Includes index, references and appendix.

Contents: Understanding hypertext systems: Document markup fundamentals -- Explore the concept of document markup -- Apply all five types of document markup to HTML -- Define a document tagset -- Explore the issues surrounding HTML page conversion -- Self-review questions -- Hypertext concepts -- Explore the nonlinear nature of hypertext -- Identify examples of nonlinear text -- Define hypertext and hypertext systems -- Self-review questions -- The Fundamental components of a hypertext system -- Identify the difference between the concepts of hypertext and a hypertext system -- Explore computer-based hypertext systems -- Explore web-based hypertext systems -- Self-review questions -- The Golden rule of hypertext -- Apply the rules of hypertext to hypertext components -- Apply the rules of hypertext to different types of documents -- Self-review questions -- WWW as a hypertext system -- Apply traditional hypertext concepts to WWW content -- Evaluate WWW as hypertext system -- Self-review questions -- Hypertext document engineering -- Define the role of the hypertext document engineer -- Apply HDE techniques -- Self-review questions -- Hypertext design methodologies -- Analyze and define structural design issues -- Redefine a structure -- Self-review questions -- Test your thinking -- Introduction to human-computer interaction: Human-computer interaction foundations -- Identify the main components of human-computer interaction -- Identify and understand the goals of human-computer interaction -- Discuss historical and future issues of human-computer interaction -- Self-review questions -- The Nature of Human-computer interaction -- Understand the place of HCL and its effect on computer use and development -- Identify productivity improvements -- Self-review questions -- User interface software -- Identify layers of user interface software -- Identify graphical user interface hardware -- Self-review questions -- Software development -- Compare traditional and modern software development -- Compare traditional and modern software development -- Life cycle methodologies self-review questions -- Test your Thinking -- Human-computer interaction principles: The Human perspective -- Understand the human information processor -- Self-review questions -- Interaction devices -- Identify the range of input and output devices for interaction -- Compare the different interactive devices -- Self-review questions -- Dialog styles -- Understand basic concepts of dialogs -- identity the range of dialog styles -- Self-review questions -- Designing with user models -- Understand the different types of models used in HCL -- Self-review questions -- Understanding task analysis -- Define the task analysis process -- Carry out a task analysis -- Self-review questions -- Test your thinking -- Human-computer interaction design: User interface design principles -- Apply principles of intuitive design -- Understand the basic foundation for good user interface design -- Self-review questions -- User Interface design guidelines -- Judge the effectiveness of user interface guidelines -- Apply user guidelines to examples -- Self-review questions- user interface usability -- Understand usability and usability measures -- Apply the basics of user interface evaluation -- Review questions -- Implementing user interfaces -- Understand the basics of the X Windows System -- Self-review questions -- Test your thinking -- Human-computer interaction for the web: Designing web page user interfaces -- Understand the characteristics of the web as a user interface -- See how consistency, Simplicity, and context apply to the web -- Self-Review questions -- Web page design principles -- Apply web page usability measurement -- Recognize examples of bad web page design -- Self-review questions -- Test your thinking -- Web page navigation: Understand the difference between content and navigation -- Compare web navigation to earth navigation -- Understand the importance of web navigation -- Self-review questions -- Basic navigation features -- Understand the main requirements of navigation links -- Apply solutions to meet the main navigation requirements -- Understand the relationship between page links and browser navigation features -- Self-review questions -- Naming navigation elements -- Understand the importance of labels -- Use site maps and indexes -- Construct meaningful URLs -- Self-review questions -- Types of web sites -- Understand users and their needs -- Recognize different navigation needs -- Self-review questions -- Test your thinking -- Overview of multimedia formats: Static and animated graphics -- Experiment with image file formats -- Differentiate between GIFs and JPEGs -- Experiment with various types of images -- Identify special image types -- Self-review questions -- Audio -- Identify MIME-Types, Helper Applications, and Plug-ins -- Embed sound in a web page -- Self-review questions -- Video -- Embed video in a web page -- Self-review questions -- Streaming multimedia -- Understand streaming multimedia -- Create web pages using streaming multimedia -- Self-review questions -- Virtual reality -- Understand the virtual reality modeling language -- Understand the issues associated with using virtual reality in your web pages -- Self-review questions -- Test your thinking -- Multimedia peripherals and devices: Multimedia production hardware -- Understand hardware support for images -- Understand hardware support for video -- Understand hardware support for audio -- Self-review questions -- Multimedia production software -- Understand software requirements for images -- Understand software requirements for streaming multimedia -- Sample some multimedia production software -- Self-review questions-- Test your thinking.