Evaluation Criteria

The Web Design Capstone course is designed to bring together what the student has learned in the NSCC Visual Communications Web Design program. These skills are used in one or more web projects beginning with the development of project specifications with the client to implementation as a working web site. Students should be able to demonstrate the following competencies:

• Prepare a website using industry standard XHTML with CSS, or Flash.
• Publish a website using FTP software and other tools.
• Create custom raster graphics in both GIF and JPG format.
• Capture and resize photographs in a resolution suitable for the web.
• Create or re-purpose written content which conforms to web standards for text.
• Define and explain the concept of information architecture.
• Recognize and apply layout design principles.
• Recognize and apply typographic communication and design principles.
• Create a flowchart, storyboard and a site map.

The course has also been designed to introduce, emphasize or reinforce the following Core General Education Competencies as defined by NSCC:

• Reinforce students ability to write clear, well-organized documents by requiring a written summary report and reflective writing assignments.
• Reinforce students ability to locate, evaluate, and use multiple sources of information through assignments which require students to develop web page content.
• Reinforce students ability to participate as team members and team leaders by occasionally breaking the class into teams or groups.
• Reinforce students ability to use critical thinking skills through design analysis and presentation critiques.
• Emphasize students ability to use and adapt current technologies through a study of and use of multiple digital media applications.
• Reinforce students appreciation of cultural diversity and the influence of history and culture through an emphasis on designing web sites for a variety of demographics.
• Reinforce students’ ability to apply scientific thought processes to a range of situations through software assignments.