Designing Online Information
(PDON 001)
Moving technical writing online means that materials must be designed, structured, and written differently than for paper-based publications. Students learn the principles of online information design.
Course will cover:
- Review of audience, task and information analysis to determine what affects the design on online documents.
- Understanding how people read, perceive and interact with online documents
- Types of online information
- Designing the documents
- Organizing for retrieval (browse sequences, table of contents, index, visual navigation aids, hypertext links)
- Writing for online (chunking, modularizing information)
- Effective use of graphics
- Distribution
- Evaluation
Minimum System requirements for this course
www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/systemreqs/
Manual required for this course
This book is available in a digital format from www.lulu.com. (ISBN-13: 978-0321670984).
If you prefer, manuals are available in a print edition - from the Vancouver Island University Bookstore, Amazon.ca, Amazon.com, or your local bookseller.
Required manual:"Visual QuickStart Guide Dreamweaver CS4 for Windows and Macintosh". Tom Negrino, Dori Smith (Peachpit Press). ISBN-10 #0321573528; ISBN-13 #978-0321573520, 576 pages.
PDON 001
S13W01 - 8 weeks: Jan 7 - Mar 1, 2013*
$349 CAD
(Approx. $435 CAD for International
Students)**
*Note: first week is orientation to the online classroom
**Prices
subject to change without notice
Instructor Bio
Jessica Colasanto has
been creating documents for the online
environment
since the early 1990s. She studied newswriting at the S.I. Newhouse School
of Communications at Syracuse University before graduating from McGill
University. A native of the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, she grew up
in New York, but now lives in Powell River with her husband and two young
children where she currently co-owns and runs a website development company.