Lab 6 Activities
- Lab 7a (Building your first home page)
1) This week we will complete Preparing for lab 7a and lab 7a. This lab counts 20 points (10 for the lab and 10 extra for the enrichment activity below).
- You will build a web page today. It is necessary to start a UNIX session with Telnet and also start a web browser like Internet Explorer.
- Your TA will demonstrate the steps in the lab for you. They will do one step at a time. If you get stuck ask for help.
- Several enhancements will be made to the page
- add a background color or image
- add several lists (for example, who are your favorite rock groups)
- add a link to a second web page
- add a graphical image to your page
2) Additional requirements for this lab (10 points – 5 each)
- In a previous lab, you created the HOME button in Paint and downloaded the Lview viewer (remember you copied these files from the TOOLS directory in lab 4). You should:
- Start Lview.
- Open the HOME button.
- Choose Save As… from the File menu, rename this button home.gif (originally it is a bmp file). Lview converts graphical images from one graphical format to another by simply saving the file with a different extension (either gif or jpg).
- FTP this version of the HOME button to the html directory of your UNIX account.
- Modify the second web page to display the HOME button.
- Add a link to this image so that when this button is clicked your are returned to your Home Page (welcome.htm). Use
<a href="welcome.htm"> <img src="name.of.button.goes.here"></a>
- Finally, search the web for an image that you would like to add to your homepage. Download the image to the PC (right-click, Save Image As…). Transfer this image to your UNIX account’s html directory with FTP. Modify the first of your web pages to include this image. Print out copies of both web pages and demonstrate for your TA that the HOME button works as described.