Course Description
In this three-course series students will learn how to design and develop professional-looking websites using the latest web design tools and techniques. The skills learned in these courses will enable students to design both small and simple sites and large and complex sites that are both attractive and effective.

To create attractive Web sites requires some guiding principles. This class series provides you with this framework and the means to put these principles into practice. We will look at the technical and aesthetic elements of design, including color theory, typography, page layouts and more, and how they apply in the creation of attractive and effective web pages.

The course series is divided into 3 courses that need to be taken in order. MMST131a is the pre-requisite for MMST131b which is in turn a pre-requisite for MMST131c.

Students who wish to skip ahead in the sequence will need to request persmision from the instructor and submit work samples.

MMST131a

In the first class in this series, students apply Web design theory by looking at examples of well designed and implemented Web sites and creating small, 4-5 page sites on any topics of their choice but with preexisting media. Students will not create any NEW content in this course but instead will use Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Dreamweaver and preexisting content to create a small working web site.

Optional Textbook: Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual

MMST131b

In this second class of the series, students learn how to design and develop medium-sized (10-15 pages) web sites using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Spry AJAX framework, JavaScript, Adobe Dreamweaver and more.  The tools and techniques covered in this course will enable the student to effectively develop, modify, and update larger web sites using content management software taught in the third class of the series.

Required Textbook:
 Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional

MMST131c

In this final course of the series, students will learn how to create large websites (larger than 20 pages) using content management software such as WordPress, Joomla, and others. Students will apply the design, HTML and CSS skills learned in the previous two classes to fully customize the functionality and style of sites create using content management systems.