Sections of Chapters Illustrated on the Web See selected sections of chapters below as links to illustrations. Table of Contents Preface to Students (and Facilitators) Acknowledgments and Credits Introduction: Orality, Literacy, Electronic Discourse I. First Questions and Concerns What is the World Wide Web (WWW, W3, the Web)? Why Should a Student in the Humanities Know How to Write for the WWW? What Should a Student Know? What are the Languages of the WWW? What are the Conventions of a Website or Home Page? How To Get Access to Webspace and Begin Writing and Publishing? References and Web Resources (Books, articles, and URLs) 2. The Elements of HyperStyle: A General Guide to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Preliminaries Hypertext Markup Language (HTML): Page Construction: Title, Body (Background, color and graphic), Invisible Comment Tags, Visible Blocks of text (Signature), End of Body Headings and Font Size Text Blocks: Paragraphs, Preformated Text, Block Quotations, etc. Text style: Italics, Emphasis, Bold, etc. Lists: Bullet, Numbered (a.k.a. Ordered), Definition Menus (vertical and horizontal) Signatures Links (textual, absolute and relative) Links (destination marker and jump) Pictures/Graphics (JPEGs/GIFs), Tagging and Linking, Aligning Text Blocks/Graphics, and Resizing Rules, Bars, Balls, Buttons, Backgrounds (tiling), Color Codes Tables Special Characters Comments and Suggestions: Templates Differences Among Browsers Making Websites Accessible (for sight and hearing impaired) Netscape, Obtaining a Copy Website Resources (further guides to HTML and to color, RGB, hexadecimal codes, and browser updates) 3. The Elements of HyperStyle: Page Conventions Words and Images (Content and Style, Substance and Glitz) Length and Width (The Problem of Scrolling) Connections/Linkages (No Dead Pages!) Logo (Identity) Statement of Purpose (Why? and Who?) Table of Contents and Headings, Sub-Headings Graphics and Photographs (Worth a 1,000 Words) Disposition of Chunks of Prose and Images Disposition of Pages/Files Signature with Credits References (Books and Articles) Website Resources (for construction and style of web pages, issues of copyright, icons and graphics, and special services) 4. Constructing Webpages: The Personal Home Page From Page to Page (File to File) Construction The First Page: The Personal Home Page: A Beginning Deciding on Categories of Content Preparing To Tag a Page Correcting and Revising as You Build Your Page Example of a Generic Home Page An Attempt at a Revision A Second Attempt at a Revised, More Complicated Revision Suggestions Fully Tagged Pages (selectively referred to in chapter) References (Books and Articles) Website Resources (Home Pages) 5. Constructing Webpages: The Electronic Essay From Page to Page (File to File) Construction (continued) The First Page: The Electronic Essay (and the print essay) Traditional Disposition of Essay: Arranged Discursively as "Traditional"-text and "Hyper"-text: An essay for print but on the Web ("traditional") A table of contents to a book for print but on the Web ("traditional") A page with icons and pictures interspersed (pictography, "traditional") A table of contents to a book for the Web ("hyper"-text) A home page revised with multimedia links to other sites ("hyper"-text) A table of contents to a book for the Web with multimedia links to same site ("hyper"-text) From First Page to Multiple Pages: The Electronic Essay (and the exploding text) Experimental Disposition of 'Essay': Arranged Discursively as "Hyper"-text The Introduction to W4 in "Hyper"-text Some options with destination markers and jumps Arranged Appositionally as "Hypertext" and Multimedia Signatures Rethinking and reinventing Signatures Rethinking and reinventing Signatures into a Fetish page Suggestions Fully-Tagged Pages (selectively referred to in chapter) References (Books and Articles) Website Resources ("Hyper"-text and "Hypertext" sites) 6. Constructing Webpages: Additional, Collaborative Genres From Page to Page (File to File) Construction (continued) The First Page: The Promotional/Informational Page Film Club Page Music (Jazz) Page Electronic Publications Campus Electronic Magazine Page ('Zine) Suggestions Website Resources (for sample sites on the Web) 7. Beyond the Single Page/File: Disposition of Pages (Directories/Files) From Page to Page (File to File) Construction (Continued) Just Link: How Your First Page may be Virtually All of the Above A New First Page and Building a Sequence of Pages/Files Linking the Old to the New Pages: Creating a Flow Chart Testing and Revising the Pages Before Placing Them in a Server Suggestions Fully-Tagged Pages (selectively referred to in chapter) References (Books) and Website Resources 8. Publishing Your First Webpage (Elementary and Advanced Considerations of Placing Files in Directories) Steps Toward Publishing Your First Webpage Getting Access to Web Space Elementary: Placing Files into a Server Advanced: Further Considerations and Elaborations Disposition of Additional Pages in a Server Arranged Propositionally/Hierarchically: In Directories, Sub-Directories and Sub-Sub-Directories and Files 9. Tips and Suggestions for Web Writing and for Assessing and Revising Drafts of Webpages: A Checklist, with some opinions Preparatory Comments Study, Study, Study the World Wide Web Browsers The First Page (In General) The First Page (In Style) The First and Subsequent Pages (In Content) Study, Study, Study Design General Writing (Designing) Security and Privacy HTML Editors Trouble-Shooting 10. The Future is the Present: From HTML (Hypertext) to MultiMedia Beyond the Basics Frames Acrobat GifAnimation Java Applets Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) MultiMedia Netscape Plug-Ins Audio Video FutureWave Shockwave Appendices: A. Important Sources on the WWW for Students in the Humanities B. Scanning Images/Pictures and Using Photoshop C. Using the Re/Search Engines D. Citing Electronic Discourse E. Special Characters, A Selected List (HTML and ISO-Latin-1) || Home || Introductions || Resources || New ||