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Gavilan College
CSIS 6/ DM 6/ LIB 6

Webpage Authoring


During the 8 weeks of this course, you will be learning codes to put together web pages. You'll learn design theory as it applies to the computer screen (as opposed to paper formats). You'll learn theories about color, about how people read websites, what makes them try all your links, and what makes them come back for more.

Most lessons will have a short coding assignment, and sometimes a class discussion assignment.

We will be working inside the Moodle online class management system, which has a list of the 20 lessons. Under each week, there will be a link to 3 lectures, to 3 assignments, sometimes to a short quiz, and sometimes to a forum discussion. Under the administration block on the left side of the screen, there are links to view your grades and edit your personal profile. The link to People under the participants block will give you a list of everyone in the class. You can click on someone's name to send them a private message.
The 20 lessons and corresponding assignments will be spaced out over the first 7 weeks of the class. This will give you the last week of the class to work on your final project, to ask questions, to try different techniques, and to make refinements until you have a perfect website.
Besides the 20 online lessons, there will be several possible face-to-face meetings. You don't have to come to these, but if you're having problems, there's nothing like getting help in person.

 

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Your final project will be a website with a minimum of 5 separate pages. In these pages, you'll have to show me that you can:

  1. Use basic html tags.
  2. Change font colors and size.
  3. Include a coded list (ordered, unordered or definition) somewhere within your site.
  4. Make links to outside pages, to pages within your own website, and to specific places within one page.
  5. Include an email link to yourself.
  6. Use graphics as illustration and as part of your website design.
  7. Use color as part of your website design.
  8. Use tables as an organization tool, and as part of your website design.
  9. Include a style sheet (CSS) that is used by some or all of your pages.
  10. Include a form in one of your web pages, and a 'thank you' page.
  11. Include metatags and a footer on each of your pages.
  12. Upload your website, including all graphics and html documents.

 

Warning!

If you have any questions or problems, get ahold of me right away. As an online student, the responsibility for keeping up and getting help when you need it sits squarely on your shoulders.

I can't see you, so I won't know when you're having problems.
It's up to you to let me know.

You can reach me most regular weekdays at the Distance Ed office at Gavilan, at 408 848 4885. Otherwise, you can always reach me through email at jhowell@gavilan.edu

 

Address of this page:http://www.gavilan.edu/library/csis6/welcome.html
Last updated January 10, 2008
For questions please contact Jo Anne Howell at
jhowell@gavilan.edu