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Session Topics Reading related to Topics/Exercises 1 - 1/10 Course Information, Schedule, Browser Basics: Creating, Viewing, and Revising Web Pages, Text Formatting, Spaces, CSE HTML Validator Lite Ch.1-4 2 - 1/12 Review of First Session, Transferring files to the server; FTP Instructions, Images, Color, Browser Safe Color Chart, Font Tag, Images, Finding and Using Web Graphics (dated), alignment of text and images example, Image Formats, Thumbnails, Transparent Gifs (sample file to convert), Editing Graphics with PhotoEditor, Paint, and IrfanView; Optimizing Graphics, Downloading Questions Exercise Ch. 5 3 - 1/15 Links, Imagemaps Ch. 6 4 - 1/17 Intro to CSS: Stylesheets Download CoreFTP or Fetch for the Mac and install it at home, Biography Exercise, Image Linking Exercise, Imagemap Exercise 5 - 1/19 Lists, Tables: Uses of Tables Ch. 15-16, CSS Formatting Exercise 6 - 1/22 Forms, Frames: Forms, Wrapping in Text Areas, CGI Script to Create a File, Additional Form Elements, Frames Ch. 17, Resume Using Table; Frames chapter at www.cookwood.com/html/extras/oldway.html (username and password found on p. 25 of text) 7 - 1/24 Symbols and Non-English Characters; Testing and Debugging Web Pages, Publishing Your Pages on the Web, HTML Editors (Netscape Composer, Dreamweaver) Ch. 21-23, Tables and Frames Exercise 8 - 1/26 Stylesheets in Greater Depth: CSS Positioning, DOCTYPE, XHTML Versions, Well formedness, Validity, Namespaces, etc, CSS Revisited
Ch. 7-14 9 - 1/29 Sound, Video, Java Applets
Getting People to Visit, Copyright, Meta Tags, Advertising Your Site, Web Site Statistics
Syndication and Podcasting
Ch. 18
Ch. 24; "As Google Becomes Gatekeeper Sites Fight to Get In", Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2003
Ch. 25
Revised January 8, 2007. Comments to William M. Pegram, bill@billpegram.com