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TT284 Tutorial 0

Session Starts 7 PM – Be with you soon!. TT284 Tutorial 0. Introduction / TMA01. Please Note : T his OU Live session will be recorded and made available in various formats. By attending this session you are agreeing to this recording. Thank You!. TT284 Tutorial 0. Introduction / TMA01.

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TT284 Tutorial 0

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  1. Session Starts 7 PM – Be with you soon! TT284 Tutorial 0 Introduction / TMA01 Please Note: This OU Live session will be recorded and made available in various formats. By attending this session you are agreeing to this recording. Thank You!

  2. TT284 Tutorial 0 Introduction / TMA01 Note to Moderator: TURN ON RECORDING!

  3. Proposed Agenda If you have any questions as you go along, please "raise your hand", or just type them in the chat box Course Overview Useful Resources Key Points from Block 1 Examples of Website Design & Layout CSS From Experience Study Hints / How to approach TMAs Next Tutorial / Questions Also, please use the “chat” box to talk to each other as much as you want. I understand that real-time opportunities to talk are limited!

  4. Overview and Resources

  5. Course Overview Practicals

  6. Course Scheduling • One week per section • TMA in parallel with last 3 weeks of each block • Don’t forget the Case Studies! • Find the “developer tools” on your browser of choice • e.g. Install “Firebug” extension for Firebox, • or press F12 in Chrome / IE

  7. Important dates for 2012 • TMA01 14th November • TMA02 23rdJan • TMA036th March • EMA part 1 (Workplan) 17th April • EMA part 2 (project) 30th May

  8. Useful Resources Have you found your way around the TT284 website ( a.k.a. VLE ) ? Safari Bookshelf Actual, real books Your tutor and the tutor forum The national forums In the next few slides we will look briefly at the TT284 Website. You may already be familiar with most of it.Screenshots are earlier version, current may differ slightly

  9. News, Assessment (TMAs) and Safari Library The TT284 Website (1)

  10. Block Specific and National Forums The TT284 Website (2)

  11. The Case Studies • Also check out Charly Lowndes’ video tour of the VLE at http://youtu.be/dDpgnKZLmtM The TT284 Website (3)

  12. The Safari On-line Library Click on the green tick if you already knew about this, or have used it before on another course...

  13. Case Studies • Open University Running Club (OURC) • Static (ish) Web site • Parkrun • Dynamic Web application • London 2012 • Massive! • Development, support, management and use of Web technologies in context • Not necessarily best practice…

  14. scale scope socio-technicalcomplexity Similarities and Differences • Case studies all share a sporting theme, but the organisations differ in: • ‘fly on the wall’ perspective versus ‘expert’ opinion • Analyse, assess, discuss and reflect to test understanding of concepts and techniques from teaching materials

  15. Additional Resources Noneof the following are required These are suggestions, for INFORMATION ONLY

  16. Skills for OU Study Linked from Student Home…

  17. Library Services http://www.open.ac.uk/library/

  18. Real Books 4th Editions, approx £7 each + available for Kindle "HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference" (3rd edition does NOT cover HTML5 so may be better!) "CSS Pocket Reference"

  19. Unreal Books CSS Pro, HTML Pro, Js Pro, PHP Pro Android / Iphone Apps by Mobile Apps Maui 63p each (alternative, free apps are also available)

  20. Review of Block One Two sentence summaries of each part of Block 1 (Does NOT replace actually reading the material…)

  21. STANDARDS allow the internet (and the web) to work IETF for the internet, W3C for the web + Others, e.g. ISO Key Points from Block 1 Part 1 XHTML describes the CONTENT CSS describes the FORMAT csszengarden.com - every page has identical CONTENT but (through CSS) a different FORMAT Part 2

  22. There's > 1 way to design a website... There are attempts to measure USABILITY BUT never forget that "content is king"! Style over substance rarely true (for long) on the web Key Points from Block 1 Part 3 ACCESSIBILITY is a good thing But not necessarily easy Additional effort + thought & planning Part 4

  23. Print out the CSS Box Model & pin it up! Quality web typography isn't here yet... Key Points from Block 1 Part 5 (Coverage of security is very light) More to come later... XHTML LINKS create the "web" But XHTML FORMS make it "interactive" Part 6

  24. Web Standards “The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.” Andrew Tanenbaum – “Computer Networks”

  25. Standards: How the Web Develops- A personal view Bad idea"dies out"....(we hope!)IE6!! Good Ideas Bad Ideas Standards Version x.a Standards Version x.b Standards Version y.a Good Idea: Tables (added to HTML2.0 in 1996) Bad Idea: Microsoft Frontpage Extensions Work-around: Round Corners - At first, layout as a table with corner images - Later, replaced by CSS features "Work-arounds" Better implementation Work-around "dies out"....

  26. Survey – Browsers & Devices Place a tick in any box thatrepresents a browser anddevice that you use regularly (I’ve done mine)

  27. Web Page Design Much of what follows is subjective – your opinions may varyPlease feel free to state your view in the chat box…

  28. Effective Design? BBC News "I think this site has been designed very well, it is un-cluttered, clean, efficient and has good signal as opposed to noise. It makes good use of white space, it uses one primary font (Arial I think) with various styles to direct you straight to various headlines"

  29. Effective Design? Guardian UK "The useful information is displayed in the visible form without the unnecessary distraction. The graphic elements complement the message to convey and attract the users."

