Lesson 1: Storyboarding Worksheet

Overview:

This worksheet will help you think through some of the decisions you'll need to make whenever you start a new web site. You can still construct a web site without making these preliminary decisions, but you're less likely to get a clean, unified look to your pages.

Think through the following activities and show your instructor the decisions you made.

  1. Decide on the monitor resolution setting you are designing for (800 x 600 pixels for instance).

    Circle the screen resolution you will use as your maximum dimensions in which to layout the page:

    640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 544 x 378 (web TV)

    What scale will you use to sketch the layout? Every large square on the graphing paper equals:
    _______ pixels.

  2. Consider your color scheme. Jot down the hexidecimal code for each element on your page.

    # __ __ __ __ __ __
    		 
    background color
    # __ __ __ __ __ __
    		 
    link color
    # __ __ __ __ __ __
    		 
    vlink color
    # __ __ __ __ __ __
    		 
    alink color
    # __ __ __ __ __ __
    		 
    text color
    # __ __ __ __ __ __
    		 
    special text color (headings, subheadings, etc.)
    # __ __ __ __ __ __
    		 
    special text color (headings, subheadings, etc.)

  3. Typography the general character or appearance of printed matter. Make the following decisions concerning font.

    ___________________________ Font face (type of font)
    ____ Points Body text
    ____ Points Text for headings
    ____ Points Other text

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