ET630 Agenda Class 5

• Questions and Announcements
  • Think About Handing in a Project Soon
  • We'll discuss Bruce, "Searching the Web: New Domains for Inquiry" next class
  • Questions
• Additional Web Page Creation Sources
  • Colours on the Web
• Using Your Loyola Web Space
  • Guide to Publishing Web Pages on Loyola's Student Web Server
  • Test out loading pages into your Web space
    • Create a simple Web page (or use one you already have)
    • Log in to your G:\ Drive and copy a file into the www folder
  • Find your page online
    • http://studentpersonalpages.loyola.edu/year/username/www/foldername/filename.html
    • "year" is probably four years after your start date at Loyola (if you started in the 2007-2008 school year, you are probably 2011--even if you started in Spring 2008).
    • "username" should be your username (that you use to login to Groupwise, Blackboard, etc.)
    • "foldername" should be the name of the folder you put the file in on the server (if any)
    • "filename.html" is the name of the file, which can be omitted if the file name is index.html
• In-Class Activity:
  • Think about your curriculum and think of 2 or 3 areas that might benefit from a connection with other classes via the Internet.
  • Brainstorm ideas for projects in that curricular area.
  • Share with the class (note other students who might have overlapping interests with whom you might develop a project together).
• Copying Web Addresses (URLs)
  • Printing URLs in Windows/Internet Explorer
  • Printing URLs in Safari is not supported in older versions and is automatic in newer versions
  • Copying Web Addresses to Your Word Processor
    • Simple Copy and Paste
    • No Menus? Use ctrl-C and ctrl-V or command-C and command-V
    • I've been framed! How do I get the real address with frames?
      • Point and look
      • Open in a new frame (the right mouse button is your friend--on a one-button Mac, hold down the mouse button or ctrl-Click)
      • Copy the URL of the frame (the right mouse button is a really good friend)
      • Example: click and tell me the real URL of the content
• Web Page Authoring With Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • A thorough but rather technical description of CSS: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1
  • A thorough tutorial for CSS: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
  • An easy-to-follow introduction to CSS: http://draac.com/css/css1.html
  • Document Sections and Inheritance (including the <DIV> tag)
  • <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> … </STYLE>
  • Always close curly brackets and end each line with a semicolon:

p
{
	text-indent: 20px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}

• Classes

p.red
{
	color: red;
}

<p class="red">This text will be red</p>

• Utilities
  • RealPlayer Download
  • Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Flash Player
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Assignments
• Read Harris, Chapter 3
• Bruce, "Searching the Web: New Domains for Inquiry"
• Test out accessing your Loyola Web space from your home or office computer: Accessing Network Files From Home

This page was prepared by: David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.

Last updated: October 21, 2008