Tutorial 20

Designing Hypertext Documents for Mosaic

Jarrett Rosenberg, Sun Microsystems
Darrell Sano
Carl Meske

Monday, May 8

Objective

Participants will learn what the Internet and its services are, how to create hypertext documents in HTML, how to set up and maintain a World Wide Web (WWW) server, and how to apply visual design principles to create effective hypertext documents.

Content

The first half of this tutorial introduces participants to the Internet, the World Wide Web, HTML (the HyperText Markup Language), and Mosaic, with lectures and demonstrations on how to create documents in HTML and set up a Web server. The second half focuses on the application of visual design principles for creating effectively organized HyperText documents. Detailed examples and design exercises allow participants to apply their newly acquired knowledge.

Audience

This introductory-level tutorial is intended for engineers and designers who are designing or planning to design HyperText documents in HTML. No prior experience with HyperText, the Internet, HTML, Mosaic, or visual design is required.

Presentation

Lecture, multimedia, exercises

Instructors

Jarrett Rosenberg is a Human Interface Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He has extensive user interface design experience in projects such as Xerox Star, Sun OPEN LOOK, and hypertext systems at Hewlett-Packard. Darrell Sano has taught visual design courses for interface design at the CHI Conference and at Sun. He is a co-author of the forthcoming book Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques. Carl Meske has extensive experience in information systems management. He led implementation of the WorldCupUSA94 Web server, accessed by over 3 million people during the world soccer championship competition.

Keith Instone / instone@acm.org / 95-01-05