Outline

Description

In this studio course, you will learn about web design and architecture at two levels. In our lectures we'll discuss the elements, theory and disciplines required to produce enterprise-level websites. In the lab we will use Brackets to code HTML5 and CSS. By the end of the course, you will be able to create a basic, static website. This specific practical work will further illuminate the deeper principles of web design and enrich your overall understanding of the web.

Objectives

Web Design and Architecture has several objectives. In addition to the primary goal of helping you acquire the basic skills you will need to produce a good website. You will learn about:

• information architecture
• communications planning
• navigation and search systems
• usability, UX & accessibility
• semantics, writing and typography for the web
• how to learn new software
• principles of ethical, user-centered design
• syntax of HTML5 and CSS
• understanding of file structures
• colour theory & Gestalt design principles
  

Statement on Academic Offences

Scholastic offences are taken seriously and students are directed to read the appropriate policy, specifically, the definition of what constitutes a Scholastic Offence is available here.

Land Acknowledgement

Western University is situated on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lunaapeewak and Attawandaron peoples who have longstanding relationships to the land and region of southwestern Ontario and the City of London. The local First Nation communities of this area include Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, Oneida Nation of the Thames, and Munsee Delaware Nation. In the region, there are eleven First Nation communities and a growing Indigenous urban population. Western values the significant historical and contemporary contributions of local and regional First Nations and all of the Original peoples of Turtle Island (North America).