01 W 6,7 CAC 08673 BASS MU-038
02 T 5,6 D/C 07079 BASS HCK-218
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Focused on individual projects and learning by doing, web authoring covers
software, code, writing, and user-friendly design for websites. Students
spend the semester developing an original final project, a website on a
topic of their choice. Our goal is mastering what many consider the most
difficult design challenge: to create in-depth, attractive, and original
writing enhanced by savvy graphics.
We start by researching possible site topics and designs while learning
XHTML, CSS, and Photoshop. Students then develop their projects through
draft assignments that cover typical genres of web content (e.g., book
review, image gallery, feedback questions, and link blurbs) and standard
features of a web page (e.g., layout, graphics, and navigation). As part
of the writing and design process, we look critically at a wide range of
web and print examples, from the cool formal innovation of early 20th
magazine layouts to the simple fluid brightness of the latest Web 2.0
interactivity. Later in the semester we examine methods to animate
elements of the website – e.g., Javascript and Flash.
No prior technical knowledge is required for this course.
For a more detailed overview of the course, please visit the online
syllabus for Spring 2008:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jbass/courses/425_spr08.htm.
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