CPE9005 - Web development

Leader: Des Casey

Offered

Not offered in 2007

Synopsis

Brief introduction to the physical structure of the Internet. W3C and its role. Document markup. Hypertext. Elements of web pages: text, graphics, media. Design with and implementation of: lists, tables, frames, layers, cascading style sheets. Web graphics: vector and bitmap images, image constraints, digitising images, basic graphic design. Plug-ins. Multimedia. Web page design principles. Elements of visual design. Form design and implementation. Site development life cycle. Legal and ethical considerations. XML: structure of XML documents, validating XML documents, Web design using XML. Introduction to Wireless.WAP 2.0 and XHTML-MP. WAP CSS / WCSS.WCSS properties. WCSS Extensions

Assessment

Unit exercises 10%, Practical Assignments: 40%, Exam: 50%.

Prerequisites

Entry into any masters degree of the Faculty of Information Technology

Prohibitions

FIT1011