CONCEPTS FOR A DIGITAL WORLD


WEBSITE ASSIGNMENT 2


Due by Midnight on Thursday, January 22, 2004

This assignment will be evaluated for the website portion of your evaluation and will count as 10% of your final mark.
This assignment must be completed by Midnight on Thursday, January 22, 2004.
Incompleteness or not completing this assignment as required will be reflected in the evaluation given. Accuracy counts!

There are 2 main parts to this assignment

Part 1:

You will establish an ‘Index’ page for your own CFADW course website and add information to it.

Part 2:

A: You will setup your own CFADW email account with a ‘signature’ and an ‘automated response’;

B: You will send an email from your own CFADW email account to your own CFADW account to confirm that you have correctly completed the steps in Part 1 and Part 2A and 2B.

C: You will forward and ‘Cc’email from Part 2B stating that you have completed Part 1 and Part 2A and 2B.

NOTE:

This assignment assumes that you have correctly completed establishing your own Yahoo/Geocities CFADW website and email account as instructed in Website Assignment 1.  The instructions stated below were accurate when this assignment was developed.  The instructions were tested through using a computer running the Windows operating system and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser.  Yahoo/Geocities makes changes to their websites which may cause the instructions to be inaccurate.  Nevertheless, the assignment must still be completed as required.  Therefore, it is your responsibility to determine the correct method/steps necessary to successfully complete this assignment.


 

Part 1:

You will establish an 'Index’ page (also known as a ‘Home’ page) for your own CFADW website according to the following instructions:

(1) Access your own CFADW website at: http://ca.oocities.com

(2) Sign into your CFADW website.

(3) Under the heading 'Build Web Pages', click on: 'Yahoo PageWizards'.

A new page will appear with a number of web page templates.

(4) Click: 'Personal Page'

A new page will appear showing a number of web page templates.

(5) Click: 'Launch Yahoo! PageWizard'

Another, smaller, web browser window will appear.

(6) Click: 'Begin'

A new page will appear in the small web browser window: 'Choose a look for your page'.

(7) Select a colour.

(8) Click: 'Next'

A new page will appear in the small web browser window: '(1) Enter your info'.

(9) Enter your first name then your last name.

(10) Enter your CFADW email address.

(11) Click: 'Next'.

A new page will appear in the small web browser window: '(2) Pick your picture'.

(12) Click: 'Next'

A new page will appear in the small web browser window: '(3) Describe yourself'.

(13) In the 'About Me' textbox, without the quotes, enter: 

‘I am a student in the Winter 2004 Concepts For A Digital World, (CFADW), course at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  I am enrolled in the … Program.’

(Replace the ‘…’ with the name of the Program you are enrolled in at the College and the program code.  i.e. Graphic Design G102 )

(14) In the ‘Hobbies and Interests’ textbox, without the quotes, enter:

‘I am taking the CFADW course ...’

Replace the ‘...’ with a paragraph about why you are taking the CFADW course and what you would like to learn. One sentence is not an acceptable paragraph. Think about the question and answer it fully.

Follow the first paragraph with a second one (press enter/return twice at the end of the last sentence you entered) in which you state why you are interested generally in information technology and the specific information technologies you are interested in. One sentence is not an acceptable paragraph. Think about the question and answer it fully.

Follow the second paragraph with a third one (press enter/return twice at the end of the last sentence you entered)  in which you state and describe your present knowledge and experience with information technology. One sentence is not an acceptable paragraph. Think about the question and answer it fully.

(15) Click: 'Next'

A new page will appear in the small web browser window: '(4) Enter your favourite links'.

(16) In the textbox for the #1 link Name, enter: 'Concepts For A Digital World';

(17) In the textbox for Web Address #1, enter: 'ca.oocities.com/crn43003';

(18) Click: 'Next'

A new page will appear in the small web browser window: '(5) Describe your friends and family'.

(19) Click: 'Next'

A new page will appear in the small web browser window: '(6) Enter your friends and family links'.

(20) Click: 'Next'

A new page will appear in the small web browser window: 'Name your page.'

