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Policy Statement Update

August 27, 2010

There has been a minor modification to the course policy statement; the citation and link for the Code of Academic Honesty has been updated to the most recent version of the Code. You can also view the course policy statement showing the changes.

First Night of Class

August 23, 2010

Welcome to the course website for COM530: Standards-Based Web Design. You'll want to bookmark this site for future reference; beyond containing the policies for successful completion of the course, it also contains the course calendar with each week's class agenda and readings and activities for the next meeting. We'll go over both the policies and the calendar tonight.

One of the other important orders of business tonight will be for everyone to register on the wiki. A top-secret invitation code will be given in class that you'll need to register; please set your username (aka "wiki name") as your first name and last initial (e.g., Karl Stolley is KarlS, Jane Smith is JaneS and so on). Read more about naming conventions on the wiki. This will help keep everyone clear on who's doing what on the wiki, while also avoiding having this site show up in a Google search for your full name.

(By next week, edit your page with a short introduction to the class, and then add your name on the Course Members page in alphabetical order. See the WikiHelp page for more information on using the wiki.)

Also, if you don't have a Delicious or other social bookmarking account, I urge you to register for one. You can use the tag com530 (and on Twitter, #com530) to mark links you find that are of relevance to the class--anything from standards-based web design tutorials to news stories with a web writing/design angle to them.

Tonight's class will be somewhat abbreviated; it'll pay forward all the times that we go past the 9:05 buzzer in the future.

Again, welcome to the course.--Karl