Digital design course materials
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This site contains teaching/learning materials for digital design courses taught by David Watson at the University of Greenwich, Department of Creative Professions & Digital Arts.
Course details
Landscape Summer Exhibition 2009
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This site supports the following courses:
- Digital Design Induction Day (landscape students)
- ENVT1053 - Landscape Science & Techniques
- ENVT1008 - Digital Landscapes
- DESI1185 - Design for Interaction
- COMP1652 - Web Standards Representation
- DESI1183 - Webpage Design
- DESI1184 - Website Planning
- DESI1181 - Content Management
- DESI1182 - Applied Art for the Web
- DESI1052 - Web Thesis Project
Materials, tutorials and resources
Laptops, Desktops and Software
- Advice for students on digital design courses - Please read
- A guide to buying laptops & desktops - What you need and how to buy it
- Student Software - What to get and where to get it for free
- Autodesk Student Community - Signing up and downloading your free software
Digimap data and plotting base plans in AutoCAD
- Introduction to Digimap - Downloading and using Digimap raster data for Photoshop
- Selecting and Downloading MasterMap Data - A video tutorial
- Translating MasterMap data to DWG with InterpOSe - A video tutorial
- Plotting scaled drawings with AutoCAD - A simple, 10-step method Updated for 2014
Ground Modelling
- Creating a 3D Grid from designed contours - A video tutorial
Photomontage
- Photo-matching with AutoCAD & Photoshop (part 1) - A video tutorial
- Photo-matching with AutoCAD & Photoshop (part 2) - A video tutorial
- Photo-matching with AutoCAD & Photoshop (part 3) - A video tutorial
Animation
- Creating a "walkthrough" animation with AutoCAD - A video tutorial
- Optimizing render times for Bryce animations - A video tutorial New
A Geomorphology of the British Isles
- Rocks and Rain - Part 1 of 2
- Between the Ice - Part 2 of 2
Web Design
- Creating and uploading your first webpage - A video tutorial using Notepad++ and FireFTP New
- My first web page - A video tutorial
- Linking a CSS file to your first web page - A video tutorial
- Uploading your HTML and CSS files using FTP - A video tutorial using FileZilla
- Optimizing Images for the Web - A video tutorial
- Installing WordPress at Pentangle - A video tutorial New
- A first blog post with WordPress - A video tutorial New
- Correcting a WordPress root installation - A video tutorial New
- Password protecting a folder in your website - A video tutorial New