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Project One: Video
Content Outline

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Content Outline for File Management Animation/Video

Situation

Knowing how to make websites has become increasingly demanded as a trick in the pocket of all currently working graphic designers. Moving beyond work done in print, with files sent to printers, means working in a virtual environment. We do not physically pick up files to deliver them. Instead we take folders and load them to servers on the web.

Problem

Even though we think we are being thorough, files can easily get lost or mis-managed if we do not stay on top of our file content management.

Scenerio

In todays world, most of us are very busy, often multi-tasking, juggling multiple jobs, home, school tasks on our computers, all at one time. Or even if we have set times we work on the different items, they may all be on the same hard drive, flash drive, jumbled together as we rush from one job/item to the next. Our virtual desktop looks similar to our physical one where books, papers, old cups of coffee are all strewn half-hazardly from one end to the other.

Files get misplaced, mixed up, stored in the wrong folders. Or worse yet, not stored in folders at all, but just existing on the desktop, waiting to be put in their appropriate location.

We go to upload our work, pieces get overlooked because they are not in their correct location. Or, in the case of websites, their virtual path becomes distorted and unusable. Or we do "clean-up" our desktop, move files to their correct locations and their paths are altered, links are broken, because the file no longer exists where it was when we made the link. Users of WYSISYG programs also make this common error - they grab the file (most commonly an image) and place it in their document. It is, What You See is What you Get, right?

WRONG! - This works while the files are all on your computer, but once you move your files to the server, those images, stay on the desktop where they were grabbed.

The Correct Way

Show how easy it is to set up a simple content management system. Talk about getting in the habit of placing files in the correct location when you are working on them. Not only the web files, but also having a space to store all working files of each website or job you are working on.

Show how to correctly navigate to a file in DreamWeaver, to keep a clear pathway to all the links.

Make uploading as simple as dragging and dropping single folders. No broken links, no missing images, no broken icons.