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Course Description

This course teaches students the basic skills needed to create a Web page with an emphasis on the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Students are also introduced to, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), how to write code using an integrated development environment (IDE), and publishing to a Web server using the file transfer protocol (FTP).

Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

  1. Compare and Contrast text-based HTML editors to GUI-based HTML editors.
  2. Examine basic HTML markup and contrast markup languages to programming languages.
  3. Compose Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and apply styles to HTML elements.
  4. Compare the methods of applying CSS layers for page structure versus using HTML tables.
  5. Evaluate methods used to enhance an HTML-based web page
  6. Compose an HTML document consisting of business form elements.
  7. Employ FTP to publish Web pages to a Web server.
  8. Construct a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Provided an image, a text file, and a sample Web page, by the end of this course student will be able to use Expression Web to create a Web page which is identically formatted when compared to the sample.
  2. Provided the URL of an FTP server, a username, and a password, by the end of this course student will be able to configure Expression Web to successfully connect to the specified FTP server.
  3. Provided an active connection to an FTP server, by the end of this course student will be able to use Expression Web to successfully publish files to the specified FTP server.
  4. Provided a Web server URL and a folder hierarchy diagram displaying the location on the Web server of an HTML document including its file name, by the end of this course student will be able to type the correct Web address in a Web browser to successfully locate the specified file.
  5. Given the name of an HTML element that requires formatting and formatting specifications, by the end of this course student will be able to successfully create a CSS rule in an external style sheet which matches the specification exactly.
  6. Provided with two image files, by the end of this course student will be able to use Expression Web to correctly apply a rollover behavior which changes image1 to image2 during a mouseover event and returns to image1 after a mouseout event.