TRI-COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Pendleton, South Carolina

 

COURSE SYLLABUS

 

Course Number:        IST 237

Course Title:              Intermediate Website Design

 

 

Class Hours                 Lab Hours             Credit

Per Week:   3              Per Week:  0         Awarded:  3

 

 

CataCCatalog Description: 

 

This course is a study of server-side (CGI; dynamic HTML) and client-side (JavaScript) dynamic web design, including the incorporation of database content into web pages.

 

Entry-Level Skills:

 

Students should have a fundamental understanding of internet communications and database systems.

 

Pre-Requisites:    CPT 234

 

Required Materials: 

Text(s):  Creating Web Pages with HTML and Dynamic HTML, Patrick Carey, Thompson Learning/Course Technology, 2003, ISBN 0-619-18719-0

Students will collect supplementary materials as required.

Course Competencies and Objectives:

Students who complete IST 237 should be able to:

1.      Use appropriate tools to generate, convert and verify HTML code.

2.      Apply HTML tags to produce an HTML template.

3.      Storyboard page link hierarchies and produce functioning reference codes.

4.      Troubleshoot HTML code for path and filename errors that cause missing links to graphics or HTML files.

5.      Produce ordered and unordered, nested and blocked lists using HTML tags.

6.      Control format, including use of physical and logical styles.

7.      Incorporate appropriately-sized image and multimedia files using source and alternative text tags.

8.      Control screen layout using table tags and frames.

9.      Design external style sheets to increase continuity among related pages.

10.  Code forms to handle and return user input via e-mail or to process form data using Common Gateway Interface (CGI) procedures.

11.  Use search scripts to produce searchable websites that clearly present search results to users.

12.  Identify limitations of the JavaScript language.

13.  Recognize, interpret and create simple JavaScript code to perform useful functions.

14.  Use JavaScript to produce dynamic features (action, motion or response) for a website.

15.  Evaluate code developed by a page editor (such as FrontPage) to determine the quality of the code produced.

 

Grade Calculation Method:

 

Final grades are calculated as follows:

 

Exams (5)

80%

Homework/Quizzes

20%

 

Additional Information Pertaining to Grades:

 

Students must earn a minimum grade of ‘C’ in all CPT/IST courses used to fulfill graduation requirements of a Computer and Information Technology program.

 

The student should access the College's Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources procedure and note the consequences for non-compliance

 

                   

Prepared by:  S. Konieczny                            Date written or revised:  June 2006