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You will need:

  • Access to the Internet with a computer.

  • An email address where you can receive mail. Yahoo, Hotmail, Netscape are among the many companies offering free mail service, if you do not already have an address. The ListServ that we use will require that all your mail be sent from or sent to one address.

  • Browsing software, which you already have if you are looking at this page. If possible, you will want to have more than one browser, so that you can check your pages with both the Microsoft Explorer and Netscape, for example. The instructor will also be viewing your work with Opera and a text-based browser such as Lynx. Web pages often display quite differently on the various browsers.

  • A web site. If your internet service provider does not give you web space with your email account, free web space is available from Webprovider, Geocities, or Xoom. You can also check this list of servers offering free web space. One of the first assignments will be to set up a site and send the URL address to the instructors.

  • You are welcome to use any basic introduction to html that appeals to you for this class. I have suggested some good texts to consider on the "Readings" page. If you cannot afford a book, all of the information is available on the web through the recommended links. However, it is very difficult to learn without having some reference text in print.

You will not need:

  • Exepensive web authoring programs such as FrontPage, PageMill, Dreamweaver, GoLive, nor the free programs such as Netscape Composer. In this class you will code your pages from scratch. Later we will evaluate these web authoring programs, but it is not necessary to have them.

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