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IMD133 - Beginning Web Design 

Instructor and Contact Information 

Instructor: Tim Birch, Associate Professor 

Phone: (859) 246-6590 

Email: tim.birch@kctcs.edu 

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:30pm-6:00pm* 

Office Location: A.T. Building room 201J 

470 Cooper Drive, Lexington KY 40506 

IMD Coordinator: Drew Hunt (andrew.hunt@kctcs.edu), (859) 246-6287 

CSIS Dean: Debbie Holt (Debbie.holt@kctcs.edu), (859) 246-6286 

CSIS Office Mgr: Ginger Porter (ginger.porter@kctcs.edu), (859) 246-6283 

Class Information: 

Meeting Times: Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:00am-12:15am 

Classroom: Moloney Building (Cooper Campus), room 248 

*All times are U.S. Eastern Standard. 

Official Course Description: 

Introduces the creation and publication of a web site and covers extensible 

hypertext markup language (XHTML) and introductory cascading style sheets 

(CSS). Covers code editing for web design, along with the incorporation of 

graphics into web sites and publishing. Lecture: 3 credits (45 contact hours). 

Note: This course is a required core course for IMD majors 

Program Approved Course Objectives: 

Use, apply, and write Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML). 

Use, apply, and write basic Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). 

Design and construct an entire web site including graphics and links with 

XHTML. 

Upload web pages to the World Wide Web. 

Prerequisite: 

IMD 100 or concurrent or consent of instructor.

Textbooks: 

HTML5 & CSS3 Visual QuickStart Guide (7th Edition) by Liz Castro and Bryce 

Hyslop, ISBN-10: 0321719611. 

Necessary Supplies: 

USB Flash Drive (at least 2GB) to make back-up copies of your work 

At least 5 CD-R's 

Note-taking material (you may take notes on the computer in MS Word, etc.) 

Class Organization: 

Classes will be spent with a combination of lecture, lab (consisting of in-class 

instruction and demonstration) and various methods of student participation. 

Out-of-class assignments will require additional time outside of normal class 

times. Students may also complete assignments in the classroom (when 

available and another class is not in session) and also in MB110 and MB112. 

Grading Scale: 

90–100 A Exemplary Work 

80–89 B Excellent work, meets requirements 

70–79 C Satisfactory work, meets requirements 

60–69 D Unsatisfactory work, does not meet requirements 

< 60 E Unsatisfactory work, demonstrates lack of understanding of 

requirements

Graded Items: 

The following projects, assignments, tests, quizzes, etc will make the student's 

final grade in this course, weighted as indicated below: 

5 Projects (15% each) = 75% 

Attendance and Participation = 10% (-2% for each unexcused absence or 

violation of any syllabus policy) 

Final Project = 15% 

Class Attendance and Participation Policies: 

Any student missing more than 20% of class meetings will fail the course unless 

they withdraw. Students must be on-time (entering before the door closes) and 

have any projects due for that day ready to turn in (printed, etc) before 

entering the class for that day that it is due. 

Student Conduct Policies: 

During lectures, any use of any computer or other device not directly related to 

the lecture being given is strictly prohibited. This includes but is not limited to 

prohibiting web-surfing (including FaceBook, Twitter and all other social sites), 

cell-phone calls and cell-phone texting texting, game-playing (including 

MineCraft), use of cell-phones for ANY reason, etc. (Cell-phones are to be kept 

in pockets or purses during class at all times, either turned off or set to "Silent" 

mode.) Also, of course, no talking during lectures except to the teacher. (The 

truth of the matter is that I am actually not terribly offended by people doing 

this, but I myself am very easily distracted and such things cause me to lose my 

train-of-thought, delaying the rest of the lecture, which is unfair to the rest of the 

class. Thank you very much for your help in this matter.) 

This course is "rated G." This means that any word, comment, image, sound, or 

animation that wouldn't be allowed in a Rated G film will NOT be tolerated in 

this class. This policy therefore prohibits ALL profanity and ALL derogatory 

comments in regards to any person's (even persons not in this course) race, 

religion, gender, age, color, creed, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, 

socio-economic status, political views, academic status or performance. 

Additionally, any lewd content (words, images and all other media) is also not 

tolerated - if it's something that can't be seen in a rated-G cartoon for young 

children, it isn't tolerated in this class. This means even all words and comments 

and content that are meant as "jokes." As a wise man once said, "Can't we all 

just get along?"

Any such derogatory comment or lewd content will be documented and will be 

forwarded to a Dean, and may result in the loss of one letter grade from the 

student's final grade in this course. Areas where such offenses may occur 

include, but are not limited to: in-class time, discussion boards and forums for the 

course, e-mails to the instructor, projects, and exam/quiz/test answers. For more 

information, you are encouraged to read BCTC's student handbook, which is 

available for your perusal online at: 

http://legacy.kctcs.edu/student/studentcodeofconduct.pdf 

Late Work and Make-Up Work Policies: 

Any late project can only be turned in up only until seven calendar days after 

the original due date or until the last regular class-meeting before Finals Week, 

whichever comes first. After seven days past due, a project will be given a 

grade of Zero. A late-work penalty of 25% will be assessed on any late project or 

test turned in, up until seven days past the deadline, at which time a grade of 

Zero will be given. The only way to avoid any grade penalty is to notify the 

instructor in advance in an email with a valid reason, and even then no work 

can be accepted more than seven days late. 

