SYLLABUS -- CREATE A WEB SITE IN 3 SESSIONS

DATE SESSION TOPIC[s] COVERED
 
[Week 1] 1
  • What is the Internet?
  • What is the Web?
  • Web hosting
  • Domain Name System
  • URL - Uniform Resource Locator
  • Relative vs. Absolute URLs
  • What is HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol?
  • What is HTML? XHTML?
  • XHTML coding requirements
  • Using File Transfer Protocol FTP, SFTP
  • Web directory structure
  • Posting your first page on the internet

  • Reading:   Introduction, Chapters 1, 2
     
    [Week 2] 2
  • X/HTML web page structure
  • The anatomy of X/HTML element
  • The HEAD section
  • the BODY section
  • X/HTML tags versus attributes
  • Basic X/HTML tags
  • Additional X/HTML tags
  • Formatting text
  • Adding list elements
  • Creating links to other pages
  • Internal anchors vs. external links

  • Reading: Chapters 3, 4, 7
     
    [Week 3] 3a
  • X/HTML tables
  • Using tables to display rows and columns
  • Using tables to layout your page
  • Spanning multiple rows and columns
  • Nesting tables
  • Wrapping text around tables
  • Controlling page layout with tables

  • Reading: Chapters 14
     
      3b
  • Using X/HTML -- beyond basic tags
  • Adding color to the web page
  • Specifying color
  • The RGB hexadecimal color scheme
  • Adding images to the web page
  • Turning an image into a hyperlink
  • Turning an image into an image map
  • The image formats, GIF, JPEG, PNG
  • Which format should I use?
  • Adding multemedia to the web page
  • Character entities
  • The <meta> tag
  • Refresh and redirect web pages

  • Reading: Chapters 5, 6



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