Contents

• Ch. 1. A History of Information Highways and Byways
• Ch. 2. A Guide to the Geography of the Internet. 2.1. Components and Tools of the Internet. 2.1.1. UNIX. 2.1.2. Telnet. 2.1.3. FTP. 2.1.4. E-mail. 2.1.5. Usenet and Newsgroups. 2.1.6. LISTSERV Mailing Lists. 2.1.7. Internet Relay Chat (IRC). 2.1.8. Archie, Gopher, Veronica and Jughead. 2.1.9. The World Wide Web
• Ch. 3. Online Research and Reflections on Building Course Web Pages. 3.1. Research on the Net. 3.2. The Role of Universities in New Learning Environments. 3.3. Faculty Experiences with First Experiments in Course Web Pages
• Ch. 4. Putting Together Your First Instructional Web Site. 4.1. Basic HTML. 4.1.1. Creating Your First Web Site. 4.1.2. Adding an Image. 4.1.3. Adding a List. 4.1.4. Navigational Links and E-mail Links. 4.1.5. Simple Tables. 4.1.6. Creating Subpages. 4.1.7. Publishing Your Page. 4.2. Advanced HTML. 4.2.1. Background and Text Colors. 4.2.2. Advanced Tables. 4.2.3. Frames. 4.3. Web Site Development and Design. 4.3.1. The Purpose of the Web Site. 4.3.2. Audience. 4.3.3. Design Considerations
• Ch. 5. Second-Stage Instructional Web Design. 5.1. Working with Images. 5.1.1. Creating Digital Images. 5.1.2. Digital Cameras. 5.1.3. Image Archives and Other Downloadable Images. 5.1.4. Creating Your Own Images. 5.1.5. How to Incorporate Images on Your Web Page. 5.1.6. File Formats for the Web. 5.1.7. The Browser-Safe Palette. 5.1.8. Image Size. 5.1.9. Scanning Basics. 5.1.10. Printing Resolution. 5.1.11. Anti -aliasing. 5.1.12. Batch-Processing Images. 5.1.13. Imaging Tools. 5.2. Creating Audio for the Web. 5.2.1. How to Incorporate Sound on Your Web Page. 5.2.2. Creating Sound Files from CDs Using Cool Edit. 5.2.3. Creating Sound Files of Voice Narration Using Cool Edit. 5.2.4. Good Uses of Audio on the Web. 5.3. Using Video. 5.3.1. Creating Content. 5.3.2. Transferring Video Images from Videotape to Computer. 5.3.3. Video Software Tools. 5.3.4. Video Hardware Tools. 5.3.5. Digitizing Video on a Shoestring Budget. 5.3.6. Using Adobe Premiere 4.2 on the Macintosh. 5.3.7. Incorporating Video Files in Web Pages. 5.4. Streaming Media. 5.4.1. How Does Streaming Media Work? 5.4.2. How to Create Streaming Media Content. 5.4.3. How to Incorporate RealMedia Files on Your Web Page. 5.4.4. Traditional Authoring Programs and the Web. 5.5. Virtual Reality [VRML]. 5.6. CGI/Perl Scripts. 5.6.1. What Is CGI? 5.6.2. How Does CGI Work? 5.6.3. Running CGI Programs. 5.6.4. Script Archives. 5.6.5. Cgi-bin. 5.6.6. Perl Basics. 5.6.7. Selena Sol’s Guest Book. 5.7. Administrative Issues. 5.7.1. Obtaining Student and Class Accounts. 5.7.2. Showing Web Pages in the Classroom. 5.7.3. Requesting Computer Rooms and Equipment. 5.7.4. Access to Your Site. 5.7.5. Working with Assistants
• Ch. 6. Visions for a Virtual University
• App. A.1. Commenting Files
• App. A.2. "Frames Are Lovely, But …" : Escape Tags
• App. A.3. "View Source": Learning by Example
• App. A.4. Perfect Background Images
• App. A.5. Background Colors by Name and Hexadecimal Value
• App. A.6. FTP on Two Platforms
• App. A.7. Are All Web Servers UNIX-Based?
• App. A.8. Top UNIX Commands
• App. A.9. Changing File Permissions in UNIX
• App. A.10. Reserved and Special Characters in HTML
• App. A.11. Skeleton Key to HTML Tags