Meeting 1


Class overview

Take attendance for first class

Syllabus discussion

grading - Links, Navigation, Typography, Content, Organization, Design, Consistency, Concept

Projects assigned during the quarter

A personal web site
Redesign the College of Communication web site (http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/~commcoll/welcome.html)
Other

Give web address for class materials - http://132.325.108.73

Informational Survey

Students complete handout

ZIP disks and suggested backup disk for all class work


Discussion on what comprises the internet

millions of computers connected together

definition of server and client computer

servers run software programs that permit serving files to client computers

services (ftp, http, email, newsgroups and others)

Local Internet providers

DialNet (593-9426) OU Computer Network Services in Scott Quad
FrogNet (593-3764)
Eureka Net (593-5052)
Others - Compuserve, AOL, etc.

Short history but has tremendous growth each year

Businesses attempting to cash in on the potential market:

News

Pull news - CNN (http://www.cnn.com), MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.com/news/default.asp), NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com), etc

Push News - Pointcast, Microsoft Channels, etc.

Retail - Online ordering of consumer items

Music -CDNow (http://cdnow.com), Digital Music Network (http://www.dmn.com) (NOTE: This link appears to be gone).

Computer Software - Software.net (http://www.software.net), MacConnection (http://www.pcconnection.com), computer products price comparisons (http://www.uvision.com)

Computer Hardware - Dell Computer (http://www.dell.com)
Dell is doing over $1 million per day over the web, and its web business has been doubling every 6 months!

Discuss advantage and disadvantage of what was shown.

Conclusion: Cool graphics are nice, but they must not hinder access to content. Content is king.

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