Course Schedule
XHTML denotes the text: HTML: A
Beginner's Guide
STYLE denotes the text: Web
Style Guide
Mondays and Wednesdays we will meet in TH 216. Fridays we will meet in TH 215 (lab). Fridays are not listed in the schedule below.
| Date | Class Topic | Reading Assignment |
| Jan 9 (W) | Introduction | Basic Internet information |
| Jan 14 (M) | Basics continued | |
| Jan 16 | Web Searching | Bare Bones 101 (USC-Beaufort Library tutorial) (See Resources.) |
| Jan 21 | No Class | Martin Luther King, Jr. B-Day |
| Jan 23 | Evaluating Web Content | ICYouSee tutorial (Cornell U Library) (See Resources.) |
| Jan 28 | Web Design and Getting Started | XHTML 2; STYLE 1, 2; Samples, Nielson's articles (Resources) |
| Jan 30 | Basic HTML & hyperlinks | XHTML 5; STYLE Chapter 3 |
| Feb 4 | Lists | XHTML 8 |
| Feb 6 | TEST 1 | --------- |
| Feb 11 | More: site design, FTP | XHTML 16; STYLE Chapters 4, 6 |
| Feb 13 | Font, formats, and style sheets | XHTML 4; see Example |
| Feb18 | More: style sheets | XHTML 14; STYLE Chapter 5; another Example |
| Feb 20 | Images | XHTML 6; STYLE Chapter 7 |
| Feb 22 | -Web Site #1 due | |
| Feb 25 | Adding multimedia | XHTML 7; STYLE Chapter 8 |
| Feb 27 | Tables | XHTML 9 |
| Mar 3 | Frames | XHTML 10 |
| Mar 5 | Forms | XHTML 11, Sample 1, Sample 2 |
| Mar 10 | Interacting with a database | Web Site 2 (Preliminary) due |
| Mar 12 | Interacting with a database using PHP | --------------- |
| Mar 17 | PHP forms and database interaction | Retrieving data from forms, |
| Mar 19 | TEST 2 | |
| Mar 21 - Mar 30 | Spring Break | Web Site 2 (final, with comments) due (Mar 21) |
| Mar 31 | Intro to Java applets | XHTML 7 (pp. 184-185); See Resources |
| Apr 2 | Introduction to JavaScript | XHTML 15; |
| Apr 7 | More JavaScript, cookies | |
| Apr 9 | JavaScript (cont) | |
| Apr 14 | Legal issues | References |
| Apr 16 | Legal issues (cont) | ----- |
| Apr 21 | Wrap-up | Web Site: Final version due |