6.1, Introduction to HTML

• HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language
• The language of the web.
  • This language consists of a number of tags
  • They start with a <
  • Have a text field
  • End with a >
  • For example, to put something in italics
  • < i> italics < /i>
  • A link to google
  • <a href="http://www.google.com"> link to google </a>
  • If you are interested, most browsers have the ability to view source
• Word can create html code for you.

The Web

• The web is a client server environment
• Your browser (IE, Netscape ...) is the client
  • It allows you to request documents
  • It displays these documents
• There are numerous web servers
  • This software responds to requests for documents
  • They must be available most (all) of the time
• At Edinboro, our web server is www.edinboro.edu
• It is associated with another machine called cluster.edinboro.edu
• Your webpage at the university is at
• www.edinboro.edu/~username
• Today we would like to set up a webpage.
• Step 1, Set up your web page
• After this, you will be able to transfer files to the vax.
• The file that loads automatically should be called home.html
• Some Tips

FTP

• File Transfer Protocol
• Move files from one machine to another
• Built into the save_as option in office
• When you do this, use cluster.edinboro.edu as your host
• Your username and email password.