CSC 263 Course Syllabus

CSC 263 Course Syllabus Spring 2009
Introduction to Web Page Design: Online Course

Instructor: Linda M. Hicks
Web Page: http://packard.flint.umich.edu/~hickslm
Email: hickslm@umflint.edu
Outlook Web Mail (Always use your umflint student email account for course related communication. )

Phone: (810) 762-3184 (voice mail leave a message)

Office Hours:

4-5:30 Wednesdays

and by appointment hickslm@flint.umich.edu

Required Textbook: Learning Web Design, Third Edition A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics

Online Companion web site

Safari Books Online through Thompson Library (requires UM-Flint id and password)

Course Lecture Notes, Assignments, quizzes can be found on the Blackboard Course Companion Site. (Your USERNAME is your UM-Flint Uniqname.)

Assignments: All assignments are to be completed by midnight of the date due. Late assignments are Marked down 20% for each day late After one week of due date late assignments receive zero credit.

Grading: Pass/Fail

Web References:

Index of Instructors' HTML Course Notes
Instructors' HTML information links
Links to web development resources in general.
Links to web graphics information including a graphics archives
Links to Web programming information.

Textbook Units/Topics covered.

Week	Material covered (This is a tentative schedule for material covered, and is subject to change at any time. )
May 4^th	Introduction to this course, the World Wide Web & web browsers Chapter 1 Where Do I Start? Chapter 2 How the Web Works Chapter 3 The Nature of Web Design Chapter 4: Creating a Simple Page (HTML Overview)
May 11 ^th	Chapter 5: Marking up Text Chapter 6: Adding Links Using FTP to Publish Your Web Site Instructors notes plus Chapter 21: Getting Your Pages on the Web
May 18 ^th	Chapter 7: Adding Images Chapter 8: Basic Table Markup Chapter 9: Forms
May 25 ^th	Chapter 10: Understanding the Standards Chapter 11: Cascading Style Sheets Orientation
June 1^st	Chapter 12: Formatting Text (Plus More Selectors) Chapter 13: Colors and Backgrounds (Plus Even More Selectors and External Style Sheets) Final Drop Class Deadline Friday May 29^th
June 8^th	Chapter 14: Thinking Inside the Box (Padding, Borders, and Margins) Chapter 15: Floating and Positioning
June 15^th	Chapter 16: Page Layout with CSS Chapter 17: CSS Techniques
June 22^nd	Chapter 18: Web Graphics Basics Chapter 19: Lean and Mean Web Graphics
	Classes End Monday June 22 ^nd
Optional Final Projects Due: June 24 ^th This page was last modified on 05/05/2009 by L.M. Hicks