inls 461
Information Tools

Professor: Serena Fenton
School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill

Week 1: html Week 2: XHTML and css Dreamweaver and Fireworks Resources

Week 1 - HTML

Due on Friday:

  • Reading and labs only this week
  • no assignment; no quiz

Required Readings

From your textbook: HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide by Elizabeth Castro

Recommended Readings and Resources

The video presentations below are lab exercises. You will need to open your web browser and a text editing program ( NotePad) and follow along with the presentations. You can pause the presentations while you work and then restart them.
First HTML Lab An eleven step stroll through basic html

Videos of the above lab exercises

Step 1 - Creating your first web page
Step 2 - Understanding tags
Step 3 - Beginning a second web page
Step 4 - Creating the <body> and adding content
Step 5 - Formatting text - paragraphs and headers
Step 6 - Formatting body text
Step 7 - Creating links
Step 8 - Adding images
Step 9 - Lists
Step 10 - Background images and colors
Step 11 - Upload your web file to your unc web space


Week 2 - XHTML and CSS

This week will focus on an introduction to the basic concepts behind Style Sheets. There is a lab which will walk you through the creation of a web page using css to format the page.


Due on Friday:

  • Assignment 7: web page creation

Required Readings

  • Building your first CSS site by Michael Koch
  • Ch. 8 - Creating Styles
  • Ch. 9 - Formatting with Styles
  • p. 176 - Structuring your Pages
  • Ch. 14 - Tables

Recommended Readings and Resources

css Overview Short synopsis of the basics of css
css Lab Creating a simple page using css

Dreamweaver and Fireworks Resources

We do not have a Dreamweaver of Fireworks textbook. Below are some resources which I recommend. The lynda.com lectures are usually excellent, but time consuming. The underlined lectures are a free introduction.

 


revised November 19, 2006