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This course introduces students to the World Wide Web and the Internet. Internet Survey explores the history and rapid growth of the World Wide Web over the past decade and provides an overview of searching methods using current web browsers. Students will examine the principles of good web design, study what makes a website effective, and learn how to create web pages. The first part of the course will concentrate on using basic HTML, while the latter part will focus on creating Cascading Style Sheets, generating web-ready graphics, implementing JavaScript, and bringing all of these elements together to produce effective web pages. Students will also learn the benefits of hand-coded pages versus pages generated with applications such as Dreamweaver, and they will be prepared for more advanced studies in website development.