ENGL421K: Technical Writing with Web Standards, Karl Stolley Instructor. Maymester 2005.

Another College Goes Standard

»Posted Fri. June 3 11:20AM

Here's a new interview at webstandards.org with Jonathan Linczak, webmaster at Hiram College. Jonathan has recently overseen the redesign of the college's site, which is now standards compliant

More Things about Semantics, Documentation, Markup, etc.

»Posted Wed. June 1 10:47AM // UPDATED Wed. June 1 11:49AM

As I was reading last night, I encountered some more interesting posts/interviews that I thought might be helpful for supporting your work on Project 2. So here they are, in no particular order:

• Manual I created for Purdue OWL Materials
• Designer/Developer Dave Shea's New Markup Guide
• Interview with accessibility guru Joe Clark
• An interview with Tommy Olsson, a critic of XHTML
• Eye candy: six new Zen Garden designs

Who Cares About Semantics?

»Posted Tue. May 31 9:33PM // UPDATED Tue. May 31 9:34PM

Dave Shea has a pretty great article up today about getting people to care about semantic markup. There's some other interesting info there too that may be helpful as you begin work on redesigning the PMC templates.

Interesting Video

»Posted Tue. May 17 8:48PM // UPDATED Tue. May 17 8:54PM

Our colleague Liz Candee passed this link to me, an old CBC(?) news report about the Internet; although it's from ebaumsworld.com, it's not their usual humorous fare.

Technology Checklist, Web Spaces, Protected Readings

»Posted Mon. May 16 2:50PM // UPDATED Mon. May 16 2:51PM

I was sort of wishy-washy on the technology checklist in class today, but please do print that thing off and check off the activities and sign it. Hand it in with your signed policy statement contract.

It seems that everyone has a functional Web space now; some of you still have the standard-issue default Purdue page there, but we'll look at using Dreamweaver to manage your site on Tuesday, and you can begin to replace that material. Apologies again to all who had software problems today; the tech people have assured me that they're going to fix it (even though they showed me a stack of MACHINE IS BUSTED signs; hopefully we won't have to double-up on computers).

Also, I emailed the class email list with a username and password to access the protected readings. Please let me know if you didn't receive this email (it should have gone to your Purdue account). You'll need the username & password for the readings assigned on Tuesday.

One final update: I fixed the "your"/"you're" error at the end of my policy statement. I am ashamed.

Welcome to English 421K: Technical Writing

»Posted Sun. May 15 9:35PM

This page will contain news, changes, decisions, etc. that we arrive at in class; when they affect due dates, etc. I'll try my best to keep the calendar reflective of these. But always check here first.

We have a number of things on the agenda today, including reading over the course policy statement and the course calendar.