Advanced Web Authoring
Short name: WA
SITS code: BUCI051H5
Credits: 15
Level: 5
Module leader: Gordon McIntyre
Lecturer(s): Chris Maigler
Online material: https://moodle.bbk.ac.uk/
Aims
- to develop expertise in creating and publishing professional quality websites using an industry-standard web authoring tools.
- to build on the HTML5 and CSS3 skills developed in Introduction to Web Authoring.
Syllabus
- Authoring Tool Basics: Creating websites using range of techniques to ensure that websites can be maintained and conform to standards. Libraries, stylesheets, templates.
- Standards: HTML5, CSS3. Browser differences. Semantic structure.
- Accessibility: Optimising site accessibility, building accessible tables and forms in XHTML.
- Management tools for publishing websites.
- Tools: Validation, accessibility and browser compatibility testing.
Prerequisites
- Introduction to Web Authoring or equivalent.
- Good knowledge of authoring with HTML and some knowledge of CSS.
- Good knowledge of web design: colour theory, font management, page layout.
Timetables
Indicative timetables can be found in the handbooks available on programme pages. Personalised teaching timetables for students are available via My Birkbeck.