ZRashid

=**Zahrah Rashid's Activity Log**=

**January 4****th, 2011**
 * Joined the Interactivity Design 1 website and familiarized myself with it
 * Learned basic HTML coding including hypertext, markup language, formatting, various tags, validating, and embedding images
 * Created my very first web page and completed the "basic HTML page" assignment and the "my name is..." assignment

**January 11th, 2011**
 * Learned the basics of CSS including in-line, embedded and external css, css classes, positioning with css and how to make rollovers.
 * Tested all of this [|new information] out
 * After painstaking work, finished project 1A

**January 18th, 2011**
 * Learned about typography and css including image text vs. live text, web fonts, text positioning, font styles and link styes
 * Tested all of this new information out
 * Learned about box model including margin, background colour, background image, padding, border, border styles, and content
 * Started working on project 1B

**January 25th, 2011**
 * Learned more about css positioning including static, absolute, fixed, relative, right, bottom, z-index and float
 * Learned about the differences between class and ID including class selector and ID selector
 * Finished 1B
 * Started on 1C

**February 1st, 2011**
 * Learned about colour systems like L.a.b. vs. RGB vs. CMYK vs. Web safe vs. HSB
 * Learned about what and the brain can see colours, the emotional and cultural connotations of colour and how to properly use colour
 * Posted feedback for [|Monissa], [|Amir], and 2 for [|Pierre].

**February 8th, 2011**

 * submitted project 1
 * learned the basics about processing
 * processing: [|point] [|line][|coordinates] ; shapes [|rectangle][|ellipse][|triangle][|size][|fill,][|stroke]
 * complete 2A in class
 * started 2B
 * read - [|When a Good Idea Works] by John Maeda

**February 15th, 2011**

 * sketch sequence ideas in storyboard format for Project 2C (steps 1-2)
 * learned more about processing, including beyond basics | motion
 * learned [|setup], [|draw] [|variables][|loops] for processing
 * complete 2B in class
 * reviewed 2C storyboards

**February 29th, 2011**

 * completed 2C
 * learned processing behaviours
 * learned processing [|conditionals]
 * started 2D
 * Project 3 was introduced

**March 7th, 2011**
 * completed 2D
 * learned about [| website planning] and [|website design]
 * brainstormed content List and organizational Theme for Project 3
 * started creating site map and collecting materials for moodboard

**March 14th, 2011**

 * learned about interaction design, navigation and visual interface design
 * completed mood boards, site map and wireframes
 * did mobile phone site exercise
 * started creating visual comp

**March 21st, 2011**

 * finished visual comp
 * started website

** April 3rd, 2011 **
> === Next Class: Mar 7  === >> > > === Project 1 Checklist  ===
 * finished and uploaded project 3
 * added "Really cool 3D image effects using CSS. Click here " (http://www.the-art-of-web.com/css/3d-transforms/) to resource page
 * added "**Page Transitions:** Tutorial on cool page transitions for one page websites. Click here " (http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/01/30/page-transitions-with-css3/) to resource page
 * Took out the following from the main interactivity page because it was old and no longer applicable information
 * please complete the second round of feedback on Project 2 for your peers
 * finalize Project 2D sketch and post to wiki
 * prepare Content List and Organizational Theme for Project 3
 * check all links in your work and make sure they are complete - including linked images, other files
 * make sure all your exercises are complete and linked from the wiki - should be easy to locate
 * also update your Activity Log (items, dates, links) to all of your wiki contributions (including feedback)
 * all exercises need to be complete and ready for final submission next class Wed Feb 8