Course Title

Advanced Design Techniques

Course Description

Students will enhance web design and animation skills as they master design techniques and methods that will empower them to become accomplished web designers as they bring ideas to life.

Contact

Carrie DeMuth
405-743-5426
cdemu@okcareertech.org

Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrate advanced design techniques to implement dynamic Sites including scrolling text, dynamic slideshows, feedback forms, preloaders, styling dynamic text with CSS, sending e-mail from a Web Form, connecting to a database, retrieving record sets and displaying database information, building search interfaces, and authenticating users.
• Complete advanced web design projects with limited supervision.
• Successfully participate in a teamwork environment to produce interactive media.
• Define scope of work to achieve individual and group goals.
• Develop time and activity plan to achieve objectives.
• Incorporate dynamic elements into site design.
• Produce interactive elements for website.
• Apply intermediate scripting techniques for interactive design.
• Explain and implement Web design concepts, including page layout, multimedia, font and color selection, graphic images, audience usability, file hierarchy, and navigation.
• Manage Web site development processes.
• Develop a Web strategy with goals and tactics to support it, and implement techniques such as mind mapping and site metaphor concepts.
• Select and implement basic Web technologies, such as HTML tables and frames, metadata, and Cascading Style Sheets.
• Use Web production applications and tools to create and manage pages and sites, create animated GIFs, edit graphic image files, and create multimedia files.
• Describe and implement advanced Web technologies, including scripting languages, Dynamic HTML, ActionScript, Extensible Markup Language (XML), server-side technologies, Java applets, and plug-ins.
• Describe the functions of Web servers, server administration ports, cookies, databases, and database management systems.
• Identify the Internet governing organizations.
• Understand how to research Internet standards and register a domain name.
• Complete development of a functional Web site.
• Compare in-house Web site hosting to hosting with an Internet Service Provider.
• Troubleshoot and publish sites to the Web using various tools and techniques

Brainbench - http://www.brainbench.com

Certified Internet Web Professional (CIW) - http://www.ciwcertified.com/certifications/program.asp

Adobe - http://adobe.com

Accountability Measures, Assessments, or Evaluation Procedures

Brainbench - http://www.okcareertech.org/certify

Adobe - http://www.adobe.com/training/

Certified Internet Web Professional (CIW) - http://www.ciwcertified.com/

World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) - http://www.joinwow.org/

Industry Alignments

(Select from the following)

CIW Site Designer:

• Foundations Exam
• Site Designer Exam

Adobe Web Specialist:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Select one:
• Adobe GoLive
• Macromedia Dreamweaver

• Select one:
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Professional Print Production

Brainbench (3 exams required):

• Web Design for Accessibility
• Select one:
• MS FrontPage
• Macromedia Dreamweaver

• Select one:
• Dynamic HTML
• XHTML
• CSS2
• JavaScript

Curriculum Resources

• Macromedia: Training from the Source Books
• Dreamweaver MX:   Design Projects, Glasshaus, ISBN#1590591534
• Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX 2004, New Riders, ISBN#0735713766
• Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 with ASP, ColdFusion and PHP:   Training from the Source, Macromedia Press, ISBN#0321241576
• Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Databases, New Riders, ISBN#0735713707
• Dreamweaver MX:   ASP.NET Weg Development, Glasshaus, ISBN#1590591569
• Macromedia Flash MX 2004 H.O.T., Beyond the Basics ISBN # 0-321-22853-7
• Macromedia Flash Professional 2004 Application Development, Training from the Source, ISBN # 0-321-23834-6
• Macromedia Flash MX 2004, The Complete Reference, 2nd Edition, ISBN # 0072229209
• How to Do Everything with Macromedia Flash MX 2004, ISBN # 0072229691
• The Web Design WOW!   Book, ISBN # 0-201-88678-2
• Web ReDesign|Workflow that Works, ISBN # 0-7357-1062-7
• Don €™t Make Me Think, ISBN # 0-7897-2310-7
• Homepage Usability, ISBN # 0-7357-1102-X
• Designing Web Usability, ISBN # 1-56205-810-X
• Managing the Digital Enterprise (online course) http://digitalenterprise.org/index.html
• Lynda Online Learning Library
• Career Cluster Resources for Information Technology - http://www.careerclusters.org/resources/ClusterDocuments/itdocuments/ITFinal.pdf

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