Spring 1997
Fridays 9:30am - 3:00pm
Darren Dittrich

 

January 17

 

 Netscape Overview

 

  • Email Darren
  • Start Thinking about your personal page

 

January 24

 

 

 HTML Basics

  • HTML and the Web
  • Browsers
  • URLs
  • First Page : Intro to BBEdit Lite
  • Text Formatting
  • Inserting Images
  • Lists

 

  • If you haven't already, email Darren
  • Incorporate text into your personal page, design basic layout
  • Read the rest in HTML

 

January 31

 

 More HTML

  • Links & Anchors
  • Tables
  • Forms

HTML Reference

 

  • Turn in sketch (on 8.5x11) of your personal page, prepare for first critique on class #5
  • Read Chapters 3 & 4 in HTML

 

 February 7

  • Tables and Links
  • TCP/IP and some History behind the Net

 

  • Critique on Project 1 in class next week
  • Finish reading all (most) chapters in HTML

 

April 18

 

 

Review of Forms

  • Basic field/button types
  • Submit/Reset
  • Communicating with CGIs

Q& A

 

  • Read Siegel Ch7-8

 

April 25

 

  • News and Reviews
  • Darren's pick this week: Fusionaries

 

Design Studies & Examples

  • Dave Siegel

Netscape Plug-in, Helper Apps, MIME Types
Tracking, Statistics, and Cookies
Internet News
Q& A

 

  • Review for the Final Exam
  • No internet classes this summer
  • Two (2) Fall 97 classes (Evening and Saturday, located in LRC and McKinney)

 

May 2

 

 

Multimedia/Plug-in Highlights

  • Animated GIFs
  • Streaming Audio/Video (Shockwave/QuickTime/RealVideo)

Q& A

 

  • Final Exam

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May 9

 

  • Check in with Deep Blue...
  • Netscape releases Communicator PR4 (c|net's review)
  • Apple Developer Employee Q3 purchases
  • Misc. bookmarks:

 

Show and Tell (Project Demos)
Future of the Web

Dynamic HTML
Style Sheets
Floating Frames

Q& A

 

  • Turn in Final Projects
  • Semester Award & Prize Ceremonies

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