WEB105 > Syllabus
Class: Working on a Web Team
Time: Winter 2010 – T/Th, 05:30PM to 06:50PM in BE3179
Credits: 3.0
Class Hours: 33
Type of Course: Workforce Education Preparatory
Length of Course: 11 weeks
Prerequisite: WEB110
Course Description:
This course provides an overview of different web-related careers in the context of web team job descriptions, functions, workflow, processes, and overall project management.
Course Goals:
Through lectures and assignment exercises, students will gain a hands on experience with various project management, client and customer relations and communication techniques as they relate to different roles that each member working on a project team plays in the web design industry necessary for a project’s success.
Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of WEB105, the student will be able to:
- Explore the different web-related career paths and skill sets required to succeed in various web-related career positions
- Develop documentation of the project scope in terms of the client’s needs and the needs of their users
- Use project management strategies to successfully plan and complete major web-based projects
- Communicate effectively (orally and in writing) the terms and specifications of a web-based project
- Use the terminology in the web industry
- Describe the types of work and critical-thinking strategies associated with each position in a web team
- Use (appropriate) software to effectively give written and visual presentations
Required Text:
- Web Redesign: Workflow that Works 2.0, by Kelly Gato & Emily Cotler
Evaluation Methods:
Assignments will create an overall Class Project worth 75% of your grade:
- Assignments require critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Assignments will be “assigned” each week according to the class schedule
- Assignments will be “due” according the assignment pages
- Students are responsible for assignment information on assignment pages
- Students are also responsible for assignment information given in class
- Assignments will be marked down 25% for every week they are late
A Final Exam will be worth 25% of your grade:
- The Final Exam will be held during Final’s Week
ADA Confirmation:
(Americans with Disabilities Act) If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, if you have emergency medical information to share with me, or if you need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please contact me ASAP.


This is rad. Tricks IE6 users into updating their browser. http://ie6update.com/
http://mashable.com/2010/04/02/sites-finding-web-work/
Easy ways to find work as a Web Designer/Developer.
This is a great “top 6 of the top 10 lists” that other programmers have written to keep in mind when on a project
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/03/top-6-list-of-programming-top-10-lists.html
Here is a FREE Mac Time Sheet application.
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Business/Timesheet.shtml
A layman’s-term-guide to writing HTML:
http://www.cracked.com/funny-1690-html/
Language is NSFW, but the content is hilarious.
How a web design goes straight to hell:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
(Hilarious)
Gah!! I was just gonna post that!
that website is freaking HILARIOUS
And… unfortunately, very true.
What Fight Club Teaches Us About Freelancing
http://tinyurl.com/yfs9gf4
A ton of articles on the legality of copyright usage and pictures and whatever else is legally bound in the design world.
http://www.notesondesign.net/author/jean-perwin/
Hey Mike,
Long time no see! Hope your doing well. A co-worker at Amazon sent me this link to a “Spectrum of User Experience” that would be great to add to your Web team class, esp. the corporate types -vs- freelancers. Beautifully done information graphic.
cheers, dj
http://www.flickr.com/photos/formforce/3663684287/sizes/o