Revised: August 3, 2000

IST 129 Schedule

This schedule will be changed often as material on the web is linked to it.  Assignments may be added.   

Date Topics Assigned Reading/Homework Due
May 16 Class Organization, Schedule,   NOVA Email Instructions, Browser Basics, Creating, Viewing, and Revising Web Pages
May 18 Basic HTML Tags, Text Alignment, and Lists, Color and Text, Browser Safe Color Chart Meyers, Ch 1-4, Email to Instructor
May 23 Transferring files to the server; FTP Instructions Meyers, Ch. 5-6
May 25 Links Download WS FTP LE  for Windows, or Fetch for the Mac, install it, and upload a web page to your web site.  Email instructor location of site; Meyers, Ch. 7
May 30 More Basic HTML Tags, Graphics Files Meyers, Ch. 8, 9
June 1 Download AOLPress, Finding and Using Web Graphics, Graphics  Simple Linking Exercise
June 6 Graphics   
June 8 Tables Meyers, Ch. 12; Text and Image Links Exercise
June 13 Tables, Uses of Tables, Review of Basic HTML Tags Meyers, Ch. 13, Table Exercises
June 15 Midterm  
June 20 Review of Midterm, Website Proposal/Project  
June 22 Forms Meyers, Ch. 14-15
June 27 Frames Meyers, Ch. 16, Website Proposal
June 29 Frames (cont.) Forms Exercise
July 6 Imagemaps Meyers, Ch. 11, Tables and Frames Exercise
July 11 Publishing and Advertising, Site Evaluation Exercise (IST 128 sites) Meyers, Ch. 17
July 13 Review of IST 128 Sites Imagemap Exercise
July 18 Animated GIFs and GIF Movie Gear
July 20 Spacer GIFs, FrontPage 2000
July 25 Help with projects (attendance optional) Submit draft website for comment
July 27 Help with projects (attendance optional)
August 1 Web Site Presentations, Course evaluation  
August 3 Final Website due

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