Agenda

• Introductions
• Syllabus
• Website Development Basics
  • Hello World
• Web Standards Concepts
  • Introduction to Web Standards
• HTML Basics
  • HTML Basics
• Accounts

Readings

• Chapters 1, 2, 3, & 10
• Digital Foundations - Chapter 2
• Zeldman, Jeffrey. Designing With Web Standards. 2nd. Berkeley, CA: New Riders, 2006.
• Opera Web Standards Curriculum
  • The History of the Internet
  • Why Web Standards
  • How does the Internet work?
  • The Web standards model - HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Homework

Black Goose Bistro

Create the Black Goose Bistro Website. Use the text as a starting point and apply meaning to the text by using the most appropriate tag. You may start with the text.

Article: Is the web a canvas or an interface?

Write an article presenting and defending an argument for the web as a canvas or an interface. In addition, please read two fellow classmates’ articles.

Resources

• Browsers
  • Firefox 3
  • Multiple IE: all old versions
  • Internet Explorer 8 beta
  • Opera 9
  • Google Chrome
  • Safari
  • Lynx
• Software
  • Digital Design Production
    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Adobe Fireworks
  • Code Editors
    • Adobe Dreamweaver
    • Eclipse
    • Notepad++
• Accessibility
  • The Web Accessibility Initiative
  • Webaim: Web Accessibility in Mind
  • Dive Into Accessibility: 30 days to a more Accessible Website