CFADW13183 Fall 2007 Assignment 1

CONCEPTS FOR A DIGITAL WORLD

ASSIGNMENT 1

Setup of Course Website and Email Account

Due by 11:59 PM on Tuesday, September 11, 2007

This assignment will be evaluated as 10% of your final mark.

Late or un-submitted assignments will receive a grade of zero.

Read the following information thoroughly before beginning this assignment and complete each step in consecutive order.

All parts of this assignment must be completed by 11:59 PM on Tuesday, September 11, 2007.

This assignment will be evaluated as 10% of your final mark.
Late or un-submitted assignments will receive a grade of zero.

There are multiple parts to this assignment

This assignment must be completed in order to be able to do further course assignments.
Marks will be deducted for errors/incompleteness/not completing this assignment as required.

It is a lot easier to complete this assignment if you follow the instructions from a printed copy. Complete the assignment sequentially, step-by-step, pay close attention to the instructions and, as you do them, put a checkmark next to each completed step.

Some of the information you will be asked to enter such as postal code, birth date, etc., is not your own in order to avoid giving out personally identifying information which could be used by hackers for identity theft.

Because Yahoo makes changes, some of the details or responses you receive while completing this assignment may have changed since these instructions were developed; it is your responsibility to accommodate those changes to successfully complete the assignment.

PART 1:

When you have completed Part 1, you will have established a Yahoo! Geocities website address and created a home page (index.html) and, during the process of establishing your course website, an associated yahoo.ca email account will be automatically created for you.

For example, if your last name is Chan and your student number is 100234567, your Geocities website address will be in the following format: http://ca.oocities.com/chan_100234567 and your Yahoo! email address will be in the following format: chan_100234567@yahoo.ca.

To view an example of what your website will look like when you have completed it, click on: http://ca.oocities.com/chan_100234567

(1) Click, or Right-Click, on the hyperlink: http://ca.geocities.yahoo.com or enter the Yahoo! Geocities web site’s address/URL directly into your web browser’s address field.

(If you Right-Click on the hyperlink, this will cause a second window with the Yahoo! Geocities Canada sign-in/sign-up web page to appear.)

(2) Click on: Build Your Web Site!

(This will cause the Yahoo! Geocities Terms of Service web page to appear.)

(3) Click on: I Accept

(This will cause the Yahoo! Geocities Sign-up web page to appear.)

(4.1) Enter: Your own First name

(4.2) Enter: Your own Last name

(4.3) Enter a Yahoo! ID with the following format: Lastname_Studentnumber

(Substitute your own last name for ‘Lastname’ and your own student number for ‘Studentnumber’. For example, if your last name is Chan and your student number is 100234567, your Geocities website address will be in the following format: http://ca.oocities.com/chan_100234567 and your Yahoo! email address will be in the following format: chan_100234567@yahoo.ca ).

(4.4) Enter a password which is easily remembered and, for good security, is at least 6 letters and numbers long. Don’t forget this password!

(4.5) Select a security question and enter the answer. Don’t forget the answer!

(4.6) For Birthday, use: January 01, 1950 (This is easy to remember and is not your real birthday)

(4.7) For Zip/Postal code, use: M5R1M3 (This is one of the College’s postal codes.)

(4.8) For ‘Alternate Email’, use an email address you usually use.

(4.9) Uncheck the ‘Special Offers’ checkbox.

(4.10) Verify your registration.

(4.11) Click on: Submit

(This will cause the ‘Sign up for your Home Page’, ‘Choose a Topic” web page to appear.)

(5.1) Choose: Computers & Internet

(5.2) Click on: Submit This Form

(This will cause the ‘Congratulations’ web page to appear.)

(6.1) Print and/or write down your Yahoo! ID and Home Page Information (Yahoo ID; Alternate Email Address; Home Page URL).

(6.2) Click on: Build your page now!

(This will cause your Yahoo! Geocities web site account page to appear. Your website is now open for adding, editing, and deleting web pages and web page content.)

(7) Click on: Yahoo! PageWizards

(This will cause the ‘Yahoo! PageWizards’ web page to appear.)

(8) Click on: Personal Page

(This will cause the ‘Yahoo! Personal PageWizard’ web page to appear.)

(9) Click on: Launch Yahoo! PageWizard

(This will cause the ‘Build your Personal Page’ web browser window to appear.)

(10) Click on: Begin

(This will cause the ‘Choose a look for your page’ web browser window to appear.)

(11) Click on: Next

(This will cause the ‘(1) Enter your info’ web browser window to appear.)

(12.1) In ‘Your name:’, enter: your own first name then your own last name.

(12.2) In ‘Your email address:’, enter: your own, full, yahoo.ca email address (For example, if your last name is Chan and your student number is 100234567 then your email address would be: chan_100234567@yahoo.ca).

(12.3) Click on: Preview

(This will cause a new web browser window to appear with your web page in it. Your web page should now contain your own first name and last name.)

(12.4) Pass the mouse cursor over ‘E-mail me!’ (do not click) and, at the bottom of the window, you will see your Yahoo.ca email address appear.

