Tutorial 2 - Developing a Web Site

Most Important: We start Tutorial 2 this week, and continue our work into the next week. This is easily the most important topics we will cover this semester.

Tutorial 2 and Tutorial 3 will be covered over 2 weeks. During the remainder of our semester we will cover Tutorials 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 in one week each. Tutorial 9 will server as your final exam. Our Site Index has links to all the remaining assignments. Do NOT look too far ahead. Our text is well organized and each Tutorial builds on what is learned in previous Tutorials.

Multiple documents are required to construct a web. Why is structure important? And last and certainly not least, linking your web site to external resources ... they don't call it the World Wide Web for nothing. Our text does an excellent job of introducing these topics. Work through these sections carefully. Ask questions if you get confused.

Site Index: Are you using our site index? It has links to every web page we've used so far (and into the future). New this week is a link to an HTML Template, that is a good starting point for beginning a new web page. And a link to The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Markup Validation Service.

Assignment WebSites: Are you using the Assignment WebSites page? It has links to assignment web pages, and to their item level grading. Remember, once you are looking at some web page, you can "view source" ... meaning you can see the HTML for that page.

There are new forums available in BlackBoard Discussions with names the begin with " W3 -".

Required: All the HTML
you write for assignments in this class is expected to be error free as certified by W3C.org's Markup Validation Service. This is a graded element of all assignments. I suggest that you make a habit of checking your HTML as you write. Use W3C Markup Validation early and often. It is a lot easier to correct an error when you first make it. Remember - Strategy for editing HTML?

Required: FTP Client
For our class you are required to use FTP Client software to maintain files on Tulane's CPST WebServer.

Follow link to this page for information about FTP -- File Transfer Protocol.

Real OLD News
Here you will find linked Chapter 5 of my Masters Thesis. Writen in the 1990's, in WebTime, that's an acient age, but I still enjoy reading it. Chapter 5 is about Writing Space, which I still consider to be the biggest contribution of the World Wide Web -- crating a new writing space. Read Writing Space. I think you find something relevant to our work this semester.

Remember ... ask for HELP ... ask early, ask often.

What is it?