An Instructional Systems Design Approach:

Target Audience:

Students who have some experience browsing the web and desire to design web pages. Some may have experience designing pages with wysiwyg editors.

Goals: Students will be enthusiastic to:

  • cultivate professional standards of web design;
  • adapt to the diversity imposed by the competing browsers and personal monitor settings of viewers;
  • evaluate html editing tools;
  • design interesting pages with html

Objectives: Students will:

  • discuss readings and do mastery quizes;
  • compare pages designed with FrontPage, PageMill, Dreamweaver and straight html;
  • duplicate assigned "pages" that use various styles, formats, images, lists and links by doing them in html;
  • design a personal page using html

Two Design Approaches for a Class about HTML

A Beginning by Diane Wang

A Hypermedia Design Approach:

Learning Domain:

Web Design> Professionalism>
HTML> standards> diversity

Cases:

  • Overview of web history & W3C;
  • <head> materials,
  • text manipulation, lists,
  • links, images,
  • frames, tables, styles,
  • web design resources

Themes and Perspectives:

  • responsibility for future of web, html and web standards;
  • comparison and adaptation of html editors;
  • achieve effects with variety of codes;
  • open-end design for various mointor and browser settings

 

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