COURSE OUTLINE -- IST 129 -- WEB PAGE DESIGN I
Course
Number and Title: IST 129 – Web Page Design I,
section 21B
Course
Hours: 1:00-3:45pm, Saturdays
Course
Location: FAC, rm. 217
Instructor: Dan Austin
Office: FAC Adjunct Faculty Office, rm. 320 (if not there, I will be in
rm. 217)
Office
Hours: Saturday 12:15-1:00pm,
3:45-4:00pm
Phone: 710-2058 (leave message if no answer)
e-mail: dan@iamdanaustin.com (please use “IST 129” as the subject header)
Provides a working knowledge of web page design and construction using headings, lists, links, images, image maps, tables, forms, and frames.
Netscape
Composer, Creating Web Pages. Shelly, Cashman, and Repede, Course
Technology, 1998.
Creating Web Sites – Illustrated Projects. Cram and Hirschl,
Course Technology, 1998.
Each student should have a 3.5" floppy or ZIP disk.
I will be maintaining a web site to provide up to date information on the course, such as important files, tentative course outline, resources, etc. at the following location:
http://www.iamdanaustin.com/gcc/
I strongly encourage you to refer to this page on a regular basis. I will post the latest revision of the course outline on this page.
·Design web pages
·Understand HTML and other web page technologies
·Design web pages using web page authoring tools
TOPIC OUTLINE
By the end of the course, you will be confident in writing all the basic tags of HTML and will be able to design simple and medium-complexity websites using both a text editor and Netscape Composer.
Basic HTML
Skills
How
HTML works
Web
Browsers
Creating
an HTML File
Headings,
Paragraphs and Line Breaks
Horizontal
Rules
Formatting
Text
Font
Size and Face
Text
Alignment and Comments
Creating
Lists
Background and Text Color
Hyperlinks
Creating
Hyperlinks
Anchors and Hyperlink Colors
Images
Adding
Images to Webpages
Aligning
Images and Resizing Images
Image Links and Image Spacing
Meta Tags
Adding Meta Tags
Publishing
Your Site
Netscape
Composer
Checking
Site Content
Testing and Publishing Your Site
Tables
Creating
a Table
Table
Spacing
Aligning
Text in Tables
Table
Headings and Merging Cells
Using a Table for Page Layout
Frames
Creating
a Site Using Frames
Advanced Frameset Structures
Forms
Creating
a Basic Form
Scrolling
Text Boxes and Drop Down Menus
Form Buttons and Check Boxes
Styles
Internal
Styles
External
Styles
Class
Selectors
Javascript
Java
Applets
PERL/CGI
Scripting
25 Aug - First day of class
05 Sep - Last day to drop with refund
24 Oct - Last day to drop without academic penalty
24 Nov - NO CLASS - Thanksgiving holiday
15 Dec - Last day of class
ADMINISTRATIVE
INFORMATION
Please provide me
your contact information as soon as possible. Please send me an email
message that contains your name, address, and phone number(s). I can get
the email address from the return address field. Please include your name
in the subject line so I can find it efficiently if I need to talk to you.
Withdrawal from a course without academic penalty may be made within the first 60% of the course. The student will receive a grade of "W" for withdrawal. After that time, the student will receive a grade of "F." In case of mitigating circumstances documented by the instructor, a grade of "W" may be awarded after the last withdrawal date. The last day to withdraw from a course without academic penalty is October 24, 2001.
Students
will follow the college-wide standard found in the student handbook, which
states that a student may not miss more than 20% of the class meetings and
receive a passing grade. For this
course, this means that a student may not miss more than 3 classes. The student is responsible for arranging to
make up any missed work. The student is expected to notify me in advance where
possible. If you have an emergency and
expect to miss one or more classes, please contact me as soon possible.
Since attendance will be part of your grade for the course, it is very important that you attend as much as possible. All absences will be considered unexcused unless you bring a doctor’s note. Those with emergency situations that cause them to miss one or more classes should discuss their situation with me. (For example, a car accident which lands you in the hospital will probably be considered excused while a tearful breakup with your girlfriend probably won’t.)
