Welcome to

the Fall 1997 "Multimedia Authoring" class

World-Wide Web segment

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This segment of the class will focus on creating multimedia content for delivery over the Web.

The finals session for this class is Thursday December 11, 5 to 7 PM.

For additional information, look into the following web pages:

• Unix and Communications lectures.
  • Outline of Computer Communications.
  • General Unix Info.
• Basic HTML authoring
  • Getting Started with Web Pages.
  • A basic web page.
  • HTML 3.2 Reference Specification.
    The final World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation, dated Jan 14, 1997.
  • Extended character set handling (accented Latin-1 alphabetic characters):
    • Character entity names.
    • Numeric character entities.
  • HTML 3 Table Model.
• Advanced HTML authoring
  • HTML 4.0 Specification.
    The W3C working draft, dated Sep 17, 1997.
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
    • Getting Started with Style Sheets.
    • Our basic web page with the style sheet treatment.
      • This is the style sheet used with the basic web page.
    • W3C overview of CSS.
      • CSS Level 1 specifications.
      • W3C info on combining HTML and style sheets.
  • The non-dithering color palette for web documents.
  • JavaScript
    • Getting Started with JavaScript.
    • Basic JavaScript examples.
    • Rollover using JavaScript.
    • Netscape postings on JavaScript:
      • JavaScript Central.
      • Dynamic HTML in Netscape Communicator, client-side info on layout and animation not contained in the previous two documents.
  • Image maps.
    • Server-side, CERN style.
• Future directions in Internet authoring
  • Extensible Markup Language (XML).
  • Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL).