So you want to build a website?
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Course Outline
Class 1: Getting to Know You
Why do you want to build a web page?
Introduction to the Internet
How Browsers work
General notes about hardware and locations of files
Thinking about Content
Acquiring server space and establishing a personal account
Relevant Handouts
Internet Basics: netbasics.pdf
General Info: generalhtml.pdf
Class 2: Basic HTML
What is HTML?
What is Hexadecimal color code?
Writing a basic HTML document
Basic Tags (bulleted lists, hyperlinks, super/subscripting, capturing and inserting images)
Uploading with FTP
Relevant Handouts
Lecture Slides: basichtml.ppt
Building a Simple Webpage: buildasite.pdf
Some Basic Tags: tags.pdf
The page you create: myfirstpage.html
Class 3: Intermediate HTML
Where exactly your file is in the server structure
How URL�s relate to your path (folder) structure
Basic elements of page design
How to design pages with tables
Intermediate Tags (tables, columns, image links, beginning to style)
Relevant Handouts
Lecture Slides: intermediate.ppt
Basic Design Elements: design.doc
Building a complex site: intermediate.pdf
Intermediate Tags: intertags.pdf
The pages you create: folio space
Class 4: Advanced HTML & more
Alphabet Soup: SSI, PERL/CGI, & CSS
How to create a web form and post to mail/web pages with CGI
Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
Using SSI to save time for everyone
Basic Troubleshooting tips
Class evaluation
Lecture Slides: advanced.ppt
Building an advanced site: advanced.pdf
Advanced Tags and Commands: advancedtags.doc
A simple CGI file: form2mail.txt
Basic Troubleshooting tips: troubles.doc
The pages you create: Portfolio space 2
©Eric Riley, January 28, 2002.