Home Introduction to Design for the World Wide Web
         
Overview Syllabus Resources Portfolio Support
Class 1 Topics Introduction to course, web site, expectations, participants
Review basic computer skills; i.e. saving files
Internet history and technology
Internet services; i.e. e-mail, ftp, gopher, news groups, telnet, WWW
Browsers; i.e. Netscape, Explorer, AOL
Hypertext navigation
Designs for the Web
Class exercise Find Web sites that use each of the following components and describe
why you think they use the components well or not so well:
graphics, animation, sound, video, interactivity
Homework Read chapters 1 and 2.
Reference

http://browserwatch.internet.com/browsers.html
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/communicator/
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/

         
  Rhode Island School of Design   Summer Studies '01
  Instructor: Laura E. Osterweis