ITD 110 Schedule - Spring 2006 - Instructor: William M. Pegram

This schedule will be changed often. I may add or revise assignments. If you miss a class, please check on the web for the most recent schedule.

Date	Topics	Reading related to Topics/Homework Due
Jan. 11	Course Information, Schedule, Getting Started on Annandale Computers, Browser Basics: Creating, Viewing, and Revising Web Pages, Text Formatting, Spaces, CSE HTML Validator Lite	Ch. 2 (pp. 27-41)
Jan. 18	Review of First Week, Transferring files to the server; FTP Instructions, Links	Ch. 2 (pp. 42-46)
Jan. 25	Stylesheets	Chapter 3, Appendix B, Download CoreFTP or Fetch for the Mac and install it at home, etc., Biography Assignment
Feb. 1	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. 4 (pp. 67-74), CSS Formatting homework
Feb. 8	Images (cont.), Imagemaps, Midterm 1	Image Linking Assignment, Ch. 4 (pp. 75-78)
Feb. 15	Tables, Uses of Tables	Imagemap Exercise , Chapter 5
Feb. 22	Frames	Resume Using Table, Chapter 6
Mar 1	Forms, Wrapping in Text Areas, CGI Script to Create a File, Midterm 2	Chapter 7
Mar 8	Spring Break (no Class)
Mar 15	Forms (continued); HTML Editors (Netscape Composer, Dreamweaver), Website Proposal/Project, Links to Past Student Projects, 2003 Dogwood Participant sites;	Forms homework
Mar 22	Flash Animation, CSS Positioning
Mar 29	Sound, Video, Java Applets, Midterm 3 Link to Sound File Link to Video File Background Sound Using Embed Tag	pp. 79-83
Apr 5	DOCTYPE, XHTML Versions, Well formedness, Validity, Namespaces, etc.	Chapter 1, 8, Appendix A
Apr. 12	Animated Gifs Using Gif Movie Gear to Create Animated GIFs Image Rotation Example via Animated Gifs Using Fireworks to create animated gifs CSS Revisited Generic Classes, Text Link Underlining and Mouseovers CSS to Control Button Size CSS to Control Image Margins CSS to Control Fonts - TD Tag Copyright, Meta Tags, Advertising Your Site, Web Site Statistics Additional Form Elements, NVCC Web Curriculum, NVCC Instructor Sites, Design, Yale Web Style Guide, Jeff Glover's Sucky to Savvy Design Guide	"As Google Becomes Gatekeeper Sites Fight to Get In", Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2003
Apr. 19	Free day to work on projects (attendance totally optional)	Tables and Frames Exercise (optional, not part of your grade)
Apr. 26	Student Web Site Presentations	Website due in draft form (for presentation)
May 3	Final Exam	Website due in final form