Our first meeting
Tuesday, 9/21/99, TFSC, 10 a.m.

• Our interests and projects
• Various ways of putting course material on the web
• Why HTML is worth learning
• Where Lee's strengths and weaksnesses lie
• Web page for this faculty mentor group
• We began to look at "Build Your Own Web page" (See Resources)

Our second meeting
Tuesday, 10/12/99, MMRC, 10 a.m.

• Differences between comp and cavern as web servers
  • "public_html"
  • default permissions
  • quota
• How HTML formatting differs from formatting in word processors
  • browser-dependent display
  • mark up
  • italics, bold, font, etc.
  • white space, tabs, and breaks
  • anchors and links
  • images
  • backgrounds
  • horizontal lines
• Using Netscape Composer
  • Editing
  • Formatting
  • Adding links
  • "Publishing"
    • ftp to server (cavern)
    • full directory name
    • watch out for local files
    • setting permissions (if not on cavern)
    • Using Navigator to check results
  • Adding another page
  • Editing an existing page
• Where to go from here

Several Ways of Putting your Syllabus on the Web

• Code Html (= HyperText Markup Language)
• Export from a word processor (such as MicroSoft Word) (or from a page layout program, such as MicroSoft Publisher)
• Use Netscape Composer (which is part of Netscape Communicator), MicroSoft Frontpage, Adobe PageMill, or similar program
• Use WebCT, Web Course in a Box (or similar program)

Some on line resources

• Build Your own Web Page (UA Computing Services short course handout in "pdf" format)
• Lee's Quick and Dirty Guide to Writing HTML (wrote it myself, just for you)
• Lee's Very Brief Guide to Editing a File on Comp (wrote it myself, just for you)
• Beginner's Guide to HTML (more than you need to know right now)
• List of Characters

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