Note: This class agenda is not complete and is subject to change! Fall 1997 #1 Thursdays 6:00 - 11:00pm Room B202 Central Park Campus, McKinney, TX Fall 1997 #2 Saturdays 10:00am - 4:00pm Room D-130 (Library) Spring Creek Campus, Plano, TX Instructors : Darren Dittrich (Sat.) and Darrin Woods (Thurs.)
	January 22/24
	Netscape Overview Communicator/Navigator 4 Navigator 3
	Email Darren or Darrin Start Thinking about your personal page Begin reading HTML book...
	January 29/31
	New software releases: MacOS 8.1 Darren's pick o' the week: c|net Discussed in class: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the HTML Standard, and the upcoming HTML 4.0 spec
	HTML Basics HTML and the Web Browsers URLs First Page : Intro to BBEdit Lite Text Formatting Inserting Images Lists
	If you haven't already, email Darren Incorporate text into your personal page, design basic layout Read first 3 chapters in HTML
	February 5/7
	New software releases: Claris HomePage 3.0, Communicator/Navigator 4.04.1, StuffIt Expander 4.5 (see Version Tracker...) Darren's picks o' the week: c|net's browsers.com & BrowserWatch The Gary Foster bio page... a good model for your own Project 1
	Review Project 1 Requirements Email Etiquette Reply-to Address Email name A good guide to email etiquette More HTML Graphics types for the web How to create them When to use GIF and JPEG Intro to Links & Anchors HTML Reference Barebones Guide to HTML NCSA's Beginner's Guide to HTML Yahoo's listings... What not to do... FYI : Getting on the Internet AT&T Worldnet Info Internet America Onramp
	Begin work on your personal page, bring in prototype version to class 4 for review Read Chapters 5 & 6 in HTML

	February 12/14
	New software releases: Claris Emailer 2.0v3 (see Version Tracker...) Darren's Tip o' the Week: Subject in a mailto on Hotwired's webmonkey Darren's picks o' the week: Dave Siegel's HighFive site... For Web-and-Macintosh news, keep an eye on Webintosh Note: Saturday class will be meeting in K-122 starting Feb 14. Hooray!
	Review project 1 prototypes More HTML... Photoshop and Images More Links & Anchors Lists Discussed in class... MIT Hyperarchive (Macintosh shareware) and TuCows (PC Shareware) SmallScreen 1.3 for Mac (utility to help check your page on smaller screens) Net-related magazines (weeklies, some offer free subscriptions) InternetWeek InternetWorld InfoWorld ComputerWorld MacWorld
	Continue working on first project. Turn in at beginning of Class 6. Continue reading thru the Multimedia Chapter in HTML.

	February 19/21
	New software releases: mFactory mTropolis 2.0, Iomega Drivers 5.1.1, Kaleidascope 1.8.2 (see Version Tracker...) Darren's tip o' the week: What not to do with your resume Darren's pick o' the week: c|net's builder.com and their HTML reference list... Another good HTML reference page: Bare Bones Guide to HTML
	Discuss problems or issues regarding Project 1 Still more HTML... Tables Killersites Table Tutorial and the hard return table bug Frames
	Complete work on first project. Turn in at beginning of Class 6. If you have purchased Creating Killer Websites, begin reading the first couple of chapters. Otherwise, take a look at the content on killersites.com, and look for the 2nd edition on the web or at bookstores. (You may find a good buy on a used copy of the 1st Edition.)

	February 26/28
	New software releases: IE 4.0a (Mac), Shockwave r6 Darren's tip o' the week: What not to do with frames Darren's pick o' the week: Dave Siegel's Killersites & SecretSites...even more Dave Siegel <grin>
	Final review for Project 1    Need that perfect picture? Check out some online stock photography sites... Jeffery Veen's Hotwired Style book Discuss Final Project. Review for Midterm More with frames... for reference, check out O'Reilly's HTML: The Definitive Guide The Netscape Broken Images and what they mean:
	Prepare an initial list outlining your ideas for the Final Project. Being reading in Creating Killer Websites.

	March 5/7
	New software releases: Apple Data Detectors 1.0.2 News: Riven surpasses 1 million sold, Netscape posts draft license for source code Darren's tip o' the week: c|net's recent Fun with Frames Darren's pick o' the week: Vitra (for discussion), Graphis for ideas
	Project 1 Due at beginning of class... be prepared to demo your work! Midterm Exam Basic protocols and acronyms All HTML up through Tables & Frames Review project Proposals <FORMs> WebMonkey's excellent tutorial The form tag GET vs POST ACTIONs and mailto: trick Select, option, input, textarea Graphics as SUBMIT buttons
	Prepare your final Final Project Proposal. Use the Secretsites Project Profiler Grades for the Midterm & Project 1 will be completed during Spring Break

	March 12/14
	Have a terrific:
	Spring Break
	Take a look at similar commercial websites for ideas. Complete the Project Profiler. Ideas on opening page/intro/welcome for you site... bring rough sketches to class next week.

