Details
Intent
Participants author webpages and websites, alone and collaboratively. Emphasis is on reading, writing and speaking XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.1/3, web standards and culture. Markup is primarily hand-coded using BBEdit 8.2.6, with additional WYSIWYG coding is performed using Dreamweaver 8. Other software and markup introduced: Photoshop/ImageReady CS2, JavaScript and PHP.
Expectation
Participants are responsible for showing up to class on time with completed in and out of class work. All are asked to always share code/website/reading/etc. they have viewed with the rest of the community. The more we share, the more can we learn and the more we learn the more we can share. This course teaches today's web technologies, techniques and standards, a little bit of tomorrows, but most importantly it promotes continual learning and investigation of the web.
Resources
Always Now
XHTML Tutorials
http://www.w3schools.com/html
CSS Tutorials
http://www.w3schools.com/css
XHTML Validator
http://validator.w3.org
RTFM
HTML, XHTML, and CSS, 6th Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide
http://www.peachpit.com
CSS Pocket Reference, Second Edition
http://www.web.oreilly.com
"The effect of the Web’s mass proliferation is impossible to gauge. Not since Gutenberg’s printing press has our ability to disseminate ideas and information been so profoundly altered. Fortunately the Web has, true to Berners-Lee’s vision, remained virtually boundless and unfettered. Anyone with access to a public library, an Internet café, or even just their own P.C. can use it to “enquire within upon everything.”
—Elizabeth D. Hoover is a former editor at American Heritage magazine.
Project
Enquire
Tim Berners-Lee's "Information Management: A Proposal" discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distrubuted hypertext system.
Tim Berners-Lee's proposal is nothing less than a prospectus for the creation of the World Wide Web.
Markup
Designers explore the basic relationship between XHTML and CSS through the designing a visual response to Tim Berners-Lee "Information Management: A proposal". Using both image and text, designers travel back to the very beginnings of the web while coding for the future.