Internet Site Development

Overview/Description
Planning and designing sites based on customer requirements is an essential aspect of web development. This course covers the key aspects of planning and designing sites for users, ensuring that sites have gone through site functionality testing, and also explores the use of active content and multimedia in site development. This course is part of a series in the designing, developing, and hosting a web site path.

Target Audience
A range of in-training or established professionals in organizations and individuals needing to learn the principles of web site design and development. The audience may include web authors, webmasters, marketing and communications professionals, PR professionals, graphic designers, desktop designers, technical writers, and library scientists.

Prerequisites
Students can have basic computing and word-processing skills, and familiarity with some web and design terminology.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Internet Site Development

recognize how to plan the front-end and back-end elements of a web site

determine the most appropriate content policy in a given scenario

identify back-end web site design considerations

identify common page layout formats and the methods used to structure them

recognize the role played by color and font in effective web design

identify the optimal screen resolution for a web site

recognize how to perform a site functionality test

identify tools used in site functionality tests

devise a site development plan and a testing methodology

define active content

recognize the function of Adobe Flash in web site development

recognize alternatives to Adobe Flash for adding interactivity to a web site

recognize the function of browser plug-ins

recognize the function of browser viewers

distinguish between common text file formats

distinguish between common graphics, audio, and video file formats

select the appropriate multimedia file format in a given scenario