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Course Description
This course focuses on the construction of a web site. Students will learn how web sites work, and how to design good web sites. The course will not be conducted using an application package to generate HTML. Instead, students will learn how to hand-code the pages. This is a useful skill even though—in professional practice—students may not end up writing the pages by hand.
The course will cover the base ground of background knowledge that is required to understand how the web really works. In addition to the html that is taught almost entirely through learning-by-doing, students will listen to presentations about http and URIs. Finally students will be introduced to the subject of information architecture.
Course objectives
After taking this course students
Basically at the end of the end of the course, students should be able to manage a running web site on their own. Students will be provided with free web space where they can design their own sites. This web space will be available even after the course ends.
Prerequisites
There are no other formal prerequisites for this course. Students should be familiar with the World Wide Web, and should be able to use a MS Windows computer, i.e. click on an icon to run a program. Students should also be familiar with basic concepts of computer hardware and software, concepts like files, memory. Everything that goes beyond that will be explained in class or by personal interaction with the instructor. No prior knowledge of HTML is assumed. Much much of the HTML instruction will be given during the practice sessions.
Instructor
Thomas
Krichel
Palmer School of Library
and Information Science
C.W. Post
Campus of Long Island
University
720 Northern Boulevard
Brookville, NY 11548–1300
krichel@openlib.org
work phone: +1–(516)299–2843
Private contact details may be obtained from the online CV.
Class structure
Classes will be held in room 125 in the Westchester Graduate Campus building of LIU. This is situated within the Dance Buildling on the Purchase College campus. Classes will be held between 9:30 and 16:30 (morning and afternoon) or from 13:00 to 17:00 (afternoon only) Each class will have some presentation by the instructor. However a majority of time the class will work directly with their computers under the supervision of the instructor.
Class details:
| 0 | 2003–01–04, 10:30 to 16:30 | introduction to the course |
| 1 | 2003–01–05, 10:00 to 17:00 | introduction to HTML I |
| 2 | 2003–01–10, 9:30 to 17:30, afternoon | |
| 3 | 2003–01–10, 9:30 to 17:30 | information architecture II |
| 7 | 2003–01–11, 9:30 to 17:30 | the http protocol and the apache server |
Readings
There are literally tons of books on HTML around, choose one that you like. Castro (1999) is a widely used book. Werbach (2002) is a good online source. Morville and Rosenfeld) is a rather boring book on information architecture, but apparently the best book on the subject.
HTML 4.01 is defined in Raggett et al. (1999). http is defined in RFC 2616. URLs are defined in RFC 1738, but that definition was updated in RFC 2396. MIME types are documented in IANA 2002. The documentation of apache is online at http://www.apache.org.
Assement
A mid-term exam will be conducted at the start of the fifth session, this will count for 30% of the grade. The remainder will come from a web site that the students will build. The site should provide an information source about a topic, tough it need not to be comprehenive. The total amount of information contained should roughly be equivalent to a conventional student essay.
Students
Larry
Lederer
Sarah
Northschield
Melanie Wood
Elizabeth
DeFilippo
Evangeline
King
Josanna
Jean-Louis
LaShawn
Ross
Vinod
Pachanda
Nisa Bakkalbasi
Tom Matamoros
Candance
Rist
Kara
Haggerty
Marybeth
Darobid
Vivian
Gufarotti
Bridget
Forkin
Carol Heinz