Webmaster Certification Program - WM108 Syllabus

Spring 2008

Instructor: Arlyn J. Hubbell

Required Text:

• Cascading Style Sheets The Definitive Guide
  Author: Eric A. Meyer
  O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.; Sebastopol, CA
  ISBN:

Online Resources:

• Tucows - Shareware & Freeware Downloads
• PuTTy Homepage
• Adventures with Color, Fonts, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

CSS Tutorials:

• Dave Raggett's Introduction to CSS
• W3C's Cascading Style Sheets Home Page

CSS Resources:

• css Zen Garden
• Holy CSS Zeldman!
• A List Apart

Class I

• Unix/ssh review, as necessary
• An overview of cascading stylesheets
• The Anatomy of Style
• Homework: Review Chapters 1 & 2

Class II

• NO CLASS!
• Review your website from WM102, or come up with an idea for (and start coding) a new, small site that you can work on over the course of this class. This time your focus is going to be on design and creating a site that is absolutely gorgeous as well functional. Sites will be presented in class on March 1st and you will be expected to explain your reasoning for applying style as you have.
• Homework: Review Chapters 3 & 4

Class III

• Text Manipulation & Fonts
• Homework: Review Chapters 5 & 6

Class IV

• Backgrounds, Boxes, & Borders
• Homework: Review Chapters 7, 8, & 9

Class V

• Positioning - Relative & Absolute
• Homework: Review Chapter 10

Class VI

• TBA
• Homework: Complete Style site for presentation

Class VII

• Style site presentations