How long ago was this per chance?
Just last year.
In essense, higher/further education guidelines (IT/Graphic
Design or otherwise) don't seem to be able to bridge the gap between
basic 'HTML know-how' and 'Web Standards-friendly' web design
techniques.
To be honest, the "HTML know-how" part is a quick
glimpse of code because that's a formal requirement of the course.
Given the choice I think both students and staff might gladly skip it
altogether in favour of more time with Photoshop.
The real issue is that the course is, from the point of view of
the people on this list, back to front. A website should not be
something which starts out as an attractive graphic and is then
wrestled into HTML-table/GIF/JPEG format so that it can be put on the
web.
But that's the way it's taught, in the same way that students in
other modules are taught to create work, then turn their work into
other output formats, wrestling with the details of different colour
systems, inks and papers.
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Developer, ABC Kids Online http://www.abc.net.au/
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