Cultural Resource Management Program, University of Victoria
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The course outline is now available for our upcoming course,
"Museums on the WWW: Creating Your Site", February 21-23. The course
combines seminar sessions with hands-on labratory sessions.

WEDNESDAY, February 21
Introduction to Museums on the Web
- Introductions, Course outline and objectives
- Laying the groundwork:  History and structure of the Internet and
  the World Wide Web
- Learning the lingo: Introduction to Internet jargon
- Accessing the Web: How to get connected
- World Wide Web browsers and other Internet-related software
- Using Netscape
Museums on the Web:
- Locating museums on the Web
- Assessing the technology:  What can the Web offer your museum?
- What are other museums doing on the Web?
- Exploration of museums, museum organizations, and associations on
  the Web
Managing Internet services:
- Planning your site
- Technical considerations and learning the potentials of the
  electronic environment
- Financial and managerial considerations
- The key issues:  copyright, maintenance, security, and more
- Defining structure, content, and objectives for your site
- Avoiding potential pitfalls

THURSDAY, February 22
Creating Your Web Site
- The basics of electronic publishing
- Introduction to the Hypertext Markup Language
- Standards:  SGML and the HTML Specifications (2.0 and 3.0)
- The basic HTML elements:  structural versus physical tags
- Using HTML Editor
- HTML Exercise 1:  Hands-on exercise creating simple HTML pages
- Including images, sound, and motion video into Web pages
- HTML Tips and Tricks
- Netscape extensions and future directions of the HTML specification
- HTML Exercise 2:  Creating more complex Web pages

FRIDAY, February 23
Managing Your Web Site
- Continuation of hands-on HTML markup (if needed)
- Where do I go from here:  Integrating museums with Internet
  technologies (content, services, merchandizing, and more)
- Advanced HTML:  forms, image maps, and tables
- What makes a good HTML page?
- The do's and don'ts of good Web pages
- HTML Exercise III:  "Putting it all together"
- Course summary
- Resources for keeping current
- Concluding remarks

Instructor: David Jakob, Internet communications development
            consultant specializing in WWW sites for museums and
            libraries
Dates:  February 21 - 23, 1996
Cost: $320.00 Canadian
Please register ASAP to ensure a seat

For more information on the course, please contact:



Brenda Weatherston, Program Coordinator
Cultural Resource Management Program
University of Victoria,
PO Box 3030, Victoria B.C. Canada V8W 3N6
Phone 604 721 6119
FAX 604 721 8774
email: [log in to unmask]
Please visit our WWWeb Site:
http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/crmphome.htm