- Overview
This course will prepare students for Online Publishing, Web
Page creation and upkeep, and the use of HTML as a general MetaProgramming
language for multi-media, education, and other Artistic and Professional
pursuits. Coursework and materials will be done in HTML. As a culminating
project for the course, we will weave these together into a Hyper-Text
document, and publish it.
- Topics Covered
- Tools and Techniques: Web Browsers & Editors, File Types, Scavenger
Programming
- Basic HTML: Formatting, Lists, Anchors and Links
- Advanced HTML: Tables, Frames, Simple Multi-Media
- Extensions and Applications: Scripting, Applications in Art, Commerce,
Education, Activism, and...?
- Online Publishing
- Structure of Course
The course will proceed in roughly the order listed above, with
variations depending on individual interests. Key to the whole process
will be getting people working on projects of interest and importance to
themselves from the outset. Also notable is the use of HTML as the vehicle
to study HTML. This is supposed to be a great, amazing new way to present
information, so let's put it to use.
These explanations and exercises will be woven together as the end of
the course into a cohesive whole. This will provide very useful experience
in two broad and important areas: Firstly, it will be a valuable exercise
in collating and organizing material as Hypertext. Secondly, the process
of attempting to publish this material will provide practical experience
in the world of Online Publishing and Enterprise.
- Details
- Costs: $20/ class or $60/four class session
- Schedule: Beginning February. Exact times and dates are fairly flexible,
but tentative plan is Monday night, 5-7 PM. Classes will be around two
hours long. We will be meeting in Garberville.
- Computer Access can be arranged for those who need it.
- Syllabus (First Month)
- week 1:
- Introduction
- Tools
- File Type Basics
- Editors & Browsers
- FTP & Telnet
- The Tangled Web We Weave: Servers, Clients, & Local Files
- HTML foundations
- Structural Tags (Sections, Paragraphs, Headings, etc)
- Property Tags (Fonts, Alignments, etc)
- week 2:
- Basic HTML
- Hypertext (Anchors & Links)
- Lists, Tables
- Images
- Graphics Types
- Some Bandwidth Considerations
- week 3:
- Advanced HTML
- Frames
- Sound
- Animation
- URL addressing
- Out Into the Wide World Web
- week 4:
- Synthesis & Design
- Beyond HTML
- Applications