ITD-110
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This course is a basic introduction to technologies that make the World Wide Web work. The World Wide Web (WWW) is that portion of the internet that is navigated through a web browser ( such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox). Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) used to create content to be displayed by a web browser. This course offers an in-depth understanding of HTML.

In the second half of the course students will begin to understand that HTML is just a starting point for a much richer experience for delivering web content. Students will learn how electronic commerce is facilitated using HTML forms, and will write an interface to enable a small electronic commerce application. Then students will learn about Cascading Style Sheets and why they are used instead of HTML to deliver consistent looking web content.

But that is not all! Students will also get an appreciation for Javascript. Javascript allows the web browser to come alive in ways that HTML cannot. There is no Javascript programming for this course but the final project involves integrating some preassembled Javascript into web page forms.

After a basic understanding of HTML students will learn how to make their web pages XHTML compatible. XHMTL is a modular and "clean" way of writing HTML. XHTML allows HTML to be extended to other devices, such as cell phones or PDAs. Finally students will explore some server sided technologies and get an appreciation for how web sites serve data.