The Longman Guide to the Web

When Lester Faigley started college, he thought he was going to become an architect. Instead, he wound up majoring in English and teaching middle school English and history. Three years after he received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1976, he joined the faculty of the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin, where he now holds the Robert Adger Law and Thos. H. Law Professorship in Humanities. He has also been a visiting professor at several universities in the United States and abroad, and he is past chair of College Composition and Communication. Faigley served as the founding Director of both the Division of Rhetoric and Composition and the concentration in Technology, Literacy, and Culture at the University of Texas. He teaches undergraduate writing courses on writing and technology and graduate courses on rhetorical theory, discourse analysis, and issues of literacy and technology. He and his wife Linda have been married for more than three decades, and they have two grown sons. His sports passion is kayaking - both in rivers and on the ocean.

1. Web Basics


2. Steps in Creating a Web Site: The Technical Side


3. Steps in Creating a Web Site: The Design Side


4. Visual Design for the Web


5. Building a Multi-Page Site


6. Creating a Dynamic Site


7. Web Sites in the Disciplines


8. Doing Research on the Web


9. Using and Documenting Sources


10. What Else a Web Site Can Do for You


Appendix A: Glossary


Appendix B: HTML Tags