Overview

Today's session will have four purposes:

1. Introduce you to web authoring and HTML

2. Introduce you to a few basic HTML tags

3. Explain how to set up a webpage on Wilkes1, upload updates, and set permissions

4. Introduce your Webpage assignment

A. What is HTML? How does it relate to browsers? See link.

B. Define some basic html tags

C. See html versions of existing web pages through "view source"

II. Other web-authoring languages.

A. What is Javascript? See link.

B. What is Dynamic HTML? See link.

III. Explain how to set up a webpage on wilkes1

A. Show how to set up web shell

B. Show how to use WS-FTP to upload a page to wilkes1

C. Show how to change permissions

1. Log on to wilkes1 using Telnet.

2. Change your directory to "webdocs" (type "cd webdocs").

3. Look at the permission codes by typing "ls -la"

4. You want the permission code for your Web Page files to have "rwxr-xr-x" and Web Page directories to be "drwxr-xr-x".

5. You do this by typing "chmod 755 filname.html" or "chmod 755 directoryname" at the wilkes1 prompt under the "webdocs" directory.

6.You will type "chmod 755 index.html" to change the permission code for your Home Page.

7.Type "ls -la" to be sure that your permission code is correct.

IV. Discuss Assignment

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