Metropolitan State University
ICS 225 Web Design and
Implementation
Fall 2005
SCHEDULE
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Week |
Dates |
Topics |
Due Dates |
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1 |
Aug. 29 |
Course logistics Overview of the WWW XHTML |
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Syllabus History of the web at http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~wwwbtb/book/chap1/web_hist.html
McCracken: p. 264-268, 274-275, 287-288 HTML tutorial materials as
needed (see lab handout for URL’s) |
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Sept 4 |
LAST DAY TO DROP WITH FULL
REFUND |
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Sept 5 |
NO CLASS – LABOR DAY |
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2 |
Sept. 12 |
Usability Human-Computer Interaction Forms, CSS |
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Usability 101: Introduction to Usability (www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html) Ten Good Deeds in Web
Design (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991003.html
) Top Ten Guidelines for
Homepage Usability (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020512.html
) The Ten Most Violated
Homepage Guidelines (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20031110.html
) McCracken: Chapter 1, 269-274, 275-295 |
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3 |
Sept 19 |
Human Capabilities Introduce JavaScript,
events, Date object |
Project #1 |
McCracken: Chapter 2 Heinle: Chapter 1 |
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4 |
Sept 26 |
Navigation Form validation, functions |
Critique #1 on Usability |
McCracken: Chapter 6 Heinle: Page 27 & Chapter 4 |
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5 |
Oct 3 |
Visual Organization Debugging Arrays |
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McCracken: Chapter 5 Heinle: Page 31 & Chapter
5 |
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6 |
Oct 10 |
Content Organization Dynamic Images |
Project #2 |
McCracken: Chapter 4 Heinle: Chapter 7 |
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7 |
Oct 17 |
User Analysis Rollover style changes Layers Tabbed folders |
Critique #2 on Usability |
McCracken: Chapter 3 Heinle: Chapter 9 |
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8 |
Oct 24 |
Catch up Midterm |
Midterm |
The
Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design (1999) (www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html
) Top
Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 (www.useit.com/alertbox/20021223.html) Top
Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003 (www.useit.com/alertbox/20031222.html) Top
Ten Mistakes in Web Design (2004) (www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
) |
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9 |
Oct 31 |
Privacy Cookies |
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McCracken: Chapter 14 Heinle: Chapter 8 |
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10 |
Nov 7 |
Security Drop down menus Animation |
Project #3 |
Heinle: Chapter 10 |
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11 |
Nov 14 |
Accessibility and
Globalization Frames |
Critique #3 on Privacy Graded lab |
McCracken: Chapters 12 & 13 Heinle: Chapter 3 |
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Nov 18 |
LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW |
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12 |
Nov 21 |
Color & Typography Browsers |
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McCracken: Chapters 9 & 10 Heinle: Chapter 6 |
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13 |
Nov 28 |
Prototyping and testing Manipulating windows |
Critique #4 on
Accessibility |
McCracken: Chapters 7 & 8 Heinle: Chapter 2 |
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14 |
Dec 5 |
What’s on the final Demos |
Final project Presentations |
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15 |
Dec 12 |
Final |
Final exam |
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Minor adjustments to the
schedule will be made as needed.