Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 1 Lecture 2  Building Web pages  Languages and programs  HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language  Netscape’s Composer  MicroSoft Front Page  Dreamweaver  Word

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 2 Keep it simple  Word can save a file as a web page file (html)  Word is familiar to you, but it creates complex and nonstandard html code  Netscape’s Composer  Easy to learn and very simple html code, but not very powerful  Straight HTML  Lots of syntax to learn but the best way understand what is happening  Front Page  Easy to use  Available on LAN and part of MS package  More sophisticated than Composer  Recommended for you after you use HTML  Dreamweaver  Excellent when working with a large site.  Similar to FrontPage, but more complicated and more powerful

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 3 Use word to create a file and save it as a ‘web page’ File --- Save as Use Word to make a web page

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 4 Word’s html code From Wordpad (or Notepad) open the word htm file called wordhtmltest.htm Pretty messy looking html.

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 5 Use Wordpad (or Notepad) to create an htm file: Start – Programs – Accessories - Wordpad If you are using Wordpad, you must save the file as a text document, making sure you explicitly type the name and the extension in the filename line. Wordpad has more saving options than Notepad, so be careful to save the file correctly.

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 6 htmltest.htm in Browsers Netscape 4.7 Netscape 7.0 Internet Explorer 5.5/6.2 Mozilla 1.0

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 7 Conclusions?  Keep it simple.  A little html knowledge goes a long way.

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 8 How to open your www account go to: enter username and password click here: W3Setup

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 9 Entering your password is all you need to do.

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 10 What we want for pa1:

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 11 Using Wordpad to create a file called index.html and save it to your desktop folder. Enter the text shown here. A great place to learn more about what tags are is: Remember: If you are using Wordpad, you must save the file as a text document, making sure you explicitly type the name and the extension in the filename line.

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 12 In the body tag area, we will create a table of one column and width of 100% of the browser window. means new row and means next table cell means center and means line break. table tag must be closed Text entry

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 13 Save your file and take a look at it (open it) in a browser. So far so good!

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 14 In the body tag area, add another row to the table and insert an image. An image needs a source SRC=“yourpicture.jpg”, and dimensions of height and width (in pixels). You have to have an image in the same folder as your index.html file! Go get one if you don’t have one. An Image

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 15 Resume Link Insert a link to a Word file that is called resume.doc. <a href is an anchor tag to a hypertext link. The words My Resume will be seen on the page. Make sure you have a document named resume.doc in your local folder.

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 16 Save your file and take a look at it (open it) in a browser. So far so good!

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 17 Favorite Link Insert a link to a external www location. This is identical to the document link, but we now enter a location on the web, rather than a file name.

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 18 Insert a link with the action word: where xxxx is your four digit id. Link

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 19 Looking Good!

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 20 Upload files

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 21 To Edit your page  Download the index.html file from ws2 using SSH  Make changes in Notepad, or FrontPage, or Dreamweaver  Upload the page back to ws2 using SSH

Lecture 2 Building Web Pages 22 pa1 requirements – 20 points  The page must appear when entering  Name and address  A picture  Your resume link  Your favorite link  Your button