WEBD: Web Design & DWEB: Database-driven Web Design

WEBD is a module for MSc HCIT and MSc SMIT students. DWEB is module for MSc IT and MSc Computing students. Most of the material for the two modules is identical, except that students on DWEB are expected to be able to create their own PHP/mySQL functions.

The modules are taught in the Spring Term.

News

24/4/12

The assessment deadlines are now:

WEBD

Noon Friday 27 April

DWEB

Noon Monday 30 April

8/3/12

WEBD

Tuesday's lab has been moved to RCH/017.

DWEB

Wednesday's lab has been moved to CSE/082

Please come prepared to demonstrate your cinema website.

7/3/12

Solutions

Sample solutions to previous weeks' exercises are available. These use PHP to process booking forms. See the design.php page for details.

2/3/12

A dump of the databases you need for the assessment and the practicals is available: DWEB.sql

The settings of the department's php.ini are available, if you want to make sure your installation is compatible.

28/2/12

The assessment specifications are now available on-line in PDF format: WEBD, DWEB.

21/2/12

I have re-arranged the order of the lectures, to postpone the coverage of mySQL.

15/2/12

Samples of achieving good designs with CSS from Andrew (2007) are available.

6/2/12

I have made some minor amendments to the order of lectures. As planned, today we have a guest lecture from Dave Swallow, on Accessibility, but tomorrow we will have Forms and interactivity.

31/1/12

Today's lecture (13.15) and WEBD lab (15.15) will go ahead as timetabled

30/1/12

Today's lecture is CANCELLED due to ill health. I hope to be back tomorrow.

17/1/12

I have assigned the practical groups.

16/1/12

There was an error in the timetable below - and hence the apparent clash for Computing students. The Group Practicals, in Weeks 2 and 3, are on Wednesdays (11.15-13.15) not Thursday. Sorry for any confusion.

I mentioned DIS in today's lectrure. That module is now called DASY. It does not run until weeks 7-10 but that should fit well with the material we will be covering in DWEB.

Resources

• Notes
• Practicals
• Forum
• Textbooks
• Workshops
• Twitter (UoY_WED)

Timetable

Lecturer

 Alistair Edwards (email: alistair)

Assistant lecturer

 David Swallow (email: dswallow)

Demonstrators

 André Freire (email: apfreire)

  Mark Fairbairn (email: mlf)

Attendance

Normally attendance at lectures is optional but practicals are compulsory. For this module I am willing to be more flexible, though, in recognition of the fact that some students on the module may already heve extensive experience in the design and implementation of websites. If you consider yourself to be in that category, and you think your time would be better spent not attending the practical, then please apply for me for permission to be excused.

Notes

• If I have not given you permission to be excused, then your attendance will be expected at practicals. If you do not attend you will be pursued in the normal manner.
• If you choose to be excused from the practicals, you will have to pass the assessment in the normal manner. Your not having attended will not be grounds for appeal against your result.

Module Prerequisites

Prerequisite knowledge

Knowledge of Human-Computer Interaction theory, methods and practice. Experience of programming.

Private Study

Although the basic principles and details of the various languages will be presented in lectures, material on evaluation and design methods may also be found in the text books. Reference material should be used to supplement the lectures. It is also expected that books should be consulted and used in the process of designing.

Assessment

There will be separate assessments for WEBD and DWEB. They will be issued on Monday, Week 7 Spring Term and due in on Wednesday, Week 1, Summer term.

The assessments use Electronic Submission

The assessments will involve the design, implementation and evaluation of a web-based application.

The assessment specifications are available on-line in PDF format: WEBD, DWEB.

A dump of the databases you need for the assessment (and the practicals) is available: DWEB.sql

General feedback on last year's assessment is available.

Previous years' assessment specifications are available:

2008-9

This included the use of a mySQL database and so is more similar to the DWB assessment.

2009-10

This did not involve a database, and so is similar to the WED assessment. Some general feedback on the submissions is available.

2010-11

Feedback

Feedback is available in a number of forms.

Weekly practicals

Demonstrators and the lecturers will give feedback on each student's websites, week by week.

Assessment

Within four weeks of submission, you will be provided with a provisional mark and on-line, personal feedback on your submission.

Links and references

• Build your website based on evidence, not false beliefs!

Your feedback

Students' feedback on the module and my response to it is available on-line:

• 2010-11
• 2009-10
• 2008-9
• 2007-8
• 2006-7
• 2005-6
• 2004-5

28 February 2012