Basic HTML Workshop

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Session 1: Introduction to HTMLSpring 2011

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Today’s AgendaCover useful terminology for today’s

session• HTML, browsers, servers, etc.

HTML TagsGet started on your e-portfolioGo LIVE on the web!

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Browsers

Software to view Web pages

Internet Explorer Firefox

SafariGoogle Chrome

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HTML

HyperText Markup Language

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Versions of HTML

HTML 1HTML 2HTML 3HTML 4XHTML HTML5

XHTML

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Text EditorsUsed to write HTML code

Notepad

Pico (UNIX)

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Web Servers (or “Hosts”)Computers that house Web sites

Today you’ll upload HTML files to the UH web server using FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

UH Server

Other users will request your web pages through their ISP’s server using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

The Internet

ISP’s server

Image Source: http://www.jjc.edu/academics/divisions/career-technical/cios/Pages/default.aspx

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Domain name

Examples:

hawaii.edu nasa.gov ebay.com

kitv.com ala.org amazon.com

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Domain NameAND

Server SpaceFREE!

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URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

http://www2.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/

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Tags

I love libraries!<i> </i>

Opening Tag Closing Tag

I love libraries!

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HTML document structure

<html>

<head>

<title> …document title… </title>

</head>

<body>

…your page content…

</body>

</html>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

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Before starting1. 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, .htm, .html, etc.):

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Exercise

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://www2.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!

To establish your space on the UH server and create a home page:

Open http://www.hawaii.edu/account/ in Firefox

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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.

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