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RELS 302Resources

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Dynamic Pages for the Course Textbooks

The course textbooks from Peachpit Press and Jim O'Donnell's Avatars of the Word have "dynamic pages" designed to accompany the textbook, provide updates, additional information, etc. (The beginning of the future for what ALL textbooks should be doing!] The XML book has a page that gives a table of of contents, sample chapter, etc.

Elizabeth Castro, HTML 4 for the World Wide Web Publisher's Site, T he Author's Site

Tom Negrino and Dori Smith, JavaScript for the World Wide Web Author's site

James J. O'Donnell, Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace Supplement Page, Author's Home Page (Some excellent resourses and examples of humanities web sites here!)

Class Materials

Class Handouts
Examples Used in Class (HTML and JavaScript)

Humanities Computing

Humanist Archives Electronic Seminar on the Use of Computers in the Humanities 1988-Present
Course Page for RELS602 Technological Approaches to the Humanities Jay Treat's course (The graduate counterpart to RELS302).
Culture News ( Wired Magazine)
HSSC 556 Material Culture of Technology
TEI-Text Encoding Initiative

Humanities Computing Sites
(Examples of Good Presentations of Humanities Resources on the Web-This List Will Grow Over the Course of the Semester)

Witchcraft in Salem Village Very well done project which demonstrates what can be done with text, historical, documents, images and computer technology.
Alan Humm's Lilith Home Page Probably the most visited page on CCAT--See Alan's other pages for great examples of pages that contribute original (not otherwise available) materials to the web. (Alan is one of the three instructors who teach RELS302 from semester to semester)
Apuleius, Apologia: Seminar Web presentation of the product of a seminar led by Jim O'Donnell).
www.civilwar.com (Excellent design)
The Ecole Initiative Online Encyclopedia of Early Christianity
Exploring Ancient World Cultures This excellent site has been visited over 5 million times!
James Joyce's Ulysses Resources for the study of the book created by Elliott Diamond, a student in RELS409 Computers and Textual Research (the earlier version of RELS302).
Robert A. Kraft-Home PageProfessor in Religious Studies at Penn-Bob has been one of the leaders in Humanities Computing for decades. He has also made most of his publications available online- See the extensive list on his home page.
Jim O'Donnell's Home Page Professor of Classical Studies and Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing at Penn. Another one of the leading innovators in Computing and Humanities at Penn and the author of one of the textbooks used for this course (Avatars of the Word). The Tenement Museum Online museum preserving historical information about a tenement building on the lower East side of New York

HTML

W3C's HTML Page
W3C's Official HTML 4.0 Specifications
Beginners Guide to HTML
Yahoo's List of HTML Validators The Color Center (Javascript program that allows you to try out different colors for your page)

CSS/DHTML

W3C's Cascading Style Sheets Page
Dynamic HTML Zone

XML

W3C's XML Page
The XML Files
Spotlight on XML ( CNET Builder) What is XML and Why Should Humanists Care?
XML and the Second Generation Web ( Scientific American)

JavaScript

Doc JavaScript
The JavaScript Source

Perl/CGI

www.perl.com
Elizabeth Castro, Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web Publisher's Site, Author's site

Useful Newsgroups

comp.graphics.apps.paint-shop-pro
comp.graphics.apps.photoshop

Software

HTML Editors
Arachnophilia (Excellent! AND it's FREE ("Careware") When I use an HTML Editor this is the one I use!)
Hot Dog Professional (32 bit) version 5.5 A little expensive but this is probably the best HTML Editor in existence)
File Transfer Programs:
Tucows: FTP programs for Win95/98 (including WSFTP and CuteFTP)
Tucows: FTP programs for the MAC (including Fetch)
Graphics Programs
Paint Shop Pro for Windows 6.0 (Evaluation Version) EXCELLENT! PSP can do nearly everything that Photoshop can do but it's less expensive. I've also found it easier to learn than Photoshop. PSP has been my graphics program of choice for several years now.
3D Graphics
Xara 3D 3.0 (Trial Version)
Simply 3D (Trial Version)
GIF Animation Programs:
GIFConstruction Set for Win95/98/2000, WinNT
Gif Animation information page(s)
Software Archives with Extensive Up to Date Collections of Internet Related Programs
TuCows
ZDNet

Search Engines

Alan Humm's Extensive Collection of Search Engines
Hotbot Search Engine
AltaVista Search Engine
Evaluating Internet Research Sources

Some useful exerpts from the mail.sas FAQ List

Elm Resources:
The Guide to Elm at Penn
Customizing Elm

Miscellaneous

NetWorld! tour (book chapter and links)
Patrick Crispen's Roadmap to the Information Superhighway
How to Create a Signature File for Elm
How to Create a Clickable Image
Introduction to Shell Scripts
Unix Help
UNIX
Pages from the World Wide Web
Object-Oriented Programming
PennMOO
Java FTP Site
Some textures and utility pics (dots, etc.)

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