Feed for COM530W: Online Design at Illinois Institute of Technology http://courses.karlstolley.com/530w/ We'll use these things tonight to build secure email handling scripts. Email-Specific Regular Expressions Email Injection Overview PHP Documentation for... http://courses.karlstolley.com/530w/coursenews.php#item147 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:17:53 Be sure to check your project for these last-minute issues: Accurate use of the <title> tag on all pages Use of one CSS file for ALL pages No image resizing via the height and width properties on the image tag No broken/incorrect internal links or images Use of XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD Validating XHTML according to http://validator.w3.org Turn-In Guidelines Send instructor one email containing: The URL of your website Your self-critique memo as email text As attachments,... http://courses.karlstolley.com/530w/coursenews.php#item145 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:47:06 Be sure to download and install the Pearl Crescent Page Saver Basic and Web Developer toolbar extensions in Firefox. Tonight we will look at how both of those Firefox extensions can be used as part of the design process, allowing you to build your own references (in a visual artist’s sense, kind of) to make developing CSS-based layouts easier. Keep this CSS2 Reference at W3Schools handy, too. Also, this reset style sheet c/o Yahoo! may also be of help, tonight and into the... http://courses.karlstolley.com/530w/coursenews.php#item144 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:29:23 The IIT library subscribes to Books 24x7, which is an amazing and fully searchable (and readable) collection of online books. Here are some of the titles from there that I think may be worth your time, if you need some additional help with XHTML and CSS. NOTE: be sure to log into Books 24x7 through the IIT Library site before following any of the links below. XHTML & CSS Dan Cederholm, Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook Excellent, topical guide to XHTML markup... http://courses.karlstolley.com/530w/coursenews.php#item142 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:20:00 I’ve made quite a few updates to the calendar for the next couple of weeks. Have a... http://courses.karlstolley.com/530w/coursenews.php#item141 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:19:43 Some of you may need a little help clarifying the del.icio.us and social-bookmarking concept a little bit. The same things is true for the RSS feeds that your del.icio.us activity generates, and how those feeds of links end up on the course web site (and potentially elsewhere) for all the world to see. So first, del.icio.us. Del.icio.us is one of the sites, like YouTube, that people refer to when they speak about Web 2.0, which is a Web reliant on user-generated and/or user-submitted... http://courses.karlstolley.com/530w/coursenews.php#item138 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:02:58 We have a number of things to do tonight in Online Design. First, after getting to know everyone a little, is exploring the course web site and its features. Assuming you’re looking at the site, this is the course news page; here I’ll post news, announcements, and other items of some degree of importance to the class. There will eventually be some other items below of a newsy-nature, but let’s hold off on that for a bit. You’ll also see that the current... http://courses.karlstolley.com/530w/coursenews.php#item135 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:21:56 I urge all of you in COM530—actually, I urge everyone in general—to register the domain of your name, particularly the .com top-level domain (TLD). The primary reason for doing this is stability of your online identity. Though it might seem far away to some of you, a day will come when you’ll leave IIT. If you spend years establishing a Web presence on the iit.edu domain, climbing to the very top of Google on a search for your name, you don’t want that to evaporate... http://courses.karlstolley.com/530w/coursenews.php#item134 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:20:44