LIS 7008 - Information Technologies
Spring 2012 - Section 01
Assignment 3

Create a personal Web page. This page MUST be hosted on classes.slis.lsu.edu so that we can find it, and it MUST appear at the URL: http://classes.slis.lsu.edu/wu/7008/sp12/your_folder/hw3.html where "your_folder" is your first initial followed by your last name, all in lower case.

When your page is ready (please make sure it is rendered correctly in the Internet Explorer), send the instructor an email giving your URL and the fact that your page is ready. After sending the email, make no further modifications to your hw3.html file for three days after the assignment is due.

Your page must contain at least the following:

1. Your name and your email address (you may want to replace @ with {at} or {a-t} to make life more difficult for spammers).

2. A few paragraphs of text describing aspects of your academic background, your goals of taking LIS 7008.

3. An image. Preferably your photo, but any image of anything you like is acceptable (if you do not want me to recognize you on campus or anywhere :-)).

4. An HTML list (ordered or unordered list) of the classes you have taken so far in your MLS program.
   Note: please read the text or search on the Web if you do not know what the ordered/unordered list here means.

5. A link to our course Web site http://www.csc.lsu.edu/~wuyj/Teaching/7008/sp12/index.html

6. The date and time of your last update to the page.
   Note: you can either write a simple line of text for this, or use a Javascript function if you know what it is.

You may find the following reference to be useful:

• HTML Code Tutorial

This is a good opportunity to create your own Web page if you don't have one already. You may include as much additional material as you like, but only the requirements listed here will be graded. If you want to make changes for your own purposes after sending your email announcing that your page is ready you should make a copy called hw3_copy.html and make changes to that copy and not the hw3.html file.

Common problems reported by previous students:

• Problem: the browser displayed a blank Web page and showed "done" at the bottom.
  Solution: Very likely the TITLE and/or HEAD tag(s) were not closed. Check other tags that are supposed to be closed.

• Problem: my image did not show up on the browser.
  Reason: either you have not uploaded the image to the server, or you have put a wrong path to the image (or a wrong image filename) in the src link. Solution:
  1. You must refer to an image that is already on the server. You cannot refer to an image that sits on your local computer. It is wrong to use <img src="C://..." />.
  2. Check the case-sensitivity of the image filename and its extension: cat.JPG is different from cat.jpg, cat.jpg, or cat.jpeg. Also remove any empty space in any filename. A filename like "cat 2.jpg" is to be referred by browsers as "cat%202.jpg". So it is a good idea to rename "cat 2.jpg" as "cat2.jpg", "cat-2.jpg", or "cat_2.jpg".
  3. Check the path of the image file. If under your root directory, you have "hw3.html" and "cat2.jpg", you can use <img src="cat2.jpg" />. If under your root directory, you have "hw3.html" and a sub-direcotory called "images" under which "cat2.jpg" stays, you should use <img src="images/cat2.jpg".

Grading rubric:

• +10: Task 1 (your name and email address; +5 each)
• +10: Task 2 (your background and goals of taking LIS 7008; +5 each)
• +20: Task 3 (your photo)
• +20: Task 4 (HMTL ordered or unordered list)
• +15: Task 5 (a link to our course Web site)
• +10: Task 6 (date and time of your last update)
• +15: style, compliance with the HTML standards, and spelling