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+ | HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS by Elizabeth Castro, ISBN: 0321130073, February 2003 - 5th edition (abbreviated as XHTML in the syllabus) | ||
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+ | The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web by Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag, ISBN: 0321303474, 2005 (abbreviated as ZEN in the syllabus) | ||
===Highly Recommended Texts=== | ===Highly Recommended Texts=== | ||
+ | <i>Excerpts from these texts will be given as handouts</i> | ||
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+ | Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, ISBN: 0596000359 (abbreviated as IA in the syllabus) | ||
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+ | Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative by Mark S. Meadows, ISBN: 0735711712 (abbreviated as PE in the syllabus) | ||
Revision as of 22:33, 21 August 2006
Course Introduction
Introductions
Overview of Course
Required Texts
HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS by Elizabeth Castro, ISBN: 0321130073, February 2003 - 5th edition (abbreviated as XHTML in the syllabus)
The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web by Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag, ISBN: 0321303474, 2005 (abbreviated as ZEN in the syllabus)
Highly Recommended Texts
Excerpts from these texts will be given as handouts
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, ISBN: 0596000359 (abbreviated as IA in the syllabus)
Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative by Mark S. Meadows, ISBN: 0735711712 (abbreviated as PE in the syllabus)
Login Accounts
Website Contracts
Contact Information Forms
Overview of Syllabus
Walkthrough of syllabus Questions about Syllabus
Website Construction Tutorial Plan
Introduction
- WYSIWYG editors (such as Dreamweaver) vs. using a text editor
- Broad context of HTML/XHTML/CSS/XML
Software
- Note about available resources at Columbia
- Server space (IAM)
- Recommendations
- Text editors (HTMLkit, SCITE)
- Image editors (GIMP, Photoshop, ImageReady)
- FTP applications (WinSCP, FileZilla)
- Server spaces
- Domain name services
- Redirecting to your site
Quick Overview
TODO image series showing what the website construction process looks like on screen
About the Web
(vocab)
- Brief history of the Internet
- Internet vs. WWW
- Evolution of markup - where it came from, where it is going.
- Vocabulary (interlaced with above)
- Internet
- WWW
- FTP
- Browsers
- Servers
- IP address
- URL
XHTML + CSS
- Justification: content extracted from presentation
- Justification II: HTML vs XHTML
- Basic XHTML/CSS doc formats
- Single page construction
- Basic text editing SCiTE Text Wrangler
- Links
- Lists
- Images
- Tables (with caveat)
- 5. Multiple page construction
- Linking between pages
- Organizing site structure (and files)
- Basic navigation system
Posting to a server, testing
Links
Text Editors
- PC/Linux SCiTE
- OSX Text Wrangler
FTP Programs
- PC Filezilla winSCP
- OSX cyberduck
Homework
- Create Class Portfolio Website AIM Homework Create Class Website AIM Project 1:Create Class Website
- [AIM Assignment 1] - Web site analysis project