Email an electronic copy of your homework answers to your instructor, but keep a copy. Eventually, you will post this on your website.

1. Go http://www.sitepoint.com/article/usability-blunders-big-players and read the article "Top Ten Usability Blunders of the Big Players". Turn in a discussion of the 10 problems cited.  Even though this article is four years old, the issues are still relevant today.
   
   
2. Read the following article about developing a web site and write an outline of the key points: "Blueprint to Develop a Great Web Site" http://www.thejournal.com/articles/15341.

3. A "famous" quote begins "In order that people may be happy". Give the name of the author, when he lived, and the full quote. Cite two sources for your information.
   
   
4. Do a web search to identify the top virus for August 2007. List two sites where you can find up-to-date virus information.
   
   
5. Determine the number of web sites that have links to www.panoguide.com using Google, MSN and Yahoo. Compare the results. Consult the Bare Bones 101 tutorial for the code to use.
   
   

6. Go to the "T is for Thinking" web site, http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html, on critical thinking. Read the guide. Do the one more st*p*d assignment. Namely, choose one of the topics (either "The Sixties", or "Eggs and Cholesterol"), look at the sites referenced, and evaluate two. Be sure to include one that you think contains reliable information and one that does not. Write an evaluative paragraph on each of your two choices based on criteria for evaluating information.
   
   Email your analysis for #6 to your instructor and cc: a copy to John Henderson at Ithaca College (jhenderson@ithaca.edu).
   
   You can also consider the two references "Evaluate your Sources" and "Comparing & Evaluating Web Information Sources" for useful ideas on evaluation.