CS553 Class Notes

http://www.webs.com/ Get free website here for the class
http://www.download.com Great site for freeware/shareware/demoware (you can get a trial version of Dreamweaver!)
Textbook website New Perspectives on HTML, XHTML, and Dynamic HTML: Comprehensive, 4th Edition - P. Carey
useful tools (eye dropper, coolruler) 1 MB ZIP compressed download
http://www.w3schools.com/ Good reference site 
http://www.tripod.com Get another free website (good for Dreamweaver, has free FTP but only 3 levels of subdirectories)
http://skydrive.live.com Get free 25 Gigabyte online file storage
paint.net Get free 'photoshop' type paint/photo editor
http://www.openoffice.org Free 'MS-Office' type software
browsershots.org See your webpage on all different platforms/browsers
Lorem Ipsum Generates 'dummy' text for website layout
CSS Zen Garden Demos of what can be done with CSS based design
Wikipedia Web Colors Good explanation of hexadecimal RGB triplets and how the web handles colors
   
   

 

 

Topics covered and Homework Assignments

In addition to the final project, the following chapter assignments will be due (in 3 lab packets):

Chapter 1

Introductions. Developing a Web Page.  

Assignment: Tutorial, Review & Case Problem 1

Chapter 2

Developing a Basic Web Site

Assignment: Tutorial, Review & Case Problem 2

Chapter 3

Working with cascading style sheets  

Assignment: Tutorial, Review & Case Problem 1

Chapter 4

Creating Special Effects with CSS

Assignment: Tutorial, Review & Case Problem 3

Chapter 5

Working with Web Tables.

Assignment: Tutorial, Review & Case Problem 2

Chapter 6

Working with Web Forms

Assignment: Tutorial, Review & Case Problem 1

Chapter 7

Working with Multimedia

Assignment: Tutorial, Review & Case Problem 4

Chapter 9

Working with XHTML

Assignment: Tutorial, Review & Case Problem 1
Chapter 10 Programming with Javascript Assignment: Tutorial, Review & Case Problem 2
Chapter 11 Working with Operators and Expressions Assignment: Tutorial, Review & Case Problem 1

Chapter 12

Working with Arrays, Loops, and Conditional Statements Assignment: Tutorial, Review & Case Problem 1

Additional Topics

Intro to Dreamweaver

Additional chapters & assignments may be assigned if time permits.  You will be given enough notice to complete them.

 

 

************************1st Lab Packet***************************

Due date: Monday, October 5.

Your website should look something like this: http://www.geocities.com/cs553sp09 but will have hyperlinks to all 9 assignments (tutorial, review & case problem) for chapters 1-3.

Email the link of your freewebs website to: gomperpe@piercecollege.edu and make sure you get a reply from me to make sure I got it! You can use any other website you have to host your files (tripod, etc.) if you prefer, just make sure everything works!

Please note: Chapter 3 Case 1 has a problem where it says on Step 5 to make the leading .7 points. It really should be .7em

Midterm will be: Saturday October 24, at 9am covering chapters 1-6

Bring Scantron form 882 (thin green one w/100 questions) and #2 pencil.

Exam will be true/false & multiple choice. Midterm review on Saturday, October 17.

 

************************2nd Lab Packet***************************

Due date: Tues. Oct 27.

Your website should look something like this: http://www.geocities.com/cs553sp09 but will have hyperlinks to all assignments (tutorial, review & case problem) for chapters 4-6.

You should have 2 links for the tutorial in chapter 4: one for the 'online scrapbooks' as seen on page 220, and another link for the 'samples for online scrapbooks' as seen on page 235.

Email the link of your geocities website to: gomperpe@piercecollege.edu and make sure you get a reply from me to make sure I got it! You can use any other website you have to host your files (tripod, freewebs, etc.) if you prefer, just make sure everything works!

 

************************Web Project***************************

Web Project (Due on TBA). Pick your own site subject/content, include these features:

Basic Features:

  • Page Titles
  • Hyperlinks - to external URLs, within your site, named Anchors, have one (or two) open in new window (popup)
  • Graphics
  • Ordered/Unordered Lists

Intermediate Features:

  • Use Style Sheets - External/Embedded
  • Create HotSpots for a Graphic
  • Tables (both for displaying data and for a layout)
  • Layers using AP Div tags
  • Forms
  • suprise me!

Advanced Features:

  • Add Flash and/or Shockwave elements
  • Navigation Bar
  • Make XHTML compliant
  • Additional audio/video objects
  • Java Scripts and/or Java Applets
  • suprise me! (however, viruses/spyware are not a nice suprise )

Projects due on Monday June 8. Submission instructions:

Get your site up on any free website (tripod, freewebs, geocities) and email the link to: gomperpe@piercecollege.edu and make sure you get a reply from me to make sure I got it!

Be sure to include a 'Table of Contents' that tells me which features you've included and where they are in the site. You can include this in an email to me or put in on the first page of the site.

************************3rd Lab Packet***************************

Due date: TBA.

Your website should look something like this: http://www.geocities.com/cs553sp09 but will have hyperlinks to all assignments (tutorial, review & case problem) for chapters 7,9,10,11,12.

 

Email the link of your geocities website to: gomperpe@piercecollege.edu and make sure you get a reply from me to make sure I got it! You can use any other website you have to host your files (tripod, freewebs, etc.) if you prefer, just make sure everything works!

 

Hint for Chapter 10 Review:

var imgNumber = randomInteger(9); // Return a random number from 0 to 9
document.write("<img src=' "+imgNumber+".jpg' alt= ' ' />");

XTRA Credit: Choose any chapter we haven't done, such as Chap 8 (Frames) or Chap 13, and do the tutorial, review and any case problem you want to do.

************************Final Exam***************************

 

Final will be: Saturday Dec. 19, at 9am. Chapters covered: all chapters we've covered since Chapter 1, but focusing on the one's we've covered since the midterm: Ch. 7,9,10,11,12.

Bring Scantron form 882 (thin green one w/100 questions) and #2 pencil.

Exam will be true/false & multiple choice. Final review on Sat. May 30. 

 

You can check your grades for this (and all other classes) at http://www.laccd.edu/student_information/sis_logon.asp