• We'll explore the Web Browser, discuss fundamentals of HTML coding, create a basic homepage, and discuss the ways in which content can be generated and installed.
• Before class, review this material on copyright, fair use and web citation.
• In class, we'll work quickly through
  • The Internet Detective, a tutorial for evaluating internet resources and
  • The Yellow Pages a selective guide to electronic resources in American Studies.

• For future reference, you may want to bookmark these pages:
  • The Columbia Guide to Online Style.
  • toolkit.
  • List of all the tags for HTML 4.0,

• Introduction to fundamentals of HTML:
  NOTE: Whichever tutorial you use, please try to preview the materials up to Tables and Frames for this lab.
  • Web Developer's Virtual Library -- Tutorials --HTML
  • ichael Hayman's HTML Tutorial
  • Library Short Course -- HTML
  • HTML Tutor from AS
  • Not currently responding

• Day 3: tables and frames.

For next week, sign up for a section of Owen Wister's The Virginian on the tagging sheet on my office door (Bryan 427); follow the directions and post your section to your homepage by next Wednesday.

Before the lab, sign up for one of the photoshop exercizes and one of the scanning exercises.

• Yale Web Style Guide

• Build Traffic Through Good Site Design
• Web Design: More than Meets the Eye
• Web Publishing Paradigms
• Building Killer Web Sites
• Media Education
• Ten Good Deeds in Web Design

Before the lab, redesign your homepage, incorporating whatever of the scanning and image manipulation exercises you have.

Before Class, sign up for one of the video exercises and one the audio exercises. Please note that there is a reading assignment associated with the video exercise.