The course provides students with the technical knowledge required to deal with the professional process of designing, developing, installing and maintaining a business web site.

Prerequisite: CS130 Web Design, … or a good practice of XHTML and CSS, please seek advice or just email me at [email protected]

The textbook web site should provide a clear idea of what the course will be:    http://headfirstlabs.com/books/hfwd

To asses your compliance with prerequisites, also have a look at the Web Design I Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Rome-Italy/Web-Design-CS-130-class-at-John-Cabot-University/269948743144?__a=15&ajaxpipe=1

and at the JCU intranet CS130 page with student portfolios (right column links):  http://intranet.johncabot.edu/sgazziano/  . To enroll in CS131 you must be confident in developing web sites as those linked.

Students will cover the following units:

1. Layouts (frozen, liquid, jello), Templates how to choose and use

2. Elements of Javascript, interactivity

3. Content Management Systems: Joomla, Plone, Wordpress. Professional tools for web design (dreamweaver)

4. Pre-production, Organizing a web site information, Information ARchitecture (IA), IA Diagrams

5. Colors and emotional impact

6. Smart navigation, accessibilty and usability

7. Search Engine Optimization, site analytics

8. Web 2.0 tools: user created content, communities, blog in business.

9. Future trends: 3d Internet, “future Internet”, convergence, mobile Internet.

Students will set up a web site using professional tools and available CMS as a course project.

On completion of the course a student should be able to

1. Apply the technology behind modern professional web design and development

2. Utilize the standard tools for web design: CMS, Web editors

3. Develop and validate web sites conform to usability and accessibility W3C rules;

4. Apply Design Principles to Website design

Assessment Guidelines for assigning main letter grades: A, B, C,D, and F.

A:  Work of this quality directly addresses the question or problem raised and provides a coherent argument displaying an extensiveknowledge of relevant information or content. This type of work demonstrates the ability to critically evaluate concepts and theory and has an element of novelty and originality. There is clear evidence of a significant amount of reading beyond that required for the course.

B:  This is highly competent level of performance and directly addresses the question or problem raised. There is a demonstration of some ability to critically evaluatetheory and concepts and relate them to practice. Discussions reflect the student’s own arguments and are not simply a repetition of standard lecture andreference material. The work does not suffer from any major errors or omissions and provides evidence of reading beyond the required assignments.

C:  This is an acceptable level of performance and provides answers that are clear but limited, reflecting the information offered in the lectures and reference readings.

D:  This level of performances demonstrates that the student lacks a coherent grasp of the material. Important information is omitted and irrelevant points included.In effect, the student has barely done enough to persuade the instructor that s/he should not fail.

F: This work fails to show any knowledge or understanding of the issues raised in the question. Most of the material in the answer is irrelevant.