1. WLLS 102 Class 2 2/13/2004 Professor C. Shilepsky Wells College

2. Krug What is the main point? Web pages should be self-evident Why? It makes them seem better Krug's concern: Anything that "makes him think" Examples of other technologies that make you think?

3. Web Reading How do you read a novel or a calculus text? How do you "read" a web page? Web reader characteristics: Non-linear Drive-by In a hurry: scan first, read if you must Information-driven

4. Next: Begin to Define your Project Needs assessment –The first and most important step –What is it supposed to do? –Does someone want it? More formally, identify –Objective –Audience –Resources and materials Ask yourself –Is this an appropriate web application? –What will make it effective? –Am I interested in it?

5. Examples A student organization A professor A special interest A hypothetical (or real) business Go to CS 105 examples

6. HTML Tags to format document content Usually in pairs: content Document sections: --brackets the whole page --not displayed in the page... --displayed in the page

7. New Tags Today Headings... Paragraphs... Lists or first item second item... (note indenting) Special characters. E.g. < is represented by < in the file blank space is represented by

8. Where to Put Tutorial 1 Files aurora.wells.edu your public_html directory tutorial.01tutorial.02 index.htm chem.htm (all other needed files) To view your home page: http://aurora.wells.edu/~youhttp://aurora.wells.edu/~you your assignment: http://aurora.wells.edu/~you/tutorial.01/chem.htmhttp://aurora.wells.edu/~you/tutorial.01/chem.htm...

9. Logistics Do the tutorial on the disk I give you View intermediate versions on your computer Host the finished version on aurora: make a subdirectory of public_html called tutorial.01 (use the mkdir button) connect to the subdirectory (click on the subdirectory) transfer all files included in the pages view your results at http://aurora.wells.edu/~you/tutorial.01/chem.htm http://aurora.wells.edu/~you/tutorial.01/chem.htm Ask for help early and often if anything is unclear

10. Miscellaneous Try not to use anything that notes "This is supported by IE/Netscape but not Netscape/IE Appendix D lists all HTML tags—if it is just in Netscape or IE, don't use it Tutorial 2 tags will allow you to put links to your assignments on your home page Go over next week assignments Questions: email me, I am almost always near mail