Lab 2: Web Searching and Downloading

A. Web Searching

• Choose one of the following topics:
  • HTML
  • Web design
  • Web usability
  • Web architecture
  • Web evaluation and testing
  • visual design
  • image editing
  • scripting languages
  • markup languages
  • social and ethical issues of the Internet
• Use at least two different search engines or directories to search for the topic and look at many different sites.
• Choose three sites about the topic which are the most useful to you but not already listed on the links page of the course web site. For each site:
  • List the title and URL of the site.
  • Name the search engine or directory you used.
  • Write the search string you entered and/or the path of links you followed.
  • Explain (in a few sentences) the content of the site and why you find the site useful.
• Send the information as an e-mail message to the lecturer with subject web lab 2a.

B. Downloading

• Choose three of these file types:
  • document, image, audio, video, animation, archive, program
• For each file type,
  • Locate a file of that type which is related to Uganda Martyrs University, no larger than 30 KB.
  • Download the file to a hard or floppy disk.
• Compose an e-mail message to the lecturer with subject web lab 2b.
  • Attach the three files to the message.
  • In the body of the message give the full URL of each file and explain what type of file it is.