• Understand and apply Web Standards
• Use a text editor (see list of recommended editors here) or a wysiwyg html editor* to create usable, accessible, and interesting Web pages.  *You may use Dreamweaver,Microsoft Expression (was FrontPage), Oxygen or other html editor that you are familiar with.
• Use external CSS layout to design highly accessible navigation and menus.
• Plan and design a Web site for Usability and Accessibility for selected users/groups.
• Do some simple Usability Testing
• Trouble-shoot HTML5, CSS, and Browser compatibility problems. Read the code.  Use the graph paper.
• Create basic forms
• Use free-Javascripts to add functionality
• Make good choices for designing with multi-media.
• Develop basic Web site contents for selected users/groups including some review of social Web tools (Web 2.0), multimedia, and content management systems (CMS). Understand the strengths and limitations of CMS's including systems requirements and costs.
• Understand the basics of information architecture, archiving, and maintenance issues in Web design.

Students will end the course with a completed Web site plan, design, and at least three Web pages that illustrate how the design will be implemented, maintained and will allow for minimal usability and accessibility testing. These pages must also be validated HTML5 transitional (or strict) with external cascading style sheets.

• Elizabeth Robson and Eric Freeman. First HTML and CSS, 2nd Edition. 2012 . O'Reilly. Print ISBN: 978-0-596-15990-0; Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-2448-3
• Eric Freeman and Elizabeth Robson. Head First HTML5 Programming. 2011. O'Reilly. Print ISBN: 978-1-4493-9054-9; Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-9055-6

Recommended Strongly:

• Graph Paper for laying out CSS design.
• Ben Henick HTML & CSS: The Good Parts. 2010. O'Reilly. Print ISBN: 978-0-596-15760-9 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-8269-8
• Jennifer Niederst Robbins. Web Design in Nutshell. 3rd ed. 2006. O'Reilly. Print ISBN-10: 0-596-00987-9. 2009. Ebook ISBN: 978-0-596-10463-4
• Bickner, Carrie. (2004) Web Design on a Shoestring. New Riders Publishing: Boston ISBN 0-7357-1328-6
• Norman, Donald (any edition). The Design of Everyday Things.