COMP1710 .... New Tools for New Media and Web

Week 3 :

Lectures	To do outside the lectures
HTML   VARK	Readings : Chapter 2 and 3 (pp 30 to 43) of "Unusually useful web book" : "Naming your Site and Sizing up the competition" + DeepX Quick Reference on CSS Lab 2 : HTML Page set + Basic Navigation

Some questions/comments :

• Next week Monday session : Tom Worthington : Web Crisis Management

• You missed something about Mentoring ? ... http://cs.anu.edu.au/people/Eric.McCreath/mentoring/index.php

• Just follow the week links on the home page.

• Where is the course home page ? Try "COMP1710 ANU" on Google ...

• Labs : Every week for 9 weeks starting in week 2

• Why did I ask some of you if they submit their assignment to both their tutor and I ?

• Check what you will send, and then what you did send ... What if you make mistakes when you publish on the web ?

  " People who can't spell shouldn't complain that mozilla displays their texts wrong "
  Simon Montagu

  Mail is not SMS

  "could i send u B4 5pm. plz .i do ..."

  Should spell : "Could I please send it to you before 5pm. I do ...

  If your English is worse than mine, then it is not good enough.

• Where can I find more about the subject ?

  • http://www.vrarchitect.net/links/top_internet.en.html or just http://www.vrarchitect.net/links/

Lab 1 : Simple ? Yes, very, just  a warm up, but ...

• Bad mail subject (not complete, mixed uppercase / lowercase) .... will end up with bad links !
  You will receive an automatic acknowledgement of receipt.
  ==> No need to send it 2 or 3 times :-)

• Suffix for HTML files : .html

• Use simple characters in the name of file (alphanumeric or '-' or '_' : never '@' or ':' or '/' or ...)

• For those who prefer not to attend, make sure to send a submission both to me and the associated tutor. Check Streams (forced enrolment), and the following : Tutor address/group :

• • Arun Vishwanath : arunv@cs.anu.edu.au

    • Thursday at 11:00 - 13:00 in Karmel1

    • Thursday at 14:00 - 16:00 in Karmel1

  • Zhen Yang : zhen.yang@anu.edu.au

    • Thursday at 09:00 - 11:00 in Karmel1

    • Friday at 09:00 - 11:00 in BA

    • Friday at 11:00 - 13:00 in Karmel1

  • Pascal Vuylsteker : Wednesday at 12:00 - 14:00 in Karmel2

• RTF is not plain text. Usual suspect : default behaviour of TextEdit

• Week 2 = Lab 1, Week 3 = Lab 2 ...

• Put the folder to archive on your desktop first. But remember to backup any material you drop on the Desktop

• Try to unzip what you CCed to yourself.

• What if you included some word or exe document in your zip folder ?

Next lab ... HTML