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Responses to Readings IV

1) Provide a url to a web page of your choosing.

url

After clicking around a while, you learn how to navigate. That is, you learn how to get to the next page you want. By contrast, getting to the next page of a book or stapled report is a lot easier, more intuitive, and more practiced. They're all the same: next page. But on a web, there usually is no next page. There's a choice of next pages. On the page you have chosen:

What replaces the staple? Not: how do you get from one page to the next. That's easy. You click. What I mean here is the navigation system: How do you know how to get from one page to the next?

What replaces page numbers? Is there any guidance on a preferred order of reading?


 

2) Go to Web Developers Virtual Library. It has a range of materials for everyone from beginners to webmasters. Keeping clicking on topics that interest you until you get to an article that teaches you something about designing webs or working with graphics. In the box below, provide the url of the article.

url

In the box below, provide a citation in this format:

author, title or article, online publication name, date

and then summarize the article in fifty words or fewer.


 

3) Go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's site. In 25 words or fewer, what is their position on censorship on the Internet, especially the recent New Mexico law "banning the dissemination of material deemed 'harmful to minors' on the Internet"?

Extra credit: provide a URL where I'll find an opposing viewpoint articulated.

url

 

4) Let's say you are building a web for the general public in the broadest sense of the term. You decide to optimize your design to what will look best on the most common monitor size and resolution with the most common version of a browser. You are aiming for a worldwide audience. (note: Netscape and Microsoft have each have three popular browser versions available.) Go to Nua and Browser Watch for your answers and provide the urls.

monitor size (in inches) and resolution (in # of pixels across by # of pixels down)

url where you found the info

browser

url


 

5) What's the hardest software program you ever tried to learn? Why was it so hard?

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