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COURSE UNIT TITLECOURSE UNIT CODESEMESTERTHEORY + PRACTICE (Hour)ECTS
INTERNET AND INTERFACE DESIGN I GİT326 Sixth Term (Spring) 2 + 2 6

TYPE OF COURSE UNITCompulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNITBachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY3
SEMESTERSixth Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED6
NAME OF LECTURER(S)-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT At the end of this course, the students;
1) Defines basic web technologies.
2) Demonstrates skill for creating HTML pages.
3) Can define what the interface is and which criteria are important in interface design.
4) Comprehends the process of creating a conceptual model for a website.
5) Carries its current knowledge on page layout, color usage and typography to the web.
6) Plan and execute the creation process of a web page.
7) Can create interactive designs.
8) Demonstrates skills to implement web standards-based websites.
9) Designs adaptive, accessible and optimized websites.
MODE OF DELIVERYFace to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSENo
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITIONThis course; The concept of user interface design includes creative, innovative, artistic interface designs for different devices and applications such as computers, mobile phones, components of interface design, interaction, usability, readability, accessibility. The aim of the course is to enable students to create a design by applying the principles of human-computer interaction to useful, productive and effective user interfaces, and to provide basic information in order to create high-quality, interactive, content-rich web publications in accordance with current design methods.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEKTOPICS
1st Week Internet history, Basic Protocols, File Formats, Basic Concepts.
2nd Week Introduction to HTML Codes, Introduction to HTML Code Applications.
3rd Week To give text type, size and color with HTML Head Commands, HTML Body Commands, HTML Body Codes, editing texts and images with HTML Body Codes.
4th Week Creating tables with HTML Body Codes. HTML Form Elements, creating and submitting forms with HTML codes, adding asp or php codes.
5th Week Types of CSS on the website: typography, consistency, color settings, original Project, implementation.
6th Week Introduction to Dreamweaver HTML editor, Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 program interface introduction.
7th Week Midterm.
8th Week Using HTML and CSS properties in Properties Panel, creating in-document link, adding image, linking to different places in the image.
9th Week Preparing templates for web in Adobe Photoshop program.
10th Week Creating Tables in Dreamweaver: Giving content to rows and columns, Linking cells, Designing Table menu cells as buttons. Creating forms in Dreamweaver, adding form elements, spry codes.
11th Week Adding flash video in Dreamweaver, calling video from different video sharing sites by opening a page within a page with Iframe code.
12th Week CSS applications and div codes. Lightbox application: organizing portfolio works.
13th Week Placing ready-made Java script and CSS codes in the head commands area.
14th Week Final Project Application.
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READINGSam Quayle, 2010, An Introduction to HTML Prototyping
Jennifer Tidwell, A Pattern Language for HCI Design, http://www.mit.edu/~jtidwell/
Handcraft ? Online prototyping tool. Alternative to Codeanywhere
TextMate ? Recommended code editor for Mac OS X
E - TextEditor ? Recommended code editor for Windows
When can I use? ? A good resource for checking browser compatibility of HTML and CSS features
Code Academy ? Online course for learning programming basics with JavaScript
Grover, C. ; Flash CS6: The Missing Manual, O?Reilly Media, 2012
Gümüştepe, Y.; Dreamweaver CS6; Kodlab Yayın Dağıtım, 2013
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODSLecture,Discussion,Practice,Project,Presentation
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 QuantityPercentage(%)
Mid-term120
Practice120
Project140
Total(%)80
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)80
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)20
Total(%)100
ECTS WORKLOAD
Activities Number Hours Workload
Midterm exam111
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work14342
Preparation for Final exam155
Course hours14684
Preparation for Midterm exam155
Laboratory (including preparation)14456
Final exam111
Homework166
Project11010
Total Workload210
Total Workload / 307
ECTS Credits of the Course6
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTIONTurkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)No
  

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