Version History

Version 1.0 / June 1, 1994

This was the first version of the tutorial, as written for a 2 day workshop for faculty at South Mountain Community College, and included lessons 1-8.

Version 1.1 / July 1, 1994

We updated several of the exercises to make the descriptions more clear based upon surveys from our June workshop. This was the first version placed on our WWW server. Although all files are the same on different platforms, we made seperate download-able archives for Macintosh and DOS formats (the main difference in how DOS and Mac systems differ in the use of carriage returns in the text files.

Version 1.2 / November 15, 1994

Links to external sites were verified and updated where needed; several new ones useful for information used in the lesson were added. Also, directions were re-written to take into account the increasing number of different WWW client applications, each of which may have file options under different menus. Navigation links between lessons were moved to the top of the page.

Version 1.3 / December 15, 1994

New lessons added for Named Anchors (8d); Preformatted Text (9); Special Character Sets (10); and Descriptive Lists (11) Information on using the ALT keyword in the <IMG> tag was added to lesson 7a, "Inline Graphics".

Version 1.3.1 / February 7, 1995

Typos fixed as well as inconsistencies in the sample lessons, with thanks to Robin Wright.

Version 1.4 / May 1995

Removed directions specific to NCSA Mosaic, new logo. Several links to external sites used in the lesson were updated or added.

Version 1.41 / June 1995

Removed use of the underline <u> tags which were once supported by NCSA Mosaic but are not widely supported (supposedly coming in HTML 3.0 specifications?). Added lesson 12 for using the mailto: hypertext link and the <address> tag.

Version 1.5 / July 1995??

Plans for new lessons on NetScape enhancements (tables, font size, backgrounds, <blink> flashing text, <hr> and <img> modifiers, centering...