LIS 390W1A - Schedule

Introduction

• Introductions
• Brief Overview of the Class
• Administrative Stuff
• Assignments & Grading
• Expectations & Philosophy

Lab

Lab 1: Introduction to HTML: How Easy is Easy?

How the Internet Works

Required Reading

• Shuler, R. (2002). How does the Internet Work?
• Horton, M. (1986) What is a Domain?

Related Readings (Optional):

• A Brief History of the Internet
• Windbigler, K. Exploring the Domain Name Space
• Gilbert, H. (1995). TCP/IP
• http://www2.rad.com/networks/1994/osi/layers.htm
• An example of how traceroute can be useful

Lab

Lab 2: Shuler's "Check It Out" Exercises

History of the Web

Required Reading

• A Brief History of the Internet
• Bush, V. (1945) As we may think, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.

Related Readings (Optional):

• Licklider, J.C.R. (1968). The Computer as a Communication Device. Science and Technology. April 1968.
• O'Neill et al. (2003) Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web. D-Lib Magazine, 9(4).
• Size and Growth from OCLC Web Characterization Project
  • More Source for Internet and Web Statistics
• Hobbes's Internet Timeline
• Jules Verne bibliography
• The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online - The tale of Hasan Elahi.

Lab

No lab. Lab 3 has been moved to next week.

No Class!!!

Fun with Technology!

Today we will be learning how to use all the main technologies that we will be using in this course, including text editors, web browsers, ssh, webdav, netfiles, I: Drive, etc.

In this class, we will be utilizing the Course Technologies section of the course website a great deal.

Lab

Lab 3: Downloading and Uploading an HTML File

Technological Foundations of the Web

Required Reading

• Berners-Lee, T.J., Cailliau, R., Groff, J-F., &Pollerman, B. (1992) World-Wide Web: The Information Universe, Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy, 1(2), 52-58.
• Richmond, A. HTML Standards Compliance - Why Bother?
• HTTP 1.1 RFC (Sections 5, 6, 9, 10)

Related Readings (Optional):

• Berners-Lee, T.J., Cailliau, R., Luotonen, A., Nielsen, H.F. & Secret, A. (1994) The World-Wide Web, Communications of the ACM, 37(8), 76-82.
  • If the link above does not work, try this one or this one.
• When to use GET
• UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM
• XHTML Standard

Lab

Lab 4: HTTP Get has been canceled. Feel free to complete the lab if you are interested, but it is no longer a required assignment.

URLs, paths and links

Required Reading

• Graham, Ian (1998). Uniform Resource Locators
• Mapping URLs to Filesystem Locations

Lab

Lab 5: File Systems and Decomposing URLs.

Markup and HTML

Required Reading

• Resseler, S. (1996). The Art of Electronic Publishing. Section 4.3
• On Semantics and Markup
• HTML DOM

Related Readings (Optional):

• Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing by James H. Coombs, Allen H. Renear, and Steven J. DeRose (1987).

Lab

Lab 6: Kinds of Markup

Hyperlinking, navigation and information organization

Required Reading

• Raggett, D. (2005). Getting Started with HTML

Start reading:

• Graham, Ian (1998). Introduction to HTML
  • Start here.

Useful Reference:

• W3 Schools

Lab

Lab 7: Hyperlinks and the Anchor Tag

More HTML

Required Reading

Continue Reading:

• Graham, Ian (1998). Introduction to HTML

Start reading:

• Raggett, D. (2005). More advanced features

Useful Reference:

• W3 Schools

Lab

Lab 8: Writing More HTML

Writing for the Web

Required Reading

• Nielsen (1997). How users READ on the web.
• Morkes, J., Nielsen, J. (1997) Concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective: How to Write for the Web

Lab

None. Work on the Website Evaluation Assignment due next class.

HTML Validation

Required Reading

• Boudreau (2002). The Importance of Web Standards.

Also, check out the W3 HTML Validator

Lab

Lab 9: Writing Valid HTML/XHTML. Won't be due until next week Monday.

Note

Quiz 1 is next class.

HTML & CSS

Quiz 1 is Today

Required Reading

• CSS Zen Garden
• Raggett, D. (2002). Adding a touch of style
• Learning Cascading Style Sheets - Pick one or two things to skim

Lab

None. Start or continue work on Personal Website Assignment.

More CSS

Required Reading

Continue readings from last class.

Lab

Lab 10: Messing with CSS.

HTML Tables

Required Reading

• Graham, Ian. (1998). Introduction to HTML. Chapter 4. Tables
• Layout Tables - I don't recommend using tables for these purposes, but you should be aware of how many people still use tables, and why they see using tables in this manner as advantageous.

