IDCC 370: Web Design I   Spring 2008

Labels: Cascading Style Sheets, child, CSS, CSS box model, form elements, hierarchy, Lee Underwood, parent-child relationship, parent-child-sibling, relationship, sibling, sibling relationship, XHTML

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I want to share a few links relative to usability and user experience careers, for those of you still thinking creatively about your profession.

US News reports that the Usability/User Experience Specialist is one of the best careers in America (2008), making its list of 31 careers with a bright future: http://www.usnews.com/features/business/best-careers
/best-careers-2008.html

Their executive summary of the Usability/User Experience Specialist offers a brief overview with interesting links: http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-
careers/2007/12/19/usabilityuser-experience-
specialist-executive-summary.html

Here is a list of schools offering graduate degrees in software ergonomics. As you can see, Bentley tops this list of exceptional universities—nothing like alpha order….: http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/degrees.asp

You should also check out our world famous Design and Usability Center (DUC) right here at Bentley: http://www.bentley.edu/usability/

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: careers, Design and Usability Center, DUC, usability, User experience

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It's here and ready for you to pick up. As a Bentley student, you can get your very own copy of Studio 8, a $999 value for $146 plus tax. Just proceed to the front desk of the Academic Technology Center in the Adamian Academic Center, Room 168. The office is open Monday-Friday, 8:30 to 4:30, but you might want to phone ahead to make sure that someone is there to help you (781/891-3421).

As there is a limited number of these packages available, I would highly recommend that you pick yours up as soon as possible.

Just tell Laura Ford or her assistant that you are there to pick up your copy of Studio 8. Be sure to provide your student ID card so the software can be charged to your account. That's all there is to it.

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: Academic Technology Center, Dreamweaver, Laura Ford, Studio 8

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A revolutionary development in communication, the World Wide Web offers unprecedented access to mass audiences. This introductory course focuses on the principles and practices necessary to create effective pages for the Web.

You will receive instruction in writing hypertext documents, designing Web pages, authoring well-formed XHTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and meeting a variety of technical challenges. The course focuses on purpose, scope, and audience considerations in page design; writing informative and persuasive on-line documents; designing coherent, portable, navigable, and interactive pages; and employing the fundamental principles of color theory, typography, layout and graphic design for the Web.

Combining lab, lecture, and discussion, you will learn the best practices of electronic design to create your own interactive Web sites. Be sure to check into the class Web site every day for announcements.

Here is a picture of a Web designer. And this is what you want to turn into? I look forward to our journey together into the wonderful world of Web design.

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: Cascading Style Sheets, CSS, design, graphic design, layout, Semantic Web, spider, typography, Web designer, Web site directory, World Wide Web, XHTML