Aims: To make students aware of different uses of websites; to introduce students to the principles and practice of website evaluation and design and to provide experience of designing, producing and evaluating a science communication website.
Learning Outcomes:
Students should be familiar with principles and practice of website evaluation; be able to understand a 'brief' (client specifications) for a website, to design and programme a basic working site using up-to-date website authoring software in line with standard design and legal requirements, and to deal with feedback about usability and access.
Skills:
Evaluation with respect to a brief; appraisal of evaluation criteria; Understanding and use of design criteria; use of Dreamweaver MX.
Content:
Lectures on: uses of the web in science research and science communication; website design, evaluation and legal requirements. Training sessions on: use of web-authoring software. Group sessions on: web evaluation and web-authoring.
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