Each module presents few useful links mostly related to the materials that will be discussed during that module. These links are by no means the best or the most comprehensive links. They are presented here as a starting point. You may do your own search on the Internet to find the the sites that suit your learning style the best.

1. Use http://www.download.com/ or http://www.tucows.com/ for general downloading of freeware and shareware programs and utilities. We will be using WS-FTP for out file transfer. Its LE version is free for educational use. You can download it either from the above URLs or by directly going to http://www.ftpplanet.com/downloadLE.asp where you can also find a nice tutorial and other useful information regarding FTP.
2. Use http://www.1001freefonts.com/ or http://www.acidfonts.com/ to download free fonts for your computer.  They come handy when designing texts images.
3. Use http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/ or http://www.december.com/html/ or http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/  for HTML tag reference and tutorials.
4. Use http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/6603/ or http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/images/Images.html or http://my.erinet.com/~cunning1/textures.htm to download icons, images, and backgrounds for use in your Web pages.
5. Use http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/ or http://grsites.com/sounds/ to download background sound effects for your Web pages.

Module One discussions in the class are focused toward 5 basic subjects:

1. Introduction to the working rules and procedures in the class are given. Participants are reminded about their commitments to the class and expectations of the instructor and students to be discussed.
2. A brief discussion on the merits of multimedia based education, and my belief that it will be the dominant mode of the course delivery in the near future. It will be warned that unless universities, and K-12 schools specifically address this issue NOW, we will face with a generation gap between the future students and teachers in an unimaginable magnitude.
3. A discussion on why I have chosen the web as our medium of communication for instructional purposes. Although, this class is not all about creating homepages, for our selection to be effective, we must ensure that all participants are comfortable with constructing homepages.
4. As a requirement for the course, all participants will be asked to create a basic homepage in a subdirectory called IEGR455.
5. HTML tags for text format will be discussed.

We will practice creating basic HTML documents using Windows Notepad.  Several tags will be discussed and used in the document. Participants will also go through setting up their class homepages using instructions in the course Webpage. They will practice creating and editing a document in their web directory. The main focus is to become familiar with a number of tags related to basic HTML documents.  We will become familiar with colors, and how they can be used to format text and background.  We will also learn how to place images in an HTML document. In general, like a basic word processor we would like to be able to process our letters, words, sentences, and paragraphs and shape them to the way we like them to appear.

Our first disappointment occurs when we see on a browser what is supposed to be our document and it does not like what we intended it to look like. There are several reasons for this appearance. The main one of course is presence of errors in HTML tags. But it is also possible that:

1. We are looking at your document with a different browser.
2. We are using a different computer with a different size monitor, graphics card, and resolution.

Even if both 1, and 2 were not true, individual user options and preferences (such as font size) within a browser may make notable differences in the way a document is displayed. This should not disappoint you as our goal in the web is to transfer the knowledge, and in most cases it really does not make that much of a difference whether a line will be displayed as two lines or not. We must make sure that our document is correct doing as much as possible to design it based on general platforms and leave the rest to the users. Obviously, if you are a graphic artist or a web designer, you want to make sure these details are also worked out to the maximum level of details.

This module's tutorial is an introduction to HTML and techniques for text formatting using HTML tags. Click here for the tutorial.