PART 1   GETTING STARTED WITH HTML, 
(1 hour lecture), (1 hour lab)  

HTML Essentials

• What Is HTML? Why Do I Need to Know HTML?
• Inside a Web Page, Common HTML Tags and Attributes
• Writing Your First Web Page in HTML,   Publishing Your First Web Page
•     Conclusion

Formatting Text

•  Organizing Text
•  Text and the Head of a Page
•  A Body Full of Text
•  Basic Text Formatting: The Look or the Meaning?
•  Content-Based Text Formatting
•  Physical Text Formatting

The List

•   Unordered Lists
•   Ordered Lists
•   Definition Lists
•   One Last Comment
•   Conclusion

Dressing Up Pages with Images

•   The Scoop on Images
•   Working with Images
•   Displaying Inline Images

Formatting Images

•  Tweaking the Size of Images
•  Giving Images Room to Breathe
•  Building Walls Around Images
•  Aligning Images

Linking to External Images

• Using Background Images
• Using Animated Images
•     Conclusion

Connecting Pages with Hyperlinks

•    What Is a Hyperlink?
•    Understanding URLs
•    Host Names and URLs
•    Dissecting a URL

URLs and Web Resources

•     Working with the <a> Tag
•     Linking to Web Pages
•     Linking to Other Resources
•     Practical Linking with the <a> Tag
•     Anchor Hyperlinks
•     Conclusion  

Visual Navigation with Image Maps

•     Image Map Basics
•     Two Approaches to Image Maps
•     Let the Server Do the Work
•     Maybe the Client Needs Some Responsibility
•     Using Image Map Development Tools

Coding Image Maps by Hand

•     Creating the Map
•     Associating the Map with an Image
•     Constructing a Practical Image Map
•     Conclusion

Organizing Pages with Tables

•     Table Basics
•     Getting to Know the Table Tags
•     Drawing Borders Around Tables
•     Heading Up Your Tables

Spanning Cells

•     Setting the Size of Tables

Digging Deeper into Table Formatting

•      Aligning Tables
•      Giving Tables Some Space
•      Dressing Up Tables with Colors and Images
•      Revisiting Borders

Using Tables for Page Layout

•     Working Out the Design
•     Putting the Table Together
•     Adding the Content
•     Conclusion

Gathering Information with Forms

•     Understanding Forms
•     Processing Forms with Scripts
•     Using Scripts
•     Finding Scripts
•     Borrowing Scripts

Getting to Know Form Controls

•         The Text Box and Password Box Controls
•         The Text Area Control
•         The Check Box Control
•         The Radio Button Control
•         The Menu Control
•         The Button Controls

Creating Forms

•         Establishing the Form’s Action
•        Laying Out the Controls
•         The Complete Form
•         Testing the Form

Advanced Form Tips and Tricks

•         Creating Read-Only Controls
•         Hiding Controls
•         Organizing Controls into Field Sets
•         Setting the Tab Order of Controls
•         Providing Keyboard Shortcuts
•         Conclusion

Integrating Multimedia with Your Web Pages

•     Understanding Plug-ins and Helper Applications
•     Working with Sound
•     Creating Your Own Sounds
•      Finding Sounds

Adding Sounds to Your Pages

•     Working with Video
•     Creating Your Own Videos
•     Finding Videos
•     Adding Videos to Your Pages

Tinkering with Streaming Media

•    Preparing Multimedia Files for Streaming
•    Linking to Streaming Multimedia Files
•    Other Types of Multimedia
•    Conclusion

Graphical Tools and HTML

•     Why Use a Graphical Tool?
•     Getting Acquainted with Graphical Tools
•     Image Editing Tools
•     Image Map Tools
•     Web Page Design Tools
•     HTML Editors

Working with HTML in FrontPage

•      Using Different Views
•      Creating Tables
•      Creating Image Maps
•      Publishing Your Pages
•      Conclusion

Publishing Pages on the Web

•     Web Publishing Basics
•     Finding a Good Home for Your Web Pages
•     Hosting Your Own Web Site
•     Paying for a Web Hosting Service
•     Hosting with Your Internet Account
•     Using a Free Web Hosting Service
•     Foregoing Web Hosting Entirely
•    Obtaining a Domain Name
•     Selecting Web Publishing Software
•     Conclusion  

