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The CGS 3175 Newsletter

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W3C Revises Website (October 19 - MJL) Today the W3C launced its new Web site. This update follows the beta site announcement earlier this year. The new site features a harmonized desing, simplified information architecture, new style for technical reports, and new content, includeing calendars and aggregated blogs. Visitors to the site will notice that ther are (new) pages that have not yet been completed with up-to-date content. The W3C plan to continue to add content to these pages, and welcomes your conctributions. Please contact the W3C at site-comments@w3.org if you would like to contribute, or if you find any bugs or anomalies. For students in CGS 3175 - the validators are now found on the right-hand side of the page, near the bottom.

Students Voice Displeasure With HTML/CSS Validators (October 20 - CGS reporter)Many students have voiced their frustrations of using HTML and CSS validators to validate class projects in CGS 3175. Citing primarily the difficulties in understanding what the validator was trying to tell them. One student claimed "wtf does "OMITTAG NO was specified" even mean?" We spoke to the instructor of the course, Dr. Mark Llewellyn, who stated that "validation is an important part of the proper design of a modern website and understanding the output from the validators comes with experience."

* * Upcoming Events * * Assignment 4 due October 29th Exam #2 early November Project Phase 1 early November

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News Flash!! Assignment Grades Due Soon (October 16 - MJL)According to an anonymous source close to the CGS 3175 course, "grades for homework assignments 2 and 3 for CGS 3175 should begin appearing on WebCourses very soon, perhaps by the time you are reading this news." Although our source did not wish to be identified in this article (his initials are MJL), we believe the information to be accurate at this time.

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