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Session 2 Lesson Plan

Review of connection speeds

Intro to this session

Looking at Sites using different Browsers.

Look at the following sites using a minimum of two browsers from the list of IE7, Netscape, Safari, Opera and Firefox. Compare the browsers, which is the most popular %? Which is the best? Justify this. Where could you look to find out which is the most popular browser?

Looking at sites means that you will need to look at several of the pages, not just the home page.

Write down what differences there are.

Take a look at the following sites.

www.maplin.co.uk

www.microsoft.com

www.westherts.ac.uk

Find a Statistics site. Use this to work out the most popular browser. Does the site you are looking at make any difference to the browser used? Does the country where the user is based make any difference? w3schools onestat

Servers and uptime - Netcraft

CSS Rollovers. What is a rollover button? How can you create on? Can this be done in a CSS instead? Find out how to make CSS create your buttons rather than using html and javascript.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 defaults to using CSS. Look at a CSS file.

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