Course Description

This course presents web design fundamentals and essential development skills to create interactive web sites. Students will learn how to organize content, incorporate graphics and multimedia, and create interactive forms that capture and validate user input. Web technologies such as XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, XML, and JavaScript will be presented. This course will provide students with a guide to designing the presentation, navigation and organizing the content of powerful Web pages that attract users and effectively convey a message. Legal issues and web accessibility topics will be covered. Professional tools will be presented to enhance and accelerate the design and implementation of Web content.

Required Texts

In lieu of a traditional textbook, this course will make use of Open Educational Resources (OERs). During the first week of class, we will make accounts and register for the learning platforms we will be using.

  • Gain experience with foundational web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
  • Understand web design principles that drive the development and presentation of engaging web sites.
  • Recognize common formats used in the creation of media-rich web sites.
  • Obtain familiarity with popular tools for web development.