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Core Standards of the Course
Standard 01 - Internet Standards & Fundamentals
Students will understand the basic principles of how the Internet is constructed, how it functions, and how it is used.
Objective 0101
Internet infrastructure --Identify the infrastructure required to access the Internet, including hardware, software components, and providers.
Objective 0102
Internet development & functions -- Understand how the Internet was developed and how works including web servers, routers, packets, IP Address, the “backbone”, firewalls, and port forwarding.
Objective 0103
Purpose of domains -- Understand the purpose of an IP address and a domain name.
Objective 0104
IP addresses -- Understand the differences between static and dynamic IP addresses.
Objective 0105
DNS -- Understand the function of a Domain Name Server (DNS) and how to register a domain name.
Objective 0106
Protocols -- Define important Internet communications protocols and their roles in delivering basic Internet services such as http, https, ftp, tcp-ip, etc.
Objective 0107
Copyright -- Demonstrate knowledge of standard copyright rules (defining related terms, obtaining copyright for original creations, using creative commons license, obtaining permission, and citing copyrighted material).
Objective 0108
AUP -- Understand the use and purpose of acceptable use policy (AUP).
Objective 0109
Ethical behavior -- Use ethical behavior as described in the AUP.
Objective 0110
Terminology – Review and understand the pertinent terminology.
Standard 02 -- Fundamentals of XHTML
Students will use XHTML standards & coding to create “well formed” web pages.
Objective 0201
Create pages -- Demonstrate knowledge required to create a web page.
Objective 0202
File naming -- Save web pages and files in a logical folder organization and with appropriate naming.
Objective 0203
XHTML structure – Know and use the rules to create “well formed” web pages with appropriate XHTML structure and standards that can be validated. (W3C)
- All documents must have a root element
- XHTML is case sensitive
- All elements must have a closing tag
- XHTML elements must be properly nested
- Attribute values must appear within quotation marks
- Full attribute form must be used for all attributes
- Empty elements must be closed
Objective 0204
XHTML types – Understand and use the DOCTYPE Declaration (DTD) in the types of XHTML including strict and transitional. (Frameset DTD is optional)
Objective 0205
XHTML elements -- Use the required and basic elements (tags and attributes) at the block level and inline to create web pages with text formatting, links, images, special characters, lists, tables, etc.
Objective 0206
Deprecated tags – Understand deprecated tags and the differences between html and xhtml.
Objective 0207
Metatags --Use Metatags for page documentation and search engine optimization (SEO).
Objective 0208
Design principles -- Identify and use design and color principles for web pages.
Objective 0209
GUI editor – Use a GUI-based HTML editing software to create web pages.
Objective 0210*
Advanced elements – Use advanced elements to create web pages with image maps to web pages, forms, frames, and/or iframes.
Objective 0211
Terminology – Review and understand the pertinent XHTML terminology.
Standard 03 -- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Students will format web pages using CSS formatting:
Objective 0301
CSS inline styles – Use basic CSS method of formatting a single element using inline styles. <tag style=property: value>
Objective 0302
CSS formatting -- Define and apply essential aspects of the CSS structure.
Objective 0303*
CSS sheets -- Create and use internal, embedded, and external style sheets. Example:
<style type=”text/css”>
selector {property: value}
p {color: blue}
</style>
Objective 0304*
Contextual selectors – Use contextual selector to specify formatting for an element, but only when it is contained in another element.
Objective 0305*
Class & id selectors – Create and use class and id selectors to add a variety of styles to different elements.
Objective 0306*
Elements: div & span --Use div and span elements formatting with CSS as the layout of a web page.
Objective 0307*
CSS hierarchy -- Understand the cascading order of CSS.
Objective 0308*
CSS attributes – Use CSS to set properties for color, size, font, images, spacing, line height, indenting, alignment, style, placement, etc.
Objective 0309*
CSS navigation -- Use CSS to form professional looking navigation.
Objective 0310
Terminology – Review and understand the pertinent CSS terminology.
Standard 04 -- Site Planning and Design
Students will plan, design, add content, and maintain web pages.
Objective 0401
Project requirements
- Identify the purpose, audience, and audience needs for a website.
- Demonstrate knowledge of website accessibility standards that address the needs of people with visual and motor impairments. Such as using alt tags, strong instead of bold, etc.
- Identify and follow the steps in the website planning and development process.
Objective 0402
Planning site design and page layout
- Demonstrate knowledge of best practices for designing a website; such as, maintaining consistency, separating content from design, using standard fonts and Web-safe colors.
- Identify basic principles of website usability, readability, and accessibility.
- Plan a website by using sketches, website hierarchy, or a site map.
- Communicate with others (such as peers and clients) about design and content plans.
- Produce website designs that work equally well on various operating systems and browser versions/configurations.
- Plan, communicate, or present a client’s website before, during or after website development.
Objective 0403
Create content for website
- Create and prepare 2D images.
- Prepare rich media; such as, video, sound, or animation.
- Identify when to use various image and digital media file formats.
- Edit, and slice images for web content.
- Insert navigation bars, rollover images, or buttons created in graphics editor.
Objective 0404
Uploading and maintaining a site
- Understand and be able to describe the capabilities of web servers.
- Upload pages to a web server.
- Conduct basic technical tests such as validating the website (wc3 compliant), accessibility, SEO, etc.
- Present web pages to others for quality assurances (QA) such as team members and clients for feedback and evaluation on technical merits and usability.
- Identify methods for collecting site feedback, such as using counters, feedback forums, Google Analytics.
- Provide site maintenance using bug reports, backups, and promotion.
- Document all aspects of website maintenance.
Objective 0405*
Web server (Optional Objective)
- Install a web server on a computer or virtual machine such as wamp, iis, apache etc.
- Identify the benefits and drawbacks of running your own web server versus using a service provider.
Objective 0406
Terminology – Review and understand the pertinent terminology.
Standard 05* -- Scripting and Interactivity
Students will understand and use both server and client scripting to create dynamic and interactive web pages.
Objective 0501*
Scripting fundamentals -- Understand and be able to describe programming-related terms dealing with servers, scripts, and databases.
Objective 0502*
Server & client scripting -- Understand and be able to describe differences between popular client-side and server-side programming languages.
Objective 0503*
Scripting technologies -- Identify and use technologies for enhancing the user's Web experience, including: web forms and programming languages such as JavaScript, PHP, Perl, ASP, etc.
Objective 0504*
Database connections -- Understand when to use popular tools to connect a web server to a database.
Objective 0505*
Database concepts -- Recognize essential database concepts including the following: (1) tables, (2) a row—also called a record or tuple, and (3) columns-also called a field.
Objective 0506*
Database implementation (Optional) – Implement interactivity using connections between the web pages and a database.
Objective 0507*
Terminology – Review and understand the pertinent terminology.
Standard 06 -- Exploration & Preparation for Careers in Web Development
Students will explore careers in Web Development and prepare a portfolio of projects created.
Objective 0601
IT Web Development careers -- Identify job roles in the Information Technology (IT) industry as they apply to web development including the responsibilities, tasks, and skills they require.
Objective 0602
Student portfolio -- Prepare an electronic portfolio of projects developed in the class.
Objective 0603*
Emerging technologies -- Explore new and emerging Web technologies such as Web 2.0, content management systems, wikis, blogs, forums, etc.
Objective 0604
Terminology – Review and understand the pertinent terminology.
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