Objectives

Web Design and Architecture has several objectives, apart from the important goal of helping you acquire the basic skills you will need to produce a good website. You will learn:

• information architecture
• communications planning
• navigation and searching systems
• usability & accessibility
• writing and editing for the web
• how to learn new software
• principles of ethical, user-centered design
• basic syntax of HTML and CSS
• understanding of file structure.

Evaluation

Grades will be based on participation (10%) lab work (8%), a File Structure Test (7%) and assignments (75%). Please note that your final project must be an original work -- you cannot use content from other websites to populate your site. See the assignment section for full details about the final project marking criteria.

Participation (10%) will be based on your contributions during labs and lectures.

Lab work (exercises) (8%) will be based on the number of lab exercises you have completed -- note, tutorials are not graded, only the labs. Except for one, these are pass/fail exercises (if you complete the exercise -- even partially and imperfectly -- you get the points). However, they must be posted at your webpage by the deadline or you will not receive the points. So I urge you to double-check to ensure that you can see the exercise on the web after you've completed and published the exercise. There is one exercises that will be graded: the image optimization exercise (worth two points).

Due date: Jul. 18, 19