EDT 667 Creating Web Pages and Managing Web Servers
Instructor: Barry Grant
Meeting dates: TBD
Meeting times: TBD
Prerequisites: EDT 610 or Permission of instructor
Laboratory Fee: Required
Grades and Assignments
Assignments are to be submitted electronically by 11:59 PM of the day noted.
Assignments submitted late will not be accepted.
All assignments and projects in the course are expected to be your individual work.
You may discuss assignments with anyone. Any help you receive must be documented.
Objectives
Understand the process of web site development and publishing, server types and technologies.
Master basic web design tools and techniques
Understand the issues involved in implementing advanced web components and technologies.
Use a variety of tools, technologies and components for web page development.
Appreciate the complexities web design and publication and evaluate related strategies.
Become acquainted with advanced topics web-based presentation, data management and communications.
Learn to customize web content for classroom or school environment.
Critically evaluate web content and design
Schedule Schematic(subject to adjustments):
1 Introduction - Objectives, expectations. Resource lists, conventions and overview of site evaluation of criteria. Site definition and set up. FTP, remote and local system synchronization. Links, image maps, Spry widgets, Flash navigational components.
Assignment 1: Write a reflection/analysis on A Dao of Web Design. In class: develop preliminary criteria for site evaluation and site concept schematic and statement of purpose.
2 Networking Essentials - Understanding the primary building blocks of network communications and overview of interrelationships of networking technologies. Internetworking Terms and Acronyms. DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, static versus dynamic addressing, public addresses and redirection.
Assignment 2 - Research of 10 sites with analysis. - Readings from resource page. In class collaborative preliminary site design workshop.
3 HTML Core Concepts, basic authoring applications. Graphics. Photoshop, Gimp, Fireworks, hexadecimal color coding. , technical, educational and aesthetic design considerations for websites. Final project infromation and planning session. Readings from resource page. Collaborative preliminary site design workshop
4 Collaborative preliminary site design workshop. Assignment - web standards. - Readings from resource page.
5 Animations, graphics types and transitions, sound processing. Flash, Java snippets. Readings from resource page. Collaborative site design workshop
6 DHTML ,XML, java applets, advanced authoring applications, mailto. Readings from resource page. Collaborative site design workshop
7 ASP, PHP, XML, advanced embedded applications, designing web-based cross-curricular units. Readings from resource page. Collaborative site design workshop
8 Site maps. XML. Readings from resource page. Collaborative site design workshop
9 Collaborative site design workshop. Readings from resource page.
10 Final project presentations and discussion.