IT 452 - Advanced Web and Internet Systems - Spring 2013

Your Instructor

Asst Prof Nate Chambers
Email:
Office hours: MI 324. Stop in anytime or make an appointment to be assured of availability. My research day is Friday.

Your Course Information

	Calendar/Assignments/Notes			Lab Starter Page
	Course Policy			Tips on Debugging
	Group Presentations

Your Resources

• DOM reference:
  • Recommended: ZVON reference (and table of node types)
  • Official W3C: DOM Core and DOM HTML
• XHTML 1.1 tag references: W3C and HTML dog (most user friendly)
• CSS reference: from W3C or the simpler HTML dog guide to CSS 2.1
• HTML Validator (local server) -- your pages must validate! See also the official validator, but note that it may not be able to view your pages by URL. Using the local server is recommended for the pages created for this course.
• JQuery Documentation
• JQuery Selectors - exhaustive list of selectors
• JQuery Plugin Sites
  • http://jquerylist.com/
  • http://jquerystyle.com/
  • http://jquery.malsup.com/
  • http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/
  • Nice plugin for photos
• GET vs POST in Ajax calls
• Web safe colors or different web-safe color site
• Understanding when you can use 'this' inside an event handler
• Google APIs: maps or search
• XPath demo or this one
• XSLT evaluator (WARNING: doesn't seem to support namespaces)
• Using XPath for screen scraping from HTML
• Testing regular expressions (useful for screen scraping from Perl)