SPRING 2009

Taught by Sara Newman. This is the basics course on web authoring, covering how web design works, using text editors (no WYSIWYG) and mostly HTML. Best practises, workflow, tables and forms.

The Assignments

• A-1 (This Portal Page)
• A-2 (Basic Tags - What's Wrong Exercise)
• A-3 - Images, File Paths and Linking
  • Part I (Two linked pages with images)
  • PartII (Links and Images - What's Wrong Exercise)
• A-4 - Table Assignments
  • Part I (AIA - Audience, Issues and Approach)
  • PartII (What's Wrong Exercise)
• A-5 (Image Mapping)
• A-5 (Javascript rollover and other stuff)
• A-6 (Frames)
  • Frames Color exercise (Frames)
  • Pet haven frames exercise (Frames)
• A-7 (Form and Thank You page)
• A-8 (Final Project - Flowchart and Comps)
• A-9 (Final Project - 1st and 2nd level templates)
  • 1st level wireframe
  • 2nd level wireframe
• Final Project (due during our last face-2-face class of the quarter - during Finals week)
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Contact information

• Contact form
• phone: 206.920.6260

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Web 110: Web Authoring I

Gad, the things I don't know. That's what brings me here.

In 1999 I started my own online magazine because I had no money for paper, and because electrons are free. I called it Get Lost Magazine (dot com) and after 10 years of great articles and fun, I realized it was so cumbersome from inept PageMill HTML that I couldn't update it quickly. I spent no time writing, and all my time fiddling with files. My spawn had become a monster.

Dreamweaver helped a lot but I still didn't know what was going wrong when things failed. My mom wanted a spin-off site from her "Eats" column in Get Lost Magazine, so I set her up with a blog, which we didn't like, so New Economy Cooking turned into something un-bloggy and not interactive. Bummer. In my search for tricks to navigating the waters of the New Economy, I started a new site, This Offbeat Life, and discovered WordPress, which I still haven't figured out but I'm working on it.

So my gap-filled self-education has gotten me past my early days as a dinosaur with a shoebox full of punchcards, to the loveable but shabby site-writer you see today. No, wait. The sites are loveable and shabby. I'm irritable and confused.