Students in Spring 2000 LS5903 web design class will follow the syllabus, assignments, labs, and other requirements of this original (Spring 1999) course website, including design and deployment of an individual website.  In addition, we will use this original course website as a platform for developing a research component that focuses on the problem of inherited webs and collaborative design.

this website is retired May 8, 1999.   links are not maintained.
Visit the course gUest bOOk to read students' post-grade final comments

But they are useless. They can only give you answers. -Picasso, on computers

Texas Woman's University
School of Library and Information Studies
Library Science 5903 and Mass Communications 4903
Special Topics, Spring 1999
weB deSign
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There is no algorithm for the art of questioning. -Timothy W. Crusius

The Final Exam is under construction below. Questions will be added as the semester progresses. The total number of questions on the final exam depends (see twining's law #4). All but the two last questions will be posted by April 1, 1999.

You may opt to complete the final exam by the end of class May 8 instead of writing a paper or giving a presentation, but you must still attend class that day. For details about the final, the paper, or the presentation, see Assignments. If you opt to take the Final Exam, you must declare this by April 1, 1999. You may begin answering the Final Exams questions immediately, if you choose.

Final Exam
(Students may opt to take this final exam (under construction) in lieu of a final paper or presentation. See Assignments for details about opting for the final.)

Question 1. Is the Web speech or press? (placed 1/25/99)

1a. Post the following text by retyping on your website:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment I. Amendments to the Constitution
The Constitution of the United States

1b. Send the url of the page where this appears in your web by email to twining@texoma.net. Use the subject line Final Exam 1 yourlastname, your firstname. If you choose to copy and paste rather than retype, remove the digital watermark proof of origin. Failure to remove digital watermark proof of origin violates copyright and results in course failure.

EarlyBird Bonus: start and sustain a discussion thread in the Class Forum:
who should control encryption?

Question 2. The Medium is the Message (posted 1/31/99).

In the United States, Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), a civil rights law for people with disabilities, says:

All newly constructed places of public accommodation and commercial facilities must be accessible to individuals with disabilities to the extent that it is not structurally impracticable.

1a. Read all three days of Matt Margolin's web article "The Web Isn't For Everyone...Yet" which starts at http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/98/21/index2a.html

Margolin's web discusses authoring standards forthcoming in HTML 4.0 which address ADA requirements for web design. While we are complying to HTML 2.0 in all assignments in this class, the forthcoming 4.0 standards address the needs of web users with disabilities,  including those who use assistive technologies such as braille readers, TTY readers, or aural readers; those who interface with the web using television; and those using non-graphical browsers, such as Lynx. Margolin's article also addresses the forthcoming separation of layout and content elements which makes ADA compliance possible through the use of stylesheets.

2b. Post at least one message to the Class Forum in the thread FINAL EXAM 2 (if there isn't a thread already there, start one for extra credit.) Use the subject line yourlastname, yourfirstname ADA for your first post.

Read all prior posts to the thread, and in your posts discuss how pre-HTML4.0 web designers can use tags such as <strong> <em> <H1> <imgsrc="URL" alt="name of graphic"> and <a href="URL" title="title of page"></a>, and other ways HTML authors can make their webs more accessible for people with disabilities.
Question 3. Internet Literacy...is it more than searching?

3a. Take the Great American Net Literacy Test at http://www.nettest.mci.com

Read the rules, follow the directions, and take the test to completion..until it gives you a grade.

3b. When you receive the page with your grade and your state and national standings on it, SEND THE PAGE to LS590399@twu.edu . Use the subject line NETTEST yourlastname, yourfirstname.

BE CAREFUL not to just email the address of the page, but to email the contents of the entire page.
qUESTION 4. :=)RElative to weBdeSIGN, what is 'cool'(KOOL)?

send response to class email list using subject line KOOL, yourlastname, yourfirstname. Monitor responses from class, and reply.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, on leadership

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As
newspapers only serve to excite the masses to subvert the present order of things and the editors concerned are composed of the dregs of the literary classes, no good can be served by the continuation of such dangerous
instruments, and we hereby command the entire suppression and sealing up of all newspapers published within the Empire, while the editors connected with them are to be arrested and punished to the utmost rigor of the law.

...from an imperial edict issued in 1898
by the Empress Dowager of China

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