Revised: October 14, 2000     

IST 129 Schedule

This schedule will be changed often.  If you miss a class, please check on the web for the most recent schedule..   

Date Topics Assigned Reading/Homework Due
August 28 Class Organization, Schedule,   NOVA Email Instructions, Browser Basics, Creating, Viewing, and Revising Web Pages, Text Formatting, Spaces
August 30 Color, Browser Safe Color Chart, Transferring files to the server; FTP Instructions Meyers, Ch 1-4
September 6 Links Meyers, Ch. 5-7, Download WS FTP LE  for Windows, or Fetch for the Mac, install it, and upload a web page to your web site. site. Email Instructor from email address where you want to receive emails; include your name and section number, and address of web site where your work will be hosted
September 11 Putting Images on Web Pages,  Finding and Using Web Graphics, Using HTML Editors  Simple Linking Exercise, Meyers, Ch. 8, 9
September 13 Tables, Uses of Tables, Review of Basic HTML Tags, Website Proposal/Project Text and Image Links Exercise
September 18 Link colors, <HR>, background images, alignment of text and images example Meyers, Ch. 12-13; Table Exercises
September 20 Midterm  
September 25 Review of Midterm, Frames  Meyers, Ch. 16 Website Proposal
September 27 Forms  Meyers, Ch. 14-15, Tables and Frames Exercise
October 2 Editing Graphics, Imagemaps Meyers, Ch. 10-11 Forms Exercise
October 4 Animated GIFs and GIF Movie Gear, Publishing and Advertising, Sound Imagemap Exercise
October 11 Makeup day/free day -- Help with projects (attendance optional)   
October 16 Web Site Presentations, Course evaluation
October 18 Final Website due

Comments to William M. Pegram, wpegram@nvcc.edu