| Date | Readings | Topics | Classwork&Assignments |
| Week of 18 June |
•DOG Intro and Website
(cf. p. 5) & C. 1 |
•History of Browser Support •Basic operations in Unix: Webmonkey's Unix reference guide •CSS old/new markup (DOG 262-64) •customizing a browser |
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Setup of home page; •Open Web acct. •Using Secure Shell Client to Dante account •Using Pico to edit on site. •Using Secure File Transfer to down/upload from home or lab • Or via Catalyst Tools •Adding an icon |
| Week of 25 June | •DOG, C. 1
(cont), c.2 •Topics:Boxes: Content •Topics:size |
•HTML as Boxes (Made vivid with Firefox View (Rendered) Source Chart extension) •Content markup • Begin CSS |
•Practice using HTMLKit |
| Week of 2 July |
•DOG, c.2 | • Text Formatting: basic |
•Due: Ass. #1: Add formatting to plain text. |
| Week of 9 July | Topics: •HREF
Links; •Indicating Anchors •DOG, c.3 •hypertext structures; •choices and connections |
•Traversal, navigation, sitemaps •Hypertxt Gardens • Mark Bernstein: More than legible •How to open secondary windows |
•hypertextified poem assigned for Monday 16 July |
| Week of 16 July |
•DOG, c.4 •good stock photo archives: stockXchng Morgue File |
•opacity (CSSPlay •Image Maps •Images as metaphors •Image-Text Chains °Zombie Princess |
•Using GIMP to make imagemaps. •Ass.#2: Hypertextified poem due •Ass.#3: imagemap exercise assigned due Wednesday |
| Week of 23 July | •DOG, c.5 • Topics:Position and layout •Color schemes Site templates •Open Web Design •Open Source Web Design |
Layout of page Positioning DIVs |
•HTMLKit: using
°Validators °Tidy °style sheet tab •Ass.#4: Home page for your ENGL 282 home—due Weds. the 25th(using template) •Ass.#5: Homework from Topics due Mon. |
| Week of 31 July |
•topics: Scenes of Viewing •Giles Peaker's Passagenwerk •Robin Michals' e-arcades •e-passagen of Walter Benjamin •Another Arcades Project •Streaming media •Contents of Student Archive •Freesound Project |
•Categories, juxtapositions, metaphor, decorum, the incongruous •Adding audio--mp3's (see xspf mime type) |
• Discussion of juxtaposition Ass.#6 assigned for 9 August |
| Week of 7 August | •Mythic Hybrid •Deathsentences of the Polished and Structurally Weak •Giles Peaker: The Glass |
•Dictionaraoke •Typography: WGL4, •Unicode |
Inserting characters from WGL4 and Unicode Fonts Discussion of Juxtaposition due Weds. Ass.#7:Elaboration and freestyle (final) project assigned Houston Wet--Larry Albert |
| Week of 14 August |
•Michael Martone, The Flatness •Halbeath •The White Teeth of London |
•multilinks •serving xhtml •Preview of final projects |
Final projects due: 16 August, 10pm. |