Syllabus: Web Design

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First Six Weeks:

Unit 1:  Designing & Planning Web Pages (Access IT)

• Module 1: Website Evaluation and Rubric Creation
• Module 2: Color Theory, Pic2Color,
• Module 3: Web Standards and Accessible Design
• Module 4: Planning a Website
• Additional Resources: Simple Web Design Examples, Do’s and Don’ts of Modern Web Design, Design From Scratch – Basics, Design From Scratch – Design,  Design From Scratch – Architecture,  Design From Scratch Accessibility,

Second Six Weeks

Unit 2: Creating HTML Documents (Access IT)

• Module 1: Pre-Coding
• Module 2: Basic XHTML Markup
• W3Schools HTML Basics, Headings, Paragraphs, Formatting Text, HTML Elements, HTML Attributes, Style and Color,
• Module 3: XHTML Lists
• Module 4: Creating Links
• W3Schoos Linking,
• Module 5: Creating a Data Table
• Additional Resources: Wikipedia Punctuation Guide, HTML Tableizer, HTML Cheat Sheet (PSACake), W3C School HTML, NVU Tutorials,

Third Six Weeks

Unit 3: Creating Style Sheets with CSS (Access IT)

• Module 1: Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
• Module 2: Page Layout Techniques
• Additional Resources: 15 CSS Tips & Tricks, CSS Property Reference (HTML Dog), CSS Cheat Sheet (Added Bytes), Using CSS Shorthand (Smashing Magazine Tip 1), CSS Best Practices (Evotech), 10 CSS Tricks (Stylized Web), W3C Schools CSS,

Fourth Six Weeks

Unit 4: Creating and Using Web Graphics (Access IT)

• Module 1: Introduction to Web Graphics
• Module 2: Creating a Web Photo Album
• Module 3: Creating Navigation Buttons
• Module 4: Creating a Web Page
• Additional Resources:  Design From Scratch – Graphics, Design From Scratch – Navigation,

Using Search Techniques:  Advanced Google Search (pdf), Boolean Searches (pdf),

Fifth Six Weeks

Unit 5: Site Managment (Access IT)

• Module 1: Organizing a Website
• Module 2: Using an External Style Sheet
• Module 3: Scripts and Server-side Technologies
• Module 4: Validating a Website

Sixth Six Weeks

Unit 6: Using Web Authoring & CMS Systems (Access IT)

• Module 1: Creating a Web Page using Web Authoring Software
• Module 2: Controlling Style using Web Authoring Software
• Module 3: Site Management with a Web Authoring Software
• Additional Lessons:  Design From Scratch – Copy-writing,  W3C Schools Java Scripting,

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