  30. Ineffective Design? Waitrose "This is a search for Pork Sausages that returns 44 hits. I can only see 12 on each page and between 4 & 6 on each screen. ********* Annoying. Look at all that ********** white space. Total ******* waste of my valuable *********** time and ********* ********* *********....."

  31. Different Devices, Different Formats The next three pages show the same information presented in three different formats Consider: Navigation - how does the information "flow"? Use of space - how is white space used? Other content - what else is in view?

  32. Economist Print Edition

  33. Economist Mobile Edition

  34. Economist Web Edition

  35. HTML & CSS - Basic Concepts This is a preview of some of the practical work in parts 3 onwards – Don’t worry if you haven’t read these parts yet, you can always come back to view the recording.

  36. What is XHTML? • Structured ASCII Text File • <tag on> and <tag off> • <head>…</head> • <title>…</title> • <body>…</body> • <h1>…<h1> • <p>…</p> • <ol>…</ol> • <ul>…</ul> • <li>…</li>

  37. Anatomy of an XHTML page <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="keywords" content="" /> <meta name="description" content="" /> <title>XHTML1.0 Valid Strict Template</title> <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <!-- An unseen HTML comment – All content and other tags go here--> </body> </html>

  38. HTML Developments • 1992 HTML Based on SGML • Tagged document + DTD • November 24, 1995 : HTML 2.0 published • May 1996: (tables) • August 1996: (client-side image maps) • January 1997: (internationalization) • January 1997 : HTML 3.2 published as a W3C Recommendation. • December 1997 : HTML 4.0 published as a W3C Recommendation. • Strict, in which deprecated elements are forbidden, • Transitional, in which deprecated elements are allowed, • Frameset, in which mostly only frame related elements are allowed; • April 1998 : HTML 4.0 was reissued • December 1999 : HTML 4.01 published as a W3C Recommendation. • May 2000 : HTML 4.01 Strict published • HTML5 • January 26, 2000. XHTML 1.1 became a W3C Recommendation on May 31, 2001.

  39. Formatting Set font, style, size Set foreground colour Set background e.g: h1 { font-family: sans-serif;font-weight: bold; } Layout Where something appears on the page e.g: #menu { position: absolute; left: 10px; top: 10px; } Using CSS Each XHTML tag can have associated CSS info CSS has TWO major functions

  40. CSS Layout Concepts In essence, very simple Everything is a box Boxes are either DIVs or SPANs By default (with no CSS stylesheet) - DIVs are arranged on the left, down the page SPANs fill containing box left to right, top to bottom Automatic assignments, e.g. h1 is a DIV, words are SPANs

  41. CSS Layout Concepts - 2 This is useful, because the default (no-stylesheet) case does something sensible Header and paragraph boxes arranged down the left of the page Words packed inside paragraph box

  42. CSS Layout Concepts - 3 Or we can make boxes FLOAT, to act a bit like SPANS:

  43. CSS Layout Concepts - 3 This gives us a LOT of flexibility But can also cause problems! Simple, fixed layouts, where everything is a known, fixed size are pretty easy (e.g. forms) The interaction of "width", "padding", and "margin" with floated elements can have strange results Flexible layouts, that work well with a variety of different screen widths are VERY hard to achieve Getting a CSS layout to work, without tools that let you actually SEE the box model in action is almost impossible! This is why I recommended finding the developer tools earlier…

  44. CSS Layout Concepts - 4 CSS is NOT a "silver bullet" for web layout Sites need different CSS for mobile and desktop layouts Well supported, but twice as much to develop CSS cannot flow text between boxes Cannot achieve true, flexible layouts like newspaper columns (except by some complicated Javascript tricks) Wouldn't it be nice to have text in a single column on a mobile, but flow across 2 or 3 columns on a desktop / tablet? Sorry - can't be done with CSS!

  45. Study and TMA Guidance

  46. Study Hints Make sure you have the study guide and know where you should be Don’t let yourself fall behind If you start to fall behind discuss it with your tutor Work on assignments as you study the material Always plan to submit your assignments at least 3 days before the final cut-off date

  47. Approaching TMAs Study the course Don't try and just pick out those bits you think might fit into the TMA. You will need it all later! Read all of the TMA instructions carefully early in the block Don't leave it to the end Keep the assignment beside you as you study the block make notes as you see content that might be useful

  48. References Key explanations should be in your own words to show you understand the concepts. You must not use quotations to replace explanations that should be in your own words. Give a reference to the source of the information that you have used to give your own explanation. Give references for diagrams Reference in a standard way Quotations should be used for standards where the wording should not be changed. Use quotations for important statements of opinion by important people in this field

  49. TMA01 Issues Read the question - Answer the question! Look at the marking scheme Use this to guide your time (and word count) Use headings, structure that match the mark scheme Your tutor will validate files during marking So should you! http://validator.w3.org/ or browser add-ons All TMAs submitted on or before the cut off date WILL BE RETURNED on or before 28th November and will be marked in the order submitted (more or less)

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