Syllabus

Course Description

This is a beginning hands-on introduction to using HyperText Mark-Up Language (HTML) to create web pages, which can be uploaded and displayed on the Word Wide Web. Students will use HTML to create web pages with text in various sizes and colors, links to other sites, background color or patterns, graphics, tables and mailto links. Principles of design and color, as they apply to screen presentations, will be included.

The course introduces the student to HTML and Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) source code needed to create web pages. Discussion of copyright and universal accessibility issues, plus design and color concepts will be presented.

Objectives

By the end of the course, students will be able to use HTML and XHTML to create web pages which can be uploaded and displayed on the World Wide Web. They will also be aware of universal accessibility issues, copyright issues, and principles of design and color as they apply to screen presentations.

Students will satisfactorily complete:

• practice worksheets.
• discussion board postings.
• a final quiz.
• a final website project.

Prerequisites

Computer Literacy.

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Texts, Materials, and Plug-ins

There are no recommended texts, materials or plug-ins for this course.

Assignments and Suggested Grading

The purpose of assignments is to help students learn the material in the course. Students learn the most and do their best if they do the assignment problems.

In an instructor-led course, the author of this course recommends the following grading:

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