Unit 3: Web and Multimedia Applications
Scenario
You have recently recruited as a ‘Junior Web Designer’ in A4people, a company based in central London. They specialise in a number of creative projects both on and off line and more recently more work of a digital nature. They have been building websites using HTML, CSS and javascriipt and ideally, they want someone with some experience of this in some capacity.
Robert Murray was impressed by your academic knowledge and decided to take on board. Your sound knowledge of web and multimedia applications will now be tested. Robert now expects you to do the following within a two weeks’ timeframe:
Instructions
a. You are called in to Robert’s pod and he is gave you a brief on what A4people shareholders want to have in its website and what are the user expectations from the new website. He has asked you to create a design document for multipage A4people website.
▪ 1x Word file for ‘a’ written in an essay format (circa 550 words)
WEB AND MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS
Unit Reference Number J/617/2267
Unit Title Web and Multimedia Applications
Unit Level 4
Number of Credits 20
Total Qualification Time 200 hours
Mandatory / Optional Mandatory
SSAs 06.1 ICT practitioners
Unit Grading Structure Pass / Fail
Unit Aims
Learning Outcomes- The learner will: Assessment Criteria- The learner can:
1. Understand web design technology. 1.1 Explain modern web development technologies and frameworks.
1.2 Evaluate the impact of common web development technologies and frameworks on website design, functionality and management.
1.3 Review the impact of website design on search engine results.
1.4 Explain evidence-based support for improving a site’s index value and rank through SEO.
2. Understand website technologies, tools and software used to develop websites. 2.1
2.2 Explain the concepts of design flexibility, performance, functionality, User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI).
Evaluate a range of tools and techniques including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript available to design and develop a custom built website.
2.3 Compare cloud website development tools for businesses.
2.4 Evaluate the use of content management systems for website design and maintenance.
3. Understand multimedia content creation tools and software. 3.1
3.2 Evaluate tools available to create multimedia content for websites.
Explain regulatory and ethical considerations in creating multimedia content for websites.
4. Be able to create a multi-page website using multimedia content. 4.1 Create a design document for a branded, multipage website following client and user requirements.
4.2 Create a branded, multipage website supported with realistic multimedia content to follow given design specifications.
4.3 Critically evaluate the design and development process against design specifications.
Indicative contents
Topic Course coverage
Learning Outcome 1 ● Hosting and website management: Investigate relationships between domain names, DNS services and communication protocols used to access a website.
● Overview of publishing and managing secure websites, including search engine indexing and ranking.
● Interaction between browser and server: HTML forms, GET and POST data
● Different server technologies: Differences between web server hardware, software and host operating systems.
● Advantages of an integrated database system with regards to expanding website capability.
● Common web development technologies and frameworks.
● The main() Function, The #include and #define Directives, The Variable Definition, The Function Prototype, Program Statements, The Function Definition, Program Comments.
● SQL, Java, JavaScript, C#, C++, Python, PHP, Ruby on Rails.
● SEO techniques.
Learning Outcome 2
● Developing schemes of user interaction influenced by characteristics of good design, such as: learnability, robustness, flexibility, usability, performance, accessibility, adaptability, customisation
● Developing dynamic content using PHP (The use of JSP,
ASP or Perl is acceptable): Interfacing with a database (limited knowledge of SQL syntax is required to allow iterating over a data set)
● Standards & conformance: W3C, WAI, CSS.
● Public & Private key encryption, On the fly encryption, hashes, the uses and limitations of RSA, DES and AES.
● ISO 9126 characteristics of quality.
● File sharing & distribution mechanisms: Traditional downloading/uploading, FTP, Bit torrent, P2P networks.
● Streaming media, RSS, IRC, Wiki, Blog, Web Forum, Portals.
● Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, etc.
Learning Outcome 3 ● InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver & CorelDRAW.
● Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) and the related Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 (SENDA)
● Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
● Lab hours demonstrating InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver & CorelDRAW use.
Learning Outcome 4 ● Lab/workplace creation of website.
Assessment
To achieve a ‘pass’ for this unit, learners must provide evidence to demonstrate that they have fulfilled all the learning outcomes and meet the standards specified by all assessment criteria.
Learning Outcomes to be met Assessment criteria to be covered Type of assessment Summary of
quantity/quality
LO1, LO2, LO3 All ACs under LO1, LO2, LO3 Coursework 2000 words
LO4 All ACs under LO4 Project NA
Indicative Reading list
HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites Paperback by Jon Duckett (Author)
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 – Second Edition: Build responsive and future-proof websites to meet the demands of modern web users by Ben Frain
Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2018 release) (Classroom in a Book (Adobe)) by Andrew Faulkner and Conrad Chavez
