Announcements

The course scores are posted on the COL Assignment Submission System. The official letter grades will be submitted to the registrar's office on Tuesday, March 21. See the course syllabus for the grading schedule.
The scores for the Business Website project have been posted. If you have not yet submitted it, email me to let me know when you will can post it. No projects will be accepted after Monday night (3/20) at 11:59.
The Makeup Quiz will be held on March 9. Look at the review guides for Quiz1 through Quiz5 found on the Quiz Info Page.
The last (optional) class meeting is on Monday, March 13, at 11:45. Come on this day if you need some last minute help on your BusinessWebsite project. The grace period for this project expires on Saturday, March 18. There will be a 5 point late penalty if it is submitted on March 19, a 10 point late penalty if it is submitted on Monday. No exercises or projects will be accepted after Monday, March 18.
Your BusinessWebsite must be uploaded to the students server to receive credit.
The due date of Ex10 (HobbyWebsite Critique) is changed to March 6. This means that its grace period expires on March 13.
Also, Quizzes 1 through 5 are posted with their answers.
The HobbyWebsite evaluation assignments are ready for Exercise Ex10. Each of you has two websites assigned to evaluate. Look for your name most likely under Evaluator1 or Evaluator2. A few names are listed under Evaluator3.
Reminder: the grace period for the BusinessWebsite project expires on Tuesday, March 7.
The grades for the HobbyWebsite project are posted. See the comments for the grading breakdown: Funct (Functionality 30%), Cont (Content 30%), Orig (Originality/Creativity 20%), Interest (Interesting 20%). 5 points was deducted if you did not update the HobbyWebsite link in your contents page of Ex5.
A new item has been added to the Quiz 5 Review Guide:
Be able to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using frames pages.
Exercise Ex12 (Critique two business websites) has been cancelled.
Exercise Ex10 is to evaluate two hobby websites. Wait until Monday, March 6, to start on this exercise--on that day the Reviewer 1 and Reviewer 2 will be posted for each submitted hobby website.
Here is an article that exposes some of the dirty little secrets of designing HTML files using layers (div tags):
Web Standards: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Why Designers Should Care
Schedule for course website late penalties if you submit the website before midnight on the given day:

Get in Before Late Penalty

2/28/05 -5
3/3/05 0
3/5/05 5
3/7/05 10
Minus 5 means that you get 5 bonus points for submitting the assignment early.
The Quiz 5 Review Guide is posted. Quiz 5 will occur on March 7. The Makeup Quiz will take place on March 9.
15 out of 29 people have submitted the topic for his or her business website. If you haven't submitted yours, please do so soon.
One of the requirements for the HobbyWebsite is that an external style is used to give a uniform style to the pages in the website.
Don't forget that each page must have a title that displays in the browser titlebar for your hobby website. Each page should also have a heading at the top to display the page title.
On Tuesday, 2/28, we will see how to add a Theme to your website. You are not allowed to add a Theme to your hobby website, but can (and are encouraged to) add a theme to your business website.
On Thursday, Feb. 23, you will be asked to submit the topic of your BusinessWebsite project. Submit it as the BWT assignment.
COLASM is ready to accept submissions of the HobbyWebsite project. As usual, upload the entire website folder using SSH to the students server and submit the link as a comment.
Online professor evaluations start this week and run until March 3. You should receive an email with directions.
If you have not decided on the business for your business website yet, you need to do it soon. The Business Website plan (Ex9) is due on February 28. Try to have it finished by the due so you have time to complete your business website before the end of the quarter.
One way to make your website look more professional is to use a smaller font for the paragraph text. This probably means that you will need more content as well. However, don't make the text so small that it is hard to read without a magnifying glass. The fairly large default font that I use for the class website is used to make it easy to read for people sitting far away from the projection screen.
Quiz 4 will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 21.
Warning: do not put textboxes on your webpages. They are rather unpredictable when the pages are displayed. It is better to use WordArt (sparingly) or use regular text in paragraphs or as h1 or h2 headers.
For Ex8, if you used the cut and paste method to move the Cinderella pages from the class website to FrontPage, some of the addresses in the links might have been changed from relative to absolute. In that case you must manually change the absolute links like
http://www.condor.depaul.edu/~sjost/examples/cinderella-files/cin1.htm
to cin1.htm. The deduction will be 10 points if you leave the addresses as absolute.

