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Welcome Back for Day 3 :-)At the end of the day yesterday we learned a few new things, including how to use Fetch.
Fetch is an "ftp" (File Transfer Protocol) program. We use it to "Get" files off the server and to "Put" files back on the server. Together we used Fetch yesterday to "get" your home page from the server.
Next we used SimpleText to edit the page. Some of the basic HTML tags we learned were:
Your homepage "exists" on the mathforum.org server.
- <html> ("hypertext markup language") - starts the page
</html> - indicates the end of the html page and should be placed at the end of your document
- <head><title> - starts the title that will appear at the top of your browser window
</title></head> - end tags for the title and head. Place your text between start and end tags
- <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> - begins the body of your page and sets the background (bg) color to white
- <center> - starts centering of your text or picture
</center> - ends centering. Place text to be centered between these tags.
- <h1> - tag for heading 1, the largest font
</h1> - ends heading 1There are 6 header sizes.
- <p> - this tag starts a new paragraph. It does not need an end tag.
<br> - this tag starts a new line. It does not need an end tag.
- <hr> - draws a line
- <a href="URL of a page goes here"> - this tag allows you to create linked text
</a> - this tag ends the linked text. The text you would like to have highlighted must be placed between these two tags.
- <a href="mailto:your email address goes here"> - this tag allows you to create a link to your email address. (There is no space between " and mailto.)
</a> - this tag ends the linked text. The text you would like to have highlighted must be placed between these two tags. The text can be your email address or your name or any other text. (Okay, it could also be an icon, but let's save that for later!)
- </body> - this tag is used to end the body. All of the text that you want to see on your page should appear before it.
</html> - indicates the end of the html and should be the last tag on your page.
When you want to make changes to your homepage, you can make them on the local computer you are working on at the moment. You can view the new homepage file in Netscape but others will still see your old page until you "send it" to the server, which is mathforum.org.
Using Fetch to send your corrected homepage to the server
Here's what to do after you have made changes to your page:
Of course you will want to go back to Netscape now and view your page as the world will see it... aren't you glad you bookmarked your own homepage?
- Save your changed file. We ask that you save this in your Math Forum folder so that it will be easy to find later on.
- Find and open your Fetch bookmark. This opens the FTP program that will transfer your file to the Forum server (mathforum.org) and drops you into the correct directory, which is
/var/www/html/workshops/usi/sandiego/participants
- Now you are ready to send or "Put" your corrected homepage on the server. Click on the "Put file" button and then highlight your file name. Remember it is in your Math Forum folder and you may have to move there to find it (it's the file that ends with the letters html).
With your file highlighted, click on Open. A new dialog box will open and you will need to make sure that you are sending the data as text. (For future reference: pictures must be sent as raw data and usually end in .gif except for photographs, which look better when saved as .jpegs .)
Now click on OK.
- YOU ARE DONE....just sit back and watch the little dog run.
Speaking of homepages... why doesn't my browser go directly to my own homepage when I click the Home button in Netscape? Actually at my house I do get to my own personal homepage when I click the home button. Why? Because I have Netscape browser on my computer set to recognize my homepage that way.
The computers in this lab are set to return to the Morse HS home page. If you want your homepage to greet you when you turn on your machine, you need to change the settings. Where do you do that? Under Options on the menu bar: it's a General Preference setting.
- Judy
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