The table below lists the topics that will be covered on Test 1 (February 17, 2003). Included for each topic is the reading from the textbook for that topic and in some cases additional resources you might find helpful for studying. In addition, to get a better idea of the type of test you are looking at, you can look at an old test from my undergraduate web design class.
| Topic | Assigned Reading | Additional Resources |
| FTP and an Intro to HTML: Be sure you understand URLs, file and folder basics, absolute and relative path names, and the difference between ASCII and binary. | Chapter 2 and pages 13-17, 23-28, & 32-36 | My notes include basic web design concepts and ftp concepts. |
| HTML basics including container tags, stand-alone tags, XHTML requirements, the structure of an HTML page, commenting HTML code, and <body>, <head>, <html>, heading, <p>, <br>, <hr>, <i>, <u>, and <b> tags and their attributes. | Chapter 6 | Be capable of doing this debug exercise. |
| Text Formatting including headings, paragraphs, lists, alignment, and character entities. | Chapter 7 | Be capable of doing this formatting exercise. |
| Colors: Be sure you understand additive color vs. subtractive color, color representation in HTML (don't memorize the names, but understand how they are used), websafe colors and their hexadecimal representation (you won't be asked to convert between hexadecimal and decimal), and the use of color as an attribute in the <body> tag. | Pages 199-210 | Here are some additional notes on colors. |
| Images: Understand the <img> tag and its attributes src, alt, width, height, border, and align. In addition, what is the difference between the use of the <img> within and outside of paragraph tags. In addition, read my notes to get an idea of the differences between the main types of web images. | Chapter 13, pp. 109-117, & pp. 229-233 | My notes on the different types of web images and some image terms. |
| Links: Understand how to link to other sites (absolute), link within your site (relative addressing -- great example on pages 132-138), link to a fragment within your page (<a name="aname"> used with <a href="#aname">) and link to a fragment within another page (<a href="http://www.domain.com/filename.htm#link">). | Chapter 9 (ignore image maps) | Be capable of doing this in-class exercise and the exercise on page 138 of the textbook. |
| Tables: Understand their creation and how to debug them. This includes the <table> tag and its attributes border, align, width, cellspacing, cellpadding, and bgcolor, the <tr> tag, and the <td> tag and its attributes align, valign, width, height, colspan, rowspan, and bgcolor. | Chapter 10 | You can look at my
notes for table tags, my prototyping with tables notes, and this debugging exercise. |
The test will not cover anything on the FTP procedure. You must learn this procedure in order to display your files to the world and therefore to pass this course, but you won't be tested on it.