IST 129 Schedule - Spring 2003 - 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
Jan. 14, 16	Course Information, Schedule, NOVA Email and LAN Instructions, Browser Basics Creating, Viewing, and Revising Web Pages,	Chapter 1
Jan. 21, 23	Text Formatting, Spaces, Transferring files to the server; FTP Instructions	Chapter 2
Jan. 28, 30	Color, Browser Safe Color Chart, Creating Folders, Images, Finding and Using Web Graphics, alignment of text and images example, Links	Chapter 3, 4; Biography Assignment (due Tuesday). Download WS FTP LE for Windows, or Fetch for the Mac and install it at home, etc.
Feb. 4	Midterm 1
Feb. 6	Review Midterm, Take Pictures	Image Linking Assignment (now due Feb. 13)
Feb. 11, 13	Image Formats, Thumbnails, Transparent Gifs (sample file to convert), Editing Graphics with PhotoEditor, Paint, and IrfanView, Imagemaps	Chapter 5
Feb. 18	Class cancelled - snow
Feb. 20, 25	Tables, Uses of Tables	Chapter 6, Index Page and Imagemap Exercise (due Feb. 20)
Feb. 27	Midterm 2	Resume Using Table
March 4	Link colors, horizontal rules, Special characters, CSE HTML Validator Lite, HTML Editors, Website Proposal/Project, Links to Past Student Projects, FrontPage Basics, FrontPage Exercise
March 6	Frames	Chapter 7
Mar 18, 20	Forms, Wrapping in Text Areas, Documentation for CGI Script, Form Using CGI Script (note hidden fields), Template File Used by CGI Script, CGI Script to Create a File
Mar 25, 27	Forms, Midterm 3 (Mar27)	Tables and Frames Exercise
Apr 1, 3	Stylesheets Generic Classes, Text Link Underlining and Mouseovers CSS Positioning CSS to Control Button Size CSS to Control Image Margins CSS to Control Fonts- Table Tag CSS to Control Fonts - TD Tag CSS Instead of Tables
Apr 8	Animated Gifs Using Gif Movie Gear to Create Animated GIFs Image Rotation Example via Animated Gifs Using Fireworks to create animated gifs
Apr. 10	Publishing on the Web, Copyright, Meta Tags, Advertising Your Site	Chapter 8, Appendix A, "As Google Becomes Gatekeeper Sites Fight to Get In", Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2003
Apr. 15 22, 24	NVCC Web Curriculum, NVCC Instructor Sites, Design
Apr. 17	Web Site Statistics
Apr. 22, 24	Open lab to work and consult with instructor on homework, projects
Apr. 29, May 1	Student Web Site Presentations, Backup: 2003 Dogwood Participant sites	Website due in draft form (for presentation)
Tuesday, May 6	Final	Website due in final form