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Course Syllabus

CIS-210 Web Development I
FALL, 2008

Meeting times: MWF 10:00 - 11:00
Location: PC 229 		  Marie Thomes, Instructor
Office: MH 221
Phone: 422-4282
Email: thomemar@niacc.edu
Web site: http://web.niaccist.niacc.edu/~thomemar
Office Hours: M - F 10:00 - 11:00

Catalog Course Description

This course covers comprehensively the latest version of HTML. Students will learn good coding practices and be introduced to web development tools and FTP programs. Students will also be introduced to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), image management, browser helper applications, pages for cell phones, and basic JavaScript.

Textbook

HTML For the World Wide Web
Elizabeth Castro
Peachpit Press, 2003
ISBN: 0-321-15068-6

Course Objectives

  • Identify the different digital media.
  • Identify and use media development and modification programs.
  • Understand and discuss the development and publication of different forms of communication and media used.
  • Discuss future trends in media technology.
  • Discuss planning and designing effective web sites.
  • Identify key components of effective web sites.
  • Design and create realistic interactive Internet web pages incorporating graphics, sounds, tables,image maps, and forms using basic HTML development software.
  • Understand how to publish to the web.
  • Discuss concepts of streaming audio and video.
  • Format and lay out pages using cascading style sheets.
  • Demonstrate the ability to work with resource materials to solve related problems.
  • Create a workable electronic portfolio.
  • Work with Javascript.
  • Comply to the NIACC IT Professionalism Statement.

Course Outline

  1. Introductions, syllabus and course review.
  2. Web Page Building Blocks
  3. Working with Web Page Files
  4. Electronic Portfolio
  5. Basic XHTML Structure
  6. Basic XHTML Formatting
  7. Creating Web Images
  8. Using Images
  9. Links
  10. Creating Styles
  11. Applying Styles
  12. Formatting with Styles
  13. Layout with Styles
  14. Style Sheets for Printing
  15. Final Project
  16. Lists
  17. Tables
  18. Forms
  19. Multimedia
  20. Scripts
  21. JavaScript Essentials
  22. Symbols and Non-English Characters
  23. Testing and Debugging Web Pages
  24. Publishing Your Pages on the Web
  25. Getting People to Visit

Project Outline

The following table lists the approximate point values for the class.
Problem from tutorials
Portfolio
Project
Total		 ..............
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..............		 725 pts.
175 pts.
175 pts.
1075 pts.