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Web-centric Computing

Lecture Slides

Outline of Lectures Slides and Notes

Background
1. Overviews
2. History and Goals
  1. Historical Background to the WWW Project
  2. WWW Goals
Specific Issues
Client-side Topics
Server-side Topics
1. Planning, configuring, running, and maintaining a webserver
2. Inside the WWW
Server-side Programming
Proxies
WWW-specific Techniques
1. The HTTPRequest server API (Ajax)
2. Saving State
Applications and Services
1. Database Basics
2. Database-driven Websites / Self-organizing Communities
3. Web Services and Middleware

Background
1. Overviews
2. History and Goals
  1. Historical background to the WWW lecture notes
    - See also video of 1968 demonstration of the first working computerized hypertext system (see especially clip 8, using file lists and graphics). That example continues the shopping list illustration that began in clip 5.
  2. WWW Goals lecture slides (as handouts)
Specific Issues
1. Audience
  1. Implications of Audience on The Web Development lecture (as handouts) by Marc Comeau
  2. [Placeholder for new lecture about audience]
2. Metadata and Information Structuring
  1. Metadata lecture slides
    - See also
      - proxy lecture, and
      - In the Resources section:
        
        metadata readings in the resources section,
        
        metadata and application technologies websites
  2. Carole Goble's keynote at ACM's HT '07 conference: The Return of the Prodigal Web
  3. [placeholder for informal metadata lecture]
    - Semantic Web
    - folksonomies
    - microformats
    - tagging (categories especially)
3. What Makes a Good Website
  - Images related to the What Makes a Good Website lecture
4. Security and Privacy
  1. Detailed Overview of Security and Privacy lecture slides
    - Overview of Security and Privacy (in handout form)
5. Search Engines
  1. Search Engines lecture slides
    - Google spoofed
      1. Google results list
      2. First hit
      3. Official Google Blog: Googlebombing failure by Marissa Mayer (Director of Google's Consumer Web Products) at blogspot.com
Client-side Topics
1. XHTML Basics
  1. Basic HTML lecture slides
    1. Basic HTML slides (as handouts)
    2. Example of Graceful Degradation in XHTML
    3. XHTML-doc-structure.ps (also )
  2. See also:
    - template.html and sampler.html in XHTML examples (in list of examples with notes)
    - form examples (as a file list)
  3. HTML 4 Tables lecture notes
2. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  1. Essential CSS lecture slides
    1. Essential CSS lecture slides in handout form
    2. CSS2 handout
    3. CSS Level 1 and CSS-Positioning Reference Sheet to accompany Ian Graham's The XHTML Language and Design Sourcebook
      - (local copy of sheet , 07 Nov. 2000 version)
  2. Using CSS for Positioning lecture slides by Jon Gunderson
    See especially:
    - Border Styling (slide 11 to slide 14)
    - Fixed Positioning Example (slide 20)
  3. Daniel Greene's CSS Font Properties Test
3. Accessible Markup
  1. Layout: Tables and CSS documents (at U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign via The Wayback engine at archive.org, see sources list webpage)
  2. Redesigning Web Pages to be more Accessible to People with Disabilities (at U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign via The Wayback engine at archive.org, see sources list webpage)
Server-side Topics
1. Planning, configuring, running, and maintaining a webserver lecture slides
2. Inside The WWW Server (an animated lecture)
  - Handout for Inside The Server lecture
  - See also images at InsideTheServer directory
Server-side Programming
1. Basics
  1. [outdated] Server-Side Programming lecture slides
2. The Perl Programming Language
  1. Perl 5 handout
  2. See also:
    - Debugging CGIs in System Documentation part of these Materials
    - perl Websites in the Resources section
3. Java Servlets
  1. Java Servlets lecture slides
    - Java Servlets slides in handout form
    - See also Saving State slides
Proxies
1. Proxy Servers for Filtering lecture slides (modified from slides by Carolyn Watters)
  - See also
    - Readings about filtering proxies (in the resources section)
    - Websites about proxies in general (in the resources section)
WWW-specific Techniques
1. The HTTPRequest server API
  1. Scan of handwritten Ajax notes
2. Saving State
Applications and Services
1. Database Basics
  1. Introduction to Web Databases lecture slides
  2. See also:
    - Database-driven websites and
    - Yeming Hu's tutorial about the database interface (from 2007), in the Resources section
2. Database-driven Websites / Self-organizing Communities
  1. Database-driven websites lecture slides
    - See Also: Database Basics
3. Web Services and Middleware
  1. Web Services Introduction: Middleware lecture slides
  2. Web Services lecture slides

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