parent nodes:
Web Mastering
Course Outline:
Langston's V4 book:
book/book.doc
Langston's V4 book outline as .doc:
ref/SixWeeksBookOutline0809.doc
Topic Outline tied to book:
OldSixWeeksTopicOutline
Grading Period
WebmasteringBasics
ref/WmBasicsWarmups.pptIntroduction to Webmastering p 1
ref/IntroToWebmastering.ppt
Shakedown Cruise
School Internet Contract
Parent Letter p 4
Paper Questionairre
Contact Stats
The Internet: An Introduction p 13
ref/InternetIntro.ppt
Internet Basics
Very brief history of internet (also read 13-23)
Discussion of basic internet services/protocols
Internet Error Messages
Paper Question Activity (p 25)
ref/UnderstandingInternetP25.doc
Search Basics
Search Techniques
Robots / Spiders
Ordering results
inward links (Google)
hand editing (Yahoo, historically)
paid for high ranking (bad model; killed Altavista)
Good meta tags are still important.
hacking meta tags will probably be caught
Boolean Search
Internet Scavenger Hunt p. 32
ref/ScavengerHuntP32.doc
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language p 34
ref/HtmlBegin.ppt
Starting HTML 33-38
Why hand code html?
What a browser does
Big picture rules -- style, accessibility, design
file name limitations (UNIX)
short, lc, no space, .html
HTML Elements = "tags". That's how we talk.
html, head, body, h1, p, div
ref/CheckYourUnderstandingP38.doc
Color, Lines and Lists p. 39
Character Formatting p. 44
Regroup and Neighbor Lab p. 48
Images p. 49
Dinosaur Lab p. 53
Hyperlinks, p. 54
Color controls / Me Page p 57
Exam On Html Up To Tables
UsingHtml
ref/UsingHtmlWarmups.pptHtml Tables
ref/HtmlTables.ppt
Starting Tables p. 59
Table Activity 1, p. 63
Other Features of Tables p. 65
Table Activity 2 p. 68
Special Characters p. 69
Copyright and Fair Use Unit p 67
ref/CopyrightFairUse.ppt
Copyright and Fair Use
Citing Electronic Sources p. 71
Informative Issues Website
use "issues" citations to write a small page with links
Exam on Copyright and Fair Use
Creating A Website p. 75
ref/CreatingWebsite.ppt
Website design cycle
Site Organization Exercise p 82
Investigating Navigation, P 84
Designing your web page p. 90
ref/DesigningWebsite.ppt
Your Own Zoo Site
Evaluating Web Sites
Discuss 8 things every page must have p.93
Crouch's spin on bad web sites: be kind, consider the source
12 Things to avoid at all costs
Start Ugly Website Activity
Ugly Website Day
Multi-Page Multi-folder p. 92
Exam On Design and Structure
ComputerGraphics
ref/ComputerGraphicsWarmups.pptGraphics Basics 103
ref/GraphicsBasics.ppt
Graphics Basics Intro / Overview 103
File formats in general
Basic File Formats
Optimizing Web Graphics
Color Theory
Browser Safe Colors
Activity Starting Photoshop, play with drawing.
(= Practice activity 1 p 119)
Graphic File Formats / Optimizing Web Graphics 110
Size and Resolution
Activity exporting different formats and size
Html images various sizes
generally shouldn't need width-height attributes
Introduction to Color /Browser Safe Colors 111
Photoshop (or whatever) Basics 116
ref/PhotoshopBasics.ppt
Mopping Up on Basic Toolbox
The layer dialog
photo retouching with contrast etc
photo retouching with clone tool
compositing with selections
Dreamweaver and CSS
Intro Dreamweaver
CSS basics
Hand Coding some fancy things
CSS Positioning, maybe
CredibleAndOriginal
ref/CredibleAndOriginalWarmups.ppt
ScriptyStuff
ref/ScriptyStuffWarmups.pptJavaScriptBasics 197
ref/JavaScriptUnit.ppt
Beginning JavaScript p 205
Overview discussion
basic structure and conventions
formatting text to document output
using an alert box
adding line breaks
playing with cut and paste javascript
Variables in Javascript p 210
identifiers / names
assignment statements
displaying variables
string variables vs numbers
User Input p 211
Using Built-In JavaScript Methods
Control Structures and logical Operators p 217
Functions and Javascript 223
Exam on Java Script up to forms
JavaScript and Forms
FlashyStuff
ref/FlashyStuffWarmups.ppt