Examples of excused reasons acceptable for avoiding the late-work penalties 

include but are not limited to the following, and documentation will be required: 

Doctor's visits for the student, student's children, or student's partner 

A religious holiday 

Jury duty 

Mandatory first-responder training (fire, medical, and law-enforcement 

personnel) 

Mandatory military service (reserves, active-duty, etc.) 

Zombie Apocalypse 

Any other valid excused absence as defined by the KCTCS/BCTC student 

handbook

Examples of non-excused reasons that are not acceptable for avoiding the latework 

penalties include the following: 

Work – we all have jobs, and I respect and admire working students. I hate to 

be a pain, but there is no way we can adjust any class schedule to fit 

everybody's work schedule, so unfortunately we have to adjust our schedule 

to fit the schedule for this class instead. 

Holiday, vacation, or time off – taking a vacation during the semester 

(except for actual BCTC academic holidays) is generally not a very prudent 

idea... 

Abduction by extraterrestrials, unless they are from Battlestar Galactica. 

Email Policies: 

There are two very important rules for use of email in correspondence with the 

instructor, as follows: 

Use ONLY your official KCTCS email account when emailing the instructor. Do 

not use other email addresses such as GMail, Yahoo, MSN, HotMail, etc. The 

first reason for this is that at the beginning of the semester, I have everybody's 

KCTCS email address in my class roster, so I can send out emails right away. 

The second reason for this is actually a sneaky one - it gets students to 

regularly check their KCTCS emails, which is where announcements from 

BCTC come from, so this helps students stay better informed about their 

college education. For both academic and security concerns, only mail 

KCTCS email addresses will be responded to, except in cases when the 

KCTCS email system is inoperable. 

Whenever you send an email to the instructor, put your class number 

(IMD127, IMD133, IMD180, IMD226, IMD250, etc) in the subject line, please! 

This helps me respond faster to you by knowing immediately which class you 

are in, especially since many of my students are enrolled in more than one of 

my classes during the semester. Thank you very much. :)

Inclement Weather and Emergency Campus Closing Information: 

Inclement weather or other emergencies may cause BCTC classes to be 

cancelled or delayed. If classes are delayed, you are to report to school at the 

announced time and attend the class where you would NORMALLY be at that 

time. Information about cancelled or delayed classes will be posted on the 

BCTC website. Many local radio and television stations will also carry 

announcements. Instructors may send email messages and/or Blackboard 

announcements regarding assignments for a class that was cancelled. Students 

are responsible for checking these sources for such messages. 

Plagiarism Policy: 

Taken from the Student Code of Conduct listed above: 

"Plagiarism is the act of presenting ideas, words, or organization of a source, 

published or not, as if they were one's own. All quoted material must be in 

quotation marks, and all paraphrases, quotations, significant ideas, and 

organization must be acknowledged by some form of documentation 

acceptable to the instructor for the course. Plagiarism also includes the practice 

of employing or allowing another person to alter or revise the work that a 

student submits as the student's own. Students may discuss assignments among 

themselves or with an instructor or tutor, but when the actual material is 

completed, it must be done by the student and the student alone. The use of 

the term 'material' refers to work in any form including written, oral, and 

electronic." 

All academic work, written or otherwise, submitted by a student to an instructor 

or other academic supervisor, is expected to be the result of the student's own 

thought, research, or self expression. In any case in which a student feels unsure 

about a question of plagiarism involving the student's work, the student must 

consult the instructor before submitting the work....

For instances of academic dishonesty related to earning grades (violations 

2.3.1.1 - 2.3.1.3), the instructor may implement any of three sanctions: 

a failing grade for the specific assignment; and/or 

a reduced grade for the course; and/or 

a failing grade for the course. 

The specific sanction depends upon the weight of the assignment in satisfying 

the requirements for the course. If an instructor chooses the sanction which 

assigns a failing grade for the course, the instructor shall notify the division chair, 

the chief executive officer or designee, and the registrar. For more information 

about the role of college personnel in the process, refer to section 2.5.2." 

What this means to students in this class: any student caught copying work, test 

answers, etc. from another student or any other source that is not the student's 

own work will at the very least receive a full letter-grade penalty for the course, 

and may very possibly even be given a failing grade for the entire course. So 

please, DO NOT COPY ANOTHER STUDENT'S WORK, EVER! 

Equal Opportunity Statement: 

Bluegrass Community and Technical College is an equal opportunity institution. 

Furthermore, since this class is designed to prepare students for life in the real 

world of a professional career, derogatory statements or behavior pertaining to 

race, religion, national origin, creed (political views), sexuality will result in an 

automatic reduction of one letter grade for the final grade in the class for the 

offending student. In the real world, such comments would result in immediate 

termination of one's job for violation of Title VII of the U.S. Federal legal code, 

and often result in lawsuits and possibly even criminal prosecution. More 

information about the seriousness of these offenses can be found at: 

http://www.eeoc.gov 

Financial Aid Statement: 

If you receive grants and/or loans to pay for this class you should be aware that 

withdrawing or failing this class may affect your future financial aid eligibility. You 

should review the Financial Aid Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) policy for 

additional information. Contact the Financial Aid Office for a copy of the SAP 

policy. All students are expected to attend class and have the required 

textbook(s) even though you may have an appeal in process or have not yet 

received financial aid.

