Pages from a web design class

Flash 5 examples: Here are the movies with shape tween, motion tween, and layers and guide layers.

Java toys: You know that Java is not JavaScript, and Java applets can be embedded in web pages. But what about the details? Here is a brief introduction to applets with three applets you can download and use. (For more applets, try the Java Boutique or any of numerous other Java sites.)

Windows XP users: Early releases of WinXP did not support Java, thanks to Microsoft’s vendetta against Java’s developer, Sun Microsystems. If you find that Java applets won’t work in your browser, you probably need to download the Java virtual machine from Sun. Microsoft did begin including Java support in WinXP this summer, but said it will permanently remove Java from Windows after January 2004. In the meantime they are trying to replace Java with a proprietary language called Visual J# .NET.

New browser versions: Opera 7.0 for Windows is now available. Mozilla.org has released version 1.2 of its open-source browser.

Homework

Here is a list of websites where you can “steal” images.

Prior homework:

1. Mundana website
2. Table-based layout
3. Mail form notes
4. Frameset assignment
5. Putting Alice in Wonderland on the Web

Don’t forget to place links on your home page so I can find your homework!

Useful links

• Your websites!
• HTML 4.01 templates: Transitional, Strict, and Frameset
• Using Angelfire
• Angelfire Web Shell
• BCIP Web Design certification track
• Color on the Web
• HTML Tidy is free software that checks your HTML code.
• Peter-Paul Koch’s JavaScript site
• Munge your e-mail address so it can’t be harvested by spammers! (Remember, you have to press Ctrl+C to copy the munged code.)
• Download browsers for testing:
  • Mozilla is the open-source browser development project that has released the free Firefox browser.
  • Opera actually may be the fastest browser available, as it claims.
  • Netscape 4.8 for Windows & Netscape 4.8 for Mac
  • WebTV Viewer for Windows or Mac
  • Find out how your site looks in Lynx.
  • Rare and obsolete browsers may be found at the Evolt browser archive
• HTML Tag Library at About.com

The Meta Refresh tag. (Time to refresh this paragraph, I’d say.)

About this site

My name is Rob Collins. I teach taught web design at UAB in Birmingham, Alabama. This site contains information for the class.

The latest class began on Monday, Sept. 16. There awere six students who are building built sites of their own.

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