Let's design for the web! In this course we'll learn how to design web pages with (X)HTML for content, CSS for presentation and Javascript for Behaviors. We will be thinking critically about designing aesthetic, usable and accessible pages with engaging interfaces that adhear to Web Standards.
We will be designing web pages with the user (not necessarily the designer) in mind. We'll ask questions: Who is our intended user/audience? What do we expect the viewer to "take away" from the site? Is there a way to create a Web page that is accessable to all people? What is the importance of Web page usability? What are the characteristics of a usable, accessible Web page? How can we be sure people using different versions of browsers can still view the Web page? What happens when our Web site is viewed on a cell phone? How does the fact that web technology is constantly envolving inform the way we think about web design?
These are challenging questions for designers, but everything we do in this course - read, write, design, reflect - will bring us closer to answering them, and the questions their answers inspire.
We will be completing three primary design projects, with many exercises and reading assignments to go with them. Ultimately, this course - and the projects we will be doing - will challenge us to look at our ideas and worlds in new, complex, and, hopefully, challenging ways.
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