LEARNING

For people to see a Web site, its files must be placed on a Web server. At the University of Delaware, a UNIX Web server named “udel.edu” holds individuals’ Web files. The “www.udel.edu” UNIX Web server holds official University Web files. To allow the “udel.edu” server to find your Web files, you must place them in a directory on your account on Copland called “public_html.”

Before you write an HTML document, decide how you will structure it. What will the major heading be? How many subordinate headings will you have; how much text will you include; will you use lists, and so on. You’ll present your structure to your audience through special codes called HTML tags.
HTML documents consist of text, images, and HTML tags for labeling each
element. Tags come in pairs (i.e., a beginning tag and an ending tag) and are
enclosed by angle brackets (the “less than” and “greater than” signs). The format
for an HTML tag is text. Note that the ending tag name is preceded by a slash (/). It is important to include the ending tag with its slash character. Otherwise, the rest of your document will have the properties of the tag you forgot to finish.

In this class, you will prepare an HTML document for viewing on the Web. The procedure for preparing any Web document is
1. Type your text in a text editor: use Notepad in Windows, TextEdit on the Macintosh, or pico in UNIX. If you use a program like Microsoft Word, you must save your file as a text file before you can use it on the Web. (A text file contains only text; it does not contain any formatting codes [for layout, headings, etc.].)
2. Save the file as a text file.
3. View the Web page you’ve created in your Web browser.