Web Development and Design COMP1710
Course overview
Course description
This course introduces the construction of web sites and web interface/interaction design. There is a key focus on the on new media / multimedia and its delivery on the world wide web. The course introduces multimedia as a combination of text, graphics, video, animation and sound for the purposes of information access, storage and dissemination. Topics such as the nature and types of multimedia objects, components of a multimedia system, Web authoring, delivery tools, multimedia applications, spam, podcasts, RSS, web spam and societal implications of the web. Students will create multimedia applications using some or all of HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, Flash, animation, sound, video and 3D. The course provides an introduction to the latest web technologies.
Technical skills
Technical Skills
- QuickTimeVR
- JavaScript
Textbooks
Cohen, June Everything we've learned about why sites succeed! New Riders, 2003
Estrella, Steven G. The Web Wizard's Guide to Javascript Addison-Welsey
Barfield, Lon Interaction Design for Multimedia and the Web Addison Welsey, 2004
Refer: http://escience.anu.edu.au/lecture/comp1710/lecture/books.en.html
Workload
Thirty one-hour lectures and nine two-hour laboratory sessions
