COMP4040: Exploring Web Design - Wikis

Why use a wiki?

There are a number of good reasons for us to use a wiki in this course:

• it makes material accessible for subsequent reflection and analysis, allowing you to revisit and revise your contributions and ideas therebye enriching your learning experience
• it provides a space for you to reflect and publish your thoughts and understandings and to share ideas with others producing a collaborative product.
• through the use of hyperlinks you can begin to understand how different ideas link together.
• you have full control and ownership over your online content. You can build a virtual space to try out new concepts that do not have to fit within a hierarchical or topic-based discussion forum.

What shall we do will wiki?

The idea is that each of you should choose a topic and become "experts" in a topic.

Possible topics are:

1. what are the basic web design principles and how do we put them into practice?
2. what is "Extensible HyperText Markup Language" (XHTML), how and why should we use it?
3. how can we style web pages using cascading style sheets (CSS) and what are the reasons for doing so?
4. what are the advantages and disadvantages of separating design from content?

Accessing the wiki

• To access the wiki use the link on the bottom of the left hand menu.
• You will find that you need to log in using the password given before you can make any changes to the wiki.
• You have to give a login name and email (which can be anyone you like).
• You should use the same information each time you login.