(12.5) Click the Preview window’s ‘close box’ (the box at the right corner of your web page’s window) and make the window disappear.)

(The ‘(1) Enter your info’ web browser window should now be present.)

(12.6) Click on: Next

(The ‘(2) Pick your picture’ web browser window should appear.)

(13.1) Click on: Next

(The ‘(3) Describe yourself’ web browser window should appear.)

(13.2) In the 'About Me' textbox, enter:

I am a student in the Fall 2007 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. For example: Graphic Design G102 )
(13.3) In the ‘Hobbies and Interests’ textbox, begin your first paragraph with:

I am taking the CFADW course ...

(Replace the ‘...’ with a paragraph (at least 2 complete sentences) about why you are taking the CFADW course and what you would like to learn.)

(13.4) Press enter/return twice at the end of the last sentence you entered.

(13.5) Follow the first paragraph with a second paragraph (at least 2 complete sentences) in which you state why you are interested generally in information technology and state the specific information technologies you are interested in.

(13.6) Press enter/return twice at the end of the last sentence you entered.

Follow the second paragraph with a third paragraph (at least 2 complete sentences) in which you state and describe your present knowledge and experience with information technology.

(13.7) Click on: Next
(The '(4) Enter your favourite links' web browser window should now appear.)

(14.1) In the textbox for the #1 link Name, enter: Concepts For A Digital World
(14.2) In the textbox for Web Address #1, enter: ca.oocities.com/cfadw13183
(14.3) Click on: Next
(The '(5) Describe your friends and family' web browser window should now appear.)
(15) Click on: Next
(The '(6) Enter your friends and family links' web browser window should now appear.)
(16) Click on: Next
(The 'Name your page' web browser window should now appear.)
(17.1) In the textbox for Page name, replace the page name given; enter: index
(Very Important!! The text ‘index’ must all be in lower case.)

(17.2) Click on: Preview

(This will cause a new web browser window to appear with your web page in it. Your web page should now contain asked to enter and it should be correct. If the content isn’t correct, use the Back button to go back to the web page window where the correction(s) can be made, make corrections, and use the Next button to get back to the ‘Name your page’ web browser window (this step).)

(17.3) Click the Preview window’s ‘close box’ (the box at the right corner of your web page’s window) and make the window disappear.)

(The 'Name your page' web browser window should now be present.)

(17.4) Click on: Next
(The 'Congratulations' web browser window should now appear.)

(18) Write down your website’s full address for future reference.

(18.1) Click on: Done
(The ‘Congratulations’ web browser window will disappear and the ‘Now that you have finished…’, ‘Spread the word’, web page will appear.)

(19) Click on the hyperlink/URL for your website.
(Your newly created Yahoo! Geocities index.html web page should appear.)
(19) On your website’s index.html page, click on the ‘Concepts For A Digital World’ hyperlink and determine if it works. It should cause the CFADW course website’s index.html page to appear.
(20) 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.

(21) You can click on the web browser’s ‘Back’ arrow to return to the Yahoo! Geocities ‘Now that you have finished…’ web page where you can Sign Out of your web site.

(22) Sign Out of your website. If you don't Sign Out, 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 entering your Yahoo! Geocities website address. Your website’s address will be in the following format: http://ca.oocities.com/Lastname_Studentnumber For example, if your Lastname is Chan and your student number is 100234567, your Yahoo! Geocities website address will be in the following format: http://ca.oocities.com/chan_100234567 and your Yahoo! email address will be in the following format: chan_100234567@yahoo.ca )

To view an example of what your website should look like when you have completed it, click on: http://ca.oocities.com/chan_100234567

If your website’s address is correct, and the website has been established and is working properly, your newly website’s home page (index.html) will appear on the screen. If it doesn't work, determine why, fix it (you may have to redo all/part of part 1), then continue.

FIRST 2A:

You will setup your own CFADW email account with a message signature, an automatic response, and to forward messages as inline text (not as attachments).
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.
When you forward an email, it will appear in the body of the email as inline text (not as an attachment).

(1) Access your own CFADW website at: http://ca.geocities.yahoo.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

(A web page inviting you to try Yahoo! Canada Mail Beta will appear. Do not use the Yahoo! Canada Mail Beta.)

(4) Click on: Remind me later

(A web page welcoming you to your new email account will appear and your inbox should have a few messages from Yahoo!.)

(5) At the top right of the web page, Click on : Options

(The ‘Mail Options’ page should appear.)

Setting up your ‘Signature’:

(6) Click on: Signature

(The ‘Signature’ page should appear.)

(7) In the textbox, enter an identifying signature as follows:

Concepts For A Digital World

Fall 2007

Firstname Lastname

Student number

Your own CFADW website address

Your own CFADW email address

(Substitute your own information where appropriate.)

(8) Click on the checkbox: Add signature to all outgoing messages

(9) Click on: Save

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

Setting up your ‘Automated Response’:

(10) Click on: Vacation Response

(The ‘Vacation Response’ page should appear.)

(11) Change the ‘Start Date’ to: September 11, 2007

(12) Change the ‘End Date’ to: February 28, 2008

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

Your email has been received at Lastname_Studentnumber.