(21) In the textbox for Page name, replace the page name given; enter: 'index';

(22) Click: 'Next'

A new page will appear in the small web browser window: 'Congratulations'.

(23) Click: ‘Done’

A new page will appear.

(24) Click on your webpage’s URL.

Your newly created Home Page will/should appear.

(25) Click on the URL link to the CFADW course website and determine if it works.

(26) If everything looks and works as required, proceed to Part 2.  If something doesn’t look or work as required, start over from the very beginning and redo your work according to the instructions.  If you are still not successful, Yahoo/Geocities may have altered the method of creating an index.html page which will require you to determine what has changed to complete this part of the assignment.

(27) Logout of your email and website. If you don't logout, your email and website will be open for others to use.

 

PART 2:

Before you continue with part 2:

Make sure that your own CFADW website can be accessed through using a web browser and your own cfadw_yourstudentnumber Yahoo!GeoCities URL.
The URL will be in the following format: http://ca.oocities.com/cfadw_yourstudentnumber
If the URL is correct and the website has been established and is working properly, your newly created Index/Home Page will appear on the screen.
If it doesn't work, determine why, fix it (you may have to redo part 1), then continue.

 

FIRST A:

You will setup your own CFADW email account with a message signature and an automatic response.  The message signature will appear at the bottom of every email you send.  The automatic response will automatically notify an email sender that their email has been received by your CFADW email account.

(1) Access your own CFADW website at: http://ca.oocities.com

(2) Sign into your Yahoo!GeoCities website.

(3) Scroll down to the bottom of the page where there is a box filled with underlined words and click on: 'mail'.

 

(4) Click: ‘Mail Options’

 

The ‘Mail Options’ page should appear.

 

(5) Click: ‘Signature’

 

The ‘Signature’ page should appear.

 

(6) In the textbox, without the quotes, enter an identifying signature as follows:

 

‘Concepts For A Digital World

Winter 2004

Firstname Lastname

Student number

Your CFADW website address

Your CFADW email address’

 

(Substitute your own information where appropriate.)

 

(7) Click on the checkbox: ‘Add signature to all outgoing messages’.

 

(8) Click: ‘Save’

 

The ‘Mail Options’ page should appear.

 

(9) Click: ‘Vacation Response’

 

The ‘Vacation Response’ page should appear.

 

(10) Change the ‘Start Date’ to: January 05 2004.

 

(11) Change the ‘End Date’ to: May 31 2004.

 

(12) In the ‘Generic Response’ textbox, without quotes, enter the following:

 

‘Your email has been received at cfadw_yourstudentnumber.

This email response is automatically generated.

Do not respond to this email message.’

 

(Substitute your own information where appropriate.)

 

(13) Click the checkbox: ‘Send a sample copy of this message to my inbox’

 

(14) At the top of the ‘Vacation Response’ page, under where it states ‘Vacation Response’, make sure that it indicates that your ‘Vacation Response’ is turned on.

 

(15) Click: ‘Save Changes’

 

The ‘Mail Options’ page should appear and should state: ‘Your changes have been saved’

 

(16) Click: ‘Check Mail’

 

Your ‘Yahoo! Mail’ ‘Inbox’ page should appear and it should contain a new message with the subject line: ‘Yahoo! Auto Response’.

 

(17) Open the ‘Yahoo! Auto Response’ email message.

 

That message should contain the text you entered for your ‘Vacation Response’.

If that information does not appear, determine what is wrong and fix it before continuing.

 

(18) Logout of your email and website. If you don't logout, your email and website will be open for others to use.


AFTER A, THEN B:

You will send a test email from your own CFADW course Yahoo!GeoCities email account, to that same account, according to the following instructions.  This will confirm, to yourself, that you are are correctly completing the assignment’s instructions.  After you have successfully completed this part of the assignment, you will use the resulting email from B in C.

(1) Access your own CFADW website at: http://ca.oocities.com

(2) Sign into your Yahoo!GeoCities website.

(3) Scroll down to the bottom of the page where there is a box filled with underlined words and click on: 'mail'.

(4) At the left of your email account web page, click on: 'Compose'.