Related Readings (Optional):

• W3C HTML Tables
• W3C Tables and CSS
• Table tutorial - especially useful for understanding how to use <thead> and <tbody> and <tfoot> tags.
• CSS Tables by Robert Denton

Lab

Lab 11: HTML Tables.

CSS: Relative Layouts

Required Reading

• Zeldman, J. From Table Hacks to CSS Layout: A Web Designer's Journey
• Korpela, Jukka. (2001). Why style sheets are Harmful

Related Readings (Optional):

• A List Apart
• W3 Schools
• Newhouse, M. Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques
• Holzschlag, M. E. Thinking outside the Grid

Lab

Lab 12: More CSS.

HTML Forms

Required Reading

• HTML 2.0 Forms and Obscurities: read Chapters 4 - 8
• W3 Schools (be sure to click through and read the examples at the bottom)

Related Readings (Optional):

• HTML Code Tutorial - Forms
• HTML Forms

Lab

Lab 13: Forms.

Functional Accessibility Design and Testing using Web Standards

Currently, Dr. Gunderson has not specified any readings for you to complete. However, I expect he will most likely pick a subset of the following.

General Readings

• How to design web accessible pages for the colorblind

Web Accessibility Standards & Best Practices

• The Accessibility Board Section 508
• UIUC Web Accessibility Best Practices
• Web Content Accessibility Guide
• Web Accessibility Initiative
• State of Illinois Web Accessibility Standards
• ITTATC links page to Disabilities Related Laws

Accessibility Validators

• Cynthia - Section 508 Validitator
• Webxact
• The WAVE Accessibility Evaluation Tool
• Functional Accessibility Evaluator
• CITA firefox extension
  • Firefox site

Lab

None scheduled yet.

Quick Overview of Javascript

Slides

Javascript Introduction Slides

Required Reading

• Check out these JavaScript tutorials at Quirksmode
• How to add a google map to a web page in 10 minutes
• Add Digg to your homepage
• Geotagging: Flickr and Google Maps
• Mappr

Examples of Javascript

• http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1
• http://maps.google.com/maps
• http://www.walterzorn.com/dragdrop/dragdrop_e.htm
• http://script.aculo.us/
• http://dojotoolkit.org/demos
• http://jsmsxdemo.googlepages.com/jsmsx.html

Lab

None. Keep working on the Personal Website Assignment.

Review

No readings.

Lab

Lab 14: More CSS Practice

Accessibility 2: Supporting Accessibility

Required Reading

• Section 508, Subpart B, §1194.22
• UIUC Web Accessibility Best Practices - Read all the Overview sections (skim the tables), skim the Requirements section
• Functional Accessibility Evaluator

Lab

Lab 15: Using Accessibility Validators. Not due until next week Wednesday.

Encoding, Unicode and HTML Entities

Required Reading

• Korpela, Jukka. (2001). A tutorial on character code issues Read up to the section titled "More about the character concept"
• Character references explained

Related Readings (Optional):

• UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM
• Korpela, Jukka. A table of Character and entity references
• Korpela, Jukka. Test page for 8-bit encodings

Lab

None.

Three columned CSS Layouts

No readings.

Lab

Lab 16: Three Columned Layout has been canceled. Feel free to complete the lab if you are interested, but it is no longer a required assignment.

Grabbag of Topics

Required Reading

Read one of the following and be prepared to explain it to your classmates (25 points).

• Image Spam
• XML.com - What is RSS?
• RSS Protocol
• Netscape. Client-Side State - HTTP Cookies
• Berghel, H. (2001). Caustic Cookies. Communications of the ACM. 44(5). May, 2001.

Related Readings

• Spam Made Up 94% Of All E-Mail In December [2006]

Lab

None.

Javascript - Variables & Arrays

Required Reading

Check out these JavaScript tutorials at Quirksmode

For some reason, Quirksmode seems to be down, so don't worry if you were unable to read the tutorials. For class today, I'll just assume nobody read them. If they are not up after Thanksgiving, then don't worry about it. We'll make due without referencing them, or I might find other tutorials for you to read.

Quirksmode is back up

Related Readings

• Javascript and XHTML

Exercises

We'll be going over Javascript Exercise #2: Variables & Arrays today in class as our in-class exercise.

Javascript - Loops and Conditionals

Required Reading

Check out these JavaScript tutorials at Quirksmode

Exercises

We'll be going over Javascript Exercise #3: Loops & Conditionals today in class as our in-class exercise.

Javascript - Functions

Required Reading

Check out these JavaScript tutorials at Quirksmode

Exercises

We'll be going over Javascript Exercise #4: Functions & Exercises today in class as our in-class exercise.

Work on Final Projects

This is a day for you to work on final projects with your group, to ask me questions about your project, etc. If need be, we may start conducting final project presentations today, depending on how many final project groups we end up with.

Final Project Presentations

Exact Scheduling to be determined