ICRO 0083: Intermediate to Creating Home Pages on the World Wide Web

University of Minnesota
Room SH201 (8:30am to 12:00pm)
2/18/98, 2/19/98

Instructor: Richard Sinn
Email: webmaster@openloop.com, richard_sinn@vnet.ibm.com

Description

This course explores the new "gee whiz" elements found on the web. This course uses HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) to create a complex web site. Prerequisite: Introduction to Creating Home Pages or previous experience writing web pages. Topics include:

The planning process for a web site
Designing individual web pages to create a look
Quick Review of HTML basic elements including Tables
Frames

Text

Creating Killer Web Sites (Second Edition), David Siegel
(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 (2/15/98)

Schedule

Week	Class No	Topics
2/18	1	Basic Web Server Technology and HTML Forms
2/19	2	Frames, Frames, Frames

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.