Web Design (Matisse)
- Level Middle School
- Contact Hours 160
- Timeframe Year
In this project-based course, students learn how to build their own web pages using the languages of HTML and CSS. They will create their own live homepages to serve as portfolios of their creations. This is a one-year course for middle school students.
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MODULES - 7
Students are provided with a high-level introduction to the Internet and how it functions, investigate how the Internet has impacted society over time and set course goals for themselves.
Students learn about the language behind all websites: HTML. Students learn about several different HTML tags as well as the basic structure of a web page. Students use HTML to develop several of their own creative web pages.
Students learn the language CSS and use it to style their web pages. Students learn about the benefits of styling with CSS and will use CSS to create several styled web pages of their own.
Students build their own websites about themselves. This site will be accessible on their own custom domain and will be continually improved by the student as they continue on in the course. It will serve as a running portfolio of each creative project they create in the course.
This module dives deeper into different things we can do with HTML and CSS. Students practice advanced topics in HTML and CSS, including visibility, image filtering, interaction, and animation, to develop more advanced websites.
This module introduces students to the theory and practice of user interface design. Students learn about what makes an engaging and accessible user interface and will employ an iterative design process including rapid prototyping and user testing to design and develop their own engaging web pages.
In this project, students work in teams to design, prototype, test, and develop a final website.
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In today's world, web pages are the main medium for sharing ideas and information. Learning to design websites is an incredibly useful skill for any career path. This Professional Development course prepares teachers to teach a successful Web Design course with CodeHS.
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This course is built for middle school students across a full year, at about 160 contact hours. It is the longest of the CodeHS Web Design courses, which makes it the one to pick when web design is a year-long class rather than a rotation.
No prior experience is needed. The course is a project-based introduction to web design, starting from the fundamentals of HTML and building up from there. It assumes students have never written code before.
Students build their own live web pages using HTML and CSS, and create homepages that serve as portfolios of their work. Because the course runs a full year, there is room for more projects and more depth than the semester and quarter versions allow.
There are five, and they differ by grade band and length rather than content. Matisse is middle school, a full year. Kahlo is middle school, one semester. Dali is middle school, one quarter. Monet is high school, one semester. Picasso is high school, a full year and the only one carrying certification alignment.
No. CodeHS offers Teaching Web Design, a 40 hour professional development course that prepares teachers to run a Web Design class. It covers the content itself and how to teach it, and assumes no prior web development background.
