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Web Design
Ivo Chakarov
Telephone: 01782 208208 Ext. 3424
Email: [email protected]
Room: NL11 (above New Library)
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Course aim:
• to equip students with the basic
principles needed to be able to
create and maintain a series of web
pages (web site.)
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Students should be able to:
• Describe and apply the basic principles of
web page development
• Undertake user requirements analysis
• Use appropriate development tools to
implement web pages
• Test web sites
• Use graphics software to create and
manipulate images on web pages
• Publish and maintain web sites
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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 storyboarding
• Create appropriate structure diagrams
• Produce project plans for incremental
development
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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
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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
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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.
• Creation of a web site
(using one of four topic choices)
• Assignment will include both
– Design component
– Implementation component
• You will have to pass successfully both
components in order to pass the assignment!
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Essential Reading:
• e-Quals Web Design for Office 2000
K. Mary Reid
Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN: 0435462865
• HTML for the World Wide Web with
XHMTL and CSS Visual Quickstart Guide
Elizabeth Castro
Peachpit Press
ISBN: 032142333X
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