Fall 2004
Last Modfied by Jim Cocola 2004.12.10 16.16
Section 3 : R 2-3.50 Wilson 308
Section 6 : R 5-6.50 Wilson 308
Assignments
Personal Home Page / Portal
Save to mdst110 directory of public_html folder in home directory as index.html
Due 2004.09.30 at the beginning of lab
Resource Site
Create lab2 directory in mdst110 directory of public_html folder in home directory
Due 2004.10.14 at the beginning of lab
Case Study
Create lab3 directory in mdst110 directory of public_html folder in home directory
Due 2004.11.18 at the beginning of lab
Weekly Tidbits
2004.09.09
Educate yourself about the World Wide Web via
the W3C, also known as the World Wide Web Consortium
The W3C maintains a helpful set of recommended specifications re: the definition of
HTML 4.01, our main programming language in MDST 110.
Purdue's Online Writing Lab maintains a helpful portal on
Research and Documenting Sources,
including guidlines to APA and MLA formats and to
documenting electronic sources.
2004.09.16
Cool Home Pages
Web Pages That Suck
2004.09.23
CSS support is available on-grounds via Eric A. Meyer's Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide. Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, 2004.
The W3C maintains an HTML validation service and a CSS validation service.
2004.09.30
Eliza is a friend you could never have before.
2004.10.07
and get a better sense of the current browser options.
2004.10.14
Web design support is available on-grounds via Jennifer Niederst's Web Design In a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference. 2nd Ed. Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, 2001.
Cyborg patients? The FDA recently approved the use of microchip implantation as a medical technique.
2004.10.21
Google Watch monitors the redoutable search engine and its relationship to the market economy.
This is what Google says about Wikipedia, and this is what Wikipedia says about Google.
2004.10.28
Familiarize yourself with the various search engines beyond Google.
They include Clusty, Mamma and Teoma.
Is Google a life-saver? Perhaps so for this Australian journalist taken hostage in Iraq.
2004.11.04
Flinders University in Adeladie maintains the following guide to evaluating information on the web.
Sites we examined last week included "Belgium Doesn't Exist!", martinlutherking.org and objective.jesussave.us.
Todd Burks has prepared a helpful .doc on evaluating web pages.
More web design support is available on-grounds via Elizabeth Castro's
HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual Quickstart Guide, Fifth Edition (Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2002)
and via Bill Kennedy and Chuck Musciano's HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition (Sebastapool, Calif.: O'Reilly, 2002).
2004.11.11
Firefox 1.0 was released Tuesday 2004.11.09. Check your work for compatibility!
MSN released a new search engine today. For more, see this AP story.
A report from Seattle indicates that a high-speed wireless network will cover most of the downtown area by year's end.
And what about
multiculturalism,
political correctness,
and
race?
2004.11.18
My introduction to gaming truly began when I received the
Nintendo
Entertainment System in 1986.
Here is an emulator, NEStopia
Mac OS X Version
| Windows Version
2004.12.02
The Communications Decency Act served as Title V of the U.S.
Telecom Reform Act of 1996.
2004.12.09
Radiohead released the song "Fitter Happier" on their 1997 album
OK Computer.
Thanks for a great semester! Please remember to complete your course evaluations via
toolkit by
December 21.
Definitions
CSS
DTD for HTML 4.01
HTML
HTTP
SGML
URL
Resources
Webmonkey
Elgoog
Artcyclopedia
Wikipedia
Your Name Here
Computing Support
Connect to ITC for web development support or for downloads including Fetch, Fugu, WS FTP and the Home Directory Service Login Program.
Those beginners looking to improve their handle on basic web design may benefit from consulting Elizabeth Castro's
HTML for the World Wide Web, Fifth Edition with XHTML and CSS: Visual Quickstart Guide (Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2002) [see above for on-grounds link] or her Creating a Web Page with HTML: Visual QuickProject Guide (Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2004).
A free program from Chami.com might prove helpful to beginner and intermediate html coders.
Html Kit 1.0 Build 292 offers auto-complete text options, a library of html tags, color-coding, and validating error-catchers that aid in writing quick and organized code. Plug-ins to add
Java, Perl, and several other languages are also available for free through the website. This program may be useful to beginners, intermediates and experts alike.
Library Support
The library's reference sources, accessible via VIRGO, include a number of useful databases. For journalism, see the Journal and Newspaper Articles Index, esp. under the searchable archives of The New York Times and The Washington Post. For criticism, see the Reference Sources databases including Arts & Humanities Citation Index, InfoTrac, JSTOR, LEXIS/NEXIS, the MLA Bibliography, Project MUSE, and the RLIM Music Literature Bibliography.
Another useful interface is via the Fine Arts library, which links to databases including the Art Index and the ARTbibliographies Modern 1974-2004.
