Week of 09/06: General introduction to working on/for the web.

• During this Lab 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.
• We'll begin working on this HTML Tutorial in class.
• We'll also review this material on copyright, fair use and web citation.
• We'll also decide on editors for sections of the American Studies Yellow Pages.
• For future reference, you may want to bookmark these pages:
  • a list of all the tags for HTML 4.0,
  • The Columbia Guide to Online Style.
  • toolkit
  Other Resources:
  • Web Developer's Virtual Library -- Tutorials --HTML
  • Michael Hayman's HTML Tutorial
  • Library Short Course -- HTML
  • HTML Tutor from AS
  • After class, install home page links to subordinate pages for 1) American Studies resources and 2) technical resources for web design. These will be the places where you can build both your personal resource base for doing American Studies and your toolkit for web design over the next two years.

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

  Week of 09/13:
  Intermediate HTML: Tables and Frames
  
  • Web Developer's Virtual Library -- Tutorials --HTML
  • Michael Hayman's HTML Tutorial
  • Library Short Course -- HTML
  • HTML Tutor from AS@UVA
  • Discussion of The Yellow Pages

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

• Yale Web Style Guide
• Introduction to HomeSite

• 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

• History Wired from the Smithsonian.
• Smartmoney Marketwatch
• Moments
• Move Design
• Swell
• Burning Man
• AKAKurdistan
• Startrek Museum

Before Class, sign up for one of the video exercises and one the audio exercises.

• imagemapping
• MetaTagging
• submission to search engines
• Introduction to HomeSite