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Agenda
Roll Call Introduction BlackBoard Overview Syllabus Review Classroom contract Class Web Site Understanding the Internet, the Web
and HTML.
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INSTRUCTOR
Tony Gauvin, Associate Professor of E-Commerce
Contact info 216 Nadeau TonyG@maine.edu (207) 834-7519 or ext 7519
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Instructional Philosophy
Out-Come based education Would rather discuss than lecture
Requires student preparation Hate grading assignments
Especially LATE assignments Use class interaction, assignments,
quizzes and projects to determine if outcomes are met.
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COS 125 Survival Primer
Read Material BEFORE the class discussion Check Blackboard Often Use the additional resources identified in
syllabus ASK questions about what you didn’t
understand in readings DON’T do assignments and projects at last
minute. REVEIW lectures and notes Seek HELP if you are having difficulties OFFER feedback and suggestions to the
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Computer Accounts
Computer login Sys admin
Pete Cyr (x7547) or Art Drolet (x7809) Applications
MSDN Academic Alliance Free Stuff See Dr Ray Albert
Access Cards $10 deposit See Lisa Fournier
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BlackBoard
https://www.courses.maine.edu Login
Same as your @maine.edu account
Help with Blackboard available from Blake Library staff
All quizzes and assignments will be administered from blackboard
Class website http://perleybrook.umfk.maine.edu/classes/c
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Syllabus review
Requirements Grading Course outline Special Notes Subject to change
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What is the “web” ??
“Gutenberg press of our time” Minimally structured, minimally
regulated and unmediated Very accessible Underlying protocol is HTTP & HTML (or
HTML variants) The range of technologies is from very
simple to very complicated If you can you use a word processor ,
you can create a web page
Microsoft Word
Can automatically create web pages Problems
“bloat” code Proprietary code
Good for quick jobs Bad for anything that has to be
maintained over time
Microsoft Word as a Web Page Design Tool Select “new” from file menu Select “blank web page” Type out web page Add graphics Save as “Web Page (*htm;*html)” If you use graphics, Word will create
a folder with the graphic files http://www.pickens.k12.sc.us/Pickens.ms/
word_course.htm
Ftp using Windows Explorer In address bar
ftp://perleybrook.umfk.maine.edu Login with the same info you used to
login in to lab computers Select COS 125 folder Select the folder with your first name Moving files
Drag and drop files Use menu edit copy/paste Click on file and right mouse for context
menu
Browser Wars
1994 Netscape Created multimedia extensions Became most popular browser
1996 Microsoft Created its own set of non-standard
extensions For Web designers this became a
mess! Had to create two of everything
Standards
HTML 3.2 First try at standards Ended browser wars except for frames
HTML4 and CSS Deprecated elements Cascading Style Sheets
XML and xHTML XML creates other languages xHTML is HTML written in XML
Today
Webpage Design xHTML, HTML 4.0 and CSS >95% Browser Compliance
Opera 9 is best IE 7 is worst
xHTML Stronger and more flexible Stricter 3 Flavors
Transitional Frameset Strict
The Browser Wars 2.0
The war is returning, with 4 popular (and free) browsers for the Windows platform (even more for Mac and Linux) IE 7 (version 8 is in Beta) FireFox 3 Opera 9 Chrome