IST 129 Schedule - Spring 2002, Session Session - 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. 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
March 18, 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
March 20, 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)
March 25, Monday	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)
March 27, Wednesday	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
April 1, Monday	Link colors, horizontal rules, CSE HTML Validator Lite, 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
April 3, Wednesday	Midterm 1, Frames	Meyers, Ch. 16; Maran, Ch. 11; Niederst Ch. 11 (first edition) or Ch. 14 (second edition);
April 8, Monday	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
April 10, Wednesday	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)
April 15, Monday	Midterm 2 (tables, frames, and forms), Editing Graphics (continued)	Meyers, Ch. 10, Maran, Ch. 6, Niederst, Ch. 18 (first edition) or 23 (second edition),
April 17, Wednesday	Review Midterm 2, Animated Gifs Using Gif Movie Gear to Create Animated GIFs Image Rotation Example via Animated Gifs Using Fireworks to create animated gifs	Imagemap Exercise
April 22, Monday	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	Maran, Ch. 13-14; Niederst Ch. 23 (first edition) or Ch. 17 (second edition);
April 24, Wednesday	Meta Tags, Advertising Your Site, NVCC Instructor Sites, Design	Meyers pp. 279-283; Maran, Ch. 15; Niederst pp. 98-101 (first edition) or pp. 111-114 (second edition)
April 29, Monday	Makeup day or optional work on project day
May 1, Wednesday	Web Site Presentations	Website due in draft form (for presentation)
May 8, Wednesday	Course evaluation, Final	Website due in final form