PREFACE

In this course, you will learn how to design and publish a basic web site using HyperText Markup Language, HTML, and a text editor, EditPad (a notepad clone). This tool is free, and available on the web. This foundation will give you the ability to solve problems encountered in WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors.

Many authoring tools are available. Some are free, some are costly .... some are good, some are hideous. If you let an HTML or WYSIWYG editor do your work for you, you are limited to doing the things that the editor can do. In addition .... they ALL make errors! Learning HTML will allow you to correct those errors.

We will work through the Boogie Jack text doing some exercises along the way. We will learn to implement simple JavaScript. We will learn how to place web pages on an active WWW server. You will prepare:

• a five page personal site
• a website for someone other than yourself
• a fictional (or REAL) Company, Club or Church website.
  Talk to me if you have a project in mind. The objectives of the class can easily be achieved through a variety of projects of your choice..

Students are sometimes concerned because I do not list specific requirements on these sites. The reason I do not is....because I am quite flexible when it comes to YOUR choice of what you want to do, and, I do not want to limit you, or "require" something that might be stupid in your application.....so, here's the basics:

The first site is personal, and should tell a little about yourself, the second, I want you to talk to and design a site for someone else. The final site can be for a real or a fake business. Your only limits are your imagination.

DESCRIPTION

Web Page Design using HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) will be introduced. Creating web documents using a simple text editor will be the main focus. Features such as layout, tables, images, forms, frames and the incorporation of sound and video will be explored. Developing site specifications and methods to increase the appeal and effectiveness of web sites are included. How to prepare web documents appropriate for use in business and professional web sites will be covered.

PREREQUISITES

CIS 100 & CIS 130, or permission from instructor. I'm not going to tell you how to turn the thing on.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

This course is designed to introduce students to web page design and publishing.

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will understand:

• the basic structures of html
• links
• graphics
• formatting and tables
• publication tools
• speculations on the future

• prepare a fundamental personal web site with primitive tools
• discuss site design with a client
• prepare a fundamental web site for a client
• implement basic javascript applications
• publish a web site

USP STATEMENT

This course is a part of the technical core for the Associate in Applied Science Information Technology Degree.

DISABILITY STATEMENT

"Students with documented disabilities that require individualized accommodations should do two things: contact the Disability Resource Coordinator at their Home College and inform their instructors. Once the student has contacted the Disability Resource Coordinator at the Home College, that Coordinator will communicate with the student's instructors and/or the Disability Resource Coordinator at the Delivering College in order to coordinate and/or provide reasonable and appropriate accommodations to the student."
(Phone 270-824-1708, or email valerie.wolfe@kctcs.edu)

MATERIALS AND TEXTS

Web Site Design Made Easy - Dennis Gaskill, 2008 3rd Ed, 0-89582-735-2 boogiejack.com

A USB drive.

EditPad Lite - You can get EditPad Lite for home or student use here: http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

METHODS

Short demonstrations. Hands-on computing. Daily "shorts" or mini-lessons you should accomplish by the end of each class period.

EXAMS

There will be no exams.

MISSED EXAMS

Since there are no exams, there will be no make-up exams. Please schedule missed exams in advance.

HOMEWORK AND PROJECTS

All homework MUST BE TURNED IN (paper.....not because I hate trees. It's just easier (for you) to see the feedback on it (paper).) Both a print of the Explorer view (WYSIWYG) of the web site plus a copy of your text source code need to be turned in together.

Projects (not homework) must be published to your web site, and ready for me to view on the web to be considered complete. You will link to the second two projects on your personal page. If I can't find them......it's as if they do not exist. I assume the role of a relatively ignorant person when looking for them.....so, mark them clearly. I don't need trees for these. You will get personal feedback to correct the sites to perfect HTML. This is one reason why attendance is important.

CLASS DECORUM:

• CHECKING E-MAIL
  Check your e-mail someplace else other than our class room. I suggest room 215. Classrooms are for class work.
• CHECKING TO SEE IF YOU ARE STILL PRETTY ON MySpace
  You are still pretty and your picture will still be there after class. If you DO need to check, use Room 215.
• CELL PHONES
  Turn them off in class or do the vibrator thingy. There's always Room 215.
• PORNOGRAPHY
  You will run across pornographic sites on the net. Officially, I am neither for nor against pornography or freedom of speech. I am against people having to look at things that they do not want to, and offending them. This can be interpreted as possible legal harassment by you. If you run across one of these sites, I ask that you simply move on to a different site. Sometimes, pop-ups will launch you into porno-hell. If this happens to you and you cannot get out of it, please let me know and I'll help you get out of it. I've been to porno-hell. Please use adult courtesies in this area.
• SMOKING
  No smoking in class..

WITHDRAWAL

I will discourage you from dropping if, in my opinion, you are doing o.k. in the course. You may withdraw up to Dec. 5.

ATTENDANCE

Is required to learn HTML. I want you in class.

INCOMPLETES

I will offer you one when I visit you in intensive care.

GRADING