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Sep 07, 2024
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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VC 237 Web Design 1 Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 4 Credits: 4
Introduces techniques and skills needs to plan and code basic Web pages. Includes instruction on industry-standard processes and coding practices using HTML, CSS, and image editors to create a finished, published Web page using modern development tools.
Prerequisite: VC 115 with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor. Student Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the history and current context of the World Wide Web.
- Understand and write clean and semantically-correct HTML
- Use CSS to create basic web page layouts.
- Use CSS to apply style and hierarchy to typography
- Create and optimize images suitable for web publishing.
- Use correct folder and file saving, naming and management techniques.
- Plan and publish basic web sites.
- Use industry standard terminology in discussing web design and development.
Content Outline
- Introduction to Web Design and Development
- Web design and development tools overview
- Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) history and context
- Core technologies for the Web
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
- History
- Common structures, syntax, and formatting
- Understanding block-level and inline elements
- Creating navigation items
- HTML5 semantic tags
- Understanding linking and anchor tags
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Understanding the benefits and limitations of CSS
- Rule structure, terminology, and specificity
- Implementing external, embedded, and inline style sheets
- Writing CSS Selectors
- CSS Layout
- Understanding the CSS Box Model
- Using reset and normalize style sheets
- CSS units of measurement
- Learning and using CSS properties for layout
- Working with Flexbox for layout
- Web Typography
- History, key concepts, and techniques
- Working with the Document Flow
- Using embedded fonts
- CSS properties for typography
- Styling navigation items
- Working with pseudo-classes
- Images
- Web imagery characteristics
- File formats for the web
- Image compression, sizing, and optimization
- Exporting images for the Web
- Adding images to Web pages
- Background images using CSS
- Inline images using HTML & CSS
- Publishing
- Combining HTML, CSS, and content to create a complete web page.
- File management, rules, and structure
- Working with SFTP and Web servers
- Troubleshooting published websites
- Project Management
- Understanding the web design process
- Project planning and implementation
- Industry Standards
- Terminology
- Copyright
- Ethics
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