Activity 1-1
Visit the following web documents to know more about the World Wide Web
1. How the Web Works http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/13wworks.htm
2. The Web At-a-glance http://www.learnthenet.com/english/web/000www.htm
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Activity 1-1 Visit the following web documents to know more about the World Wide Web 1. How the Web Works http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/13wworks.htm 2. The Web At-a-glance http://www.learnthenet.com/english/web/000www.htm |
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Activity 1-2 Read these articles to know more about how the Web works 1. Client/Server, the Internet, and WWW http://www.robelle.com/www-paper/paper.html 2. How Web servers and the Internet Work http://www.howstuffworks.com/web-server.htm 3. The Web At-a-glance http://www.learnthenet.com/english/web/000www.htm |
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Activity 1-3 Explore these pages that contain links to several web servers and browsers 1. World Wide Web Server Software - http://www.w3.org/Servers.html 2. Browsers - http://www.webreference.com/internet/software/browsers/ |
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Activity 1-4 Read these articles to know more about how a web page works: 1. What is a web page? - http://www.dreamink.com/beginners/b 2.html2. How web pages work - http://www.howstuffworks.com/web-page.htm 3. How Web Sites Work - http://www.workz.com/content/629.asp |
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Activity 2-1 Go through the first steps in web page design and answer the initial questions discussed. You can add more information as you would like. Write them down using the activity sheet provided in this module. |
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Activity 2-2 Read these articles: 1. Anatomy of a Web Page - http://worldlinklearning.net/ei/mod010301.html/ 2. Web Page Elements - http://www.bilk.ac.uk/college/helpweb/familiar.htm |
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Activity 2-3 1. Read this article: Yale Style Manual - http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/ 2. Resources: Design Tips - http://www.csus.edu/web/tips.html 3. Create a storyboard for your web page, with a layout for each page 4. Organize your web site - illustrate the structure of your site showing how the pages are linked to each other |
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Activity 2-4 1. Read the following articles: - Designing effective web pages http://www.becta.org.uk/websiteawards/effectivedesign.html - Indiana University: Basics of Web Design. http://www.indiana.edu/ ~iuinfo/guides/basics.html 2. Make a checklist regarding your library's web site - what you'll need and what information you'll provide |
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Activity 2-5 1. Read the following articles: - ALA's Selection Criteria http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/criteria.html - What makes a great web site? http://webreference.com/greatsite.html 2. Visit and evaluate library web sites. 3. Choose which ones you could use as models for your web site. |
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Activity 3-1 Read these two introductions to HTML: 1. What is HTML? InterNIC 15 Minutes Series (mirrored by Netskills) http://www.netskills.ac.uk/mirrors/15min/html/html/sld01.html 2. Introduction to HTML http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/HTML/Intro/ |
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Exercise 1 Ask the students to do Exercise 1. Explain clearly and check on their work. Provide tips and guidelines that will help them produce the desired page. Remind them of the activities in the previous lesson, which should help them define the design and content of their web page. |
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Exercise 2 Ask the students to do Exercise 2. Explain clearly and check on their work. Provide tips and guidelines that will help them produce the desired page. Remind them of the activities in the previous lesson, which should help them define the design and content of their web pages. The pages created on this exercise ("collection.htm" and "services.htm") and the one created in exercise 1 ("about.htm") will be used in the hyperlinking part of this lesson. |
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Exercise 3 Ask the students to do Exercise 3. Provide them with a copy of the Hexadecimal color codes and let them figure out the color they want to use by trying out the color codes. |
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Exercise 4 Ask the students to do Exercise 4. Remind them of the need to observe and respect copyrighted materials. |
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Exercise 5 Ask the students to do Exercise 5. Help them get hold of the materials listed for further readings, and guide them in order to accomplish the assigned task |
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Activity 3-2 1. Read the following articles:
2. Submit electronic copies of the web pages created using the lesson: about.htm, collections.htm, services.htm and index.htm. The links on the web pages should be working. |
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Activity 4-1 1. Read:
2. Choose your own domain name, then search it through one of the domain registrars |
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Activity 4-2 1. Read the following articles:
2. Visit some of the web hosting sites offering free or commercial hosting and compare the cost, file storage space, features and added value services 3. Register at one of the free web hosting site for example Netfirm http://www.netfirms.com to be able to complete the activities for this lesson 4. You may opt to use your own web server for the activities |
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Activity 4-3 1. Read these tutorials on how to upload web pages:
2. Download WS_FTP LE or get hold of an FTP program that will work with your system 3. WS_FTP is supported at Netfirms.com and has its own help file on how to use WS_FTP 4. Connect to the web server of your host and upload your web pages 5. Test your web site and submit your URL to your course coordinator/instructor |
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Activity 4-4 Read the following:
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Activity 4-5 1. Write a short description of your web site 2. Submit it to different search engines. 3. Submit a copy to your course instructor/coordinator |
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Activity 4-6 Read these articles: 1. Copyright Law and Fair Use. Stanford. [Online] URL http://www-sul.stanford.edu/cpyright.html 2. Copyright Basics. Copyright Office. Library of Congress. [Online] URL http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html 3. Rinaldi, Arlene H. The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette. [Online] URL http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/ 4. WebRef: What Makes a Great Web Site? INT Media Group. [Online] URL http://webreference.com/greatsite.html / |