World Wide Web Basics

• Common browsers and servers
• HTTP basics: client and server ports, MIME, URLs and navigation

Basic HTML

• HTML standards
• Meta Tags
• Formatting
• Paragraph formatting
• Hyperlinks and anchors
• Elementary images
• Comment tags

Web Tools

• Common standard tools
• Popular web software tools (i.e. Microsoft FrontPage, Netscape Navigator Gold, Mozilla, Hot Metal Pro, Cold Fusion, Claris Home Page, Alaire Home Site)

• Supported HTML features

Interaction with Other Internet Services

• Using FTP URLs
• FTP versus HTTP file transfer
• Mailto and news protocols
• Conferencing and forums overview
• Publishing other document types (PDF, MS Office ...); File Downloads

Images

• File formats, Efficiency tuning for bandwidth, colour depth and compression
• Compression and conversion tools;
• Image editors
• Graphical hyperlinks
• Introduction to Paintshop Pro
• Client and server side Imagemaps

Advanced HTML features

• Frames, tables and style sheets; Background image, colour, sounds, music
• URL encoding and character entities

Multimedia

• Animated GIFs
• Sound formats; Video formats
• Streaming versus non-streaming
• Bandwidth issues; Implementation notes: Plug-ins, ActiveX, ShockWave, Flash

Web Site Design

• Making the site easy to navigate
• Bandwidth considerations for images and multimedia
• Preparing documents for downloading
• Supporting different browsers
• Linking to other useful sites
• Using SSL/SHTTP

Search Facilities

• Providing indexing and search facilities
• Linking to public search sites
• Registering your site with search sites
• Using the META tag

Architecture and Maintenance

• Building a tree
• Relative and absolute URLs
• Dealing with broken links
• Server issues
• Validating HTML; Version control

Dynamic Content (Server)

• HTML forms and CGI
• CGI and security issues; Advanced CGI: dynamic HTML, database interaction
• Alternatives to CGI
• Server-side scripting
• Server-specific APIs (ISAPI, NSAPI)

Dynamic Content (Client)

• JavaScript and VBScript
• Scripting object model
• Browser variations
• Other extension technologies: Java applets, Netscape plug-ins, ActiveX controls,ASP, XML etc..