Websites: Review and Critiques
W3 Consortium http://www.w3.org/
the W3 is an international organization that develops web standards, protocals and guidelines in order to maintain a successful web. This website includes technical reports and publications, discusses activities, W3C news (current events), and links to a variety of other sites. I find this website cluttered and I really have no use in viewing this website.
W3Schools – free web building tutorials and references. The HTML and CSS tutorials are especially helpful http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp
I really liked this website because it offered tutorials in how to use HTML coding and other web developing tools. I actually completed the HTML tutorial and I now feel a little more comfortable using it. I think that this site would help any web developer whether beginning or advanced because it has tutorials and references.
USF specific tutorials at http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/distance/tutorials/
USF’s tutorials helps USF students learn how to use the different resources that are available to them such as using Blackboard, Oasis and learning about how to create and use the SSH Client system to create a student web page. I wish that knew about this website when I started the program because I had no ida on how to use any of these tools. This website should be included in the acceptance letter for incoming LIS graduate students.
Weekly Readings-
Creating Web Sites:
Chapter 3- This chapter informs the reader on how to put their web page in the web. This chapter is a very infomative because it introduces the whole process on how web hosting works and teaches about URL’s, domain names, and how to actually get a web space and finding a web host. I particularly liked the section on domain names. It really gave good ideas on how to actually pick the right name for your url. I will use this section when I create another web page for my personal business.
Chapter 4- This chapter focuses on the different HTML editors and how to choose the one that best suits each individuals needs. There are a lot of free HTML editors. But the book discusses the professional HTML editors that have to be purchased such as FrontPage and Dreamweaver. I purchased Dreamweaver for this class. It was expensive but so far I find it easy to use. This book helps walk you walk through using these different progams. Ultimately, I know that I certainly like any program with a WYSIWYG editor.