Creating your first homepage on Tiger
- Start Telnet
- Login to your TIGER account
- type webpage
- Answer the questions, this creates a generic webpage and opens up a
directory for you on NY:[web.student.yourid]. You will only do this once in
your lifetime!
- Start your browser and navigate to: http://academic.uofs.edu/student/yourid
- You should find your webpage.
Creating a webpage with an HTML editor.
You may use:
- A Full feature HTML editor if available [highly recommended]
- Editor bundled with your browser [recommended]
- Word Processor [not recommended]
Create a new version of your home page. Practice:
- Using Large Fonts
- Using Tables
- Pasting Images on your page
- Creating links to existing pages
Important Page Features
- The head element and search engines
- The meta element
- The Body
- Tables [ the real key to controlling your page]
- Links
- Images
The Process of Building a Website
- The Local Computer
- FTP to the Webserver
- Using the Browser to access the page through the internet.
What happens when you click on a link.
- IP addresses and protocols
- Domain Name Server
- Page request routed to Webserver
- Webserver responds with page contents list
- Browser checks disk and memory cache for files and cookies
- Browser requests files needed
- Server organizes files needed into packets and routes them back over the
internet via IP addresses
- Browser reassembles and presents the webpage.
