This course introduces the construction of web sites and web interface/interaction design. There is a key focus on the on new media / multimedia and its delivery on the world wide web. The course introduces multimedia as a combination of text, graphics, video, animation and sound for the purposes of information access, storage and dissemination. Topics such as the nature and types of multimedia objects, components of a multimedia system, Web authoring, delivery tools, multimedia applications, spam, podcasts, RSS, web spam and societal implications of the web. Students will create multimedia applications using some or all of HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, Flash, animation, sound, video and 3D. The course provides an introduction to the latest web technologies.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Understand and be able to develop and design interactive web sites including multimedia content by applying current web design principles, guidelines and heuristics.
• Apply a user-centred focus to the design and development of web sites.
• Demonstrate knowledge of accessibility, compliance with standards, privacy concerns and personalisation for web sites.
• Understand and be able to separately control the content, the appearance and the behaviour of web sites.

Laboratories (25%); Assignment (35%); Final Exam (40%)

Thirty one-hour lectures and nine two-hour laboratory sessions

Cohen, June Everything we've learned about why sites succeed! New Riders, 2003

Estrella, Steven G. The Web Wizard's Guide to Javascript Addison-Welsey

Barfield, Lon Interaction Design for Multimedia and the Web Addison Welsey, 2004

Refer: http://escience.anu.edu.au/lecture/comp1710/lecture/books.en.html