Multimedia and Web Development

Official Description

Multimedia and Web Development (44-333)
This course will acquaint the student with a variety of multimedia resources that could be incorporated in the design and production of a multimedia project on a variety of computer platforms. The focal points in this class will be on the proper design and generation of multimedia projects with an emphasis on web pages.

Overview

This is intended as a beginer class and teaches students how to create web sites and about various multimedia topics such as working with a team of producers. There is also quite a bit of terminology.

What Actually Happens

You create (rather) pointless web pages in Macromedia Dreamweaver for the purpose of learning how to do things such as tables, links, forms, and a variety of other things. This class may also be completed without dreamweaver using only html source code. Unfortunantely this class may be rather stingey on specific things (such as terminology) which may cause problems for people who already know about working with web pages and multimedia projects and have learned alternate terms for certain topics. Grading is done by a series web projects, tests, and a final larger web project at the end. Note: Web projects are graded with Internet Explorer so web pages created by writing html code designed for use in a good browser (firefox) may not load correctly. Web projects are also uploaded to the Northwest Info server, which really sucks.