Tutorial 2 - Developing a Web Site

Forums: There are 10 or maybe more forums in the Discussion area of BlackBoard that are part of your graded assignment for the week of Jun 2. All these forums name's end with "- 2Jun".

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.

Your Web Sites: Are you using the WebSite Assignments 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.

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
Some of us still don't have FTP working to Tulane's Student Web Server. Tulane recommends (for Windows PC) SSH. There is a very good information page about SSH on Tulane's Student Website. Click here to see this page. Included is a link to download SSH. I will point out that any FTP Client that supports SFTP, will work ... even FileZilla.

All of our Assignments will require you to publish your web pages to a Web Server. That's what FTP allows you to do ... copy your files from your computer to the server computer, and back again. I recommended that you should use Tulane's Student Web Server for this purpose. But, you may use any Web Server of your choosing.

I expect that everyone will succeed using FTP. If you experience problems, you can attach your web page documents in an eMail message to me.

Real OLD News
Here you will find linked Chapter 5 of my Masters Thesis. It is celebrating it eleventh anniversary this year. I still enjoy reading it, even though some of it is showing its age. 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. I hope you find something relevant to our work this week.