Schedule for remainder of the quarter:

Feb. 9	CSS
Feb. 14	Lists
Feb. 16	More about CSS
Feb. 21	Quiz 4 Work on Hobby Website
Feb. 23	Designing Your Business Website
Feb. 28	FrontPage Themes
Mar. 2	Frames
Mar. 7	Quiz 5 Cut and Paste JavaScript
Mar. 9	Makeup Quiz XML Examples
Mar. 16	Help for Business Website

The grace period for the HobbyWebsite project expires at 11:59pm on Thursday, Feb. 9.
Reminder: Late penalties: 0 pts. for 0 to 1 week late (within grace period), 10 pts. for 1 to 2 weeks late, 30 pts. for 2 to 3 weeks late, 70 pts. for 3 to 4 weeks later. No assignment will be accepted more than 4 weeks late.
Reminder: Ex3, Ex5, Ex6, Ex8 and Ex11, as well as the Hobby and Business websites must be uploaded to the students.depaul.edu server to receive credit. Do not submit webpages or zip files, but instead submit a link to the homepage for the exercise or project in the comment section.
COLASM is ready to accept Ex7 and Ex8 assignments. We will complete Ex8 in class on 2/9.
The grades for Ex5 and Ex6 are posted. Ex6 was based on two factors Functionality (does it display properly) and Artistic (how artistic is it compared to everyone else's submission. So far the submissions are very good. See the details for the grade breakdown.
You don't have to know about fonts for Quiz 3. They will be covered on Quiz 4.
The Quiz 3 Review Guide has been posted.
Directions for resizing and cropping images using MS Paint have been added to the 1/26 Notes.
Here is a link to the Jewels in the Sky example.
If you resubmit an assignment, enter the word "resubmit" in the comment section with a brief explanation of why you are resubmitting.
If SSH shows errors when you try to upload or download webpages, this is most likely due to one of two things:
The grades for exercise Ex2 are being posted. Some students did not complete all of the required sections. See Section 7 (To Turn In) of the Ex2 Description. Several people did not turn in section c: "Comment briefly on the results in b. ..." You may resubmit the omitted section(s). Only the resubmitted section(s) will be subject to a late penalty, so resubmit as soon as possible.
This is a clarification of the last two terms on the Quiz2 Review Guide:
Some of the posted grades are marked "resubmit." These must be resubmitted soon to avoid late penalties.
Exercise Ex6 (Color and Images with Tables and Layers) is to create an artistic collage using images that you collect. Start thinking about the subject for your collage. Also start collecting images to use for your collage. Do not use images of planets. Sketch your collage on paper before you start working on it in FrontPage.
Homework exercises Ex3 and later will receive a late penalty if they must be resubmitted.
Whenever you upload a project and submit the link as a comment on the COLASM, be sure to test the link after you submit it.
Remember, your name, assignment number and submission date must appear at the top of all submitted documents, whether HTML files or MS-Word Documents.
If you were not in class on Tuesday, Jan. 17, when we conducted the card sorting exercise (Ex2) in small groups, you must complete the exercise anyway. Either ask three people in class to sort your cards or ask some of your friends to sort them. The grace period for Ex2 expires on Tuesday, 1/17.
Attendence on 1/12 will be taken by noting the people that pick up their quiz. If you did not take the quiz, let me know that you are in class.
The scores for Quiz1 are posted. The score on the quiz is the raw score. Four points were added to the raw score to obtain the scale score, which is posted on COLASM.
Look at the Ex4 Description. We will discuss some web design principles for evaluating websites on 1/17 and 1/19.
The Quiz 2 Review Guide for 1/14/06 is posted. It will be revised according to what we cover next week.
I will not be available for office hours (3:00pm to 3:45pm) on Thursday, Nov. 12.
Reminder: Quiz1 will be held on Tuesday, January 10, from 1:30pm to 1:50pm.
See the Quiz 1 Review Guide for details.
The scores for exercise Ex1 and comments for HWT are posted.
The document Getting Started in FrontPage has been revised.
The five quizzes will be given on the dates 1/10, 1/24, 2/7, 2/21, 3/7.
A makeup quiz will be given on 3/9.
The quiz with the worst score will be dropped.
Go to ID Services to obtain a students.depaul.edu account as soon as possible. This will be an account on the server where you will upload your class websites. This is the same as your email account, but NOT the same as Campus Connect.
Your password for your students.depaul.edu account is NOT the same as your campus connect password. It is your email password. If you have forgotten it, contact ID services to have it reset. You can also call the Technology Assistance Help Desk at 312.362.8765. They should be able to reset your password over the phone.
If you try to log in with the wrong password three times, you will be locked out of your students.depaul.edu account. Go to ID services or call the help desk to get your account reset.
Your life in HCI 201 will be much easier if you own a memory stick for saving your exercises and projects (128Meg or 256Meg).
Go to ID Services to apply for your student computer account if you do not already have one. This account is also used for student email. Go to the link http://is.depaul.edu/communication/web/personal_students.asp for more information.
Make sure that your Microsoft File Explorer is set to show file extensions.
1. You can invoke the MS File Explorer by selecting Start, All Programs, Accessories, and Windows Explorer.
2. From the MS File Explorer, select Tools, Folder Options.... Select the View tab and uncheck the box for "Hide extensions for known file types".

Get in Before	Late Penalty
2/28/05	-5
3/3/05	0
3/5/05	5
3/7/05	10