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lecture 7: option introduction
Welcome to the start of the option, Advanced Web Techniques. This is only one of six recommended options for the module Web Design: Web Design and Technology so unlike the Web Design Core, not everyone will be following this part of the course.
| Important note for students not enrolled on Web Design. If you are taking this option as part of another ACOM option, that is fine in principle - it is a permitted option for all other ACOM modules except for ACOM1075: Multilingual Computing. If you are enrolled on this module you cannot take this option and should choose another.
However, you must have some prior knowledge of hand-coding HTML before taking this option. Students on Web Design have already acquired this knowledge through the Web Design Core but without it, you will, to be frank, not understand a word of this course. Your prior understanding of HTML may have come from taking Web Design in previous years (with a different option) - that is fine. Or you may be self-taught, which is also fine, but only if you have actually engaged with HTML - just learning web design through the use of Dreamweaver, Front Page or similar tools is insufficient.
So please be honest with yourself about how much you know about hand-coding HTML. You do not have to be an expert to take this course, but you do need to have reached a standard equivalent to students who have followed the Web Design Core and this means, basically, a knowledge of tables, images, text formatting, links and CSS, also the general principles of accessibility and usability. If you lack this knowledge please take a different ACOM option. |
For those students familiar with this web site, nothing will really change for you - each of the four Advanced Web Technique lectures (see next slide) has a lesson index, a virtual lecture, various topic pages (which you should read after the lecture) and a brief, voluntary self-test. If you're not familiar with the site, you have at least begun to explore it enough to find this virtual lecture, so it shouldn't be too hard to find your way around :-)
Bear in mind that this web site constitutes the only teaching materials for this option - there is no printed booklet. Demonstration sessions still run as normal, either 10-2 or 12-4 every day in the Cohen Cluster - and I will continue to run special sessions for web design on Thursdays 2-4.
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