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. (Principles of Animation can substitute for this course in the Animator, 3D Animator, 3D Modeler, and Motion Graphics Artist Career Majors).

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, and sending e-mail from a web form.
  
• 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 website 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 XHTML tables and frames, metadata, and Cascading Style Sheets.
• Describe and implement advanced Web technologies, such as scripting languages, Dynamic HTML, ActionScript, Extensible Markup Language (XML), server-side technologies, Java applets, and plug-ins.
• Identify the Internet governing organizations.
• Understand how to research Internet standards and register a domain name.
• Complete development of a functional website.
• Compare in-house website hosting to hosting with an Internet Service Provider.
• Troubleshoot and publish sites to the Web using various tools and techniques.
• Describe various assistive technologies.
• Identify types of disabilities and the problems associated with accessing the Web.
• Identify accessibility guidelines as they relate to XHTML forms, frames, images, image maps, tables, text, lists, lines, multimedia, metadata, and languages.
• Demonstrate knowledge of WAI guidelines and the resources available from the WWW Consortium.
• Identify accessibility techniques used with cascading style sheets (CSS).
• Describe the tools available for evaluation and the repair of website accessibility.

Accountability Measures, Assessments, or Evaluation Procedures

(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 (2 exams required):

• Web Design for Accessibility
• Select one:
• Dreamweaver
• Flash
  

• Dynamic HTML
• XHTML
• CSS2
• JavaScript

Industry Alignments

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

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

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

Brainbench – http://www.brainbench.com

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
• Certified Internet Web Professional (CIW) – http://www.ciwcertified.com/certifications/program.asp
• Career Cluster Resources for Information Technology – http://www.careerclusters.org/resources/ClusterDocuments/itdocuments/ITFinal.pdf

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