Hypermedia Production

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Date
Topic
Assignment Due
Quiz
Reading Due

August

28
Review Syllabus

September

4
No Class
- the introduction to Everywhere: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
- Why Use CSS?
- Fix Your Site With The Right DOCTYPE

11
Doctype & CSS Review
Create a homepage for your work in this class.

Look at this page using The Firefox Web Developer's Toolbar: Outline Block Level Elements, Disable Images, Disable CSS. Find two sites to look at in class that either function well or don't when Images and/or CSS is disabled.
- O'Reilly, pp. 16 & 17, chapters 3, 4 & 5

18
CSS/Flexible Websites
Re-style 3 pages with CSS using base content from lorem ipsem page and CSS Zen Garden Try to do two pages using one content source and one page using the other (your choice).
Quiz
- O'Reilly, ch. 10, Cederholm, chs. 1-3

25
CSS/Flexible Websites
Work on template designs
- Cederholm, chs. 4-7

October

2
CSS & Critique
Draft Templates
- Cederholm, chs. 8 & 9

9
DOM-Scripting
Templates Due (note change)
- Keith, chs. 1-3

16
JavaScript & DOM: Arrays
- Keith, chs. 4-6

23
JavaScript & DOM: Conditionals & Loops
Lab 1
- Keith, chs. 7-10

30
JavaScript & DOM: Functions
Quiz
- Keith, chs. 11 & 12

November

6
JS Applications
Lab 2
- Invasion of the Bodyswitchers
- A More Accessible Map

13
Your JS App
Proposals
- Optional - Displaying RSS feeds
- http://feedroll.com/rssviewer/

20
Your JS App
Proof of Concept

27
No Class
Work on your app & templates

December

4
Your JS App & Revised Template Presentation
Images & CSS disabled survival test