Exercises

Conceptual Design Exercise

Create the blueprints and content maps for an online news organization. Post them all on your website, either as multiple html pages, or all on one. Use the Labels list to create a blueprint -- show the persistent nav, utilities and I've give you enough labels for a couple of sections, so you can do the local nav.

Then add the Tables & Headlines, and Content Chunks to create a partial content map. Give the main sections, and then a few pages within one of those sections. You don't have to use all of the labes, headers and pieces of content -- just as many as you need to give me an idea of your conceptual design for the site.

It will probably be easiest to build the blueprint as a simple gif file using Photoshop. The content map will be easier to do with Dreamweaver in a table. (You can cut and paste, too, to speed up the process.)

Labels (persistent nav, local nav, utilities, contexual links)

National	International	BC	Arts
Business	Editorials	Ontario	Travel
Letters	Sports	Praries	Movies
Atlantic	Subscribe	Commentary	Science
Search	Quebec	Style	Technology
Health	Books	Theatre	Territories
Columnists	Music	Login

Titles & Headlines (from three sections)


Pavarotti to sing at Olympic opening ceremony		Leonard Cohen: Renaissance man

Hot air		Court grants restraining order against Paris Hilton

National Ballet to kick off season with Sleeping Beauty		Community college staffs set strike deadline

Murray Campbell Ontario to entice first-time students		John Barber Profit plans invade the waterfront

Ontario to entice first-time students		Ipperwash police message confused

Jeffrey Simpson Party hopping is dangerous to our political healthLock		'Young and the Restless' leads Daytime Emmy nominees

Content chuks (leads) (from same three sections as headlines)

The 71-year-old troubadour is at the centre of a flurry of projects. What prompted this? In large part, money troubles.		The officer in charge of police operations at Ipperwash Provincial Park was passing a confused version of events to his superior in the hours before police marched on the park and shot an aboriginal activist.

Instructors, counsellors and librarians at Ontario's 24 community colleges have set a strike deadline for next month if a deal is not reached with administration.If the walkout begins on March 3, it could disrupt the academic year for thousands of students.		Celebrity ordered to stay away from event producer who claimed she threatened and harassed him

Fairy tale will mark the company's first season in Toronto's new Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts		The Ontario government has set up a program to persuade students to be the first in their family to continue their education beyond high school, but critics say the effort will be undercut by a rise in tuition fees that will be announced soon.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty admits that, in an ideal world, we could meet our energy needs through conservation and renewable energy resources, but dooms the strategy from the beginning by claiming that ''we don't live in that world.'' How are we to solve our energy dilemma if our leaders see the situation as hopeless before we have even begun to make changes? Perhaps Premier McGuinty will be more motivated to lead in a positive direction when the lights go out in Toronto.		The Ontario government has set up a program to persuade students to be the first in their family to continue their education beyond high school, but critics say the effort will be undercut by a rise in tuition fees that will be announced soon.

There ought to be a law against doing an Emerson, switching political parties without giving the electors a chance to pass judgment on the switch. In fact, such a law exists -- but in New Zealand.		A $10-million, abandoned ferry terminal. An expanded island airport. A huge, new power plant right next to the huge, old, abandoned power plant. Such are the latest fruits of waterfront ''revitalization.'' Poor waterfront!