisticated tools and effects that you often see in good commercial web site. We will explore Dreamweaver's basic tools and develop a home page and supporting pages with links. The first meeting will focus on getting to be familiar with Dreamweaver's features.

The second meeting will introduce other tools built into Dreamweaver. Special emphasis will be made on developing information design, graphic layout and navigation menus. Dreamweaver provides "objects" -- special codes that simplify complex programming routines such as buttons, forms, mouseovers, among a few. The class is expected to come away with an understanding of web development, information design, and web technologies.

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migonz@Stanford.edu
www.stanford.edu/~migonz

Michael joined Stanford after working for several years with the manufacturer of InfoTrac, an online and CD-ROM information retrieval company. At Stanford, Michael joined the Academic Technology Specialist program under the wing of Stanford University Libraries. As specialist, Michael provided technology support for History faculty and their students primarily to help them use web technology to enhance classroom lectures and presentations. Michael served as the technology specialist for the Institute on 21st Century Librarianship before joining Stanford's Overseas Studies Program where he currently works and continues to explore distributed classrooms and collaborative teaching using network videoconferencing.

Academic Technology Specialist
Overseas Studies Programs, Stanford University Library
Sweet Hall Room 139
Stanford, CA 94305
(650) 723-6312