Fall 1996
Tuesdays 1-6pm
Darren Dittrich

• Course Syllabus Overview
• About the class... a simple survey
  
• Introduction to Netscape
  • The Toobar
  • Surfing
  • Searching
• First project : Online Personal Resumé
  • Bring materials needed to start work on Project 1

• News & Opening Discussion
  • Our Class Website
  • Today's Tip : Netscape Mail
  • MacWAY and BBedit Special Offer
  • Magazines & Periodicals
  • Favorite Sites and Introductions
    • Darren's pick this week: www.highfive.com
• Getting on the Internet (Help and Questions)
  • AT&T Worldnet Info
  • Internet America
  • Onramp
  • Others...
• Brief Internet History
  • Read : 25th Anniversary Info
• Introduction to HTML
  • Text Editors (BBedit)
  • WYSIWYG (?) Editors (PageMill, HomePage)
  • Tagged Markup Language Basics
  • Simple HTML Document
  • Barebones Guide to HTML

Read Chapters 1-3 in HTML

News

• Navigator 3.0 Gold released
  • A word about editors...
• Live3D Released for PowerMacs
• CyberDog 1.1/OpenDoc 1.1 Released
• Cool Sites
  • Darren's pick this week: salon

ISP Basics

More Internet Basics

• Started 1969, Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA) ARPAnet; died in 1990
• 1986 National Science Foundation (NSF) funded network comprised of 5 supercomputers
• Internet vs. WWW
• Tim Berners-Lee at the European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN)
• Basic ideas behind the internet: Hypertext, distributed, client/server, open
• Naming schemes/links on the Web (URLs)
  • protocol://machine_name/pathname
  • See page 3
• Alphabet soup...URL, ISP, ISDN, ADSL, HTML, SMTP, .edu, gov,.mil, .org, .uk
• More Protocols
  • Email (SMTP)
  • Telnet
  • FTP
    • ftp7.netscape.com
  • gopher
    • umn.edu
  • News
  • WAIS
  • HTTP

More HTML Coverage... Beyond the Basics

• Tag Basics
• Text Formatting
• Introduction to Images and Formats
  • JPEG and GIF
  • Week2 vs. Week1 quality
• Basic Links and Anchors
• Unordered Lists

Today : Continue work on Project 1

Project 1 Requirements

• Banner Graphic
• Background or bg color
• Minimum 1 full page of resume information
• Link to email address
• Use anchors, links to employers, if possible
• Choose one: tables, image map, animated GIF, any multimedia item, links to additional files, buttons or other graphic elements

Organizing your first project for Web deployment

• Base Folder/Default file for loading
• Images Folder
• Other folders (stay away from spaces and long names)

Read Chapters 4-5 HTML

Read Intro and Chapter 1, as well as page 215 in Killersites

Scan Chapter 2 for next week

Sept 17

News

• Cool Sites
• Animated GIFs
  • GIFBuilder 0.4
• Midterm material
• Darren's pick this week: c|net

Early critique of First Project...

More on Images

• Killersites Chapter 3, HTML Chapter 3

HTML

• Links & Anchors
• Lists

Design

First, Second, and Third Generation Websites

Next Week

Sept 24

News

• System 7.5.5

@ ! // % . <> htm jpg gif

• ftp://supportpro:pw@sppftp.austin.apple.com/%2fApple%20SW%20Updates/
• Darren's pick this week: BrowserWatch

Project 1 Crittique

Links & Anchors
Intro to Tables

Discuss Final Project Ideas

Next Week

• Read thru Chapter 7 (Forms). Read Chapter 10. (HTML)
• Project 1 due
• Write up idea for Final Project Website

Oct 1

• News
• MPack, a MIME decoder
• Email oddities
• Darren's pick this week: mTropolis

Project 1 Due

• FTP files to our host

Midterm Review

Week 7 Oct 8

Midterm

Week 8 Oct 15

Image Maps (MacUser)

Site Design

• Navigation
• Interface
• Control
• Organization

Week 9 Oct 22

Seven Deadly Sins of Web Design

Week 10 Oct 29

Overview of Graphical HTML Editors

Week 11 Nov 5

Mulitmedia Extensions to the Web

• Plug-ins
  • Quicktime/QTVR
  • Shockwave
  • RealAudio
• PDF and OpenType

Week 12 Nov 12

JavaScript Intro

META Tags

Week 13 Nov 19

New web technologies

• NetBots
• Internet Phones

Work on Final Project

Week 14 Nov 26

Future of the Web and HTML

Final Project Critique

Week 15 Dec 3

Review for Final Exam

Final Project Due

Week 16 Dec 10

Final Exam