Week
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Introductions
Discussion of the scope of work
Identification of key technologies
Assignment 1
Group work: Usability testing
One of the most important aspects of the design process is
to develop the usability of a web site. Usability testing, while
an considered an evaluation tool, is really a tool for designers
to understand how to improve web site design and represents an
important tool in the iterative design process. Heuristic evaluation,
with links below, is a usability method developed by Jakob Nielson,
a modern day usability guru.
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Week II.
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Web reviews start
Reviews by:
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Interactivity
Cross-browser compatibility
Forms
Javascript
Week 2 links from the
class (updated 11.7.99)
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Week III.
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Reviews by:
- Bogardus
- Campbell
- Jensen
- Punt
- Winters
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Guest lecture: Prof. Arnold Holland on Design &
Typography
- Links from Prof.
Holland's lecture
Page design
Content development
Javascripting revisited: some Quick
Facts about Javascript
Style sheets: some Quick Facts
about Style Sheets
Site searching
Week 3 links from the
class
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Week IV.
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Web reviews done
Assignment 1 discussion
Assignment 2 due
Reviews by:
- Clark
- de Vera
- Gen
- Jones
- Samudio
- Taylor
- Terrazas
- Tsumura
- Williamson
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Database technologies
Website planning and management
Some readings:
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Week V.
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Independent work |
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Week VI.
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Technology report due
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"Standard HTML"
XML
Website promotion, use and evaluation
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Week VII.
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Term project presentations
Term project due: 12.14
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Understanding how to provide web services means understanding
how those services are "served up." Technically, this
means understanding how web servers work and what options are
available for the web master to exploit. This includes default
settings, server-side applications, transaction logs provide
a web master with useful tools to understand how best to present
a web service.
Another important consideration of web sites is managing the
files that constitute a web site. Please review this UNIX primer
for discussion this week.
Evaluating search
engines
The Web Mastery page on "WWW
servers."
Finally, as you prepare to make a web site available to the
public and to maintain its use, there are many issues to consider.
Here are a handful:
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