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Introduction

• Disclaimer: This is not the official syllabus or course program. EdutechWiki is just used as support site.
• The course is organized in weekly programs (available through the menu to the right...)

The course-level outcomes as announced in the syllabus are:

1. Design a web page using Cascading Style
2. Code pages using inline and external styles
3. Evaluate web page styles
4. Edit and code external style sheet files
5. Create pages that display effective use of images, color, backgrounds
6. Explain the differences between inline, embedded, external style
7. Be able to explain when and where various styles should be used

Practical learning outcomes:

• Be able to create web pages that are visually pleasing
• Be able to adapt existing style-sheets (e.g. for a portal)
• Understand some visual design principles

Fields covered (somewhat)

• CSS
• Some web design principles
• Web style
• Some User experience and user experience design principles

Grading scale

A	3.8	Very good		92.00	
A-	3.5	Almost very good	89.00
B+	3.1	Pretty good 		85.00
B	2.8	Good			82.00
B-	2.5	Reasonably good		79.00
C+	2.1	Fair	   		75.00
C	1.8	Rather weak / minim.	72.00
C-	1.5	Minimalist / Weak	69.00
D+	1.1	Pass
D	0.8     Pass			62.00

== Software

• Komposer
  • Download: http://www.kompozer.net/download.php
  • Take the development version 0.8b3 (2010-02-28)

• Notetab

• Various Firefox browser extensions (to be announced)

Important teaching materials

Contents addressed within these texts may come up in exam questions. You are not required to memorize any of these, but be able to retrieve information.

Mandatory reading

• Selected sections from the "official textbook": Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, York, Wiley Pub./Wrox, 3rd edition, ISBN: 978-0470891520

Recommended free on-line textbooks

• Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton, Web Style Guide.
• Horton, Sarah (2005). Access by Design (online) at Universal Usability: A universal design approach to web usability.