CA272 Professional Web Site Development

Sample Syllabus (Word document)

Course Description

Students create, upload, and maintain professional quality Web sites containing graphics, style sheets, multimedia, and other basic enhancements using hand-coded XHTML as well as Adobe Dreamweaver’s fundamental tools. Topics include Web site development and emerging Internet technologies and trends. Four hours lecture/discussion each week. (4 semester hours)

Prerequisites/Corequisites

PREREQUISITE: *CA 106 or GD 110. *See curriculum for correct choice of pre/corequisite.

Goals and/or Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Development and enhancement of non-technical skills

• Speak and write about the course topics with sufficient proficiency.
• Apply critical thinking to a variety of topics in the course.

Introduction to XHTML

• Analyze the difference between HTML and XHTML.
• Demonstrate basic HTML and XHTML hand-coding by creating and/or modifying Web pages efficiently.

Web Authoring Software

• Examine the various  Web authoring tools on the market and assess their ability to produce valid, accessible pages that comply with Web standards.
• Demonstrate ability to use Dreamweaver to develop Web standards pages.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

• Create screen, print, and handheld style sheets
• Explain use of CSS techniques in Web page presentation to
• Format and position text
• Float, position, and clear images
• Position page elements strictly with CSS (no layout tables)
  Use Internet Explorer Conditional Comments
• Fix Bugs and add hacks for cross platform stability

Other Core Web Design Skills

• Demonstrate ability to separate presentation (goes in style sheet) and content (goes in the XHTML document)
• Demonstrate ability to semantically structure a page
• Use the <div> tag as a key building block in structuring pages
• Create templates and library items
• Create (accessibility) skip links and format navigation links in unordered lists
• Create pure CSS navigation buttons
• Create data tables
• Create accessible forms
• Add content from Office documents to pages in a way that preserves clean code

Advertising and Web presence

• Optimize a site for search engines and establish a presence on the Web
• Explain how to purchase a domain name and find a Web hosting package.

Copyright Issues

• Analyze and evaluate the options available for using materials on the Web and related copyright issues.

Introduction to Accessibility & Usability Issues

• Identify universal design methods for users with disabilities.
• Identify basic considerations for web site usability.

Multimedia development for the Web

• Add multimedia elements (most universally, flash audio and video) so Web pages remain valid and accessible

Publication of Web pages to a Server

• Create and upload web pages to a remote server using an FTP program.
  
  

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• http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/curricula/
  descriptions/cdcompapp.htm (current CA certificates and degree programs)
• http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/credit/ (current semester course schedule)