Time Schedule:
Brian Robert Johnson
ARCH 482
Seattle Campus
Examines the function, limitations, and uses of primary World Wide Web technologies and fundamental Web site design and implementation. Participants develop hands-on design/build expertise for Web site design, implementation, and maintenance using readily available tools and techniques. Looks beyond today and explores emerging Internet technologies. Offered: A.
Class description
You will learn: the fundamentals of page design & control (HTML, Style Sheets, Javascript); a lot about different multi-media 'inclusions' that HTML makes possible, (still images, movies, sound, SVG, VRML, etc); about basic server-side dynamics (CGI, PHP, mysql); and about dynamic web-pages (forms, javascript); and a little about XML.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
The course utilizes a hands-on, project-based approach to the subjects, with introductory lecture content followed by student explorations. Independent development and contribution to the course is encouraged and rewarded.
Recommended preparation
You should be computer literate and interested in learning about the underlying technologies, not just the latest bling-bling.
Class assignments and grading
Exercises are roughly formed around the idea of an online portfolio or project presentation. They develop HTML and related skills systematically, progressing from creation of a simple HTML web page to authorship of an integrated set of pages requiring navigation, visual continuity, and design care.
Timely completion of assignments, attention to, and ability to control, the visual quality of results in order to achieve quality design through direct editing of HTML, as demonstrated in assignments. Completion of a term project and it's contribution to learning by others. General contribution to the class.
