Course Description:

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of Web page authoring. Students will learn how to use HTML to create web pages. They will learn how to generate HTML links, add graphics, create image maps, tables, frames, and forms. Advanced techniques include virual reality, audio, and video and presentation of other non-standard data. They will learn how to use FTP to upload and download files.

Prerequisites:

1. Understand and use storyboarding.
2. Understand and apply static and dynamic HTML tags.
3. Create client-side image maps.
4. Create forms
5. Create frames
6. Understand and apply style sheets
7. Upload and download files to and from a web server using FTP
8. Use plug-ins to access non-standard data.
9. Create PDF files (portable document format) and other non-standard formats.
10. Configure a browser to incorporate plug-ins
11. Add audio to a web page.
12. Add video to a web page.
13. Understand and apply VRML tags.
14. Integrate existing applets and basic client-side scripts (Java Script, Jscript).
15. Compare the use of markup languages by different browsers.
16. Be aware of the accessibility issues for the disabled.

Software Focus at the Brandon Campus:

Table of Contents & Features

New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML and Dynamic HTML - Comprehensive

Phillip Carey
ISBN: 0-619-01969-7 © 2001
Publish date: December 29, 2000

Table of contents

• Tutorial 1 Creating a Web Page (Week 1 & 2)
• Tutorial 2 Adding Hypertext Links to a Web Page (Week 3 & 4)
• Tutorial 3 Designing a Web Page (Week 5)
• Tutorial 4 Designing a Web Page with Tables (Week 6 & 7)
• Tutorial 5 Using Frames in a Web Page (Week 8)
• Tutorial 6 Creating Web Page Forms with HTML (Week 9, 10 & 11)
• Tutorial 7 Working with Cascading Style Sheets (Week 12)
• Tutorial 8 Programming with JavaScript (Optional)
• Tutorial 9 Working with JavaScript Objects and Events (Optional)
• Tutorial 10 Creating a Multimedia Web Page (Week 13 & 14)

• DHTML

• Tutorial 1 Creating a Multimedia Web Page
• Tutorial 2 Using Dynamic Page Content
• Tutorial 3 Applying Dynamic Page Layout
• Tutorial 4 Providing User Interactivity
• Tutorial 5 Designing Cross-Browser Pages

Appendices

• A HTML Extended Color Names
• B HTML Special Characters
• C Putting a Document on the World Wide Web

HTML Tag Reference

• D JavaScript Objects, Properties, and Methods
• E JavaScript Operators
• F CSS1 Quick Reference
• G Working with Cookies

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