Course Details

1. Describe and understand the basic attributes (menu, links, buttons) of a website.
2. Understand the basic notions of web design like: Continuity, Usability, and Web Standards.
3. Apply the theoretical knowledge of the module for the purpose of designing a static website (using Dreamweaver application).
4. Edit text and images in order to create ergonomic websites targeted for specific audiences.
5. Adopt their theoretical assignments for web publications, evaluating at the same time ways of presenting them in a multi-medium like the Internet.

Website basic attributes: Describe the basic attributes of a website and their purpose.

Usability and Ergonomics and Web Standards: Analyse and study the web standards and the usability issues of a website.

Introduction to Dreamweaver application: Describe the characteristics of the programme. Introduce the process of saving the finds related to the website.

Dreamweaver interface: Understand the basic attributes of the programme. Tables: their purpose and their importance.

Developing a website: Set the root folder and create index.html page.

Designing the first page: Insert tables and layers in index page. Design the structure of the web page.

Adding elements on a web page: Insert text and images in the table cells and layers.

• Steve Krug, Roger Black. Don't make me think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
• Tognazzini, B. 1992. Tog on interface. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesle.
• Alan Cooper. About Face: The Essentials for User Interface Design.

• De Bolit, V. Dreamweaver CS4 Classroom in a Book. 2009. Adobe Systems and Incorporated and its licensors.
• Mumaw Stefan, Simple Website, 2002.
• Tognazzini, B. 1992. Tog on interface. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesle.
• Jeffrey Zeldman. Designing with Web Standards.