IT 240: Fundamentals of Web Design & Technology
First Term 2009
Time and Location: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:10pm – 3:20pm, 111 GCB
| Date | Topic | Supplementary Material | Reading | Assignments |
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| 28 Jul | 1. Introduction; Blogs, Basic HTML, and CSS; using the is2 web server | Ch. 1 | Meet with Instructor (due 1 May) | |
| 30 Jul | 2. Images, Hypertext, Relative Paths | Ch. 2,3 | Portfolio and Personal Page | |
| 4 Aug | 3. Lists, More Links, image editing, and validation | Ch. 4,5,6,7 | Resumé | |
| 6 Aug | 4. CSS, classes, advanced text formatting | Ch. 8,9 | Team Project | |
| 11 Aug | 5. Guest Speakers: Cary Countryman and Kevin Schlag | Response “papers” | ||
| 13 Aug | Team Project Day (no class) | |||
| 18 Aug | 6. Box Layout, using <div> |
Ch. 10,11 | Homemade blog | |
| 20 Aug | 7. Using <span>, pseudo-classes, multiple-column layouts |
Ch. 12 | Zen Garden | |
| 25 Aug | 8. Additional page layout techniques, Creating tables | Ch. 12,13 | Weekly Schedule | |
| 27 Aug | 9. List formatting, forms |
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Ch. 13, 14 | Questionnaire |
| 1 Sep | 10. Simple JavaScript, embedded video and applets, wikis, WYSIWYG tools, content management systems | Appendix | ||
| 3 Sep | 11. Advanced Topics, Exam Review |
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Appendix | |
| 8 Sep | Final exam in class (Study Guide) | |||