NEWM 325 — Website Production Syllabus

 


Courses Schedule Mass Media Department IMC/KLIF Webcams Briar Cliff University

Description
Objectives
Grading
Attendance
Weekly assignments

Required Text


Supplies

sketchbook
fine tip felt pen
pencils
blank cds


Requirements

Website (300)
Sketches (100)
website (200)

Written Project (100)
Website Review (please choose a website with cutting edge design)

Training from the Source lessons (170)

Exams (100)
Midterm Exam (50)
Final (50)


Schedule

Sept 8 Chapter 1
   
Sept 13 Chapter 2
Sept 15 Chapter 3/4
   
Sept 20 Chapter 4/5
Sept 24 Chapter 5/6
   
Sept 27 Chapter 6/7
Sept 29 Chapter 7/8
   
Oct 4 Chapter 8/9
Oct 6 Chapter 9/10
   
Oct 11 Chapter 10/11
  Williams Book
Oct 13 midterm
  site review due
Oct 18 Chapter 12
Oct 20 Chapter 13
   
Oct 25 Chapter 14
Oct 27 Chapter 15
   
Nov 1 Chapter 16/17
Nov 3 Final project
   
Nov 8 Final project
Nov 10 Final project
   
Nov 15 Final project due

 

Student Websites

Amy Cloud
Sarah Foltz
Traci Geitzenhauer
Rodney Hulse
Jill Jansen
Sarah Kennedy
Rachel Mohr
Krystal Pappas
Brian Pesky
Katie Schill
Vickie Strouth
Heather Taziri
Joe Willis





 

Description


Using the industry’s most popular web site development software, Dreamweaver MX, students Plan, design, build, publish, and manage a web site. Students assemble webpages using text, graphics, and other media components. In addition, the course incorporates advanced design principles as they apply to website creation. Students build a small educational website as part of the course.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:

  • Use Dreamweaver MX for web page creation.
  • Apply design principles to create an, attractive, well organized, and user friendly site
  • Produce Web graphics
  • Understand basic HTML source code
  • Use site management functions to maintain web sites.
  • Use correct folder and file saving, naming, and management techniques.
  • Transfer pages to a web server using, FTP.
  • Apply technical concepts as they relate to web publishing.
  • Use industry standard terminology in discussing web concepts and techniques
  • Publish a site to a Web server

Grading


A Student performs in an outstanding way. Student exhibits excellent achievement and craftsmanship in all work. Student exceeds the design criteria and challenges him/herself to seek fresh solutions to design problems. Student exhibits commitment to expanding ideas, vocabulary and performance.
B Student performs beyond the requirement of the assignments. Student exhibits above average progress and craftsmanship. Student meets and exceeds the design criteria. Student exhibits above average interest in expanding ideas, vocabulary and performance.
C Criteria of assignment is met, and all requirements are fulfilled. Student exhibits average progress and improvement. Student spends the minimum time and effort on the assignments. Student exhibits moderate interest in expanding ideas, vocabulary and performance.
D Student performance is uneven, and requirements are partially fulfilled. Student exhibits minimal output and improvement in work. Student does not meet the design criteria in all assignments. Student exhibits minimal interest in expanding ideas, vocabulary and performance. Student's attendance, participation and class involvement is less than adequate.
F Student fails to meet a minimum of performance levels. Student does not exhibit achievement, progress or adequate levels of craftsmanship in any assignment. Student work is consistently incomplete or unsuccessful. Student's attendance, participation and class involvement is inadequate.

Attendance

Attendance is mandatory. Participation in class discussions, in-class assignments and labs, and student professionalism are also factored into your classroom grade. If you must miss a class, please notify me prior to class so arrangements can be made. Excessive absences (more than 3) will interfere with your ability to successfully complete this course in most cases. This course will involve a lot of time. Use lab time outside the scheduled class time to complete the lessons if you are having difficulties completing them during class. I am often in the lab during office hours, if you need additional assistance.

Weekly assignments

To avoid being late, your labs should be on the server in their correct folder by the specified deadline. When you have completed a lab, you should save it in our class folder on the server.. The final project must be turned in on the final day of class.

Lost or corrupt data is never a valid excuse for late work in class or in the commercial world. Rigorous backup and saving procedures should be followed habitually. Losing a file is not justification for not submitting an assignment. Following all submission instructions is the responsibility of the student. Poorly named, misfiled or corrupt files may not be graded

Required text

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004: Training from the Source
ISBN: 0321219198
Publisher: Macromedia Press

Robin Williams Web Design Workshop
Robin Williams, John Tollett, Dave Rohr
ISBN: 0201748673
Publisher: Pearson Education

Please read the lab policies

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