In the schedule below, the exam dates are definite; the readings are approximate. Any changes will be announced in class and on the class homepage. It is your responsibility to be aware of any changes made to this schedule.
NOTE: the way this schedule works is that you are expected to have read the stuff listed for each day before you show up in class on that day.
| Date | Topic and Reading |
|
|---|---|---|
| January | 16 |
Introduction to the course; Course requirements and procedures; Accessibility, networks, the Internet, and the web.
|
| 18 |
Getting connected.
|
|
| 23 |
Operating systems, UNIX, and bash.
Look over sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of “A Basic UNIX Tutorial” Read: Michalko, chapter 1 |
|
| 25 |
File creation using emacs.
Look over section 10 of
“A Basic UNIX Tutorial”
|
|
| 30 |
Constructing a website on a LINUX/Apache system; Basic hypertext markup language.
Duckett, chapter 2, pages 26-42
Michalko, chapter 2 |
|
| February | 1 |
Links and navigation.
Duckett, chapter 3
|
| 6 |
Usability.
Jakob Nielsen:
Usability 101: Introduction to Usability;
Jakob Nielsen:
Usability in the Movies—Top 10 Bloopers;
Jakob Nielsen:
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design;
Jakob Nielsen:
Screen Resolution and Page Layout
Michalko, chapter 3 |
|
| 8 |
Color.
Do the reading in this order:
|
|
| 13 |
Text presentation and Cascading Style Sheets.
Do the reading in this order:
|
|
| 15 |
Inheritance in CSS.
Lie and Bos: Cascading Style Sheets, designing for the Web,
chapter 2
|
|
| 20 |
Phrase Elements.
Duckett: chapter 2, pages 46-67
Michalko, chapter 5 |
|
| 22 |
Metadata.
Danny Sullivan: How To Use HTML Meta Tags
Blogging. Electronic Frontier Foundation: Legal Guide for Bloggers |
|
| 27 |
Tables.
Duckett: chapter 5
Michalko, chapter 6 |
|
| March | 1 |
Roger Hudson: Accessible Data Tables
|
| 6 |
Advanced CSS.
Duckett, chapter 10.
Lie and Bos: chapter 15 (handout) |
|
| 8 |
Michalko, chapter 7
|
|
| 10-25 | Spring Break
|
|
| 27 |
Michalko, Epilogue
|
|
| 29 |
Page layout considerations.
Duckett, chapter 11
|
|
| April | 3 |
Web Accessibility: Legal Issues.
Do the reading in this order:
|
| 5 |
The Americans with Disabilities Act.
Read these short publications from the U.S. Department of Justice,
Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section:
|
|
| 10 |
Forms.
Duckett, chapter 6
|
|
| 12 |
|
|
| 17 |
General design considerations.
Duckett, chapter 12
|
|
| 19 |
|
|
| 24 |
Dealing with common web accessibility problems.
|
|
| 26 |
|
|
| May | 1 |
More usability.
Jakob Nielsen:
Why Frames Suck,
PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption,
Do Government Agencies and Non-Profits Get
ROI
From Usability?,
Does User Annoyance Matter?,
Show Numbers as Numerals When Writing for Online Readers
|
| 3 |
Writing for the web.
Jakob Nielsen:
How Users Read on the Web,
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content,
Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines
|
|
| 8 |
(Tuesday) Presentations to clients, 9:00 a.m.–noon Note: this will be held in Benedict 207 |
|
| 10 |
(Thursday) Final project due at 5:00 p.m. |
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