COURSE
DOCUMENTS | SYLLABUS
PG01 | Syllabus pg02
WEEK TOPICS
Week 1:
- Introduction, course materials, student project requirements.
- Assessment of student abilities
- REVIEW: Web Standards and Accessibility, Structure and Presentation, Web Design Principles
Week 2:
- REVIEW: Basic XHTML and CSS (The Box Model, Element selectors), Site Management and Path Structure
Week 3:
- REVIEW: Intermediate XHTML (divs) and CSS (class, id and nesting selectors)
Week 4:
- Project Management: Setting milestones and preparing the client presentation
- Case Studies: Site Design and Interaction Design
- REVIEW: Intermediate XHTML (divs) and CSS (class, id and nesting selectors)
Week 5:
- Intermediate XHTML and Advanced CSS (Positioning and floats)
- CSS layout techniques: static, fluid, absolute, 2 columns, 3 columns, nested floats, horizontal navigation
- Understanding cascade, specificity and inheritance
Week 6:
- Work in class on client presentations
- Advanced XHTML and Accessibility tags
- Interface Design and Interaction development
Week 7:
- Work in class on client presentations
- Guest speaker
Week 8:
- Midterm project presentations
Week 9:
- Review: Slicing layouts and optimizing images for use in CSS
- Introduction to Javascript and the Document Object Model
Week 10:
- Javascript continued
Week 11:
- Javascript continued
- Review and Project Work in Class
Week 12:
- Optimizing and embedding audio, video and multimedia
- Review and Project Work in Class
Week 13:
- Introduction to Flash: creating a banner
- Review and Project Work in Class
Week 14:
- Introduction to Flash: Adding basic actionscript
- Multiple stylesheets for different devices
- Review and Project Work in Class
Week 15:
- Final Critique