Designing, Developing and Deploying Internet Solutions

Rory J. DeSimone and Craig S. Hammer

Table of Contents

The Internet

• The History of the Internet
• The Basic Language of the Net
• Downloading and Copying Files From the Internet

The Background of Technology

• Electricity
• The World's Fair - Displays of Technology
• Traveling through Time: Early Film
• Radio-plays
• Experiments with television
• Processing information
• The Sixties - The Future Is Now
• The Seventies
• The Eighties and Nineties
• Multimedia Today

Internet Oriented Organizations

• The Association of Computing Machinery
• THE InterNIC
• Text Projects
• iTunes

Searching the Internet

• Search Engines
• Directories
• Standard Search Engines
• Which Search Engine to Use
• Challenges Faced by Search Engines
• Building a Search
• Searching the Invisible Web

Web Based Mail and EMail Programs

• Some of the most popular mail programs
• Email Addresses
• How Your Email is Sent and Delivered
• Mailing Lists
• Listservs
• Compressing Files
• Uncompressing Files

Spam

• How Spammers Obtain Email Addresses
• Running Spamware
• Collecting Addresses on the Internet
• How to Stop Spam

Copyright Issues in Digital Media

• Copyright Basics
• When Works Pass into Public Domain
• Patent Law
• Trademark Law
• Trade Secrets
• Rights of Publicity, Libel and Other Laws

Text on Disk

Web design layout

• The Layout In Theory
• Product Classification
• Illustrating the Product or Service
• Fitting the Visual Idea to the Viewer
• Elements Of The Layout
• The Layout In Practice
• Creating a Rough Layout
• Lettering For The Layout
• Attention Value and Emphasis In Layout
• Achieving High Attention Value
• Color In Layout
• Typography and Lettering
• Monograms and Trademarks
• Art and Photography For Design
• The Project Manager
• Typical Production Schedule for a Project

Design Principles

• Accessible Design
• Aesthetic-Usability Effect
• 80/20 Rule
• Comparison
• Consistency
• Constancy
• Control
• Development Cycle
• Errors
• Forgiveness
• Hierarchy
• Legibility
• Performance Load
• Picture Superiority Effect
• Readability
• Recognition Over Recall
• Redundancy
• Rule of Thirds

The HTML Document

• Text editors
• A simple html document
• The Tags
• HTML Text Formatting
• Fonts, Sizes, and Color
• Physical and Logical Styles
• Nesting Tags
• Preformatted Text
• Block Quotes
• Special Characters

Working with Digital Artwork

• Object-based Images
• Bitmapped Images
• Digital Image Manipulation
• File Compression
• Getting Resolution Resolved
• Graphics Summation
• Scan to Match Your Target Size and Resolution
• How to know where to go
• Outside Scanning Services
• Image Formats
• Inserting Images
• Horizontal Rules

Color

• Color in Nature
• Contrast in Nature
• Nature and the New Color Art
• Color History
• Recent Uses of Color
• Color Harmony
• Modern Color
• Illusions in Color and Design
• Brightness Contrast
• Area Strategy
• Color, Emotion, and Marketing
• Developing the Perfect Color Scheme

Lists

• The Unordered List
• The Ordered List
• Nesting Lists
• The Definition List
• Tables
• The Table Tags
• Formatting Table Properties
• Table Borders
• Table alignment
• Table Dimensions
• Cell Padding and Spacing
• Background Colors and Images
• Formatting Row and Cell properties
• Nesting Tables

Forms

• Dissecting a Form
• Form Controls
• Formatting Check Boxes
• Formatting Radio Buttons
• Formatting Menus and Lists
• Formatting the Fields
• Formatting Hidden Fields
• Formatting Submit and Reset Buttons

Frames

• The Frameset Document
• Nesting Framesets
• Formatting Border Properties
• Setting Scrollbar Properties
• Setting Frame Margins
• Linking Between Frames
• Accommodating Older Browsers
• The Pros and Cons of Frames
• Frames Summary

Network Basics

• Domains
• Internet Numbers
• Resolving Names and Numbers

Protecting Your Privacy and Security

• The Internet Worm
• Preventing a Virus Attack
• Differentiating Types of Viruses
• How Virus Infections Spread
• Antivirus Software
• Making Sure Your Copy of Windows is Up-to-date
• Protecting Your Computer with a Firewall
• Looking at Third-party Firewalls
• Turning the Windows XP Firewall on or off
• Spyware and Adware
• Preventing Identification Theft