This email response is automatically generated.

Do not respond to this email message.

(Substitute your own information where appropriate.)

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

(15) At the top of the ‘Vacation Response’ page, next to ‘Save Changes’, click on: Turn Auto-Response On

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

Setting up forwarding email as ‘Inline Text’:

(16) Click on: General Preferences

(The ‘General Preferences’ page should appear.)

(17) Next to the sub-heading ‘Forwarding Messages’, select: ‘Forward as inline text’

(18) Click on: Save

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

Finishing up and Signing Out of your email:

(19) At the top left of the ‘General Preferences’ page, Click on: Check Mail

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

(20) 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.)

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

AFTER 2A, THEN 2B:

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 part 2B (this part) in part 2C (the next part).

(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: Lastname_Studentnumber@yahoo.ca
(Replace Lastname_Studentnumber with your actual Yahoo! GeoCities ID, for example: chan_100234567)
(6) Enter the email Subject: Lastname_Studentnumber website index page completed

(Replace Lastname_Studentnumber with your actual Yahoo! GeoCities ID, for example: chan_100234567 website index page completed)

(7) Above the Subject textbox, where you entered the email Subject in the previous step, click on: Add CC
(8) Enter your CFADW email address in the Cc textbox: Lastname_Studentnumber@yahoo.ca

(Replace Lastname_Studentnumber with your actual Yahoo! GeoCities ID, for example: Chan_100234567)
(9) In the textbox where the message goes, on the first line, type:

Message from Lastname_Studentnumber@yahoo.ca regarding completion of my course website’s home page at http://ca.oocities.com/Lastname_Studentnumber.

(Replace Lastname_Studentnumber@yahoo.ca with your actual Yahoo! email address, for example: chan_100234567@yahoo.ca and replace http://ca.oocities.com/Lastname_Studentnumber with your actual Yahoo! Geocities website address, for example: http://ca.oocities.com/chan_100234567 Make sure your email address and the URL of your website are correct!)

(10) Press the ‘Enter’ or ‘Return’ key on your keyboard. (This must be done to turn your email address and your website’s URL in your email into a hyperlink.)
(11) Again, press the ‘Enter’ or ‘Return’ key on your keyboard.

(12) Enter the following text: My password is: xxxxxxxxx

(Submit your real password, not xxxxxxxxx)

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

(14) Again, press the ‘Enter’ or ‘Return’ key on your keyboard.

(15) Copy the questions listed below and, on the second line under where you have entered your password, paste them into your email’s textbox.

1. Was this assignment easy or difficult?

2. Why was this assignment easy or difficult?

3. Is/are there any error(s) or omission(s) in the assignment’s instructions or steps?

4. Is there anything which would improve this assignment?

(16) Type your answers below each question.

(17) In the Yahoo email composer page, Click on: Send
(A confirmation page should appear.)
(18) 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.)
(19) 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.)
(20) 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.

(21) Sign Out of your email and website. If you don't Sign Out, your email and website will be open for others to use.

AFTER 2B, THEN 2C:

You will forward an email from your own CFADW Yahoo! email account to the CFADW course email account cfadw13183@yahoo.ca according to the following instructions:

(1) Access your own CFADW Yahoo! email account at: http://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=ca

(2) Sign into your CFADW Yahoo! email account.
(3) At the left of your Yahoo! email account web page, Click on: Inbox

(The email ‘Inbox’ page should appear.)

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

(Lastname_Studentnumber should be your actual Yahoo! GeoCities ID, for example: chan_100234567)

(4) Click on: Lastname_Studentnumber website index page completed

(Lastname_Studentnumber should be your actual Yahoo! GeoCities ID, for example: chan_100234567)

(The email message should appear.)

(5) Click on: Forward

(The ‘Forward’ page should appear.)
(6) Enter the CFADW course email address in To: cfadw13183@yahoo.ca

(7) Click on: Add CC
(8) Enter your CFADW email address in Cc: Lastname_Studentnumber@yahoo.ca

(Replace Lastname_Studentnumber with your actual Yahoo! GeoCities ID, for example: chan_100234567)
(9) In the textbox where the message you are forwarding is displayed, on the first line, type:

Forwarded message from Lastname_Studentnumber@yahoo.ca regarding completion of website index page at http://ca.oocities.com/Lastname_Studentnumber.

(10) Press the ‘Enter’ or ‘Return’ key on your keyboard. (This must be done to turn your email address and your website’s URL in your email into a hyperlink.)
(11) Click on: Send
(The ‘Message Forwarded’ page should appear.)
(12) Find the line that states: 'View messages in your Inbox' and click on: Inbox
(You should have a new message, the Cc'd message.
If the Internet is slow, you may have to wait a while for the message to be received.)
(13) Open the Cc'd message and determine if the URL of your website, which you typed into your email message, works as a hyperlink to your CFADW website. (It should work).
(14) If there is a problem, try and figure out what went wrong (It could be caused by not pressing enter/return at the end of the line which contains your website’s URL.) and retry. If all is well, Sign Out.
(15) Sign Out of your email and website. If you don't Sign Out, your email and website will be open for others to use.