TH 481 - Website Construction (I & II)


Course Syllabus - Website Construction I - Summer 2009

Day 1
(Tuesday, June 30)
  • Overview, Goals, & Objectives
  • Website Construction I vs. Website Construction II
  • Introductions
  • Basics of Web Servers and Clients
  • Web Account Setup
  • Setting up and using Filezilla
  • Setting up and using Text Wrangler
  • HTML Beginners Tutorial (see Course Materials)
  • Uploading your first web page
Day 2
(Wednesday, July 1)
  • Review of Day 1
  • CSS Beginners Tutorial
Day 3
(Thursday, July 2)
  • Review of Day 2
  • HTML Playground
  • HTML Intermediate Tutorial
  • CSS Intermediate Tutorial
  • Files, paths, and folders
  • Uploading non-HTML files (i.e. images)
Day 4
(Friday, July 3)
  • Review of Day 3
  • CSS Layout
  • CSS Menus
  • Working with Images 1 (Logos)
Day 5
(Tuesday, July 7)
  • Review of Day 4
  • Alternate CSS Layout Example
  • Working with Images 2 (Photos)
  • Using templates (_layout.php) and repeated content (_top.php, _bottom.php)
  • Adding content, adding pages
Day 6
(Wednesday, July 8)
  • Review of Day 5
  • Fonts/typography - how and when to use, differences between operating systems
  • Color schemes
  • Working with Images 3 (Background Graphics)
Day 7
(Thursday, July 9)
  • Review of Day 6
  • Tidying up your template (_layout.php)
  • Simple image gallery page - linking to hi-res photos and PDF documents
  • Audio - PremiumBeat audio player
  • Video - embedding a Youtube video
Day 8
(Friday, July 10
  • Review of Day 7
  • Final Template Revision
  • Pages with no sidebar
  • Adding your Google calendar
  • Simple PHP Contact form
  • Legalese, terms of use
  • Course Evaluations
Final