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.
Textbooks Accessible for Free from Rutgers Libraries:
- HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies (2010 - 2nd Version; Wiley) Harris, Andy.
- HTML, XHTML & CSS QuickSteps (2009; McGraw-Hill) Hart-Davis, Guy.
- Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript (2010; Wiley) Duckett, Jon.
- HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web pages (2009; Wiley) Huddleston, Rob.
- HTML5 24-Hour Trainer (2011; Wiley) Lowery, Joseph; Fletcher, Mark.
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 CS5 & CS6 (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 (6): Web Standard Edition: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, etc.
- The CS6 Adobe software is accessible via Computers in Lab 119 or you can use SoftwareAnywhere@SC&I (formerly referred to as Citrix) to access it for free as a web service from home.
- You will need a SC&I network account to use the SoftwareAnywhere service: if you don't have a "studentweb" account (or can't remember your credentials, such as your password) and/or you would like your username and password to match your Rutgers NetID, then you must first (re)activate your SC&I Network Account before you can use SC&I cloud services, such as "Software Anywhere".
To activate or reactivate your SC&I Network account, please visit: http://account.comminfo.rutgers.edu.
NOTE: If you ever change your NetID password, you should also reactivate your SC&I Network Account if you want to use the same password for Rutgers and SofywareAnywhere services. - SoftwareAnywhere@SC&I web service: login at http://sa.comminfo.rutgers.edu
- Resource pages (please read whole page):
- http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/software-anywhere/what-is-software-anywhere.html
- When using Software Anywhere for the first time, you must install a client application on your computer:
Guide for PC/Windows Users | Guide for Mac Users - How to Access and Use Software Anywhere: Windows | Mac.
- Very Important: you need to save the files created with Software Anywhere on your computer (navigate in the Save dialog to your hard disk and the folder that you want to save your file into).
To repeat: make sure to save your files on your computer! - Getting to Your Computer's Files in Software Anywhere: Windows | Mac.
- For best and reliable performance, you need to be plugged into your Internet connection (performance over wireless connections can be more unstable).
- SoftwareAnywhere Demo (7:22) Steps to follow, How to make sure that files saved to your computer.
- Technical Difficulties
What to do if you are experiencing technical difficulties (application not launching or freezing, slow responsiveness, slow saving of files, lost work) please contact SC&I IT Services: - help@comminfo.rutgers.edu | (848) 932-5555
- Important: SC&I IT Services has asked me to tell students to please contact SC&I IT Services and will try to schedule phone call so that they can see in real-time what is happening and troubleshoot. So please contact SC&I IT Services when you are experiencing persistent technical difficulties so that they can help to gather information and try to solve it. Without your active participation, it will be possible to provide a better service.
- 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 the SoftwareAnywhere@SC&I web service before then.
Please be aware that there have significant changes in the interface of Dreamweaver CC.
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