Introduction to Web Development
Course Description
If you've never created a website from scratch, Intro to Web Development is for you. The course will help you learn basic web page design and authoring skills, along with browser/server interaction, directory management, and other technical skills. You will also learn to evaluate your website's impact on communication, understanding, and accessibility. (1)
Reflection
Having worked as a Web Developer for several years, I was very interested in taking this course. My interest rested in two main areas: first, exposure and work with the web standards, of which I have been somewhat ignorant in previous development experiences, and second, to see how such a course was taught as I would like to teach a course like this at some point in the future.
One of the really strong points of this course is the emphasis on writing good html, i.e. code that passes the W3C validators for HTML and XHTML. This was something that I've not really worried about in the past, but it's important in order to create websites that work the best in all browsers, and is accessible to users with disabilities. It would be great if all browsers supported the web standards in the same way, as this did cause some problems debugging certain areas of my website but those were overcome.
Artifacts
- From the SISLT Course List