Handouts

Abstract: This document describes the handouts that should accompany the tutorial Designing Course-Based Webs held at the EdMedia'97 conference. This listing does not precisely follow the structure of the tutorial, as document are grouped according to type, rather than presentation order.

• Introductory Materials
• Introduction to HTML
• Design and More
• Course Webs
• References

Introductory Materials

• Introduction: The introduction to the course and a short outline of what we'll be covering.

• Handouts: The document that you're reading right now.

• Basic Information: A guide to the basics of hypertext, HTML, and the World-Wide Web.

Introduction to HTML

• Getting Started: A basic introduction to getting started with HTML authoring.

• Your First Page: Instructions for building your first HTML page.

• Advanced HTML: Some tips and techniques for doing more interesting things with HTML.

Design and More

• Logical vs. Physical Markup: A summary of the two primary markup strategies, and what is appropriate.

• Designing Usable Webs: A guide to designing useful and usable webs.

• Searching Your Site: A guide to tools for adding search facilities to your site.

Course Webs

• Why Build a Course Web: An introduction to why we build webs for our courses.

• Building Your Course Web: A step-by-step guide to building your course web.

References

• Terminology: A guide to the terms we'll be using in this tutorial.

• Some Tips: An odd collection of some of my "quick tips" for web design.

• Quick HTML Reference: A quick reference guide to HTML.

• For Your Bookshelf: Some books that you might find useful or interesting as you build course webs.

• For Your Toolbox: Some tools that you might find useful or interesting as you build course webs.

• Bookmarks: A small collection of places to find some more information.

• A few pages by Jakob Nielsen on web design.

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