__     __ __     __ __     __  web's eye view (November 3, 1999)
| | /| / /| | /| / /| | /| / /  alan levine                        
| |/ |/ / | |/ |/ / | |/ |/ /   Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction
|__/ |__/ |__/|__/  |__/|__/    http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/
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Since your bag of halloween candy may be dwindling, we have pumped uo a
fresh bag of URLs is ready for pickup, just ring the doorbell at:

   http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/curr.html
   

Newest Version of Writing HTML tutorial
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We've finished massive edits on all lesson in our HTML tutorial

  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/
  
as well as adding five new ones that review basic techniques
for adding different types of multimedia to your web pages-
animated GIFS, video clips, audio clips, shockwave, and
Java. The lessons are now all packaged and available for
downloading so they can be used offline or at least quicker
than across the net.

It has been rewarding to watch how this resource has grown
from the initial version we created for a workshop for six
faculty memebrs at South Mountain Community College in 1994!
We've archive a few of the previous pages:

  Nov 1994
  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/server/old/tut1-2/tut1-2.html
  
  Dec 1995
  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/server/old/tut2-0/tut2-0.html
  
If you are creating web sites, we strongly reccomend that
you maintain your own archive as you modify and grow your
content. Not only will it save you by having some backups,
but it will provide a valuable benchmark for you to chart
your own progress.

Yes, even on the fast paced web, you can get nostalgic about
how it was only 3 years ago ;-)

In the Spring we hope to have some new lessons on HTML 4.0 
and Cascading Style Sheets.


Cheap Password Protection
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We would not recommend this for guarding any state secrets,
but this tip that came from one of the JavaScript reference
sites, allows you to provide somewhat of a barrier to a
web page.

The trick is simply to name the file that you want to
protect with some cryptic name that serves as the password,
like  "tXy64OGtk7". Then the entrance page uses a simple
form that requests the password and then attempts to
redirect the browser to this file. If they enter the wrong
password, the file is not found and they get an error
message. If it is correct, then they are simply linked to
the "secret" area.

The nice thing about this is that the actual password is not
written anywhere in the source HTML of the entrance page.

We have set up a small demo of this technique, and actually
written the password at the very bottom of the page. Look at
the source HTML to see how it works:

  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/code/password/