BuCS 123 Web Authoring and Publishing
After Class
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Finals Week
Week of 11 May 20
Monday, May 11 is Reading Day - no class
The Final Exam is due on Tue, May 12, 10:00 am. - Good luck!
Week 16
Week of 4 May 20
Introduced media queries, web fonts, and svg.
Handout: none
Reading assignment: Chapters 12 and 13.
Homework: Assignment 6
Week 15
Week of 27 Apr 20
Graphical web page authoring (CSS layout) using Dreamweaver.
Handout: none
Reading assignment: none
Homework: Make sure your index.htm file is up-to-date
Homework: Assignment 6
Week 14
Week of 20 Apr 20
Graphical web page authoring (table layout) using Dreamweaver.
Handout: none
Reading assignment: none
Homework: Make sure your index.htm file is up-to-date
Week 13
Week of 13 Apr 20
Wrote a more complex PHP script to calculate and print an invoice.
Added audio, video, and flash files to a web page including both legacy and HTML5 techniques and combinations of both.
Handout: none
Reading assignment: none
Homework: Make sure your index.htm file is up-to-date
Week 12
Week of 6 Apr 20
Introduced PHP. Wrote a simple Hello, World PHP script. Also wrote a form handler, and introduced PHP variables.
No class on Good Friday, 10 Mar 20. Happy Easter weekend!
Handout: none
Reading assignment: Chapter 17.
Homework: Assignment 5
Week 11
Week of 30 May 20
Continued working with Javascripts. Practiced loading and writing simple javascripts.
Also used Javascript to check form input.
Handout: none
Reading assignment: Implementing PHP is not covered in the text.
Homework: Assignment 5
Week 10
Week of 23 Mar 20
On Monday, we'll practice Google Hangouts Meet online.
Worked through several simple XML examples.
Started working with Javascripts. Practiced loading and writing simple javascripts.
Handout: none
Reading assignment: Chapter 19
Homework: Assignment 4
Spring Break (Mar 16 - 20)
No class. Because of coronavirus, this class resumes ONLINE on Mon, 23 Mar 20.Have a nice Spring Break!
Week 9
Week of 9 Mar 2020
Covered iFrames.
Worked with Javascripts. Introduced automatic and triggered scripts, calling external scripts, instrinsic events, button-executed scripts, alternate script information, and setting the default scripting language.
Introduced rollovers
Handout: none
Reading assignment: Chapters 16, 18 (review)
Reading assignment: p524 (iFrame), Chapter 19
Homework: Assignment 4
Week 8
Week of 2 Mar 20
Midterm exam practice.
Midterm Exam on Fri, 6 Mar 2020.
Handout: Midterm Practice (not posted)
Reading assignment: review
Homework: Practice for Midterm
Week 7
Week of 24 Feb 20
Simple forms (sample.htm).
Form submission with PHP.
Form styling with CSS.
Handout: none
Reading assignment: Chapters 11, 16)
Homework: Assignment 3
Week 6
Week of 17 Feb 20
Page layout using styles (Photo Barcelona).
Page layout with tables and CSS.
Started Simple forms (forms.htm).
Handout: none
Reading assignment: Chapters 16, 11
Homework: Assignment 3
Week 5
Week of 10 Feb 20
Created simple and complex tables.
Introduced inline styles.
Handout: none
Reading assignment: Chapter 18
Homework: Assignment 2
Week 4
Week of 3 Feb 20
Introduced ordered, unordered, nested, and definition lists.
Introduced CSS by working with an internal stylesheet and inline styles.
Discussed colors.
Created an external style sheet. Practiced a variety of styles and selectors.
Handout: none
Reading assignment: Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10, 15
Homework: Assignment 2
Week 3
Week of 27 Jan 20
Practiced editing images with Adobe Photoshop.
Practiced resizing photos, cropping photos, and saving images for the web. Also practiced using a photo scanner.
Discussed absolute and relative addressing.
Discussed the anchor tag and used it to create different types of links including site navigation links.
Handout: none
Reading assignment: Chapters 5, 6
Homework: Assignment 1
Week 2
Week of 20 Jan 20
Monday is Martin Luther King Day - no class.
Introduced more HTML formatting tags.
Discussed the image tag and created a page with both images and text.
Handout: none
Reading assignment: Chapters 4, 5
Homework: Assignment 1 (will be started during class)
Week 1
Week of 14 Jan 20 (Wed and Fri)
Introduced the course outline, syllabus, and CIT computer lab.
Discussed the web (internet), browsers, web servers, standards, and current web technologies.
Introduced markup language, syntax, file names, URLs and HTML. Created an index file home page and a template file on the CIT public web server and accessed it through the internet.
Created a home page on the CIT secure web server and started a sample page. Covered headers, spacing, comments, special characters, paragraphs, blocks, and introduced various HTML formatting tags.
Handout: Syllabus
Reading assignment: Chapters 1-3
Homework: Practice on your home page