Overview

This unit familiarises students with the web design process. Students will learn how to design websites through design principles such as information design and typography. Students will be introduced to the concepts, language, requirements and procedures that support the liaison between designers and technical specialists by using coding and other software-based techniques to build and manage a website.

Requisites

Prerequisites
DCO20004 Web Design

Rules

Admission into one of:
Bachelor of Design (including double degrees and old Bachelor of Design tagged codes – currently on teach out) or Bachelor of Education (Secondary) or Bachelor of Games and Interactivity and related double degrees
OR
UX Interaction Design Minor

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025
Teaching Period 1
Location
Online
Start and end dates
10-March-2025
08-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
23-March-2025
Census date
04-April-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
02-May-2025
Results released date
01-July-2025
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Design and implement a simple, functioning website.
  • Plan the structure and extent of a web site viewed across multiple screen formats, including the briefing documents
  • Manage image and text resources, and aesthetic aspects of typography, for inclusion in a website
  • Establish informational and functional aspects for websites, such as typographic hierarchies, information architecture and navigational links for use across mobile devices

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Class
3.00 12 weeks 36
Specified Activities
Supervisor Meetings
5.00 12 weeks 60
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning
4.50 12 weeks 54
TOTAL150

Swinburne Online

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Online
Learning activities
1.00 2 weeks 2
Unspecified Activities
Various
6.50 12 weeks 78
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning
5.83 12 weeks 70
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Applied Web ProjectIndividual 0% 1,2,3,4 
Applied Web ProjectIndividual 0% 1,2,3,4 
PresentationIndividual 0% 2,3 
Project WorkbookIndividual 0% 1,2,3,4 

Content

  • Hosting and domain management for web sites
  • Content management systems
  • Diagrammatic planning for web sites
  • Prototyping for web sites
  • Managing image, colour and type for web sites
  • Creating briefing documents for specialists contributing advanced technical functions to web sites

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.