At
GCC, we expect the highest standards of academic honesty. Violations of
academic honesty include the following:
· Cheating:
This includes seeking or giving unauthorized help on examinations, papers, and
other academic assignments. Cheating
will not be tolerated in this class.
· Plagiarism:
This is defined as using another's words or ideas and representing them as
one's own either knowingly or unknowingly. In other words, by not documenting
ideas or putting quotations around exact phrasing and documenting the source,
one is committing plagiarism.
Misconduct in the area of academic honesty is subject to disciplinary action, which can include failure for the assignment, or even failure of the course, depending on the circumstances.
This
course will include lectures, labs, tutorials, and demonstrations. Projects, labs and class participation will
be used to evaluate your performance.
Homework assignments must be completed by their due date. Late
assignments will have at least a 10% reduction in grade (determined by
the instructor). Late assignments
will only be accepted with prior approval.
Students
may help one another in the lab only by answering specific questions or giving
one another small hints. Copying of
assignments will not make me happy.
If two or more very similar files or documents are turned in, I will
probably take adverse action (to be determined based on the situation). I have the final say in how similar two
documents/files are and whether they violate this policy. Repeated violations of this policy will
result in the grade of an “F” for the course.
In other words – PLEASE DO YOUR OWN WORK!
Both texts for this class are project books. They contain step-by-step instructions for completing a variety of web page design techniques. Follow the instructions in each book, complete the assigned projects, publish them on the student web server, and I will grade them. There is also a final project for the course, which is your opportunity to design and create a web site. These projects will be graded on completeness (i.e. all required elements are included). The final project will also be graded on how well design principles were applied. Because of the size of the final project you may not want to wait until the last week to start working on it.
No
food or drink is normally allowed in the lab.
I will permit small beverages with a lid as long as they sit on the
floor and do not come near the computer hardware (no soda cans). If you have a medical condition that
requires you to be able to eat during class please bring a doctor’s note, and I
will make reasonable accommodations for you.
Under
NO circumstances are students to install software or hardware devices on PCs in
the lab without the instructor’s specific direction. This includes games, shareware, instant messaging tool, file
sharing programs, etc. Violation of
this policy will not be tolerated and may result in dismissal from the class.
Using
the school’s computers for inappropriate activity will not be tolerated. Examples include web browsing of
pornographic or hate/racism-related web sites, downloading MP3 files, etc. Again, violation of this policy will not be
tolerated and will almost certainly result in your dismissal from the class.
If you discover inappropriate files (games, MP3s, pornographic images, etc.), or web site bookmarks, please inform me ASAP, so that they can be removed from the computer.
If you are a student with a disability and will need accommodations while enrolled in this course, please contact the Coordinator of Disability Services in the Counseling Center, (Room 201). If you have a letter detailing your required accommodations, please present it to me ASAP.
Click here for the most current schedule for IST 129.
The schedule is very flexible and will adjust to the needs of the class and how fast we cover the material. As the schedule changes, modifications will be posted to the course website.
The standard grading scale below will be used for this course:
A = 90-100
B = 80-89
C = 70-79
D = 60-69
F = below 60
The weighting of various portions of this course will be:
20% - Class Participation/Attendance
30% - Out-of-class Assignments
10% - Final Project (pre-critique)
20% - Critique of class web pages
20% - Final Project (post-critique)
Federal
Law prohibits me from disclosing your grades to anyone but you. This includes your spouse, your girlfriend,
your parents (even if you are a minor), etc.
If you would like for someone to have access to your grades besides
yourself, please provide me with a note signed by you that authorizes the
desired person to have access to your grades.
If
you have any comments or suggestions on how I can improve this course, or
concerns about anything related to the course or my teaching style, please let
me know! I will try and set up a
“virtual suggestion box” on the IST 129 website which will allow you to make
comments. I hope you enjoy the class!