(5) Enter the recipient's email address (your own) in To: cfadw_yourstudentnumber@yahoo.ca


(Replace cfadw_yourstudentnumber with your actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID, i.e. cfadw_101234567)

(6) Enter the email Subject: cfadw_yourstudentnumber website index page completed

(7) Enter your CFADW email address in Cc: cfadw_yourstudentnumber@yahoo.ca

 

(Replace cfadw_yourstudentnumber with your actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID, i.e. cfadw_101234567)

(8) In the box where the message goes, type the complete URL of your website: http://ca.oocities.com/cfadw_yourstudentnumber


(Replace cfadw_yourstudentnumber with your actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID, i.e. cfadw_101234567)

Make sure the URL is correct!

 

(9) Press the ‘Enter’ or ‘Return’ key on your keyboard.

(10) Below the Cc: textbox, click on the checkbox for: 'Save copy to Sent folder'.

(11) In the Yahoo email composer page, click on: 'Send'.

A confirmation page should appear.

(12) Find the line that states: View messages in your Inbox and click on: 'Inbox'

You should have 2 messages from your own email account, the To: message and the Cc: message.
If the Internet is slow, you may have to wait a while for the messages to be received.

(13) Open one of those messages and determine if the URL you typed into your message works as a hyperlink to your own CFADW website.

 

(It should work).

(14) If there is a problem, try and figure out what went wrong and retry. (It may just be a typographical error.) If all is well, Sign Out.

 

(15) Logout of your email and website. If you don't logout, your email and website will be open for others to use.

 

AFTER B, THEN C:

You will forward an email from your own cfadw_yourstudentnumber Yahoo!GeoCities email account to the CFADW course Yahoo!GeoCities email account according to the following instructions:

(1) Access your own CFADW website at: http://ca.oocities.com

(2) Sign into your Yahoo!GeoCities website.

(3) Scroll down to the bottom of the page where there is a box filled with underlined words and click on: 'mail'.

(4) At the left of your email account web page, click on: 'Inbox'

 

The email ‘Inbox’ page should appear.

 

Under ‘Subject’ you should see the message: ‘cfadw_yourstudentnumber website index page completed’

 

(cfadw_yourstudentnumber should be your actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID, i.e. cfadw_101234567)

(5) Click: ‘cfadw_yourstudentnumber website index page completed’

 

(cfadw_yourstudentnumber should be your actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID, i.e. cfadw_101234567)

 

The email message should appear.

 

(6) Find the selection box where it states ‘as attachment’ and select: ‘inline text’

 

(7) Click: ‘Forward’

 

The ‘Forward’ page should appear.

(8) Enter the CFADW course email address in To: crn43003@yahoo.ca

(9) Enter your CFADW email address in Cc: cfadw_yourstudentnumber@yahoo.ca

 

(Replace cfadw_yourstudentnumber with your actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID, i.e. cfadw_101234567)

(10) In the textbox where the message you are forwarding is displayed, on the first line, without quotes, type:

 

cfadw_yourstudentnumber@yahoo.ca forwarded message regarding completion of website index page at http://ca.oocities.com/cfadw_yourstudentnumber.’

 

(Replace cfadw_yourstudentnumber with your actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID, i.e. cfadw_101234567)


Make sure the email address and the URL are correct!

 

(11) Press the ‘Enter’ or ‘Return’ key on your keyboard.

(12) At the bottom of the page, where ‘Options’ is indicated, make sure that ‘Save a copy in your Sent Items folder’ is selected as indicated by a checkmark in the checkbox.

(13) Click: 'Send'

The ‘Message Forwarded’ page should appear.

(14) Find the line that states: 'View messages in your Inbox' and click: 'Inbox'

You should have 2 messages: (1) the Cc'd message; (2) an automated response message, from the course email address.


(If the Internet is slow, you may have to wait a while for the messages to be received.)

(15) Open the Cc'd message and determine if the URL you typed into your message works as a hyperlink to your CFADW website.

 

 (It should work).

(16) Open the automated response message from crn43003@yahoo.ca and read the message.

(17) If there is a problem, try and figure out what went wrong and retry. If all is well, Sign Out

(18) Logout of your email and website. If you don't logout, your email and website will be open for others to use.