week /class: 2 / 4 : Lab Th , 29 Jan 1997

• Preliminaries

  • Assignment 0!
  • Web events of interest
  • Todays objectives:
    • "Review" of HTML elements covered on Tuesday
    • Hands-on practice making HTML documents
    • Learn about a few other applications which may be useful.
  • Other servers
    • Lx158 folder on Linguistics Department's WWW server

      This is Barrows Hall:Zimbabwe:Hani:Lx158 (on AppleTalk) or http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/public/Lx158/ via HTTP.

      Instructions (and a password) for doing this will be given out in class. Please remember to use the naming conventions or things could get messy!

    • Cornucopia (source of all good, free Mac things)

• Sources of information on HTML

  • Standards, History etc.
  • Beginner's Guide to HTML (NCSA) (the most excellent basic manual)
  • HTML reference manual
  • Writing HTML documents (links to lots of good pages)
  • W3C's page on HTML and enhancements
  • HTML special character entity names
  • How to write HTML files (advice on editors, etc.)

• Converting "legacy" documents

  "Markup translation" is possible (with loss), but at least it can be done...
  • RTF to HTML
  • LaTeX to HTML

• Using and linking to other documents on the Web

  • "View Source" in Netscape

• Creating and Editing HTML documents

  • Softquad's HoTMetaL (WYSIWYG!)
  • BBEdit with HTML extensions

• Graphics (Only a superficial treatment; more next week)

  • clip2gif
  • gifconverter
  • Basics of digital recording will be covered later this semester...
  • etc.

• Advance features

  • Frames ("multiple windows" within a browser window)
  • Forms (collecting information from a client)
  • Style Sheets (altering character sets and rendering behavior)
  • CGI (executing programs via the web)
  • ISMAP (Maps)
  • HTML+

Homework 0 : Getting Started (due today: Send email only!)
Homework answers

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