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Web Technologies
Ivo Chakarov
Telephone: 01782 208208 Ext. 3424
Email: [email protected]
Room: NL11 (above New Library)
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Course aim:
• to give students an essential
overview of the tools, techniques
and underpinning knowledge
required to create and host simple
web pages.
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Students should be able to:
• Analyse user requirements to produce a brief
• Use initial design and documentation techniques
and take into account considerations when
developing a small web site
• Design and optimise web images using a drawing
or paint package
• Use web authoring package to create a web site.
• Use web standards to create web sites
(e.g. XHTML, CSS)
• Use components such as tables, images, etc.
• Use web testing startegies
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Basic principles of web page development:
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Set suitable colours for page and text
Text manipulation (font, size, style)
Paragraphs
Converting images into suitable formats
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Undertake user requirements analysis:
• Design web sites using prototyping
• Create appropriate diagrams
• Produce a brief that details the client
requirements
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Use appropriate development tools:
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Create web page templates
Embed images within the web pages
Use tables to enhance web page layout
Create web page anchors (bookmarks)
Create hyperlinks
Create image maps
Use meta tags
Use appropriate web authoring software
packages
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Test web sites:
• Verify all links work
• Use different browsers to preview pages
• Verify all components appear as expected
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Use graphics software:
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Resize images within web sites
Apply transparency to images
Use file compression methods
Apply "web safe" palettes
Create appropriate web banners
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Publish and maintain web sites:
• Use software to manage web site
development
• Publish web sites to the Internet
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Assessment:
• Assignment covering both practical web site
activities and underpinning knowledge.
• A report (3000 words) worth 100%
• Assignment will include both
– Design component
– Implementation component
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Essential Reading:
• Paper Prototyping
C. A. Snyder
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc
ISBN: 1558608702
• The Zen of CSS Design
David Shea
Peachpit Press
ISBN: 0321303474
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Essential Reading:
• Multimedia: Making it Work
Tay Vaughan
Osborne McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0072190957
• Web Design: The Complete Reference
Thomas Powell
Osborne McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0072122978
• W3 Schools
www.w3schools.com
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