Printed from TeacherJohn.com • http://www.teacherjohn.com/cabrillo/dm60a/schedule.php

You are here: Home > Cabrillo > Dm60a > Schedule

Web Publishing 1 (DM60A), Cabrillo College, Summer 2008

Course Schedule

Summer 2008, Cabrillo College DM60A
*Exercises are due before the beginning of class on the due date, and are not accepted late.

Course Schedule
Class Date	Topics Covered	Tests	Work Due*
Tue 6/17/08	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 help forum (follow the directions closely when creating your account). Exercise 1		Due today: Forum account created
Thu 6/19/08	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		Due today: Exercise 1 Read for today: Pages 13–23, 26–62
Tue 6/24/08	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: Pages 66, 70, 101, 215–218, 223 This is the last day for posts to the help forum to count toward grades for the 1st part of the term.
Thu 6/26/08	4 Absolute and relative paths Hyperlinks The significance of "index.html" Exercise 4		Due today: Exercise 3 Read for today: Pages 103–108
Tue 7/1/08	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 1 (File paths)		Due today: Exercise 4 Read for today: Pages 119–129, 131
Thu 7/3/08	6 Local styles CSS classes and IDs Block-level and inline-level elements <div> and <span> tags CSS pseudoclasses CSS formatting Exercise 6	Test 1 (File paths)	Due today: Exercise 5 Read for today: Pages 134–146, 148–161 This is the last day for posts to the help forum to count toward grades for the 2nd part of the term
Tue 7/8/08	7 Image file formats: GIF, JPEG, and PNG Working with images Color on the Web Background colors and images Text and link color Review for Test 2 Exercise 7		Due today: Exercise 6 Read for today: Pages 81–100
Thu 7/10/08	8 Table fundamentals Rowspan and colspan Exercise 8 Using tables for page layout: using pixel shims Exercise 9		Due today: Exercise 7 Read for today: Pages 227–236
Tue 7/15/08	9 Form tags How Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts work Interactive CGI forms Exercise 10 Review for Test 3	Test 2	Due today: Exercise 8 Exercise 9 Read for today: Pages (TBA) This is the last day for posts to the help forum to count toward grades for the 3rd part of the term.
Thu 7/17/08	10 Cascading order, precedence, and inheritance		Due today: Exercise 10 Extra credit project proposals (optional) Read for today: Pages (TBA)
Tue 7/22/08	11 User testing Accessibility	Test 3	Read for today: Pages (TBA)
Thu 7/24/08	12 Final Class Meeting. Project Presentations.		Due today: Final project Extra credit projects (optional) This is the last day for posts to the help forum to count toward grades for the 4th part of the term.