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Welcome to Web Design

This course covers introductory web site design and is intended for high school students.

The pages available on this website are normally accessed through the Blackboard system at Oregon State University.  If you do not enter through Blackboard, you will see only a portion of the course.  Access the main course and additional resources by logging in at http://my.oregonstate.edu at the Oregon State University Extended Campus web site.

Course Syllabus

Course Outline
Course Pretest Take the Course Pretest and get teacher approval before proceeding to the Lessons.
Lesson 1
 Getting Started		 Task 1:  Getting a client & Discussion Board orientation
Task 2:  Web site style reviews
Task 3:  HTML editor/tutorial selection, skills check
Lesson 2
 Are We There Yet?		 Task 1:  Teaching yourself HTML editing
Task 2:  Teaching yourself HTML editing, part 2
Task 3:  Making a placeholder web page
Lesson 3
 Getting Ready		 Task 1:  Beginning some practice web pages
Task 2:  Keeping order on your web pages with tables
Task 3:  Adding images to your document
Task 4:  Hyperlinks 
Lesson 4
Image Processing		 Task 1:  GIF files
Task 2:  JPG files
Task 3:  Practicing with 'Print Screen'
Lesson 5
HTML & Style Sheets		 Task 1:  Tweaking HTML code
Task 2:  Web colors and hex codes
Task 3:  Making a cascading style sheet
Lesson 6
Other Stuff		 Task 1:  Other software
Task 2:  Web ethics - copyrights and fair use
Task 3:  Using Java applets
Lesson 7
Project Time!		 Creating a website for your client.
Lesson 8
 (and beyond)		 Other lessons are added if deemed necessary by the Instructor.

 

All students enrolled in this course have the option of using their ONID account as a location for their web site.  They may have the option of using an independent web host, or a web site owned/operated by their client.  The instructor needs to approve of all non-ONID sites.

All students want to keep their ONID web site active after the course is complete will need to make arrangements elsewhere for web space.  Contact the instructor for more information and advice.

Access to ONID typically expires 90 days after the student is no longer enrolled.


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