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School of Art and Design · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Front-End web design is concerned with the design and production of website elements that directly shape a user’s experience of a site. Front-end web has a broad scope, encompassing elements such as typography, layout, visual aesthetics, interface behaviours, and information architecture. It is a highly dynamic, burgeoning field of practice that is the creative engine-room of the modern web. This course provides a hands-on foundation in front-end web, introducing students to its fundamental concepts, theories, production practices and core technologies such as HTML, CSS and Javascript. The skills and knowledge acquired in this course are versatile and powerful, and will be of value to students from any field of study.
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact comprising lectures, tutorials / workshops. b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.
Preliminary Reading Marcotte, E. (2011). Responsive web design. New York: A Book Apart. Keith, J., & Zeldman, J. (2010). HTML5 for web designers. New York: A Book Apart. Cederholm, D., & Zeldman, J. (2010). CSS3 for web designers. New York: A Book Apart. Robbins, J. N. (2012). Learning web design: A beginner's guide to HTML, CSS, Javascript, and web graphics. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.