Module Descriptors
WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
COIS40468
Key Facts
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Sciences
Level 4
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Susan Bailey
Email: S.Bailey@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 36
Independent Study Hours: 114
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
  • ASSIGNMENT weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Indicative Content
Introduction to HTML, CSS
Introduction to simple server side coding using scripting languages such as PHP
Hosting and ISP's
Business implications of the internet
Introduction to web servers and web server software
History of the internet
Web Page Editors
Web Graphics
Web HCI
Storyboards and flow charts

Module Additional Assessment Details
Assignment (100%) - learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Module Learning Strategies
1 lecture and 2 labs.
The lecture will support the two 1 hour lab sessions. The lab sessions will support the underlying knowledge and skills required to complete the module, and will be facilitated with booklets, course texts and the internet. Group discussions will also take place in these sessions.
(1:n) (1:30)2
Module Texts
Knuckles C and Yen D, Web Applications - Concepts and Real World Design, Wiley 2005, ISBN: 0-471-42929-5
Castro E, HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, Peachpit Press, 1998, ISBN: 0201696967

Directed reading will be given in lectures.
Module Resources
Web server with PHP.
Editors such as Macromedia Studio MX
The Internet
Module Special Admissions Requirements
Disqualified combination Internet Technology and Html