PART 3:  ADDING STYLE TO YOUR PAGES
 (1 hour lecture), (1 hour lab)  

Style Sheet Basics

•     What Are Style Sheets?
•     The Essentials of Style

Applying Styles to Web Pages

•     Internal Style Sheets
•     External Style Sheets
•     Classes of Styles

Styling Individual Tags

•     Local Styles
•     Linking with Style
•     Styles and Custom Style Tags
•     Creating Custom Style Tags
•     Putting Custom Style Tags to Work
•     Conclusion

Using Styles to Format Text

•     Assessing Cascading Style Sheets Text Styles
•     Working with Font Styles
•         Setting Individual Font Properties
•         Setting Font Properties as a Group
•         Putting the Font Styles Together
•     Dressing Up Text with Style
•     Altering the Spacing of Text

Using Styles for Text Alignment

•         Aligning Text
•         Adjusting the Margins
•         Putting the Text Alignment Styles Together
•     Digging Into the Bag of Style Tricks
•     Conclusion

Using Styles for Web Page Positioning

•     The Basics of Positioning with Style
•     Using Relative and Absolute Positioning
•     Managing Overlapping Elements
•     Tweaking the Appearance of Elements
•     Changing the Size of Elements
•     Showing and Hiding Elements
•     Giving Your Elements a Border

Controlling Space on a Page

•     Controlling the Flow of Text
•     Flowing Text Around Other Elements
•     Stopping the Flow of Text
•     Thy Text Overfloweth
•     A Complete Positional Style Example
•     Conclusion  

PART 4:  ADDING INTERACTIVITY TO YOUR PAGES,
 (1 hour lecture), (1 hour lab)  

Dynamic HTML

•     DHTML Basics
•     The Least You Need to Know About Scripts
•     Scripting Languages
•     Using Scripts in Web Pages
•     Responding to Events
•     Getting to Know the Document Object Model
•     Working with Dynamic Styles
•     Manipulating Dynamic Content
•     Fun with Dynamic Positioning

Getting Practical with DHTML

•      Displaying an Animated Ad Banner
•      Displaying Random Quotes
•     Conclusion

Creating Special Effects

•     The Basics of Special Effects
•     Working with Visual Filters
•     The Shadow and Drop Shadow Filters
•     The Emboss and Engrave Filters
•     The Glow Filter
•     The Blur Filter
•     The Basic Image Filter

Animating Content Changes with Transitions

•      The RandomDissolve Transition
•      The Fade Transition
•      The Strips Transition
•      The Wheel Transition
•      The Barn Transition
•      The Blinds Transition
•      The Checker Board Transition
•      The Gradient Wipe Transition
•      The Radial Wipe Transition
•      Putting on a Slide Show
•      Creating Interpage Transitions
•     Conclusion

Assessing the Capabilities of a Client

•     What are Client Capabilities?
•     Client Capabilities and Internet Explorer
•     Obtaining Client Capabilities
•     Reacting to Client Capabilities
•     Conclusion

PART 5: LEVERAGING XML
(1.5 hours lecture), (1.5 hours lab)  

Understanding XML

•     What is XML?
•     XML and HTML
•     Getting to Know XML
•     Understanding Elements and Tags
•     Referencing Entities
•     Using Comments
•      Using Processing Instructions
•      Declaring the Document Type
•     Modeling XML Data
•     Working with DTDs,  Working with XML Schema
•     The Practical Side of XML
•     Conclusion

Styling XML with XSL

•     Style Sheets and XML
•     Understanding XSL
•     Applying XSL to XML Documents
•     Peeking Inside a Style Sheet
•     Drilling for Data with Patterns
•     Transforming Information with Templates
•     Constructing Your Own XSL Style Sheet
•     Conclusion

XHTML: XML Meets HTML

•     The Significance of XHTML
•     The Problem with HTML,   The XHTML Solution
•     The Leap from HTML to XHTML
•     The Need to Accept XHTML
•     The Three XHTML DTDs,   Document Validation Requirements
•     Declaring an XHTML DTD and Namespace,  Validating an      XHTML Document
•     Creating an XHTML Document
•     Converting to XHTML
•      XHTML Conversion Guidelines
•      Converting an HTML Document to XHTML
•      An Alternative HTML Conversion Option