Revised: March 11, 2002   

IST 129 Schedule

This schedule will be changed often.  If you miss a class, please check on the web for the most recent schedule.  The readings in several different texts pertaining to the topics on the left are listed on the right; I do not expect you to read more than one source however.

Date Topics Reading related to Topics/Homework Due
January 14,
Monday		 Course Information, Schedule,   NOVA Email Instructions, Browser Basics Creating, Viewing, and Revising Web Pages, Text Formatting, Spaces, Transferring files to the server; FTP Instructions Meyers Ch 1-4; Maran Ch. 1-3; Niederst first edition Ch. 7 or second edition Ch. 10
January 16,
Wednesday		 Color, Browser Safe Color Chart, Links, Creating Folders Meyers Ch. 5,6; pp. 272-278; Maran Ch. 4; Niederst pp. 28-34, 57-59 (first edition) or pp. 37-43, 56-59 (second edition); Meyers Ch. 7; Maran Ch. 7; Niederst pp. 133-137, 143-145 (first edition) or pp. 149-151. 160-162 (second edition)
January 23,
Wednesday		 Images,  Finding and Using Web Graphics, alignment of text and images example Download WS FTP LE  for Windows, or Fetch for the Mac, install it, and upload a home page to your web site.  Linking Exercise, Meyers Ch. 8, 9; Maran Ch. 5; Niederst pp. 96-97, 157-164 (first edition) or 110, 172-180 (second edition)
January 28,
Monday		 Tables, Uses of Tables Meyers Ch. 12-13; Maran Ch. 8; Niederst pp. 176-201 (first edition) or pp. 198-225 (second edition); Logo Linking Exercise
January 30 Midterm 1 (won't include tables), Link colors, horizontal rules, HTML Editors,  Website Proposal/Project, Links to Past Student Projects, FrontPage Basics, FrontPage Exercise Maran Ch. 9;  Niederst 154-156 (first edition) or pp. 180-182 (second edition), Table Exercises
February 4 Frames  Meyers, Ch. 16; Maran, Ch. 11; Niederst Ch. 11 (first edition) or Ch. 14 (second edition); Website Proposal
February 6 Forms, Wrapping in Text Areas Meyers, Ch. 14-15, Maran, Ch. 10; Niederst; Ch. 12 (first edition) or Ch. 15 (second edition), Tables and Frames Exercise
February 11 Imagemaps, Editing Graphics with PhotoEditor, Paint, and IrfanView Forms Exercise, Meyers, Ch. 11; Maran, pp. 222-225; Niederst pp. 137-143, 201-205 (first edition) or 154-160, 225-230 (second edition)
February 13 Midterm 2 (tables, frames, and forms),  Editing Graphics (continued) Meyers, Ch. 10, Maran, Ch. 6, Niederst, Ch. 18 (first edition) or 23 (second edition),
February 18 Review Midterm 2, Animated Gifs Imagemap Exercise
February 20 Stylesheets, Code Sample Maran, Ch. 13-14; Niederst Ch. 23 (first edition) or Ch. 17 (second edition); 
February 25 Meta Tags, Advertising Your Site, Design Meyers pp. 279-283; Maran, Ch. 15; Niederst pp. 98-101 (first edition) or pp. 111-114 (second edition)
February 27 No topic yet (allowance for snow days or other course cancellations)
March 4 Web Site Presentations Website due in draft form (for presentation)
March 6 Course evaluation, Final Website due in final form

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