1. WRA 210 8.28.13 INTRODUCTION TO WEB AUTHORING

2. HELLO, MY NAME IS: JOHN Basics Former PW Alum Really like tv, video games, and MSU sports and the Tigers Questions for me??

3. THE SYLLABUS All course related information can be found on: www.john- lauckner.com/wra210/www.john- lauckner.com/wra210/ A copy of the syllabus Homework News & updates

4. THE SYLLABUS Any questions?

5. GROUP ACTIVITY Break into groups of 4-5, I will assign each group numbers Once you are settled and have your number go to the website and find today’s agenda. There you will find a text. Look at that text and try to turn it into mark-up. The goal here is to make text that a computer could read. Take 10-15 minutes and then we will come back as a group.

6. BASIC HTML DOCUMENT Now we are going to look at a basic HTML document that we will use throughout the rest of the semester. Download the HTML file from the website Open it in a browser Open it in a text editor, Notepad (PC) or TextEdit (Mac) What are the differences? What are the similarities?

7. HOW WEB PAGES WORK A web page is a file. That file is sent to a server. A browser contacts servers. A browser reads the file. That file is generated by the browser as a web page.

8. WHAT IS MARK UP? Mark up is text that is understood by a browser. Here are some of the examples of mark-up in our HTML file:

9. AFS SPACE & OUR FIRST WEBPAGE On the website you will find a link to netfiles.msu.edu and a the document we have been looking at. We are now going to upload that document to our AFS space and make our first webpage. We will be using this webpage throughout the semester.

10. MODULE 1