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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel like you are the only one who has this problem? Guess again! Before deciding to wallow in despair, see if someone else has already run into the same problem.

This Frequently Asked Question list, or FAQ, currently answers questions in relation to the Web development courses which I teach.

Class

  1. [Do I have to attend class?]
  2. [All my classes are in lab classrooms. Does that mean that the class is all lab?]
  3. [Can I do other work in class?]
  4. [How do quizzes work?]
  5. [How do office hours work?]
  6. [How does grading work?]
  7. [What is your policy on cheating?]
  8. [Are there any rules I should know about regarding classroom behavior?]
  9. [What are we going to learn in CISS 220 (Web Page Development and Design)?]
  10. [What are we going to learn in CISS 221 (Advanced Web Site Development and Design)?]
  11. [What are we going to learn in CISS 225 (PHP Programming for the World Wide Web)?]
  12. [What are we going to learn in CISS 227 (XML Programming for the Internet)?]
  13. [What are we NOT going to learn in this class?]

Distance Learning

  1. [Do I have to attend class?]
  2. [How will attendance be taken?]
  3. [What if I need help?]
  4. [How do I use Blackboard?]
  5. [How does homework work?]
  6. [How do quizzes work?]
  7. [Where should I do my work?]

Blackboard

  1. [Some quiz rules for Blackboard]
  2. [I went into Blackboard and couldn't find any of the stuff you were talking about.]
  3. [Can I check my grades online?]

Policies

  1. [What are the school's policies on computer use and computer etiquette?]
  2. [What policies and standards are there out there for Web development in general?]
  3. [What policies and standards are there out there for Web development specific to this class?]
  4. [What is the the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)? Why is it important?]

Homework

  1. [How do I hand in homework?]
  2. [How do you grade homework?]
  3. [Do you take late homework? How many points do I lose for late homework?]
  4. [Can I get extra credit?]
  5. [The great thing about programming is that you don't have to actually write anything. Right?]

Your HVCC Academ Account

  1. [What is academ?]
  2. [How do I access my account from campus?]
  3. [How do I access my account from home?]
  4. [How do I access e-mail?]
  5. [How do I access e-mail using Pine?]
  6. [How do I access e-mail using WebMail?]
  7. [What is my H:\ drive?]
  8. [What is the difference between my home directory and my homepage directory?]
  9. [I haven't learned UNIX yet. Is this a problem?]
  10. [Hint: Color-coded navigation.]

Posting Web Pages

  1. [How do I create Web pages?]
  2. [How do I post Web pages to the Web?]
  3. [How do I look at my Web pages on the Web? What is my Web address?]
  4. [Who can read my Web pages?]
  5. [What is the different between remote and local viewing of Web pages?]
  6. [How do I set up my homepage directory?]
  7. [How do I set my permissions?]
  8. [What can I put on my Web site?]

Commonly Encountered Errors

General

  1. [Why do my pages work when I am on campus but not when try to look at them elsewhere?]
  2. [Why do my pages work in Explorer, but not in Netscape?]
  3. [Why do my images show up in Explorer, but not in Netscape?]
  4. [Why do my pages look different in different browsers?]
  5. [Why don't my page show up at all?]
  6. [What do you mean you can't find it? It looks just fine on my computer.]
  7. [Microsoft Explorer keeps trying to launch me into something weird when I try to send e-mail from a form on a Web page.]
  8. [Netscape Navigator keeps giving me a blank e-mail screen when I try to send e-mail from a form on a Web page.]
  9. [But the floppy disk worked just fine when I was writing to it.]

XHTML

  1. [Can I write my pages in HTML instead of XHTML?]
  2. [The validator is saying that I need <body> tags with my <noframes> elements but you can't have <body> tags in a <frameset> document, can you?]

JavaScript

  1. [Why won't JavaScript write my results to the screen in Netscape?]

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Copyright 2003 -- Peter L. Kantor[]
Last Updated January 2003