Practical Web Skills
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62-415, Spring 2008
 
Practical Web Skills






Schedule
week
1/15 T
  • Lab Introduction
  • Overview
  • Tools of the Trade
  • Basic HTML Tags
  • HTML Attributes

1
1/17 R
  • Week 1 Quiz (Blackboard)
  • Lab #1: Your Lab Homepage
  • Lab #2: Competitive Analysis
     
1/22 T
  • Site Architecture
  • Links In Depth
  • Dreamweaver/Coda

2
1/24 R
  • Week 2 Review (Blackboard)
  • Lab #3: Dreamweaver Skills
     
1/29 T
  • Color Choice
  • Image Formats & Compression
  • Photoshop CS

3
1/31 R
  • Week 3 Review (Blackboard)
  • Lab #4: Running With Images
     
2/5 T
  • Coding w/ Style: Basic CSS
  • Defining Styles
  • Formatting in CSS

4
2/7 R
  • Week 4 Review (Blackboard)
  • Lab #5: The Style Basics
     
2/12 T
  • Layout 1: Frames & Tables
  • Framesets and Frames
  • Layout with Tables
  • Frames vs. Tables

5
2/14 R
  • Week 5 Review (Blackboard)
  • Lab #6: Dueling Tables
     
2/19 T
  • Layout 2: CSS
6
2/21 R
  • Week 6 Review (Blackboard)
  • Lab #7: Gourmet CSS
  • Q& A Session
     
2/26 T
  • Designing pages with images
  • Slicing Images
  • Image Maps

7
2/28 R
  • Lab #8: Musical Maps

3/4 T
  • Mid-term project assigned

8
3/6 R
  • Mid-term project work session  

3/11 R
  • No Class - Spring Break
     
9
3/13 R
  • No Class - Spring Break
     
3/18 T
  • JavaScript
  • Document Object Model (DOM)
  • Event-Based UI

10
3/20 R
  • Week 8 Review (Blackboard)
  • Lab #9: Smooth Interactors
     
3/25 T
  • Forms
  • CGIs
  • POST vs. GET
  • Input Field Types

11
3/27 R
  • Week 9 Review (Blackboard)
  • Lab #10: Forms Over Functions
     
4/1 T
  • Project Work Presentation
  • Final Project Assigned

12
4/3 R
  • Work session (Project Planning)
     
4/8 T
  • Dynamic Web Content
  • Intro to PHP
  • Relational Databases

13
4/10 R
  • Week 10 Review (Blackboard)
  • Lab #11: Job Hunting

4/15 T
  • Some PHP Examples
  • PHP Homepage
  • Webmonkey Database Tutorial

14
4/17 R
  • Carnival: No Class
     
4/22 T
  • Work Session
  • Final Project Preparation & Blog Post
15
4/24 R
  • Q & A session for the final project
     
4/29 T
  • Final project (take home)
  • Introductory Flash Workshop (optional)

16
5/1 R
  • Final project presentation




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