Introduction to the Course Welcome back to Birmingham, which has more canals than Venice, though it certainly doesn't seem like it. I hope you had a great summer. The Semester 1 course this year will be about making Web pages. It will meet in my room, twice a week, on Tuesdays at 2.00 pm and Thursdays at 1.00 pm. The first meeting will be on Tuesday of week 2. The course will assume no knowledge of Web page making. It will take you gently through making web pages, linking them, taking digital photographs, editing them, putting them on pages, making frames, and even making things blink, though this is usually regarded as being in extremely bad taste. We can also do making logos and designs, adding text to images, and adding sound to web pages, depending on how fast we get on. The rule in the class is: no-one gets left behind. And: you don't have to know how to program, or even how to write html code, in order to make nice web pages. After reading week you will divide yourselves into groups of two or three and start designing your own pages. By the end of term each student will have participated in producing a web site with some interesting and useful content (your choice). It can be done! Last year's second year web pages are here. The submission of these web pages are the assessment of the course; they are a course requirement, but do not contribute to the final mark of the course. Please, if you possibly can, don't buy or read any books on this subject before the class starts. In the second semester you will be doing work on history of the book with Maureen Bell and Valerie Edden.