1. Internet Fundamentals and Web Page Design Day 1
COS 125

2. Agenda Roll Call Introduction BlackBoard Overview Syllabus Review
Classroom contract
Class Web Site
Understanding the Internet, the Web and HTML.
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3. INSTRUCTOR Tony Gauvin, Associate Professor of E-Commerce
Contact info
216 Nadeau
(207) or ext 7519
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4. Instructional Philosophy
Out-Come based education
Would rather discuss than lecture
Requires student preparation
Hate grading assignments
Especially LATE assignments
Use class interaction, assignments, quizzes and projects to determine if outcomes are met.
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© Tony Gauvin, UMFK 2004

5. COS 125 Survival Primer Check Blackboard Often
Read Material BEFORE the class discussion
Check Blackboard Often
Use the additional resources identified in syllabus
ASK questions about what you didn’t understand in readings
DON’T do assignments and projects at last minute.
REVEIW lectures and notes
Seek HELP if you are having difficulties
OFFER feedback and suggestions to the instructor in a constructive manner
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6. Computer Accounts Computer login MSDN Academic Alliance Access Cards
Sys admin
Pete Cyr (x7547) or Art Drolet (x7809)
Applications
MSDN Academic Alliance
Free Stuff
See Dr Ray Albert
Access Cards
$10 deposit
See Lisa Fournier
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7. BlackBoard https://www.courses.maine.edu Login
Same as account
Help with Blackboard available from Blake Library staff
All quizzes and assignments will be administered from blackboard
Class website
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© Tony Gauvin, UMFK 2004

8. Syllabus review Requirements Grading Course outline Special Notes
Subject to change
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9. What is the “web” ?? “Gutenberg press of our time”
Minimally structured, minimally regulated and unmediated
Very accessible
Underlying protocol is HTTP & HTML (or HTML variants)
The range of technologies is from very simple to very complicated
If you can you use a word processor , you can create a web page

10. Browser Wars 1994 Netscape 1996 Microsoft
Created multimedia extensions
Became most popular browser
1996 Microsoft
Created its own set of non-standard extensions
For Web designers this became a mess!
Had to create two of everything

11. Standards HTML 3.2 HTML4 and CSS XML and xHTML First try at standards
Ended browser wars except for frames
HTML4 and CSS
Deprecated elements
Cascading Style Sheets
XML and xHTML
XML creates other languages
xHTML is HTML written in XML

12. Today Webpage Design xHTML xHTML, HTML 4.0 and CSS
>95% Browser Compliance
Opera 9 is best
IE 7 is worst
xHTML
Stronger and more flexible
Stricter
3 Flavors
Transitional
Frameset
Strict

13. The Browser Wars 2.0
The war is returning, with 4 popular (and free) browsers for the Windows platform (even more for Mac and Linux)
IE 7 (version 8 is in Beta)
FireFox 3
Opera 9
Chrome

14. What we are going do Use xHTML & CSS
More current
More useful for large sites
Learning xHTML means you've learnt HTML too (same vocabulary, different syntax)
In Dreamweaver “new document” dialog
Check “Make Document XHTML Compliant”
Web Site

15. Microsoft Word Can automatically create web pages Problems
“bloat” code
Proprietary code
Good for quick jobs
Bad for anything that has to be maintained over time

16. Microsoft Word as a Web Page Design Tool
Select “new” from file menu
Select “Blank Document”
Type out web page
Add graphics
Save as “Web Page (*htm;*html)”
If you use graphics, Word will create a folder with the graphic files

17. COS 125 Web Site

18. Ftp using Windows Explorer
In address bar
ftp://perleybrook.umfk.maine.edu
Login with the same info you used to login in to lab computers
Select COS 125 folder
Select the folder with your first name
Moving files
Drag and drop files
Use menu edit copy/paste
Click on file and right mouse for context menu