	March 19/21
	New software releases:BBEdit 4.5.2 Updater, MS Office 98, Macromedia FireWorks Beta News:Apple announces new machines and color display Darren's pick o' the week: GaboCorp (requires MM Flash)
	Discuss Midpoint Grades Project Development Pitfalls The Pyramid Brewery example from SecretSites (site design by Brasil Design Group, and Worker Bees) What should I charge for my site? Take a look at Project Proposals & rough ideas Discuss problems and issues with site design Search Engines The Big 4, and some others Categorized Search Engines (Yahoo!) Submitting your site (SubmitIt! and plenty of others...) How different search engines work... Text Indexing Search Engines (AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek) Robots and spiders and the robots.txt file. Specialized Search Engines People and Businesses (Four11, SwitchBoard, AnyWho, WhoWhere, and others) Files (download.com, TuCows, Info-Mac) UseNet News (DejaNews) Advanced searching options (python -monty) Search engine wars, and more features Web Design Issues... Kickbacks, buying words, and more...
	Continue creating/evolving design ideas for your site. Bring 2-5 (rough) comps of front page to class next week. Be prepared to discuss your ideas with the class.

	March 26/28
	New software releases: WebStar 3.0, Quark 4.0.2r1, TechTool Pro 2, FWB HDT 2.5.2 News: Quark Confirms mTropolis Discontinuation Darren's tip o' the week: Animated GIFs do indeed work as BG images under NS4. (Do not do this.) Darren's pick o' the week: IDEO
	Review and discuss rough comps (that's right! everyone will be involved...) Graphics Workflow (Illustrator > Photoshop) and Fireworks
	Based on class feedback, take another cut at roughs for your site. (Bring them in next week.)

	April 2/4
	New software releases: Netscape 4.0.5*, Mozilla source code released News: Click-thru rates falling...new e-ads coming? Darren's tip o' the week: Check out code resources at WebCoder Darren's pick o' the week: StudioArchetype and Quokka Sports *You might wanna hold off on downloading Nav 4.05... patch should be available today?
	Project 2 Requirements Review and discuss artwork for website. Interface Design Issue: NavBars and Rollovers Web design tools overview BBEdit 4.5 Adobe PageMill 2.0 Review and discuss second-generation comps
	Contruct Site Map/Description Bring in Photoshop/Illustrator Mock-ups

	April 9/11
	New software releases: News: Top 25 Websites reveal some clues about what surfers really do... Netscape drops Java logo from 4.04 browser... Darren's tip o' the week: Generating Netscape-safe colors... (see ColorSafe below) Darren's pick o' the week: internet.com and Kasparov vs. DeepBlue
	Campus closed on April 11th
	Obtain initial client sign-off on basic design and overall structure. Work, work, work. Complete the major layouts, graphics, and structure. 50% of content in place.

	April 16/18
	New software releases: Netscape 4.0.5, Adobe ImageReady, Shockwave r7, Flash 3.0b, QuickTime 3.0 News: Netscape OpenStudio, new builder.com site Darren's tip o' the week: webvertising info Darren's pick o' the week: computers.com, Monona Terrace
	Project 2 Requirements More on META tags HTTP-EQUIV and NAME META Tag Builder Which search engines really care, and which ones look at what? TCP/IP Networks and the Internet Anatomy of an IP Address Domain Name Servers (DNS) and Routers Top Level Domains (x.aq?) Telnet : remote console for UNIX systems (likely your WWW server) Ping and other IP utilities (traceroute, nslookup) Web design tools overview part deux DreamWeaver FireWorks Comparisons Design Evironments, Site-level Tools (NetObjects Fusion, GoLive CyberStudio, FrontPage 98, Allaire ColdFusioin) Specialized Tools (FireWorks, ScriptBuilder, Flash, PhotoGIF and related plug-ins) Cookies & Security
	Continue final project efforts.

	April 23/25
	New software releases: Adobe ImageReady Beta News: Darren's tip o' the week: webvertising info Darren's pick o' the week: computers.com, Monona Terrace
	Cookies & Security Color Issues... ColorSAFE... First & Third Generation websites (which is yours?) Multimedia and the Web Common web file types, MIME Types and helper applications Final Project Review
	Look over class notes to prepare for final exam, and continue final project efforts.

	April 30 / May 2
	New software releases: DreamWeaver 1.2 (see Version Tracker...) News: PhotoShop 5.0 upcoming release! Darren's tip o' the week: Top Ten Ways To Tell If You Have A Sucky Home Page Darren's pick o' the week: Braun and Amistad
	Review for Final Exam Web Design... Jeffrey Veen: Library (function) vs. Gallery (form) Seven Deadly Sins Jakob Nielson's Guidelines Graphics, palettes, web colors, and compression Photoshop and WebType (Chapter 5) Laying Out Pages (Chapter 4)    Single-pixel GIF trick and invisible tables Tracking & Statistics Discuss web projects and development issues

	May 7/9
	News: Apple announces new PowerBooks & iMac, Jobs to announce OS plans next week, PhotoShop 5 ships this week, Wired magazine sold Darren's tips o' the week: Table widths: use maximally-divided row And a note about viewable screen pixels (lowest common denominator, from a the babble listserv): Recent testing on both Mac and Windows screens running 640x480 resulted in the top of a page being 580x300. This allows for browser margins, window borders, vertical scroll bar, and default 'bars' in both Netscape and Explorer. We checked versions 2.x through 4.x. Anything wider results in having to scroll horizontally to see the whole page in many setups.
	Final Exam Final Project Review Future Web directions Style Sheets and CSS1 Floating Frames Dynamic HTML and XML Server-parsed HTML (e.g., PHP) Database-backed Websites
	Final Projects Due Next Week Bring in floppy with site ready to upload, or your existing URL

17	May 14/16
	News: Darren's tip o' the week:
	Turn in Final Projects Upload via FTP to WWW Server (if it's not online already) Fill out class survey
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