Basic HTML Workshop Session 1 Introduction to HTML
Basic HTML Workshop Session 1: Introduction to HTML Spring 2011 1
Today’s Agenda Cover useful terminology for today’s session • HTML, browsers, servers, etc. HTML Tags Get started on your e-portfolio Go LIVE on the web! 2
Useful Terminology in Web Development 3
Browsers Software to view Web pages Internet Explorer Google Chrome Firefox Safari 4
HTML Hyper. Text Markup Language 5
Versions of HTML 1 HTML 2 HTML 3 HTML 4 XHTML 5 XHTML 6
Text Editors Used to write HTML code Pico (UNIX) Notepad 7
Uploading vs. Downloading 8
Web Servers (or “Hosts”) Computers that house Web sites The Internet ISP’s server UH Server Today you’ll upload HTML files to the UH web server using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Other users will request your web pages through their ISP’s server using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) 9 Image Source: http: //www. jjc. edu/academics/divisions/career-technical/cios/Pages/default. aspx
Domain name Examples: hawaii. edu nasa. gov kitv. com ala. org ebay. com amazon. com 10
Student Benefits ! E E R F Domain Name AND Server Space 11
URL (Uniform Resource Locator) http: //www 2. hawaii. edu/~yokokudo/index. htm a b c d a: Protocol b: Domain name (server name) c: Directory name (space in the UH server reserved for you) d: File name http: //www. hawaii. edu/lis/webteam/ 12
HTML 13
Tags Opening Tag Closing Tag <i> I love libraries! </i> I love libraries! 14
HTML document structure <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W 3 C//DTD XHTML 1. 0 Transitional//EN" "http: //www. w 3. org/TR/xhtml 1/DTD/xhtml 1 transitional. dtd"> <html> <head> <title> …document title… </title> </head> <body> …your page content… </body> </html> 15
Getting started on your e-portfolio 16
Before starting 1. Please use Firefox or Chrome for today’s exercises. 2. Open up Control Panel in your PC. Within Control Panel search for “Folder Options”. Open it and click on the View tab and un-check the box for “Hide extensions for known file types”. This is to avoid problems with naming or re-naming the file extension (ex. . txt, . doc, . html, etc. ): 17
Exercise To establish your space on the UH server and create a home page: Open http: //www. hawaii. edu/account/ in Firefox 1 Sign in with your UH username and password. 2 Under “Personal Home Page Options” click on the link “Create Homepage. ” 3 Write down your homepage URL address: e. g. http: //www 2. hawaii. edu/~yourusername (Notice that index. html is not added to the end of the address, but rather it is implied. ) 4 Click on the link to your new homepage! 18
Troubleshooting When saving the template files in Internet Explorer, they will be named. htm by default. To be consistent with how the code was written in the template, you must rename the file extension: . html or else the links in your navigation bar will not work. Our current recommendation is to save the files from Mozilla Firefox or Chrome in order to avoid this issue. Firefox saves the files as. html by default. 19
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