Reasonable Accommodations Policy: 

Students with disabilities who require accommodations (academic adjustments 

and/or auxiliary aids or services) for this course must contact a staff member in 

BCTC's Disability Support Services (DSS) office, 103 Oswald Building. The DSS 

phone number is 246-6530. Please do not request accommodations directly 

from the professor or instructor. (Personally, I don't mind requests, but that is 

school policy. The people that work in the DSS department are wonderful, 

however, and you should feel very free to talk to them - they are AMAZINGLY 

helpful and friendly!) :) 

Withdrawal Policy: 

Should you feel the need to withdraw, the instructions for withdrawing from a 

BCTC course can be viewed at the following website: 

http://bluegrass.kctcs.edu/en/registrar/withdrawal_policy.aspx 

Course Schedule: 

This course schedule is very tentative at best. Therefore it will almost certainly 

change. Students are responsible for collaborating with other students to 

acquire any missed lectures, assignments, etc. 

DAY MATERIAL 

Monday, Jan. 14th Welcome, syllabus, class goals and structure 

HOMEWORK: BUY TEXTBOOK, STUDY SYLLABUS 

Wednesday, 

Jan. 16th 

Overview of how the World Wide Web works, and the job 

of the web designer 

Monday, Jan. 21st DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY – ACADEMIC HOLIDAY 

Wednesday, 

Jan. 23rd 

Demonstration of hand-coding with HTML and CSS: 

browsers, NotePad, mark-up, tags, attributes, and values 

HOMEWORK: READ TEXTBOOK, CHAPTERS 1 AND 2 

Monday, Jan. 28th How to work with files (file management), folders 

(directories), links, and URL's 

HOMEWORK: READ TEXTBOOK, CHAPTER 3 

Wednesday, 

Jan. 30th 

The DOCTYPE, , , and tags 

HOMEWORK: BEGIN WORK ON PROJECT # 1 (SIMPLE HTML) 

Monday, Feb. 4th HTML Headers, paragraphs, line breaks, text formatting. 

HOMEWORK: READ TEXTBOOK, CHAPTERS 4 AND 10

Wednesday, Feb. 

6th 

Overview of how the World Wide Web works, and the job 

of the web designer. 

LAB DAY: Project # 1 


Monday, Feb. 11th DUE: PROJECT # 1! 

Ordered and un-ordered HTML lists 


Wednesday, 

Feb. 13th 

Formatting text with an external CSS file, CSS text 

formatting, part 1 


Monday, Feb. 18th PRESIDENTS' DAY – ACADEMIC HOLIDAY 

Wednesday, 

Feb. 20th 

CSS text formatting, part 2 


HOMEWORK: BEGIN WORK ON PROJECT # 2 (CSS TEXT) 

Monday, Feb. 25th LAB DAY: Project # 2 (CSS Text) 

Wednesday, 

Feb. 27th 

Monday, March 

4th 

Wednesday, 

March 6th 

Monday, March 

11th 

Wednesday, 

March 13th 

Monday, March 

18th 

Wednesday, 

March 20th 

Friday, March 

22nd 

Monday, March 

25th 

Wednesday, 

March 27th 

DUE: PROJECT # 2! 

The tag and using images in web pages 


More on links: anchors and relative versus absolute links 


Links, pseudo-classes, and selectors 


HOMEWORK: BEGIN WORK ON PROJECT # 3 (LINKED FILES) 

SPRING BREAK – ACADEMIC HOLIDAY 

SPRING BREAK – ACADEMIC HOLIDAY 

LAB DAY: Project # 2 (Linked Files) 


Layout with styles – the sky's the limit! 

Layout with styles, part 2 





HOMEWORK: BEGIN WORK ON PROJECT # 4 (CSS LAYOUT)

Monday, April 1st LAB DAY: Project # 4 (CSS Layout) 

Wednesday, 

April 3rd 


Tables, part 1 

Monday, April 8th Tables, part 2 


Wednesday, 

April 10th 

Tables, part 3 

HOMEWORK: BEGIN WORK ON PROJECT # 5 (TABLES) 

Monday, April 15th LAB DAY: Project # 5 (Tables) 

Wednesday, 

April 17th 

Monday, April 

22nd 


Forms, part 1 

Forms, part 2 


HOMEWORK: BEGIN WORK ON PROJECT # 6 (FORMS) 

Wed., April 24th LAB DAY: Project # 6 (Forms) 

Monday, April 29th DUE: PROJECT # 6! 

Multimedia, part 1 


Wednesday, May 

1st 

Wednesday, May 

8th 

Multimedia, part 2 


Lab Day – Work on Final Project 

Final Projects Due! Turned in on CDR in class by 1:00PM!

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