Introduction to Web Authoring

• Credit value: 15 credits at Level 4
• Convenor: Dr Dimitrios Airantzis
• Assessment: portfolios (25% and 75%)

In this module you will learn how to design and build a website for a case study small business or optionally for an organisation of your choice, validate a website so that it complies with current web standards (HTML5 and CSS3), publish a website online, and acquire self-study skills so you can keep up in the context of rapidly changing technologies, tools, techniques and methods.

Indicative syllabus

• Web page authoring: web page authoring using web standards for HTML5 and CSS3; browser differences; validators.
• Web design: colour theory; layout and typography; accessibility; storyboarding; sitemap; planning website architecture.
• Web publishing: FTP File Transfer Protocol
• Legal issues: copyright and IPR

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• structure a web page using HTML
• format web pages using CSS
• lay out web pages and content using CSS
• build web pages that conform to usability and accessibility standards
• build web pages that are standards compliant
• publish web pages.