Monash University

Leader(s): Dr Des Casey (Caulfield and Clayton); Dr Saadat Alhashmi (Malaysia); Mr Gregory Gregoriou (South Africa)

Offered

Berwick Second semester 2009 (ONLINE-DAY)
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (ONLINE-DAY)
Clayton Second semester 2009 (ONLINE-DAY)
Gippsland Second semester 2009 (ONLINE-DAY)
Sunway Second semester 2009 (ONLINE-DAY)
South Africa Second semester 2009 (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

Assessments: 50%; 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. The examination must be sat at a Monash campus.

Contact hours

Students, are expected to spend an average of 12 hrs/week on this unit. The breakdown of time is as follows. 2 hrs/week: topic material coverage from the u-learning environment. 2 hrs/week working on sub-tasks and quizzes. 8 hrs/week: private study to review topic materials, explore supplementary unit resources and complete main tasks.

Prohibitions

CFR1150, CPE1003, CPE9005, CSC1040, GCO1821, IMS1401

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit1011/