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                     Wild Web Weekend
                  November 11 and 12, 1995
                    10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
                   At New Media Hollywood
             1433 North Cole Place, Hollywood

        A Fund Raiser for the Los Angeles Chapter of the
        International Interactive Communications Society

                Your Instructor: Peter Benjamin
                    Email: Pete@Quake.Com  
                    Phone: (818) 367-8532
             
            Registration Email:  RosieIICS@AOL.Com

The Wild Web Weekend is an intensive, 2 day, learning seminar about 
website development, web related software (server/browser/tools), 
HTML page authoring, CGI bin services, Internet and related areas.
Overviews of WWW, URL, HTML, HTTP, MIME, CGI, TCP & SLIP will be 
accompanied by in depth lessons in website design, page layout, 
HTML, forms, images, imagemaps, CGI services, web server software 
necessary to be a website developer, and how it all fits together.
Included will be overview coverage of VRML, Java, HotJava, 
Netscape 2, and more.

Expect to come out of this seminar with knowledge on the process
of designing, writing, testing and updating a website from scratch.
You will be able to write HTML pages, design forms, specify CGI
inputs and outputs, downsize picture files, create imagemaps,
storyboard a website, test web pages, put up a website and update it.

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Who should attend:  Ambituous beginners to intermediate HTML authors 
with a need or desire to do more than authoring HTML pages.  You should 
want to be able to design, create and maintain a website using a remote
development computer with a running web server.

Suggested Requirements: You have browsed the World Wide Web for at 
least one month and have working knowledge of word processing or 
desktop publishing.

The seminar will concentrate on the basic academic understanding of
applied webology for creating sites, thus there will be no review of
existing sites and no live connections, in favor of spending more time 
on the fundamentals of web page authoring and forms/CGI development.

Lunch will not be provided.  Bring a brown bag lunch or purchase locally.

Attendence limited to first 80 attendees.  



Agenda  
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Saturday, November 11, 1995
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9:15 AM - Registration and seating

10:00 AM - Introduction and Brief Internet/Web Overview

Announcements and overview of Internet giving the big picture of
the major pieces of Web and HTML.  As a web developer one must
understand how the Web fits into Internet.

10:15 AM - HTML Basic and Intermediate Tags (2 hours)

Each basic tag will be briefly explained and the intermediate tags will
be covered in depth.  Netscape tags will be covered.  This short 2 hour 
session will be reinforced by the design and layout sessions.

12:30 AM - Lunch Break - 30 minutes.

1:00 AM - SGML HTML DTD

Where did HTML come from?  Standard Generalized Markup Language
is a Department of Defense (DoD) CALS initiative that has been
adopted in 1990 for web pages as HTML 1.0.  HTML 2.0 provided
features to ease the authoring task, and HTML 3.0 provides for
better presentation.

1:30 PM - Tables: HTML 3 and Netscape

Tables are the hottest layout tool for web pages.  They provide
multi-columns, imbedded pictures, alignment of graphics, and
many other features to enhance the appearance of the page.

2:00 PM - HTML Page Layout

Beyond text processing comes desktop publishing using pictures and
multiple columns.  Now WWW introduces variable-width publishing
where the reader can control the fonts, sizes, and more.  
Web page layout for good viewing with HTML 2 level and higher
capable browsers is more art than science.  A few tips and tricks 
on using HTML 3, Netscape and other vendor enhancement tags will 
make your pages look good on any browser.

3:00 PM - CGI, Forms, Passwords, Searches, Databases

Common Gateway Interface is the HTML "programming."  Plug and play 
CGI script libraries are rapidly forming under the umbrella of 
Web Development Tools at many sites.  The easiest way to learn 
CGI is to locally install an existing CGI command and get it working
on your computer.  Then, modify it for your purposes.  A URL laundry
list of websites for web developers will bootstrap you in this process.

4:00 PM - URLs, HTTP, Meta Commands

What is http://domain.name:port#/directoryalias/subdirectory/filename
all about?  And more on other special effects using HTTP Meta commands 
in your HTML pages.

4:30 PM - Open Session - Questions and Answers for 30 minutes.



