350:465 Writing HTML for the Web -- Course Schedule:Fall 2001

 Week Month Dates:  Assignments Class Web Pages
 1 Sept 4/6 Writing and HTML Basics  Course description | Course basics and overview
 2  11/13 Castro: Intro., Ch 1-2  First web page | Day 1 | Starters | Terms and books | Handout 9/8
 3  18/20 Fonts, Ch 3 Layout Ch 6  template0 | template1 | Unix1a | Unix2 | Quiz 1 | 9/18-20 | Quiz 2 | Unix 9/20 | Fonts
 4  25/27 Ch. 7-8, Links/Lists  9/25 | Pico | File Transfers | New Index steps | 9/27 Q | New Index doc
 5 Oct 2/4  Resumés  Oct. 4 quiz | Resumés (unedited) | Castro exercise files
 6  9/11 Ch. 3-4: Images  Images | Information journal: URLS and reading
 7  16/18 Tables  Tables demo | Tables hints
 8  23/25 Frames  Frames demo | Old demo | Midterm warnings
 9 Nov 30/1 Forms  Forms demo | Old example
 10  6/8 Style Sheets  CSS Intro | CSS I: tutorial | CSS Examples I | CSS II: checklist
 11  13/15 JavaScript  Tutorial 1 | 2 | Silly | Intro | Voodoo | More | Still more | DHTML | NS4
 12  20/27 Multimedia; Storyboards  Browser detection | More | Vital browser info | HTML, CSS, JS tutorials
 13 Dec 29/4 Projects   Tips | Castro roundup | HTML Horizons | Usability | Resources
 14  6/11 Review Quiz Summary   Infoworld Top 100 | Gotchas | Debugging | Shareware | Pico/Emacs hints


Final examination, Tuesday, Dec, 18, 11:30 am.
  1. A review of the weekly quizzes.
  2. Your main page(s) rewritten with style sheets -- no FONT tags
  3. A browser selector/redirector
  4. What independent research have you done in the course?
  5. Review of 465 Quizzes, Fall 2001

STUDENT WEB PAGES

Base URLNameResuméJournalTables/Frames/FormsCSS/JavaScript Miscellaneous
Keeping up
 ehaab Ehaab Dayya  OK good tables/no frames or forms  minimal
  erickg32  Erick Gomez good OK frames?  graphics versus content
  itkis  Regina Itkis good good tables  needs focus
  jaggernm  Michael Mallero good very good very good frames    printable? cluttered
  muppett  Janette Martinez good OK frames? forms?   home page overspaced
  nolimits  Mercedes Walker good not found tables²/frames? forms?    "Beam me up, Scotty!"
  valiant  Sean Almeida weak not found OK  cluttered home page
Falling behind
  adrianes  Adrian Esteban  --  -- slowly catching up  mostly class stuff
  ajordan  Ann Jordan  --      out of date
  idviaanz  Ivan Diaz   tables   very slow start
  mjt68  Mike Tisdale   --     no recent work
Reference pages
Student pages in 465 class in Fall 1999
Student pages in 465 class in Fall 1998
www.rutgers.edu Rutgers home page   
www.libraries.rutgers.edu Rutgers libraries   
rucs.rutgers.edu Rutgers computing    
www.ncs.rutgers.edu Newark computing    
www.rutgers-newark.rutgers.edu Rutgers Newark    

   
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21: 350: 465: Writing HTML for the Web

Fall 2001, TuTh3, Hill 104/124, Ehrlich
Office: 521 Hill Hall, 4-5 pm TuTh and by appt
My email: ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu
My web page: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/
My phone: (973) 353-5279, ext 521 (prefer email)
Dept fax: (973) 353-1450

Class web page: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/465/
Class discussion thread: http://tecn.rutgers.edu/html/
Class email list: tigers@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Required texts: (at New Jersey Books)

  • Elizabeth Castro, HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, 4th ed, Peachpit press
    ( http://www.cookwood.com/html4_4e/has examples and index)
  • Other titles on HTML, CSS. JavaScript, DHTML, and XHTML: to be announced
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    Course goals and assignments:

  • ResearchUse of interviews, audiovisual documentation, newspapers, magazines, books, library research (printed),library databases (online), web searching
  • Writing and editingProblems of oral, scribal, printed, and digitial literacies and rhetoric, reading versus surfing, linear and recursive structures, visual and acoustic languages, illustrations and graphics, multimedia
  • Web publicationUnix servers, HTML markup, fonts, tables, lists, links, graphics, frames, the search for Web standards in transition (browsers, operating systems, monitors, user preferences), user interfaces, menus and navigation, JavaScript, CSS, plugins, printing
  • Quizzes, reports, papers, projects, examWeekly quizzes, in-class reports. research paper, introductory and final projects, final exam (quiz recapitulation)

    • ..indexes!html Browser issues and some examples: obsolete home pages (please scroll down)