Requirements for Web Design
Textbooks
Required - Castro : HTML, XHTML & CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide 6th Edition - Order | Companion Site
- Week 3
- Chapter 1: Web Page Building Blocks
- Chapter 2: Working with Web Page Files
- Chapter 3: Basic (X)HTML Structure
- Chapter 6: Links
- Chapter 15: Lists
- Chapter 16: Tables
- Chapter 22: Testing and Debugging Web Pages
- Chapter 4: Basic (X)HTML Formatting
- Week 4 and 5 and 6
- Chapter 7: Style Sheet Building Blocks
- Chapter 8: Working with Style Sheet Files
- Chapter 9: Defining Selectors
- Chapter 10: (Text) Formatting with (CSS) Styles
- Chapter 11: Layout with (CSS) Styles
- Week 5
- Chapter 5: Images
- Week 7
- Chapter 17: Forms
- Chapter 19: Scripts
- Chapter 20: A Taste of JavaScript
Recommended - Nixon : Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript 1st Edition - Order | Companion Site
See Sakai site for more info.
- Week 9
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Dynamic Web Content
- Chapter 3: Introduction to PHP
- Chapter 8: Introduction to MySQL (read 8.1, 8.2, 8.4.2 ; scan: 8.3.3, 8.3.4)
- Week 10 and 11
- Chapter 4: Expressions and Control Flow in PHP (read up to and including 4.4.4.)
- Chapter 5: PHP Functions and Objects (read up to and including 5.3.)
- Chapter 6: PHP Arrays (read up to and including 6.2.; remaining sections are there for reference)
- Chapter 10: Accessing MySQL Using PHP
- 10.1: how to access & display data in MySQL database using PHP.
Recommended
- Dreamweaver - Getting Started and Tutorials | Help Resources
- Fireworks - Getting Started and Tutorials | Help Resources
Textbooks Accessible for Free from Rutgers Libraries:
- HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies (2010 - 2nd Version; Wiley) Harris, Andy.
- Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript (2010; Wiley) Duckett, Jon.
- HTML5 24-Hour Trainer (2011; Wiley) Lowery, Joseph; Fletcher, Mark.
- HTML5 (2011; Wiley) McDaniel, Adam.
LyndaCampus
- SC&I is subscribing to a service called LyndaCampus that is a school-wide version of lynda.com, an online training library of over 80,000 video based training movies on over 1400 software titles. LyndaCampus is available for free for students registered in SC&I courses and can be used to learn software, programming skills, video techniques, etc.
Titles include: all of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.), all of Adobe CS6 & CC (DreamWeaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, etc.), Fundamentals of Video, iMovie, Social Media Marketing, Twitter, SPSS, Google Docs, HTML5, CSS, MySQL, PHP, Python, C/C++/C#, WordPress, etc. Students can watch the videos, follow along with exercise files, and even print a certificate of completion upon completion of a course. - Login to LyndaCampus (when you first log into lynda, you are given the opportunity to personalize your profile).
- Remember: you must be logged into LyndaCampus to be able to access the lynda.com videos included in the Lectures page of this course.
- For more information and access instructions, please see http://lynda.comminfo.rutgers.edu. For any difficulties accessing the content of lynda.com please contact SC&I IT Services at help@comminfo.rutgers.edu.
Software
Required: Adobe Creative Suite (CS6) / Creative Cloud: Web Standard Edition: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, etc.
- Adobe Creative Suite: is the standalone software suite offered by Adobe.
- The CS6 Adobe software is accessible via Computers in Lab 119 or the Rutgers Computer Labs.
- It is still possible to purchase Creative Suite 6 (CS6) and the Rutgers education price is $360 (you may find it for less on the Web).
- Please keep in mind that Adobe has no plans for future releases of Creative Suite or other CS products, but you can use it forever.
- Please be aware the application interfaces and some of the functionality in the Creative Cloud applications are not the same as in the Creative Suite 6 applications.
- Adobe Creative Cloud: Adobe is now only offering a monthly subscription model (academic price is $30/month for 1 year; sometimes there are offers for $20/month available from Adobe or Rutgers Software).
- You can make use of free 30 Day trial of the Adobe Creative Cloud service and start using it 30 days before the end of the course and use CS6 in the Rutgers Computer Labs for the 1st month of the course.
- You can make use of free 30 Day trial of the Adobe Creative Cloud service in the 1st month of the course and then purchase a 1-year rental of CC, use it for one month and then cancel the contract and receive 50% of the remaining 11 months (11*$30 = $330) back, resulting in a cost to you of $30+$165 = $195.
Grading
92 - 100 | A |
89 - 91 | B+ |
82 - 88 | B |
79 - 81 | C+ |
72 - 78 | C |
Individual Exercises (52.5% of Course Grade)
There will be several quizzes (open book, no redo), two short assignments (no redo) and two exercises (with redo) :
- Quizzes (10%) - open book, no redo
- Short Assignments (10%) – no redo
- Practice the techniques and technical content covered in class.
- Ex1 - Create Website (15%) – redo
- Meaning: Evaluate a site of your choice.
- Mechanics: External CSS controls layout and behavior of navigation structure; create at least five pages.
- Ex2 - Create Advanced Website (15%) – redo
- 360 Evaluation (2.5%) – no redo
Group Exercises (47.5% of Course Grade)
The group will first conduct a Competitive Site Analysis (with redo) that will form the basis for the design of the Group Website (no redo) and after the completion of the Group Website, conduct a Group Post Analysis:
- Competitive Site Analysis (15%) – redo
- Group Website (25%) – no redo
- Post-Mortem Paper (7.5%) – no redo