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Web Site Goals
Weekly Web site technical goals shown in orange are due at noon the week following the class session.

Technical goals are graded 0-1 and any late goal is 0. (An entry is late if the time stamp says 12:01 pm or later.)

Web Business Strategy coding rules are shown in red.

Goals and rules are cumulative.



Session
  1. FTP (WS_FTP)
    • Servers and local computers
    • Basic Web page made with Notepad
    • FTP
    • Initial page (Goal 1)
  2. HTML Page Structure (HomeSite)
    • Alternative fonts rule
    • Introduction to HomeSite
    • Settings rule (includes "colors in hexadecimal")
    • My Documents rule
    • HomeSite toolbar (body, paragraph, break, nonbreaking space, center, fonts, etc.)
    • Spell check rule
    • Clean code rule
    • Initial business page demonstrating text skills and copyright notice (Goal 2)
  3. Links and Multiple Pages
    • No underlining rule
    • "Save as HTML only" rule
    • Web page naming (no spaces, lower case) rule
    • Text links
    • Images on pages
    • Images as links
    • Alt rule
    • Server subdirectories
    • Business site with links to placeholder pages, image and image as link (Goal 3)
  4. Page Layout with Tables
    • Comment rule
    • Table basics: rows and cells
    • Width rule
    • Absolute width vs. relative width
    • Left-aligned pages vs. centered pages
    • Nested tables
    • Business site with tables for layout (Goal 4)
  5. Navigation and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
    • Home page navigation
    • Interior page navigation
    • Required pages: About Us, Contact Us, Privacy Policy, Acknowledgments, Advertising and Business Plan
    • CSS for hover effects and other uses
    • Business site demonstrating home page and interior page navigation (Goal 5)
  6. Graphics Tools (Paint Shop Pro)
    • Importing fonts
    • Graphics formats: GIF and JPEG
    • Colors: RGB and HTML code (hexadecimal)
    • Bitmapped vs. vector graphics
    • Paint Shop Pro tools
    • Antialiased text
    • Original logo that uses a non-standard font. (Goal 6)
  7. Static Logos
    • Effects and filters
    • Combining text and graphics or images
    • Resizing images
    • Efficient graphics rule (type, size and colors)
    • Logo enhanced with graphics or image element or separate original graphic for site. (Goal 7)
  8. Animated Ads (Animation Shop)
    • Canned animation
    • Custom animation
    • Ad page with custom animated ad (your project requires several ads) (Goal 8)
  9. Cut and Paste JavaScript
    • Redirects
    • Rollovers
    • Other features
    • JavaScript feature (Goal 9)
  10. CGI and Cold Fusion Forms
    • CGI
    • Cold Fusion
    • Form (Goal 10)
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