Schedule
Additional Course Links
The following links are additional resource
August 29 - September 9 (Basic HTML and Home Page)
- Course Notes:
- Course Review
- Review Assignments
- Look over Textbook
- Discussions, Quizs, and Assignment Submissions are on Moodle.
- Schedule and Readings
- Review this schedule
- Note Assignment Due Dates
- Section Notes (below) hilight topics or areas in the readings that you should be sure to review.
- Web Authoring Software
- Students must acquire web authoring software.
- See the course syllabus for details.
- Uploading Web Pages and Files to your Classes Account
- The course will be using classes.lt.unt.edu for assignment upload and presentation. The instructor will provide additional details on using the server.
- If you have problems getting to the classes.lt.unt.edu page check the following solutions depending on your browser Internet Explorer or Firefox.
- You will need software to transfer your files onto the Course server.
- UPLOADED YOUR COURSE HOME PAGE FOR ASSIGNMENT 1 AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IN ORDER TO ENSURE YOU CAN ACCESS classes.lt.unt.edu BEFORE THE FIRST ASSIGNMENT IS DUE.
- Details on using classes.lt.unt.edu are found below and on the classes system under "Server Use Instructions"
- The course will be using classes.lt.unt.edu for assignment upload and presentation. The instructor will provide additional details on using the server.
- Course Review
- Reading:
- Sessions 1 and 2
- Additional Case 1, Appendix A-C
- The Dos and Don’ts Guide to Great Web Design
- Section Notes:
- Session 1
- Session 2
- Introduction to HTML and Web Pages
- HTML Overview
- Anatomy of an HTML document
- Learning to Use HTML
- When reading the course text, be sure to enter the HTML code as you read it so that you can get a feel for what the code is doing. Entering the code is a much more effective way to learn HTML than simply reading about it.
- Important HTML Elements
- Be sure to read the textbook to understand all the HTML elements
- Other HTML elements and concepts to review
- Text Basics (logical and physical)
- Lists
- Inserting a Link
- Linking Documents, hyperlinks
- Web Page Structures
- File Names
- NEVER USE spaces or special characters (!@#$%^&, etc) in your file names. A space when used becomes %20 which a user has a very hard time typing into a URL.
- If you must have a space use an underscore '_' instead as in page_1.html
- ALL html files must use the extension .html not .htm.
- Captivates
Web Development Cycle A discussion on the cycle/process of creating, editing, and reviewing web development. |
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Using Dreamweaver A short overview of how DW is used in this course. Be sure to visit the following sites for additional tutorials:
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Managing Dreamweaver Sites DW uses sites (what I like to call projects) to hold your web pages. You have to create a site, before you can begin developing web pages. |
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Creating your Standard HTML HOME page using DW CS5 |
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Creating an Alternate CSS HOME page using DW CS6 Download the following files to use (right click and save as) Based on Tutorial 1, p. 61 |
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Uploading index.html to classes.lt.unt.edu BE SURE that you upload into the course directory (i.e. LTEC_3260_020 or CECS_5420_020) which will be under the SEMESTER directory. That will be two directories below the directory that your SFTP program will place you, which will be named your EUID. |
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Assignment 1 Overview This captivate walks your through the steps to a) create three of the five assignment 1 pages, link them together with a common navigation elements, upload, and examine the results on your server account. |
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Validating This captivate talks about validating your home page. |
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- Other Notes:
- Practice uploading to course account.
- Why Validate your Web page?
- About the W3C Validation Service
- A very handy validation addon for Firefox that can be used while you are looking at your web page. I find this quicker to use than the web-based validation service.
- Assignment 1 Discussion, Quiz, Home Page, Web Site Due
September 10 - 30 (Introduction to CSS)
- Reading:
- Session 3
- Additional Case 2, Appendix F
- Working with Images (Inline and Background)
- Working with Image Maps
- Intro CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- Assignment 3 - CSS Page Layout. The following are for use with the textbook and come from the student materials.
- Captivates
Assignment 2 Overview This presentation covers what is required for CSS in assignment 2. |
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- Other Notes:
- Think about how you will create your own set of CSS for the next assignment.
- Short YouTube video on Dreamweaver and Image Maps
- Assignment 2 Discussion, Quiz, Web Site Due
October 1 - 21 (More CSS with Tables and Other Stuff)
- Reading:
- Sessions: 4 and 5
- Working with Tables
- CSS with Tables and Other Stuff
- CSS Effects
- CSS Classes
- Overflow
- Clipping
- Tables
- Formatted Style Lists
- Captivates
Assignment 3 Overview This presentation covers the elements of assignment. |
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- Other Notes:
- Assignment 3 Discussion, Quiz, Web Site Due
October 22 - November 11 (CSS with Forms and Media)
- Reading:
- Sessions: 6, 7, 8, and 10
- Working with Media
- Working with Forms
- Working with JavaScript
- How jQuery Works
- Tutorials for jQuery (JavaScript)
- 50+ Amazing Jquery Examples
- CSS with Forms and Media
- Forms
- Digital Audio
- Digital Media/Movies
- JavaScript
- Captivates
Assignment 4 Overview This presentation covers the elements of assignment. |
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- Other Notes
- Assignment 4 Discussion, Quiz, Web Site Due
November 12 - December 3 (Final Project)
- Final Project
- Students must submit assignment 5 proposal by due date of assignment 4. The proposal will outline what the final web project will be on.
- Other Notes
- Assignment 5 Quiz, Web Site Due
Assignment 5 Overview This presentation covers the elements of assignment. |
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