Web Design → ICAI4189A Ensure website content meets technical protocols and standards
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From the official document:
"This unit defines the competency required to prepare a range of content for a website in accordance with customer specifications while ensuring that content is compatible with appropriate technical and infrastructure protocols."
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You can read more about this unit on the National Training Information Systems Official document for ICAI4189A.
This unit forms part of the following qualifications:
After learning and applying the skills required by this unit you'll be able to demonstrate your skills in:
ELEMENT
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
1. Confirm that content meets required standards
Take action to ensure that text-based content meets client needs and required style standards
Confirm multimedia-based content meets the business design standards or overall 'look' of the website
Check that the mix between multimedia- and text-based content provides the required level of interaction identified in the project brief
Test that content conforms to the client expectations and technology
2. Confirm that technology supports content
Take action to ensure that the protocols required for multimedia content are available
Check and confirm that the bandwidth required to support the content is available
Check and confirm that servers support the content and levels of interaction
Check and confirm that all plug-ins required to support content are made available
Test and confirm that compression techniques support delivery of content
3. Test content
Test and confirm that content displays as intended and according to business requirements , in target browsers
Test with beta users that content encourages interaction and content interaction performs as intended and record results
Test and confirm that plug-ins download with a minimum of steps, complication and time
Test that interactive tools are available and provide the expected results
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The best way to demonstrate these skills is ...
If you are demonstrating this unit as part of a formal course, you might find that the unit is graded (meaning you can not only demonstrate your competence, but can also gain a credit or distinction). Your facilitator may already have set criteria that your college uses. If not, here are some ideas for possible credit/distinction activities that you can discuss with your facilitator:
HTML : What is HTML , Advanced HTML Tutorial , HTML Challenges , Lists and Tables , The Structure of HTML , Pen and Paper HTML activities
CSS : Learning Basic HTML and CSS , CSS challenges , Embedded CSS , Basic HTML and CSS Tutorial , Inline CSS , Develop cascading style sheets , CSS3 Animations
PHP : Simple functions in PHP , Dynamic websites , PHP challenges , Dynamic websites with PHP , Generating a receipt with PHP , Responding to HTML forms with PHP ,
JavaScript : An Introduction to Programming with JavaScript , JavaScript Challenges , Getting to know JavaScript events , Getting to know the Document Object Model with JavaScript , JavaScript pen-n-paper activities , Web Programming Intro , Produce basic client side script for dynamic web pages
XML : XML challenges
Databases : Creating Database Tables
Projects : A small website project , A step-by-step web design project , Build a basic web page , Build a small website
Challenges : Web design , HTML , AJAX , CSS , JavaScript , PHP , XML , Information Architecture , Algorithms
Activities : Web design group learning activities , Pen and Paper HTML activities , A Web Design Quiz show , Ordering Tasks for a Web Project , Paired Bio Pages , Scoping a Small Project , Emerging Technologies Research Activities
Project management : An introduction to Project Management , Developing a Client Project
Design : Accessibility , Design Principles for Web Design , Design Suggestions , Generating resource identifier strings .
Testing : Testing Website performance , Website Performance Test Plan
Publishing : Getting Your Site On the Web
Certification and standards : Cert IV Website Qualifications in Australia , Australian Qualifications , Web design qualifications
Professional development : Contribute to personal skill development and learning , Useful Applications , Useful Books , Emerging Technologies , Using the Internet as a Learning Tool
Course meta-information : Web Design , About the web design learning project , New Structure , Sample Timetable