Welcome to the Internet Technology

Introducing the Unit team
About the Unit
About the Assessment
Course Schedule
Why This Unit Is Exciting
Course Progression
Useful Resources
Further Information

Unit Team

Joe Appleton – Unit leader
- Lecturer in Programming (web)
- 10 years industry experience specialising in programming web applications
- 10 years industry experience specialising in programming web
- Found and sold one tech business (a financial marketing platform)
- Currently involved in several technical web projects
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 - Livelifechange.co.uk (an online fitness challenge) 
 - Portvisitor.org  (a port information service)      
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Darren Cunningham - Tutor
- Lecturer in Computing
- Industry web experience
- 4 Years lecturing experience

About the Unit

10 Credits
Assessment consists of a single TCA
Provides a foundation in enabling technologies for the Internet focusing on:
- HTML
- CSS
Focus on the client side technologies
Usability and requirements of designing to standards as established by the W3C organisation

Unit delivery

A 1 hour lecture each week
The lecture will be complemented by a 2 hour practical

Assessment Strategy

The assessment will take place in the form of a single TCA, which will take place in mid January 2017 (date to be confirmed)

Why This Unit Is Exciting

There’s a huge demand for the skills covered

680 million websites live on the web
Thousands more being added daily

A couple of amazing creative HTML examples

HTML5 is no longer static, it allows us to create feature rich stunning graphical applications. The potential of HTML and what we can achieve is still very much untapped:

http://histography.io/