CS463/563-Web Programming Week 1

Review of the Internet and HTML

An Overview of Internet Programming[for background only]
- A Short History of the Internet (started in late 1960s)
- TCP/IP Protocol Model and associated protocols
- LAN Topologies
- Internetworking (WANs)
- IP Addresses and Domain Names
- The Client/Server Model
- Sockets and Socket APIs
- Applications, Plug-Ins, and Applets
  You need to know the similarities and differences for these
WWW Design Issues
- You Don't Own the Resources (Internet and Client/Server)
- You Don't Make the Rules
- Designing Your Application
  
  TIP Good system design and development techniques still hold for Internet applications. Planning is the key to a successful application.
  - Design the complete application
  - Multiple End-user Platform Requirements (PC, UNIX, Mac)
  - Choosing a Browser vs. Writing fro all Browsers (Netscape vs. Microsoft vs. text-based browsers)
  - More WYSMNG (what you see, you might not get) than WYSIWYG
    - default type styles
    - monitor aspect ratios
    - number of colors supported
    - different browsers
  TEST
- The Internet Can be Unreliable and Can Change Without Notice
- Security
- International Considerations
  1. Non-english speakers
  2. Other Cultures
  3. Addresses & Phone Numbers
  4. Dates and Number fromatting
  5. Time Zones
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
1. BODY tags
2. Paragraph Text tags(P, DIV, BR, PRE, CENTER, HR, Comments)
3. List Tags (OL, UL, LI, BLOCKQUOTE, types)
4. Text Style Tags (B, I, H, FONT, BASEFONT, SUB, SUP)
5. Hyperlinks (HREF, NAME, TARGET)
6. Images
7. Tables
8. Frames
9. Forms
10. Imagemap
11. Multimedia (audio, video)
12. Marquees IE Explorer only
Read Creating an HTML Document
Guides and Tools to Writing HTML Documents
Read HTML 4.0 Standards