Revised: August 16, 2000

IST 226 Schedule

This schedule will be changed often as material on the web is linked to it and exercises and projects are added.  

Date Topics Assigned Reading/Homework Due
May 16 Class Organization, Schedule,   NOVA Email Instructions, FTP client
May 18 Browser and Command Line FTP, FTP Instructions, FTP Screenshots, Macromedia Product Demos Email to instructor with name, email address(es), and web site address
May 23 Student Web Site Presentations Home or office users: Download WS FTP LE for Windows, or Fetch for the Mac, install it, and upload a web page to your web site (NOVA or elsewhere)
May 25 Student Web Site Presentations, Tables, Uses of Tables, Frames Niederst, Ch. 10, 11
May 30 Forms Niederst, Ch. 12; Tables and Frames Exercise
June 1 Server Side Includes, GIFs, JPEGs Niederst, Ch. 13-15
June 6 PNGs, Web Palette, Finding and Using Web Graphics, Animated GIFs Niederst, Ch. 16-18
June 8 Photoshop (in CG114B) Server Side Includes Exercise
June 13 Audio Niederst, Ch. 19
June 15 Photoshop/Illustrator (in CG114B), Academic Prices for Web Design Software
June 20 JavaScript Niederst, Ch. 22
June 22 JavaScript (continued) Niederst, pp. 373-378 (Rollovers) and . 431-434 (Document Object Model)
June 27 JavaScript - Image Rollovers 
June 29 JavaScript - Forms
July 6 Cascading Style Sheets Niederst, Ch. 23 and Appendix E, Web Site Proposal
July 11 DHTML Niederst, Ch. 24
July 13 XML, Review of IST 128 Student Sites Niederst, Ch. 25, Imagemap Exercise, Rollover Exercise
July 18 FrontPage 2000 Do this Page using CSS rather than a table
July 20 FrontPage 2000 Submit draft website for comment
July 25 JavaScript examples
July 27 Flash
August 1 Flash
August 3 Web Site Presentations, Flash, Course Evaluation Website due

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