Today's session

Today we're going to be doing a variety of things. I've got some more Fireworks tutorials for you to try - covering working with layers, text and creating buttons. We've done the latter before but there is an easier and quicker way to create buttons and navigation elements than the first way I showed you.

I've put the files you need to do the tutorials in an Online Journalism 2 sub-folder, in the Online folder on the Journalism shared area. If you get all of the tutorials done, you should have an example home page completed by the end of today. Save that somewhere and we can use in next week, when we'll be looking in more detail at web layout - specifically tables vs layers.

Aside from Fireworks, we're going to review where we're at with the email interviews. If you have received a reply you need to start working with your material. Think about the writing guidelines and advice we looked at last week and start laying out your text in something like Word. Start gathering and creating the assets and copy you'll need for your layouts. Research useful or relevant links, gather visuals, write a blurb/intro, think about whether you need to cut the material.

I'm also going to try to find time to talk to each of you invidually about your site plans - the idea is to make sure you've done the necessary development work so you can start creating in the next week or two.