CMPS 235 - Material covered until 1st midterm

• Introduction to the functions of browsers and servers and communication protocol between the two
• Basics of domain names, IP addresses, domain registrars, and DNS servers
• Composing a document out of various components such as text, pictures, flash, etc that may reside in various places on the web
• Basics of XHTML:
• Formatting a static non-interactive page. Tags for text formatting, image tags, and tag attributes.
• Spatial arrangement: tables and associated tags
• Interactive pages: forms and form elements (text box, text area, checkbox, radio, drop down list, submit buttons, etc)
• Query strings
• Cookies, hidden elements, and session tracking
• Scripting: what is Javascript
• Web authoring tools: Netobjects
• Basics of images:
• GIF and JPG images,
• palettes, RGB coding,
• differences in encoding/representing images between jpg and gif
• Image processing tools: Corel, Fireworks