Newsgroups

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Lecture 2-1

• Newsgroups Initial Web Page Construction

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A Few More Web Basics

• Some Grade Distribution Data
• Setting Headers and Footers in Internet Explorer

Preliminaries
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Newsgroup Terminology

• newsreader
• Usenet -- "Most prominent system of discussion
  groups"
• newsgroups
• articles
• subscribing
• reading articles
• replying to articles

Newsgroups
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Setting Up Mozilla to Read Newsgroups

• Window/Mail Newsgroups
• Edit/Mail Newsgroups Account Settings
• Add Account
• Newsgroup account
• news.swt.edu (for Newsgroup Server)

Newsgroups
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Retrieving the List of Newsgroups, Subscribing,
Posting

• Newsgroup Naming Scheme
• Subscribe to Some Newsgroups
• Tame
• Not so Tame
• Posting an Article (alt.test or misc.test)
• Replying to an Article (alt.test or misc.test)

Newsgroups
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Headers and Footers in Mozilla

• File/Page Setup

File/Print Preview
Newsgroups
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Searching Web-Based News Readers,

• Searching for information within Newsgroups
  (Google)
• Web-News Readers (Google CS Department)
• Mailing Lists

Newsgroups
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Your SWT Account Files Folders (Three
Perspectives)

• Mapped Drives
• WS_FTP (An FTP Client Program)
• Non-Anonymous FTP
• Note the Folders
• www
• wwwbin

Web Page Construction Part I
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Some WYSIWYG HTML Generators

• Netscapes and Mozillas Composer
• Microsofts FrontPage
• Macromedias Dreamweaver

Web Page Construction Part I
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The Dreamweaver Workspace/Environment Some
Terminology
Web Page Construction Part I
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Routine Tasks Text Formatting Alignment

• Properties Inspector
• Menu Bar
• Right-Clicking (Context Menus)
• Other Notes

Web Page Construction Part I
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Routine Tasks Lists (Numbered Unnumbered)

• Properties Inspector
• Menu Bar
• Right-Clicking (Context Menus)

Web Page Construction Part I
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Routine Tasks Horizontal Rule

• Menu Bar
• Insert Panel (Horizontal Rule Object)
• Select the Horizontal Rule and Note Properties
  Inspector

Web Page Construction Part I
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Getting your Work to the Web Server

• Save Locally (My Documents)
• Transport it to the Web Server
• Mapped Drives
• File/Save As
• Drag Drop
• WS_FTP
• Non-Anonymous FTP (Drag Drop)

Web Page Construction Part I