AIM Class1
Course Introduction
Introductions
Introductions of instructor and students in course.
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
To use the computers and studios in the Interactive Arts and Media department, you must first have an account with our servers. If you do not have a login account, please fill out the New Account Form.
Website Contracts
You must have a website on our servers for this course. Once you have an account, you can apply for a website by filling out the website contract form. Print the form, fill it out, and submit it to your instructor or Jeff Meyers.
Contact Information Forms
Print and fill out the Contact Information form. Return the completed form to your instructor.
Overview of Syllabus
Walkthrough of syllabus
Questions about Syllabus
Introduction to Website Construction
Introduction
- Broad context of HTML/XHTML/CSS/XML
- WYSIWYG editors (such as Dreamweaver) vs. using a text editor
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