Advanced Web Design

This advanced survey course starts with semantic markup and moves through advanced CSS, front and back-end programming, and intro to CMSes

The Classes

  1. Feb. 3 Content is King
  2. Feb. 10 Structure with HTML5
  3. Feb. 17 Presentation with CSS3
  4. Feb. 24 Designing Across Devices
  5. Mar. 3 Responsive Design Lab Night
  6. Mar. 10 Midterm Design Critiques
  7. Mar. 24 Designing Web Forms
  8. Mar. 31 Interaction Design
  9. Apr. 7 Behavior with JavaScript
  10. Apr. 14 JavaScript Libraries
  11. Apr. 21 Server Side Languages
  12. Apr. 28 Content Management Systems
  13. May. 5 Tools and Services
  14. May. 12 Final Project Presentations

Reading

HTML5 A List Apart BookGet the A Book Apart HTML5 book for all the latest on the specs and uses of HTML5. The well written book by Jeremey Keith is a quick read and only costs $9 for the .pdf!

CSS3 A List Apart BookThe companion book to HTML5, CSS3 for Web Designers, takes you through all of the advance capabilities of CSS3. Dan Cederholm is a great designer and teaches you much more than just rounded corners.

JavaScript BookScriptin with JavaScript and AJAX is the required reading book for the JavaScript class here at Montgomery College.