Client-Side
Internet Technologies

This is a self paced course covering Client-side Internet Technologies and how these technologies combine to produce DHTML
The course assumes you have a knowledge of basic html tags.

Xhtml and html - the new standard xhtml and how it differs from the older html.

Cascading Style Sheets - techniques for separating Content from Presentation using Stylesheets.

Javascript - the most popular scripting language for Web pages.

Dhtml and W3C DOM programming - Dhtml animation techniques and DOM programming.

xml/xsl - An introduction to xml, eXtensible Markup Language and xsl eXtensible Stylesheet Language.

Accessibility and Usability - An introduction to Accessibility and Usability and the need to accomodate a range of users.

Introduction to Web 2.0 - What is Web 2.0 ? covers rss, podcasting and AJAX.

Flash and Swish - An introduction to vector-based animation with Flash and Swish.

For those interested in such stuff The National IT Training Package Competencies, ICA04, will be indicated as follows at the start of the relevant section.

Each WebBook consists of Topics and Activities which you can select from the list at the foot of the screen.
Try out the code examples, the only way to really learn this is to DO IT.
I highly recommend typing in the examples but you can use cut and paste if time is short.

The Objectives at the end of each section and an in-class test form the Assessment