Part 1 : Develop a Personal Home Page

Part 2 : Download and Use of Shareware Files

Notes to Aid Students in Developing Home Pages and Learning HTML

Using Netscape

Simple Elements of HTML language.

  1. The Basic Template for a html file is the following commands (Your code and text go inside of these tags)
  2. Some Commonly Used Tags
  3. Hard Returns and Paragraphs (These codes are used alone )
    4. <BR> puts in the equivalent of a hard return in the document
<P> put in a hard return and skips to the next line
<H> puts in a good looking Horizontal Line
  4. Hard returns and paragraphs
    1. Un-numbered List
      2. <UL>
      </UL>

    2. Numbered List
      3. <OL TYPE="1">
      </OL>
      1. First numbered item
      2. Second numbered item
      3. Third numbered item

  5. Inserting Images Into the Text ( Images with .gif or .jpg extensions can be used )

      6. Command :

        <IMG SRC="file name">

      Example :

        <IMG SRC="line_blu.gif">
  6. Inserting Links into the Text

      7. Command :

        <A HREF="address and name of file">description</A>

      Example :

        <A HREF="http://www.messiah.edu"><Messiah College Home Page</A>
<A HREF="http://www.messiah.edu/hpages/deroos/home.htm"><Barry DeRoos' Home Page</A>
  7. Example of a simple html document
    8. <HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Sample HTML Document</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<IMG SRC="PC_1.gif">
<P>
<H2>Course Description :</H2>
<P>
      A broad and hands on exposure to the capabilities and uses of the
computer to solve various types of problems. In this course you
will study a number of problems that computers can solve and
various tools or programs used for solution. There will be an
emphasis on applications programs such as spreadsheets and
data bases and there integration with one another. In addition
students will be introduced to QBASIC as a programming language
to solve specific problems.
    <P>
      This course satisfies the mathematical sciences general education
requirement.
    <P>
<HR>
<H2>Course Objectives:</H2>
<UL>
    </UL>
    </BODY>
<HTML>
  1. Producing the HTML file and Viewing it
    1. Introduction
      1. You will need to use two applications simultaneously in Windows.
      2. Use both Write (or any ASCII or text editor) and Netscape (PC version of a web browser or viewer)
    2. Open the NoteTab application
      1. Open NoteTab and use it to type in the html code desired.
      2. When finished save the file as XXX.htm
      3. Next Open Netscape (It will automatically go to Messiah Colleges home page
      4. Use the File Menu and the Open File menu option to open the file that you have just saved from the Notepad editor. This will display the file in Netscape.

          5. An alternate method is to enter at the Netscape location window, the address of your file.
          For example : file:///b|XXX.htm This will load the file for viewing.

  2. Editing and Changing the file
    1. Change the desired html code in the NoteTab document.
    2. Save the file.
    3. Switch to Netscape and click on the reload button and Netscape will display the changes that have occurred.
    4. Repeat this process if more changes are required.

  3. Putting your Home Page on the Messiah CollegeWWW

    1. Introduction

      1. The Messiah College WWW is located on the Cain Server
      2. For Files to be accessed and displayed from Messiah Colleges WWW, they must be on that server.
      3. To do this you must have a login to the server and map the disk drive to your user area.

    2. Login to the Cain server
      1. Open the Network Services folder on the desktop.
      2. Double click on the Map Web Server icon.
      3. This will map the K: network drive to your user area.

    3. Use the cd command to go to your directory. You can now copy your home.htm file to this area and store other html files on the Cain server. Remember that file names should be lower case only.

  4. Notify the web master by email that your home.htm file is available and your name will be entered in the Messiah College student home pages.

Editing and Modifying Your Home Page

  1. Login to the Cain server and using the cd command go to your home page area.
  2. When you are in your user area type start. This will start the network menus.

      3. Choose the Math/Graphics option.
      Choose MS Windows
      Let windows load
      Open Netscape and load Messiah College's Home Page
      Go to the Student Home Pages and Open yours.
      Editing may be done Using the NoteTab programs .

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