Course Syllabus

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, XHTML & CSS
Elizabeth Castro
Peachpit Press, 2007
ISBN: 0-321-43084-0

Practice Files to Download

If you are interested in downloading the author's examples of html code with the examples from the book, click the following link, and then click the example files link, further down on the page. You can then download the file to your desktop or flashdrive.

Download example files

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.