EDIT 772 Schedule
Course information, students. 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 (10/5)
- Class Organization
- Directions for automatic forwarding of GMU email
- GMU IT workshops (http://ittraining.gmu.edu)
- Academic prices for software - Patriot Computers in Johnson Center, www.campustech.com
- 30 day free trial download of Dreamweaver MX 2004
- Setting permissions on Mason web accounts - see p. 13 of GMU Fall 2004 Student IT Guide, also available in hard copy
- FTP Instructions
- NVCC Technical Applications Center Dreamweaver MX Tutorials
- Macromedia OnDemand Seminars - Dreamweaver MX Workspace Seminar
- Forms HTML
Week 2 (10/12)
- Default Documents and Directory Browsing
- Guided Tour (Ch. 1)
- Adding Text (Ch. 2)
- Text Formatting (Ch. 3)
- Links (Ch. 4)
- Images (Ch. 5)
- Site Root Relative References
Dreamweaver: Chapter 1-5
Week 3 (10/19)
- Images (Ch. 5) cont.
- Tables (Ch. 6) - A spacer gif
- Frames (Ch. 7)
Dreamweaver: Chapter 6-7, Biography Assignment
Week 4 (10/26)
- Cascading Style Sheets (Ch. 8)
- Under the Hood: HTML (Ch. 9)
- Forms (Ch. 10) - Forms Tutorial Example with Forms Validation
Dreamweaver: Chapters 8-10
Files for Assignment:
Home Button - Home Button On
Notes Button - Notes Button On
Projects Button - Projects Button On
Week 5 (11/9)
- Behaviors (Ch 11) - JavaScript. DHTML - handcoded rollover, handcoded rollover using a function
- Four techniques for rollovers - CSS hover, JavaScript image rollover (functions, event handlers); Flash movie (text or button); Front Page hover applet
- Browser Statistics
Dreamweaver Chapter 11; Style Sheet Tutorial
Compass Travel Assignment, Compass Travel files:
Compass logo - Adventure Travel -
Adventure Gear - Adventure Gear on - Featured Destinations - Featured Dest. on-
Travel Logs - Travel Logs on -
About Us - About Us on -
Biking button - Biking button on
Climbing button - Climbing button on -
Diving button - Diving button on -
Kayaking button - Kayaking button on - Welcome Text - Biking Text - Climbing Text - Diving Text - Kayaking Text -
Tracing image
Week 6 (11/16)
- Spreadsheet Saved as CSV File
- Layers (Ch. 12)
- Navigation Bar Consisting of Multiple Layers, One Image per Layer & Navigation Bar with Images in a Single Table
- Compass Travel Behavior Example
- Show/Hide Layers Example
- Flash, Java Applets, ActiveX (Ch. 13) - e.g. Flash File
- Website statistics
Dreamweaver Chapter 12-13 Week 7 (11/23)
- Site Management (Ch. 14)
- Testing Your Site (Ch. 15)
- Moving Your Site to the Internet (Ch. 16)
Dreamweaver Chapter 14-16 Week 8 (11/30)
- Snippets and Libraries (Ch. 17)
- Templates (Ch. 18)
- Automating Dreamweaver (Ch. 19)
- Customizing Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver Extensions (Ch. 20)
- Additional Dreamweaver Features
Dreamweaver, Chapter 17-20, Week 9 (12/7)
- Getting Started with Dynamic Web Sites (Ch. 21)
- Adding Dynamic Data to Your Pages (Ch. 22)
- Datadriven web page example - VBScript code, JavaScript code, Access database
- Master/detail page example, JavaScript code for master, JavaScript code for detail
Dreamweaver, Chapter 21-22
Week 10 (12/14)
- Web Pages that Manipulate Database Records (Ch. 23)
- Advanced Dynamic Site Features (Ch. 24)
- Problems with Dynamic Databases in a Lab Setting
Dreamweaver, Chapter 23-24 Revised: December 14, 2004; Comments to William M. Pegram, wpegram@nvcc.edu
