Learn how to create a simple but effective web site. Each weekly lesson will introduce beginner and intermediate web developers to concepts common to the WWW industry. Specifically you will learn enough HTML to create a Web Site. Additionally over ten weeks you will learn how to create a Design Document following a logical process of information design.

Many of the lessons are augmented with exercises you may download and work on at your leisure. These exercises will help you understand the lesson material as you put into practice the concepts presented. All exercies are available in both MS Word and PDF formats.

News and Recent Additions
Welcome to the Spring 2008 Term! 2008-04-10
Welcome to the Spring 2008 Term for Web Site Development: an introduction. This site will provide you with all you need for this course so please take some time to get familiar with it. All of the weeks lessons are available to you now so
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Where Did it Happen 2007-11-11
The goal with Where Did it Happen? is to provide a visual reference to the geographic location where the events that shape our lives occur.
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Filezilla for FTP File Transfers 2007-10-12
Now that you have had the opportunity in class to use Filezilla you will want to get more comfortable with it at home. Please download and install it. Once done practice moving files to and from YOUR folder on my web server. Also ensure that you know how
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The One Laptop per Child Foundation 2007-10-11
In an earlier class we had some discussion on efforts to provide laptops to children in developing countries. Here is some information on that.
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Google Pack 2007-10-05
I mentioned a GREAT Google product (Google Toolbar) that searches your computer and finds files in a heartbeat. This includes your email messages and makes a joke out of the search function within Outlook.
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User Scenario and Persona Development 2007-10-02
A key part in the development of a usable web site is to clearly understand who your target audience is and how they will use the site to accomplish specific business and/or user objectives.
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Exercises
The exercises for this week are listed below and available in PDF or MS Word formats.
Assignments
Here are the links to information on each of the assignments for the course.
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
 
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