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Web Design Curriculum

The document summarizes a web design curriculum for secondary school students. It covers topics like user experience design principles, visual design, HTML, CSS, and creating an interactive website. Students learn from professional web designers in workshops and work on individual and group projects. By the end of the course, students will understand web design and development basics and have a portfolio piece showing their skills. The class meets on weekends, with sessions focusing on learning new topics, exercises, and working on projects.
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Web Design Curriculum

The document summarizes a web design curriculum for secondary school students. It covers topics like user experience design principles, visual design, HTML, CSS, and creating an interactive website. Students learn from professional web designers in workshops and work on individual and group projects. By the end of the course, students will understand web design and development basics and have a portfolio piece showing their skills. The class meets on weekends, with sessions focusing on learning new topics, exercises, and working on projects.
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Curriculum For Web Design

Secondary school students in the web design course learn first-hand how websites are designed and created,
and explore what makes a good user experience. Led by professional web designers, students discover the
principles of successful UX (user experience) design, exercise creative project planning, create beautiful
visual designs, and bring their designs to life in a final interactive website. No prior design or coding
experience is necessary for this program.

The web design course for secondary school students also includes the basics of the language behind the
web, HTML and CSS, along with planning and visual design aspects of web design. Students interested in
more experience with web programming should consider the Web Development Program, either separately,
or as a next step upon completion of this course. This web design class is offered weekends during the school
year.

Web design course for secondary school students topics:

What makes a good website

Designing a great user experience

Structuring a website’s content

Principles of strong visual design

Typography on the web

Preparing images for the web

Creative problem-solving in web projects

Introduction to HTML and CSS

Apps used for the web design class for high school students:

Adobe Photoshop for image editing

Httrack for site mirroing

Code editing such as Sublime Text, Dreamweaver, or Notepad++

By the end of the web design course, students will have gained:

Knowledge of UX (user experience) and visual design principles

Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS and how websites work

Insight into the opportunities and challenges of a career in web design

A final website showcasing their work


Web Design Class for Secondary School Students - Sample Schedule for friday session

The friday class meets after the Jumu'at prayers from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

2:00 pm - Workshops start: learn new topics and techniques from live instructor

2:30 pm - Complete practice exercises

3:00 pm - Learn new topics and techniques

3:30pm - Individual or collaborative project work

4:00 am - Class ends

Web Design Class for Secondary School Students - Sample Schedule for weekend session

The weekend class section meets Saturdays from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm.

8:15 am - Workshops start: learn new topics and techniques from live instructor

9:00 am - Complete practice exercises

10:00 am - Learn new topics and techniques

10:00am - 10:30am Break

10:30am - Individual or collaborative project work

11:00 am - Complete, review and share projects

11:45 am - Class ends

Web Design for Secondary School Students Course Topics

Understanding User Experience (UX) Design for Websites

Establishing a UX design strategy and process

Tips for creating a great User Interface (UI)

Essential UX and UI design principles

Structure of a website

Importance of typography in UX

Building a wireframe for UX Design


UX testing and feedback

Taking advantage of motion in UX design

UX feedback and iteration process

Building websites

Web design tools

Fundamentals of web design programming with HTML and CSS

Graphics, color, & transparency

CSS for formatting text

Creating layouts with CSS

Designing for browser compatibility

Introduction to interactivity & multimedia

Designing for mobile devices

Participants receive comprehensive curriculum for this class developed by the Instructor

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