Title: Unit 1 Objectives and Outline
Course: RITA MC - WEB PAGE DESIGN I > Section: Unit 1 -- Getting Started, Planning & Designing, and Text

Unit 1

Unit 1 covers the first 3 chapters of your textbook with support material to help with your understanding of the content.  Each chapter will require you to read the textbook plus complete the following:

- Watch Videos and/or Read Web Tutorials
- View PowerPoints
- Complete a Homework Assessment
- Take a Chapter Quiz
- Complete a Lab Exercise from your textbook
- Participate in a Discussion Board forum

Once you have finished the 3 chapters, there will be a Unit exam for you to complete.

Objectives for Unit 1

- Demonstrate the roles of web servers and web clients (CO 1)
- Demonstrate the proper planning and design methodologies for a web site, identifying the goals and target audience for a site (CO 2, CO 3 and CO 4)
- Demonstrate the formatting and placing of text on a web page and utilization of cascading style sheets (CO 2, CO 3 and CO 4)
- Identify the navigation system (CO 2, CO 3 and CO 4)

Learning Activities for Chapter 1

- Identify the structure and history of the Internet and the Web (LG1.0)
- Define the roles of Web servers and Web clients (LG1.1)
- Identify protocols, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), and domain names (LG1.2)
- Create a Web page and view it in a browser (LG1.3)
- Identify the elements of the history of Web design software (LG1.4)
- Create a Dreamweaver site and select a workspace layout (LG1.5)
- Create a local site definition (LG1.6)
- Demonstrate elements of the Dreamweaver tool set (LG1.7)

Learning Activities for Chapter 2

- Design the information architecture (LG2.0)
- Create a flowchart and site structure (LG2.1)
- Create a site concept and metaphor (LG2.2)
- Select colors, fonts, and a graphics style (LG2.3)
- Develop the aesthetic concept (LG2.4)
- Create a site definition for a new site (LG2.5)
- Add pages to a site (LG2.6)
- Review basic Hyper Text Markup Language 5 (HTML5) tags (LG2.7)
- Set page properties (LG2.8)
- Preview a Web site (LG2.9)
- Upload a site to a remote server and preview it on the Web (LG2.10)

Learning Activities for Chapter 3

- Add text to a Web page by typing, copying and pasting, or importing (LG3.0)
- Check spelling in a Web page (LG3.1)
- Find and replace text (LG3.2)
- Format text using the Property inspector (LG3.3)
- Create hyperlinks (LG3.4)
- Examine HTML tags for hyperlinks (LG3.5)
- Explore Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) styles and style sheets (LG3.6)
- Modify HTML tags (LG3.7)
- Create custom style classes (LG3.8)
- Create styles for the <a> tag pseudoclasses (LG3.9)
- Create an external style sheet (LG3.10)
- Attach an external style sheet to a Web page (LG3.11)
- Delete styles from a style sheet (LG3.12)
- Create and edit CSS styles in an external style sheet (LG3.13)
- Enable and disable CSS styles (LG3.14)
- Examine the code for styles and style sheets (LG3.15)
- Examine HTML tags used to format text (LG3.16)
- Explore Web fonts and the @font-family rule (LG3.17)