ICRO 0052: Introduction to Creating Home Pages on the World Wide Web

University of Minnesota - Rochester Center
Room SH201 (Wednesday 8:30am to 12:00pm)
2/11/98, 2/12/98

Instructor: Richard Sinn
Phone: 507-280-9273 (Home), 507-253-0758 (Office)
Email: webmaster@openloop.com, richard_sinn@vnet.ibm.com

Description

A home page on the world wide web is like the cover of a good book, it gets people's attention and draws them in. This course uses HTML (Hypertyext Markup Language) to create a basic web page. Topics includes:

WWW Overview
Basic Network Overview
Web page style guidelines
What makes a good web page
Basic HTML coding
Internal and external hypertext links
Incorporating images
Tools for writing web pages

Text

Teach yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4, Fourth Edition, Laura Lemay

Class Notes

Class notes will be prepared by Richard Sinn

Updates

Initial update for class notes (2/10/98)

Schedule

Week	Class No	Chapters	Topics
2/11	1	1-18	Introduction to HTML/WWW
2/12	2	1-18	Table and More

Other references

HTML & CGI Unleashed: Everything you need to master Web development. Sams.net
Building a Web Site: The Programmer's Guide to Creating, Building, and Maintaining a Web Presence, Net.Genesis and Devra Hall
Creating Killer Web Sites: The Art of Third-Generation Site Design, David Siegel
Inside the World Wide Web, New Riders
Oh yes, the whole World Wide Web

Software

We will be using most of our software from Windows 95. Netscape browser and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

A demo using Microsoft FrontPage will be made if possible.