WEB DEVELOPMENT: NOTES ON FIRST SEMINAR

This semester I'll be teaching Principles of Web Design.

The reading list for this module is much the same with Developing a Website aka Web Development, which I taught last year, so keep track of this page for further additions to the reading list.

For next week you have two assignments. Your first group assignment is entitled "Semantic Web: Past, Present, and Future". You have to prepare and make a 10 min. presentation based on your research on the Semantic Web: what TBL originally envisioned it to be, what is its current state (ie. applications, deployment by the business world, etc.), and how is it likely to progress in the following years.

For the second (individual) assignment, you have to choose a website (preferably, an e-commerce site such as protoporia , or the site of a Crete-based organisation, such as ergotelis), and submit it to a methodical usability analysis in accordance with the guidelines-criteria set by Jakob Nielsen [useit.com] and Vincent Flaunders [webpagesthatsuck.com]. Your assignment is, thus, to move beyond the aesthetical properties of a site, and evaluate whether the chosen site fulfils its functional goals.

Good luck!!!

See you in class next week.

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2005 - 2006

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