CIS500 - Web Site Design

Course Index

Course Description

This course will allow the student to design and create individual web presentations (web pages) and web sites utilizing mulitple, inter-linked pages for publication on the internet or a business intranet. Web pages are created using HTML version 3.2, including Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer extensions, and JavaScript.

Session Topic
1 Introduction; Course Outline and Grading Policy; The WWW; Societal Concerns; Historical Development of HTML; Overview of Web Browsers and Servers; Design Concepts and Principles
2 Design Concepts - Getting Organized; Introduction to HTML; Document Structure; Style Guide; Public Identifiers; Design Principles; HTML DTD Reference
3 HTML - Character Styles and Layout Techniques; Browser Specific extensions
4 External Files and Graphics Formats
5 Creating Tables
6 Creating and using Frames; Review for Test #1
7 Test #1
8 Creating Forms in HTML
9 Image Maps and using CGI Scripts
10 Multimedia - Audio, Video and Animation; Introduction to JavaScript
11 Introduction to JavaScript (continued); Basic JavaScript Page Enhancements; Browser Detection
12 JavaScript Object Model; Interacting with Users; Creating Rollovers
13 Deployment, Testing and maintenance; Browser Differences; Web Authoring Tools - Pros and Cons; Other Considerations; Test #2 Review
14 Test #2
15 Discussion and review of Test #2 and Assignment #3