Sunday, November 12, 1995
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9:30 AM - Open doors for seating

10:00 AM - Future of the Web

Java is now a reality.  3D is done with HotJava and VRML.
Secured commercial transactions using credit cards, banking,
ordering and grocery shopping are now Web realities.

10:30 AM - Website Design

Good websites do not happen by accident.  Design is critical
to timely implementation of an easy site to navigate.
Storyboarding of even a small site can be of immense benefit.  
The storyboards show the "web" of hyperlinks between each page.
What extra buttons and pages make a good, easily navigated site?

11:00 AM - Website Developer Tools

HTML authoring is more like word processing than programming 
especially with the newer HTML software tools that are "What 
You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)."  The software for web 
browsing and development are plentiful, too many to be review.  
However, several standout and will be mentioned.  HotDog and 
WebWeaver are among the best of the HTML authoring tools.
Other tools are MapEdit, FTP, and many webpage "checker" sites.
Word and Word Perfect and many other word processors now have
HTML authoring or export modes.  Conversion tools for SGML, TeX 
and RTF abound.

12:00 Noon - Downsizing graphic images, sound and video files.

How does the web do graphics?  Sound?  Movies?  The web supports
a limited subset of formats available today, but you can add your
own.  Image formats are GIF, JPEG, and XBM.  Which can be 
downsized the most?  What features are not support in JPEG?
What are indexed color palettes with 1 to 8 bits.  Why use a
super palette?

Audio and video can be played.  What are the formats and how
does one downsize them will be briefly covered.

12:30 AM - Lunch Break

1:00 AM - Overview of Internet and World Wide Web

What are the pieces of the Web/Internet a developer should be 
aware of?  How the Internet works will be demystified.

From the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet 
designers, to WWW server/client(browser) software and how they 
"talk" to each other.  Topics will include modems, communication 
software, TCP/IP, PPP/SLIP, ISDN, T1, T3, routers, ATM, networks, 
Internet backbone, DNS, routing, saturation, HTTP, HTML, CGI, URL, 
website versus web access accounts, FTP, and more.  

2:00 PM - Website Provider Platforms and Server Software Issues

A website developer needs to run on their development computer a web
server software package.  It needs to be configured for testing
imagemaps, forms, CGI services, and access privileges.  Unix is the
primary platform for websites today.  Cross platform development is
not easy, plus the differences between web serving software packages
are getting larger, not smaller in the rush to implement new features.
Must one develop on the same platform as the website?  Usually, yes,
but I give some tips on how one can cross platform develop.

3:00 PM - Testing a Website Offline and Online

The process of authoring is followed by coping the HTML pages,
images, CGI scripts and other pieces to a new directory.  In 
the new directory hyperlinks may be broken.  This copy operation
should be tested.  Copying the pages to an online test directory
allows one to use a web pages "checker" site and test the links
before copying the pages to their final location.

4:00 PM - Moving the Website Online and Updating

How do your web pages go from your development computer to
your web site?  FTP is the current rage.  Telnet is helping
with online maintaince.  Selecting a web site provider can
be perplexing with all the features, so what are the most
important ones?

5:00 PM - End of seminar weekend

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Registration Information
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Reservations may be made with Rosie, the IICS LA Office
Manager by phone (the IICS LA HotLine at 310-313-5664), 
email (RosieIICS@AOL.Com) or mail without advance payment 
up to 6:00 PM Friday, November 10, space permitting.  
Payment may be made at the door on November 11 at the 
lower advance registration rate for early registration.

Wild Web Weekend fee schedule:
IICS members pre-paid $100
IICS members door fee $150

Non-members pre-paid $150
Non-members door fee $200

Make checks payable to IICS.

Mail your advance registration to:

IICS - LA
Attn: Wild Web Weekend
PO Box 7000-817
Redondo Beach, CA 90277


Reservation Confirmation
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For those wishing a confirmation that your registration
has been received please contact Rosie at the above 
email or phone number ans ask for confirmation.  Give
your email address or phone number.

Cancellation Policy
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For cancellation of your paid reservation there is a 
non-refundable deposit amount of twenty five (25.00) 
dollars necessary to cover facility costs.


For more information surf the IICS/LA web site (www.la.iics.org).


(c) Copyright 1995 by Peter Benjamin.  All rights reserved.

Wild Web Weekend is a trademark of Peter Benjamin.