Week 3: The Internet
Response due Monday 2/3
Tuesday, February 4: Hyper Text Markup Language
- Readings:
- Jane Austen, “Lady Susan,” Letters XXXI - Conclusion
- Sasha Constanza-Chock, “Design Values: Hard-Coding Liberation?”, Design Values (MIT: 2020)
- Listen: “Data Vampires: Going Hyperscale (Episode 1)” from Tech Won’t Save Us podcast
- In class:
- Discussion of readings
- Text Markup/HTML activity
- HTML + CSS workshop
- Slides: HTML & CSS
- Practice using Visual Studio locally on lab computers
- Upload content from class to GitHub (use GitHub Classroom link on Moodle)
Thursday, February 6: Design and Access
- Readings
- Jo Jung, “A Nostalgic Journey through the Evolution of Web Design”, The Conversation
- “Introduction to Web Accessibility”, WebAIM
- “How to build a low-tech website”, Low-tech Magazine 2018.
- Optional: “How to build a low-tech internet”
- Homework:
- Deploy your site using the File Manager on Domain of One’s Own or using GitHub Pages (include both HTML and CSS files in your upload)
- In class:
- Discuss simple website assignment
- Web Design & UX slides
- Continue HTML & CSS work (NB: feel free to use my sample code)
- Deployment on GitHub Pages: deployment instructions
- Discussion: responsiveness and accessibility
- Web accessibility testing exercise: WAVE tool