Web Design Specialist

Lesson 1: Overview of Web Design Concepts

Objectives
Balance customer needs and usability with site design principles and aesthetics Identify Web site characteristics and strategies to enable them, including interactivity, navigation, database integration Identify purpose and usefulness of multimedia Write X/HTML code to create a static Web page with text and images Identify multimedia Web design principles, and choose appropriate multimedia technologies for a site based on usability criteria

The Nature of the Web

Current Web development direction Tools and technology
Graphical user interface (GUI) What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)

Web Design Concepts

Push technology Multimedia Interactivity

Newer Technologies
Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Alternative browsers Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Extensible Markup Language (XML) JavaScript

Summary
Balance customer needs and usability with site design principles and aesthetics Identify Web site characteristics and strategies to enable them, including interactivity, navigation, database integration Identify purpose and usefulness of multimedia Write X/HTML code to create a static Web page with text and images Identify multimedia Web design principles, and choose appropriate multimedia technologies for a site based on usability criteria

Web Design Specialist

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