Program of Study



7360 Introduction to Web Development

Course Description

The purpose of this course was to provide students with an understanding of basic Web page design and Web authoring skills in addition to the technical expertise required for creation and publishing of XHTML-compliant documents. The course covered browser/server interaction, directory management, and Web page design and development. Attention was directed toward the impact a designer's choices have on communication, understanding, and accessibility. Students designed, developed, tested, evaluated, and applied evaluation data to their project Web site.

Reflection

As a digital media teacher at the Columbia Area Career Center, one of the units in our introductory class is a basic HTML unit so I felt very confident when I enrolled in this course that I would have no problems.  In the early 2000's I also taught the web design course and had used Dreamweaver.  About the time I stopped teaching the web class, CSS was just beginning to explode but I did not have the opportunity to learn and/or teach it.  So I was very excited to have the opportunity to learn CSS.

I was not disappointed in the least.  I am very familiar with most of the Adobe products so pulling from on my prior knowledge of Dreamweaver and my current Adobe skills and basic HTML knowledge, I was able to pick up on Dreamweaver very quickly.  After learning some of the basics of CSS I was so amazed at how easy it is to modify an entire site with just a few keystrokes.

While I still will not teach beyond the basics of HTML, I feel like I’m now better able to advise those students interested in taking our advanced web class.  I also learned more about deprecated tags, ways to test your web pages for coding problems, and, of course, a lot about Dreamweaver.  With this new knowledge I feel confident enough that I can help students in the advanced class who use my classroom at times to work on their projects.

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