Week 7

<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <H2>Session 7 - March 2/4 <BR> <A HREF="workshop.html">Workshop: WEB and HTML</A> </H2> <B>Place: Tisch Hall LC-8<BR> Time: 3:00-4:30</B> <P> The web began in <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/History.html" target="_top">1989</A> as a networked information project at <A HREF="http://www.cern.ch/" target="_top">CERN</A> European Laboratory for Particle Physics, where <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/" target="_top">Tim Berners-Lee</A>, now Director of the <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/" target="_top">World Wide Web Consortium </A> (W3), developed a vision of the project. <P> The web is currently the second most used application on the Internet (email is first). It is based on the idea that the Internet can be a vast hypertext, searched by keywords. The web is built on <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/Talks/General/Protocols.html">three protocols</A>: <UL> <LI>url (universal resource locater) locates documents <LI>http (hypertext transfer protocol) retrieves documents <LI>html (hypertext markup language) creates documents and links them </UL> The web supports a graphic interface, soundfiles, animation, and video. The web can also view gopher databases, usenet news, download from ftp databases, and send mail. The web is the *only* place on the Internet that condones advertising. <P> We will learn basic HTML this week in the <A HREF="workshop.html">workshops</A>. This enables you to publish your own pages on the web. <HR> <A NAME="read"></A> <H2>Read:</H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/WWW/" target="_top">About the World Wide Web</A> at http://www.w3.org/WWW <P> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/Talks/General.html" target="_top">World Wide Web Seminar</A> by Tim Berners-Lee of CERN at http://www.w3.org/Talks/General.html <P> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.tlc-systems.com/webtips.shtml" target="_top"> Art and the Zen of Web Sites</A> <LI> <A HREF="http://http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html" target="_top">The Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design</A> (Jacob Nielson's Alertbox, May 1996) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html </UL> <HR> <A NAME="guide"></A> <H2>html Guides</H2> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.nyu.edu/webguide/">NYU Web Guide</A> at http://www.nyu.edu/webguide/ <LI> <A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html" target="_top">UIUC Beginner's Guide to HTML</A> at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW?HTMLPrimer.html <LI><A HREF="http://www.projectcool.com/developer/" target="_top"> Project Cool HTML Developer Zone </A> at http://www.projectcoo.com/developer <LI> <A HREF="http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/intro.html" target="_top"> Guide to Writing HTML</A> at http://www.utirc.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/intro.html <LI> <A HREF="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/" target="_top">Jacob Nielson's Column on Web Usability</A> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ <LI> <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/980113/sunonnet/">Sun's New Web Design</A> by Jakob Nielsen at http://www.sun.com/980113/sunonnet/ </UL> <HR> <A NAME="browse"></A> <H2>What is a Homepage?</H2> <A HREF="http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/munich.html" target="_top"> Construction of Identity in Home Pages on the Web</A> by Daniel Chandler at http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/munich.html). Note his collection of articles on social and personal identity. <P>Some sample homepages: <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://ramat-negev.org.il/~howarda/"> The Atkins family</A> at http://ramat-negev.org.il/~howarda/. <LI> <A HREF="http://iccu6.ipswich.gil.com.au/~meaxe/"> Vicky Cleaver's Cat Page</A> at http://iccu6.ipswich.gil.com.au/~meaxe/. <LI><A HREF="http://www.zen.org/~brendan/">Brendan Kehoe</A> at http://www.zen.org/~brendan/. <LI><A HREF="http://www.ability.net/~buglady"> The buglady</A> athttp://www.ability.net/~buglady. <LI> <A HREF="http://www.eff.org/~barlow/"> John Perry Barlow</A> at http://www.eff.org/~barlow/. <LI><A HREF="http://www.rheingold.com">Howard Rheingold</A> at http://www.rheingold.com <LI><A HREF="http://thurston.com/~shawkes/">Reboots Webpage</A> at http://thurston.com/~shawkes <LI><A HREF="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lwl/home.html">Lydia Leong's CIS Home Page</A> at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lwl/home.html <LI><A HREF="http://rdz.stjohns.edu/~storm/fun.html">Fun Stuff</A> by Storm King at http://rdz.stjohns.edu/~storm/fun.html <LI> <A HREF="http://neuromancer.hacks.arizona.edu/~macdaddy/"> MacDaddy</A> at http://neuromancer.hacks.arizona.edu/~macdaddy/ </UL> <HR> <A NAME="assign"></A> <H2>Assignment</H2> Begin to build a simple homepage, based on the <A HREF="workshop.html">workshop</A> presented in class. A simple way to begin a page is with short description of yourself, a cv, and a picture. As long as you do not "publish" your page (request it be linked to a public page) noone will see your efforts. If you do wish to publish your homepage, you can register it with NYU's list of student pages at <A HREF="http://www.nyu.edu/pages/advocacy/nyu_people/"> http://www.nyu.edu/pages/advocacy/nyu_people/</A> <UL> <LI> Read Daniel Chandler's essay on <A HREF="http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/munich.html" target="_top"> Construction of Identity in Home Pages on the Web</A>. He suggests that <BLOCKQUOTE> In the act of writing we are written, and the Internet offers those who are fortunate to have access to it a unique opportunity to 'write themselves' on a global stage. Great emphasis has been given to radical transformations of identity in chat systems and e-mail, but the more subtle potential of the new genre of the 'personal home page' on the World-Wide Web tends to be overlooked. </BLOCKQUOTE> Based on your experience of building a homepage in this class, and viewing other people's homepages, how do you understand that "identity" is being shaped on 'personal home pages'? What is special or unique about this 'frame' or platform compared to email, discussion lists, newsgroups, irc or muds? Incorporate these questions into the assignment from Week5 on finding IRC channels or MUDs with Homepages. How does writing help shape identity? <P> For more reading on identity, check out Chandler's collection of articles on social and personal identity. <HR> <P> If you feel you need additional technical instruction, you can attend <A HREF="http://www.nyu.edu/acf/classes/index.html/">ACF classes and talks</A> free of charge. <P> If you are interested in additional lectures on technology, you can attend the <A HREF="http://www.nyu.edu/acf/nyu-events/colloquia.html">ACF Colloquia</A> free of charge. <P> <HR> <A HREF="http://lrw.net/impacts" target="_top">Top Page</A> </BODY>