Super-long URLs

A student showed me that the URL for a reference she found via the NVCC library website was one of those amazingly long ones, and although we worked on it for several minutes, we couldn't find a short version of the same URL. (Maybe there isn't one.) So if you get one of those, it is OK to say, "Click here for source," and make a link to the source.

But only for the amazingly long kind of URL! Ordinary medium-long URLs should still be cited in the given form.

Remind-o: Web bibiliography due Friday

Your web bibliography is due Friday at 8 a.m. How you submit it is by sending me a link to your page, which must be running in your NVCC webspace.

Here's a recap on the assignment.

Here's a link to the how-to on Filezilla. Yes, you can follow these directions to get Filezilla on your home computer.

Warning! The college servers will be getting some maintenance on Friday morning from 12:00 a.m. to 2 a.m. (I just got an e-mail.) Your work is still due at 8 a.m.

Excel day one

I note that about half the class claims some experience with Excel. Therefore, my plan is to show some Excel techniques that I find most useful, then turn you loose to work on today's project, which is project 2G beginning on page 177.

Please note that correct use of formulas and formats is required!

If you don't have a lot of experience using Excel already, then I recommend going through the steps of projects 2A and 2B first.

Get today's files here

I mean, here.

Day 1 for MS Office

Today we begin working on Microsoft Office programs, for which you need your green book. I will post files here. Today we have Word projects 1H_Invitation, 1H_Letterhead, 1I_Fax_Cover, and 1I_Fax_Machine.

Warning! computer cleaning

All of the computers in room AA 156 (our classroom) are going to be hosed off on Friday, February 15. Save your work before that happens!

Save by uploading to your webspace, or by e-mailing to yourself (in a zip file, natch), or by copying to a thumb drive.

110 day nine: stylesheets

Today we start writing HTML with stylesheets, which make good layouts easier, compared to tables. In fact, most web pages combine the two techniques. Here's a template to use.

Also today we will talk about your research assignment, which is due at 8 a.m. on Friday, February 29.

Day 8, I think: whitespace

Click here for a page without whitespace. See how much better to see how it looks with whitespace?

Day 7: formatting HTML with tables

In old-school HTML, our only tool for controlling layout on the screen was to use rectangular tables and tables within tables. The method is crude and cumbersome, but effective. Some work with tables will make you salivate when we get to stylesheets, next meeting.

To see today's handout, click here.

References in the book:

• Chapter 3 generally


• simple examples, beginning page 83




• table, tr, td tags


• align, border, bordercolor attributes


• cellspacing, cellpadding attributes


• bgcolor attribute


• colspan, rowspan attribute

On pages 97, 100, and 110 you can see some sample formats. Look at some of your favorite webpages for rectangular tables.

Assignment for today: Make four (4!) webpages. Use the drawings on the handout for models. Fill the cells of the table with pleasing colors, chosen from combinations that you find using the color chooser. When you have finished all four, show them to me.

Day 6: protocols and uploading

(revised after class to say what we actually did)

Today we will begin with a short discussion of Internet protocols. Then we will talk about uploading files to the web using Filezilla FTP.

Get Filezilla FTP here. Be sure to get the client program.

When you use Filezilla, you will need to specify:

host:  www.student.nvcc.edu
username: nvstu\yourID (example, vfitton)
password:
port: (leave blank)

then click Quickconnect.

On the left, go through the file tree to get to your Desktop and the web folder you created on it.

On the right, if you can't yet see a folder with your name in the Remote window, click on the folder tree and find it. (Sorry to be so vague, but we were getting varying results in the lab.)

Pick up the entire web folder from the Desktop on the left and drop it on the folder with your name on the right. In the filename folder, lower right, double click on the web folder that should now be visible, and make sure it's got what it should.

In the browser, use this URL:

www.student.nvcc.edu/home/yourID/web/yourPage.html

substituting your own LAN ID and page names. When successful, send me an e-mail with the URL. Send it to everyone!

Click the same Quickconnect button to close your connection with the server.