HTML and Web Pages: Intermediate
Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria
Community, Corporate and Workforce Development
February 26, March 5 and 12, 2005; 1-4PM
William M. Pegram, Instructor, wpegram@nvcc.edu
www.nvcc.edu/home/wpegram

Intermediate Class Topics:     

• Forms - getting information from users (handout) 
• Frames - displaying multiple pages at the same time so as to keep some information always visible (handout) 
• Imagemaps - another way images can be links (handout)
• Imagemap exercise and Common Image Manipulation Tasks: Cropping, Resizing, and Image Slicing (handout)
• Introduction to style sheets (handout) - consistent look within and across pages, plus additional capabilities 
• Student Web Projects - Examples of linear structure, tables, and frames (link)
• Design (link)
• HTML Editors (link) - Dreamweaver

Intro Class Topics:

• create web pages using Notepad, view them in a browser, and revise them.  
• format text and specify color of text and background
• create links - absolute, relative, email, and to a specific point in a page 
• use images as backgrounds in web pages, as part of web pages, and as destinations for links
• use tables for more sophisticated page layouts
• transfer files to the Internet using an FTP program
• use a free HTML editor (Netscape Composer) to create web pages faster, with fewer errors, and with focus on content

Where Do You Go from Here -- Additional Skills

• Animation - Flash - available for free 30 day download from Macromedia, $99 academic or $199 as part of Studio MX 2004, can also be used within a web page to update part of page without reloading entire page
• Client-Side Scripting - JavaScript
• Image Creation and Editing - Fireworks, Freehand, Illustrator, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro
• Server-Side Scripting and Database-Driven Web Pages - Active Server Pages, CGI Scripts, or Cold Fusion

Resources:

• Courses (link)
• Good Books (link)

Revised: February 25, 2005