Slides from a public lecture presented on January 13/96

• Hypermedia & The Net
• Agenda
• Web vs Traditional
• Concise History of the WWW
• Creation
• WWW Eras
• Authoring Basics
• HTML
• HTML DTD
• HTML Files
• HTML Tags
• HTML 1.0
• HTML 2.0
• HTML 3.0 (HTML+)
• Netscape Extensions
• PP Presentation
• MS Extensions (Blackbird)
• VRML
• PP Presentation
• Java
• Generic Media Extensions
• What’s It All Mean?
• General Authoring Issues
• Design Do’s
• Design Dont’s
• Recommended Design Sites
• Editors
• General
• Editors - Character
• Editors - GUI
• PP Presentation
• PP Presentation
• PP Presentation
• PP Presentation
• Editors - SGML
• Traditional Tools - WPs
• Traditional Tools - DTP
• Traditional Tools - Other
• Recommended Editor Sites
• Filters/Converters
• General
• Filters - Types
• Filters - Examples
• Recommended Filter Sites
• Validators
• Validating Software
• Validating Editors
• Validating Browsers
• Arena - Flags Bad HTML
• Arena - Comments Source
• Validating Services
• Why Validate?
• Real-World Example
• Recommended Validation Sites
• Authoring - Special
• Images
• Image Design Issues
• Forms
• PP Presentation
• CGI
• Java Wanna-Be’s
• Chimeras
• Managing WWW
• Challenges/Problems
• Some Solutions
• Testing
• Testing Shows Many Things!
• See You on the Web!

Mark Leggott, mleggott@stfx.ca
Created - March 3, 1996
Revised - October 1, 1996