HIS104: Project help page

Contents:

Introduction
Which group am I in?
How to work as a team
How to construct web pages
Local online guides to writing web pages

This page is designed to help Groups to construct and write their projects, and to publish them as web pages. To begin with, it is important to ask the right questions about the subject of your project. What period are you interested in? How long should it be?

How to work as a team.
There are a number of problems associated with team work.
One is the allocation of an equal workload. You can organise this as you like, but a few suggestions are:
Divide up responsibilities: projects might consist of 'researchers': those who do literature searches and look up relevant images and graphics; there might be one or two people whose main task is to produce an attractive web page; everybody should be in on the content, but perhaps only a few will do the actual writing, perhaps from notes made by others.
A second problem might be scheduling the work. Work out a timetable for the completion of particular tasks. The entire project has to be finished by end of the semester, before the examinations, on 15th January 2001 before 4pm. Finished means that you must have completed the website, to your satisfaction. Although the content should take priority, do not leave writing the web pages until the last minute. Someone in your group (or more than one) should have a go at writing a few simple pages soon.

Which group am I in?

HIS104 Project Groups 26th September 2000

This is my best guess…

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D	Group E	Group F	Group G
Diseases and epidemics	Not chosen	Good deaths	Punishment	Suicide	The body	Bad deaths
Hannah Hinton	Anna Rose Hughes	Matthew Rogerson	Rhonda Twidle	Jo Browne	Vicki Gibson	Kate Johnson
Grant Slessor	Olly Royds	Kate Buzzard	Monique Coombe	Helen Danson	Kathryn Smith	Harriet Powell
Robert Dunn	Kathryn Stockdale	Jessica Pearson	Susan Ingram	Emily Colbeck	Mathew Hope	Ria Snowdon
Helen Dixon	Rob Meek	Belinda Heskett	Daniel Gray	Sara Bennett (1Eng)	Andy Gaskell	Gemma Dillon
Tom Grafton	Julian Green	James Kilduff (1PH)	David Nesbit	Clare Mcmeel (1Eng)	Jamie Hawkins
Daniel Clemence		Alice Kahrmann	Emma Blanksby	Lorna Newton (1Eng)
			Alison Ions	Robin Mounsey (1Eng)
				Hannah Stanbury (1Eng)

Anyone else who is not yet a member of the exclusive 'Project Groups' please let me know…

How to construct web pages.
It is not difficult. That is why so many people write web pages. Many of them are not that bright, too, so you lot should have no trouble at all. The best thing you could do NOW is to read the excellent beginner's guide to writing web pages produced by the University Computing Service.

SOME BASIC POINTS ABOUT WRITING WEB PAGES
A web page is basically just plain text, with added tags which browsers like Internet Explorer recognise and convert into the web page you see here. If you want to see what this page looks like, pull down View Source from the menu bar in Internet Explorer. To go to a step by step guide to writing webpages using Word 97, click here. The following points need to be remembered:

You should write web pages using the text editor Notepad or a proprietory web page editor such as Microsoft Frontpage. Many people begin by writing an essay in Word 97. Word 97 can save any word document as a web page, just go to File, Save As HTML and save the file as a separate web page when prompted. The resulting file can then be edited as already indicated.
You must give your web page the .htm file extension. So in Notepad, you should save it as filename.htm. Otherwise your browser will not see it!
You can open your .htm file with Internet Explorer using the menu command, File Open File from the menu bar.
You can only (usually) insert graphic files with the extension .gif or .jpg
Once you have written a web page you need to publish it, which is a separate process. To be read by the whole world, rather than only you, your Web pages need to be placed on the campus UNIX system. For publishing your pages see the UCS guide.
Lastly, if you type EXACTLY what follows in Notepad, with your own variations, and save it to an .htm file you should have your very own web page (or copy the whole lot and paste it into Notepad, and edit it). After you have finished it, open it with File Open File in Internet Explorer.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
My first web page 
</TITLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY>
<H1>My first web page</H1>
My memories of the best lecture I have heard in this University so far. 

</BODY> 
  
</HTML>

SOME ONLINE GUIDES TO WRITING WEB PAGES