Monash University

Leader: Des Casey

Offered

Berwick First semester 2008 (ONLINE-DAY)
Berwick Second semester 2008 (ONLINE-DAY)
Caulfield First semester 2008 (ONLINE-DAY)
Caulfield Second semester 2008 (ONLINE-DAY)
Clayton First semester 2008 (ONLINE-DAY)
Clayton Second semester 2008 (ONLINE-DAY)
Gippsland First semester 2008 (ONLINE-DAY)
Gippsland Second semester 2008 (ONLINE-DAY)
Sunway Second semester 2008 (ONLINE-DAY)
South Africa First semester 2008 (ONLINE-DAY)

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

Objectives

This unit builds knowledge and understanding of:

1. The physical structure of the Internet;
2. The role of mark-up languages, especially XHTML;
3. The features of XHTML;
4. The use of graphics and multimedia in web applications;
5. The basic principles of web site design, implementation and maintenance;
6. Some of the legal and ethical issues associated with the Internet, especially the area of copyright.

This unit builds attitudes, values and beliefs of:

7. Professionalism towards respecting copyright;
8. Requiring professional standards in designing and implementing web applications.

This unit builds practical skills of:

9. writing syntactically correct XHTML code;
10. developing graphics suitable for web use;
11. developing scripted streaming multimedia presentations;
12. developing structurally correct web sites with intuitive navigational paradigms.

Assessment

Unit exercises: 10%; Practical Assignments: 40%; Final Examination: 50%. Students must gain a satisfactory result in both the practical and exercises work and the exam to gain a pass in the unit.

Contact hours

12 hrs/week, comprising: 2 hrs/week topic material coverage from the u-learning environment; 2 hrs/week working on exercises and quizzes; 8 hrs/week private study to review topic materials, explore supplementary unit resources and complete practical work and assignments.

Prohibitions

CFR1150, CSC1040, IMS1401, GCO1821, CPE1003, CPE9005, FIT1012