CISW 304    Cascading Style Sheets    2 Units

Prerequisite: CISW 300 or 320 with a grade of "C" or better.
Course Transferable to CSU
Hours: 27 hours LEC ; 27 hours LAB
Description: This course continues the study of technical aspects of standards-based Web design for experienced students and Web professionals. Topics include the separation of content from presentation, dynamic user interaction and designing for alternative devices, using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in combination with Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML).

CISW 320    Introduction to Web Site Development    3 Units

Prerequisite: CISC 320 or 323 with a grade of "C" or better; or equivalent experience
Advisory: CISC 305 or CISC 306 with a grade of "C" or better
Course Transferable to CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: This course is an introduction to the technical aspects of Web site development for students and Web professionals. Topics include creating Web pages with markup languages, including XHTML, cascading style sheets, an introduction to scripting, the use of images and other media on the Web, interactive tools like forms and image maps, file management for the Web, and uploading files via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to a Web server. Emphasis will be on the study and implementation of current World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards and a structured approach to Web site development in which students will identify the information dissemination needs of a client, and then develop and implement an appropriate Web solution. Students who have completed CISW 300 since Fall 2004 may not receive credit for this course.

CISW 410    Middleware Web Scripting    4 Units

Prerequisite: CISW 320 or CISW 300 and CISP 301 or one programming course or any programming experience.
General Education: AA/AS Area II(b)
Course Transferable to CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC ; 54 hours LAB
Description: This course emphasizes the creation of interactive Web sites using a middleware Web scripting environment such as PHP, ASP, or ASP.NET. Topics include core features of the middleware Web scripting language, embedding server commands in HTML pages, control structures, functions, arrays, form validations, cookies, environmental variables, email applications, the .NET environment, and database driven Web applications. This course may be taken three times in a different middleware Web scripting environment.