LIS 7008 - Information Technologies
Spring 2014 - Section 01
Assignment 3


This homework is due on your course web site before the beginning of next class session. Partial credit may be awarded. This is a Web design assignment, so must be posted on the Web, that is, email attachments of html and image files will not be accepted/graded. If you still have an unsolved FileZilla problem, please refer to the updated FileZilla Tutorial.

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/sp14/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 (or are taking) in your MLIS 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/sp14/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.
In addition to these requirements, your page will be graded for style, compliance with the HTML standards, and spelling.

You may find the following reference to be useful:

The HTML quick list explains what each tag does, but you will need to have a good idea of what you want to do to avoid getting lost in the detail. There are also useful resources on the course syllabus Web page.

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, 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:

Grading rubric:


Acknowledgement to Doug Oard (revised by Yejun Wu)