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Web Publishing 1 (DM60A), Cabrillo College, Fall 2011

Course Schedule

Fall 2011, Cabrillo College DM60A
*Exercises are due before the beginning of class on the due date, and are not accepted late.

Course Schedule
Class Date (Mondays)	Topics Covered	Tests	Work Due*
8/29/11	1 Student survey Course overview Using the Computer Technology Center (CTC) History of the World Wide Web Design implications of the Web Logins and Passwords for Cabrillo Courses Using the discussion forum (follow the directions closely when creating your account). Exercise 1	Test 1 (take-home) handed out	Due today: Discussion forum account created
9/5/11	No class. Labor Day holiday.
9/12/11	2 Introduction to HTML Using Web browsers Uniform resource locaters (URLs) How Web servers work HTML specifications and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Our Class Web Server, webhawks.org How to Upload to Webhawks.org with Fetch (Mac OS X) How to Upload to Webhawks.org with CoreFTP Lite (Windows) How to Name Files and Directories How to Use the W3C HTML and CSS Validators How to Put HTML and CSS Validate Buttons on Your Page Exercise 2	Test 1 due	Due today: Exercise 1 Test 1 Read for today: Pages 1–48
9/19/11	3 Ordered, unordered, & definition lists HTML syntax: elements, attributes, and values Document tree HTML formatting fundamentals Exercise 3		Due today: Exercise 2 Read for today: 49–94 This is the last day for posts to the discussion forum to count toward grades for the 1st part of the term.
9/26/11	4 Absolute and relative paths Hyperlinks The significance of "index.html" Exercise 4		Due today: Exercise 3 Read for today: 95–114
10/3/11	5 Difference between HTML and XHTML Difference between Transitional and Strict standards Separating content and presentation Introduction to cascading style sheets (CSS) External and internal style sheets Using a CSS validator Exercise 5 Review for Test 2		Due today: Exercise 4 Read for today: 165–202 This is the last day for posts to the discussion forum to count toward grades for the 2nd part of the term.
10/10/11	6 Local styles CSS classes and IDs Block-level and inline-level elements <div> and <span> tags CSS pseudoclasses CSS formatting Exercise 6	Test 2	Due today: Exercise 5 Read for today: 203–232
10/17/11	7 Image file formats: GIF, JPEG, and PNG Working with images Color on the Web Background colors and images Text and link color Exercise 7		Due today: Exercise 6 Read for today: 115–122, 233–242, 246–260 This is the last day for posts to the discussion forum to count toward grades for the 3rd part of the term
10/24/11	8 Table fundamentals Rowspan and colspan Exercise 8		Due today: Exercise 7 Read for today: 129–142, 337–343
10/31/11	9 Form tags How Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts work Interactive CGI forms CSS selectors Exercise 9 Review for Test 3		Due today: Exercise 8 Read for today: Nothing This is the last day for posts to the discussion forum to count toward grades for the 4th part of the term.
11/7/11	10 CSS box model CSS Floats Exercise 10	Test 3	Due today: Exercise 9 Read for today: 143–164
11/14/11	11 CSS positioning Using tables for page layout: using pixel shims		Due today: Exercise 10 Read for today: Nothing This is the last day for posts to the discussion forum to count toward grades for the 5th part of the term.
11/21/11	12 The cascade Review for Test 4		Due today: Nothing
11/28/11	13 User testing Accessibility	Test 4	Due today: Extra credit project proposals (optional) This is the last day for posts to the discussion forum to count toward grades for the 6th part of the term.
12/5/11	14 TBA		Due today: Nothing
12/12/11	15 Final Class Meeting. Project Presentations.		Due today: Final project Extra credit projects (optional) This is the last day for posts to the discussion forum to count toward grades for the 7th part of the term.