IST 129 Schedule - Summer 2000, Instructor: William M. Pegram

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