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Introduction

Brief introduction to the physical structure of the Internet. W3C and its role. Document markup: HTML and XHTML. Hypertext. Web site structure and navigation. 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, digitizing images, basic graphic design. Plug-ins. Multimedia: audio and video capture and streaming. Web page design principles. Elements of visual design. Form design and implementation. Brief introduction to the use of scripts. Site development life cycle. Legal and ethical considerations. I

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

Attitudes, Values and Beliefs

	professionalism towards respecting copyright
	requiring professional standards in designing and implementing web applications.

Practical Skills

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

Unit relationships

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this unit.

Relationships

Web systems is a core unit in the Information Systems Technology and computing majors of the Bachelor of Information Systems Technology. There are no prerequisites for this unit.