Web Programming and Design
During the 1st quarter, students learn the basics of web page design and site navigation. Specific design topics include defining the needs of the target audience, page layout, navigation tools, site architecture, usability and testing. At the completion of the first quarter of the course, students design, code, test and publish a static web page using HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
During the 2nd quarter of the course, students learn how to use the Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 web authoring tool to create static web pages. The JavaScript scripting language is introduced to add interactivity to the web pages. Several web navigational techniques in Dreamweaver are explored. Student projects include designing and creating web pages for a hypothetical car dealership and creating a portfolio home page that links to and showcases classroom web page projects.
During the 3rd quarter of the course, students earn how to build interactive, dynamically-generated web sites. Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology is used for server-side scripting. ASP is a powerful, programmer-friendly scripting technology that uses VBScript to manipulate a small collection of very powerful programming objects. Students are able to add, change and delete data records in a Microsoft Access database via programs developed using ASP technology.
During the 4th quarter of the course, students learn how to work within the Adobe Flashand Photoshop CS3 graphics design program. Students learn to work with layers, make selections, incorporate color techniques and adjust colors, use paint tools, place type in an image, liquefy an image, create Photoshop images for the web, and animate images using Adobe Flash.
Special Note: This is not a Microsoft Applications class. Students are not taught how to use Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel) in this class.
Course Prerequisites: All students should have basic computing skills.
Class Size Limit: 15 – Due to the interactive instructional process of this course, this class must be limited in size.