IST 129 Schedule - Spring 2004 - 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	Course Information, Schedule, VCCS Email, NVCC Web Space (Lan ID), Browser Basics: Creating, Viewing, and Revising Web Pages, Text Formatting, Spaces	Tutorial 1
Jan. 21	Review of First Week, Transferring files to the server; FTP Instructions, Links	Location of Web Space Assignment, Tutorial 2, Appendix C
Jan. 28	Color, Browser Safe Color Chart, Font Tag, Images, Finding and Using Web Graphics, alignment of text and images example, Image Formats, Thumbnails, Transparent Gifs (sample file to convert), Editing Graphics with PhotoEditor, Paint, and IrfanView; Optimizing Graphics	Tutorial 3 (pages 1-35), Appendix A, Biography Assignment Download WS FTP LE for Windows, or Fetch for the Mac and install it at home, etc.
Feb. 4	Images (cont.), Imagemaps	Tutorial 3 (pages 35-end), Image Linking Assignment
Feb. 11	Midterm 1, Tables, Uses of Tables	Tutorial 4, Imagemap Exercise
Feb. 18	Review Midterm, Take Pictures, Frames	Resume Using Table, Tutorial 5
Feb.25	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	Tutorial 6
March 3	Midterm 2
Mar 10	Spring Break (no class)
Mar 17	Review Midterm 2, CSE HTML Validator Lite, HTML Editors, Website Proposal/Project, Links to Past Student Projects, 2003 Dogwood Participant sites; FrontPage Basics, FrontPage Exercise
Mar 24	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	Tutorial 7, Appendix F
Mar 31	Sound, Video, Java Applets Link to Sound File Link to Video File Background Sound Using Embed Tag	Tutorial 10
Apr 7	Midterm 3, Animated Gifs Using Gif Movie Gear to Create Animated GIFs Image Rotation Example via Animated Gifs Using Fireworks to create animated gifs
Apr. 14	Review Midterm 3, Copyright, Meta Tags, Advertising Your Site, Web Site Statistics	"As Google Becomes Gatekeeper Sites Fight to Get In", Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2003
Apr. 21	Additional Form Elements, NVCC Web Curriculum, NVCC Instructor Sites, Design, Yale Web Style Guide, Jeff Glover's Sucky to Savvy Design Guide	Tables and Frames Exercise (optional, not part of your grade)
Apr. 28	Student Web Site Presentations	Website due in draft form (for presentation)
May 5	Final Exam	Website due in final form