Information and Communications

Year one, two and three students.

The various sub-sites located on this web server contain the work of students of the Department of Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University.

The work is from students of all three years of our undergraduate degrees plus one or two post graduate students taking web design as an elective. The majority of students are studying one of our routes under the Information and Communications programme. A number of students are doing this under Combined Honours in co-ordination with a half degree from another programme.

All students are taught standards based web design (following the Standardista approach) with an emphasis on standards based code, semantics, and good practice in web usability and accessibility.

The majority of the cohort does not want to be a professional web developer. Many go into IT or Information related posts and they tell us that having an understanding of web design has often helped them in the workplace. Some go on to further study to teach IT or specialise in computing or multimedia.

Students who do want to be professional web developers will often be visible by the standard of their work. A number of such graduates are successfully working in the new media industry both locally and nationally.

If you have any questions about this site and the student's work please contact me via email. Students are taught about legal issues regarding copyright etc. However, if there is anything that breaks your copyright please alert me and it will be removed as soon as possible.

We have a strong programme of guest speakers from industry. This has included speakers from Opera, Code Computerlove, The Reading Room, Mickey and Mallory, Pushon, Magnetic North and the BBC UX team. And individual names such as Andy Clarke, Richard Clark and Brendan Dawes. If you would like to contribute, email me.

Finally, students are always looking for ways of getting that vital workplace experience. In the past this has led to companies employing the same student once they graduate. If you can offer any placements, however short please let me know. If you are a freelancer that may have some work you sub-contract to a student please keep us in mind.