Transcript SET08109 intro

SET08109 Web Development
for Information Management
Introduction to the module
How do you define a module?
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Teaching pattern
Learning outcomes
Coursework
Topics
What else?
Teaching Pattern
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2 hours “lecture” (but please talk to me!)
2 hours lab
Wrong way round because this is Napier
...so labs are 1 week behind the lectures
No exams - just 2 courseworks.
Learning outcomes
1. Demonstrate the ability to write a prototype web
site in HTML and CSS, using a text editor.
2. Starting from a mission statement, design,
create and evaluate a prototype web site.
3. Install, modify, manage and populate a
contemporary web content management
system.
4. Design a strategy for marketing a commercial
web site.
Coursework
• Two deadlines
• One in week 8, middle of semester
• One in week 14, middle of exams.
Coursework One
• Summary of research on other web sites
• Mission statement for your own
• Ten parameters by which you will assess
the quality of your site
• Five ways of measuring the success of a
site
• Suggest a visual style
• Navigation map and two storyboards
Coursework Two
• Create a prototype web-site on the web
• Use evaluation parameters to compare
your site with others
• Generate a Second web-site (using a
content management system), which
advises others on how to design web sites
Topics
• Mark-up languages: using a text editor to create
web pages.
• Maximising usability and accessibility to client
and user
• Use of a web development environment to
develop a web site
• Testing and evaluating both site and content
against established criteria
• IPR and ethics
• Current web application areas
• Web site content management.
Why come?
• You don’t have to come but you are
expected to
• We might chase you
• The experiences of the Open University
• Lectures and tutorials pace the learning
• It’s a social event, in the company of likeminded people
• You are human and need motivation
What else?
• What else?
• Any questions?