Week 2 - Starting with simple pages.

1. Agenda
   1. A bit about the nuts and bolts.
      1. Where does the WWW fit into the rest of the Internet?
      2. Very brief history of the Web.
      3. Basic browser mechanics.
   2. Making your first pages.
      1. Arranging your files before you get started.
      2. Document elements.
      3. Basic HTML.
      4. Very Basic Layout.
      5. The FONT tag.
   3. Tools.
      1. Mac Tools.
         1. BBEdit (Link to their freeware page. BBEdit Lite is free.)
         2. Fetch (Link to download the progam. 900K)
      2. PC Tools.
         1. Homesite (Product info with link to download. Homesite is a commercial product.) or even Notepad
         2. Cute FTP (download, 702K) or WU-FTP (download program, 505K)
   4. Group presentations from last week's activity.
2. Interesting Sites
   1. The Place
   2. 37 Signals
3. Required Readings
   1. "As We May Think," Vannevar Bush
4. Interesting Reading
   1. "IE feature can track Web surfers without warning", on CNET September 11, 2000
5. Assignments
   1. Create a web page (or pages) which gives us a peek into your memex. Concentrate on laying out text material in a readable way. Don't worry about including images unless you absolutely have to. You should have at least one link in your page(s).
   2. Upload your page to your fargo account, and e-mail me the URL.
6. Reference
   1. HTML 4.0 Reference
   2. WebMonkey.

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Building Web Sites - ITP Fall 2000 - Mike Cosaboom, Instructor

mc39@acf2.nyu.edu