IST 129 Schedule - Spring 2001, Instructor: William M. Pegram

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

Date	Topics	Reading related to Topics/Homework Due
Week 1 (1/9, 10)	Class Organization, Schedule, NOVA Email Instructions, Browser Basics, Creating, Viewing, and Revising Web Pages, Text Formatting, Spaces	Meyers, Ch 1-4; Maran Ch. 1-3
Week 2 (1/16, 17)	Color, Browser Safe Color Chart, Transferring files to the server; FTP Instructions, Introduction to Links	Meyers, Ch. 5,6; Maran Ch. 4; 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
Week 3 (1/23, 24)	Links, Creating Folders in Notepad, Putting Images on Web Pages, Finding and Using Web Graphics, alignment of text and images example	Meyers, Ch. 7, Maran, Ch. 7; Download WS FTP LE for Windows, or Fetch for the Mac, install it, and upload a web page to your web site.
Week 4 (1/30, 31)	Images	Simple Linking Exercise, Meyers, Ch. 8, 9; Maran Ch. 5-6
Week 5 (2/6. 7)	Tables, Uses of Tables, background images	Meyers, Ch. 12-13; Maran, Ch. 8; Logo Linking Exercise
Week 6 (2/13,14)	Link colors, <HR>, HTML Editors, Website Proposal/Project, FrontPage Basics, FrontPage Exercise	Maran Ch. 9; Table Exercises
Week 7 (2/20, 21)	Midterm
Week 8 (2/27, 28)	Review of Midterm, Frames	Meyers, Ch. 16; Maran, Ch. 11; Website Proposal
Spring Break	No class
Week 9 (3/13,.14)	Forms	Meyers, Ch. 14-15, Maran, Ch. 10; Tables and Frames Exercise
Week 10 (3/20, 21)	Editing Graphics with PhotoEditor and IrfanView, Imagemaps	Meyers, Ch. 10-11; Maran, Ch. 12; Forms Exercise
Week 11 (3/27,28)	Animated GIFs and GIF Movie Gear	Maran Ch. 15; Imagemap Exercise
Week 12 (4/3,4)	Stylesheets	Maran, Ch. 13-14
Week 13 (4/10, 11)	Stylesheets
Week 14 (4/17, 18)	Makeup day/free day -- Help with projects (attendance optional)
Week 15 (4/24, 25)	Web Site Presentations, Course evaluation
Week 16 (5/1,2)	Final	Website due