Introduction to Web design: Design and Conventions

Principles and Practices

· Intro

· Need

· Purpose: Business, Education, NGO, etc

· Content: Text, Images, Audio, Video, Animations, Streaming video

· Page Layout: Alignment, Color, background, Font, Image size, Frames,

· Links: Internal, External, Anchors, Email

· Copyright, Ethic and Legal issues

· Maintenance: Author/designer, updates, contacts, links, etc

Authoring

· HTML

· Web authoring programs: Composer, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, etc

Publishing

· Uploading: Using WS-FTP (Windows), Fetch (Mac)

· ISPs

SCSU

· Design, page layout, saving/myfiles, uploading

Hands-on

· Using either Composer or Dreamweaver