CS101 Introduction to Computing Lecture 6 Developing & Hosting a Web Page (Web Development Lecture 2) 1 Today is our 2nd Web Dev lecture During our 1st lecture about the Web … • We answered various questions about the Web. • How it works, How it is structured, etc. • We also commented about the future shape of the Web: the Semantic Web, and how it is different from the Web of today. • Today’s Web is targeted squarely at us, humans. Whereas, the Semantic Web is being constructed in such a way that it is easily understandable for the computers 2 Learning Goals for Today 1. To develop your personal Web page 2. To upload your Web page to VU’s Web server so that it becomes visible on the Internet as http://www.vu.edu.pk/~xxxxxxxx/ where xxxxxxxx is your user ID 3 But first … How I developed my personal Web page and made it available over the Internet through the URL http://www.vu.edu.pk/~altaf 4 page title URL link 5 Hyper Text Markup Language 6 <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Altaf Khan's Home Page</TITLE> </HEAD> HTML Code <BODY> <H1>Altaf Khan</H1> <P><B>Adjunct Lecturer in Computer Science</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.vu.edu.pk/">Virtual University</A><BR> Building 1, 3rd Floor, Aiwan-e-Iqbal, Lahore<BR> +92 42 555 1212<BR> <A HREF="mailto:altaf@vu.edu.pk">altaf@vu.edu.pk</A><BR></P> <P>I teach the <A HREF="http://www.vu.edu.pk/cs101/">Introduction to Computing</A> course. </P> </BODY> 7 </HTML> <HTML> 1 <HEAD> 2 <TITLE>Altaf Khan's Home Page</TITLE> </HEAD> 3 <BODY> HTML Code 4 The ones in yellow, i.e. <HTML>, </HTML>, <HEAD>, <P><B>Adjunct Lecturer in Computer Science</B><BR> </HEAD>, <BODY>, 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My Web page is visible only on my computer. It would be nice if it was also visible on the computers of all my friends and relatives as well. 22 Solution! I need to upload my Web page to a Web server that is connected to the Internet As a result, my Web page will become accessible to anyone with a computer hooked up to the Internet 23 Upload Process I went to the Web server upload page on the VU Intranet and uploaded my Web page to my account on the VU Web server 24 25 Eureka! 26 My Web page is now accessible from all of the millions of computers connected to the Internet 27 http://www.vu.edu.pk/~altaf/index.html http://www.vu.edu.pk/~altaf 28 Enough about mine … Here is how you can develop your personal Web page and make it available on the Internet as http://www.vu.edu.pk/~xxxxxxxx 29 Developing Your Own Web Page Open notepad, type in the HTML code, and save it as index.html on your PC’s desktop 30 Developing Your Own Web Page Log on to the VU Intranet and upload that index.html from your PC’s Desktop to your account on VU’s Web server 31 That is it! Your Web page is now accessible on the Internet through the URL: http://www.vu.edu.pk/~xxxxxxxx where xxxxxxxx is your user ID 32 Before we finish for the day, a brief review of the HTML tags … 33 <HTML> … … </HTML> 34 HTML tags that go in the HEAD portion of a Web page 35 <HEAD> … … </HEAD> 36 <TITLE> … </TITLE> 37 HTML tags that go in the BODY portion of a Web page 38 <BODY> … … </BODY> 39 <P> … </P> Paragraph 40 <BR> Line break 41 <B> … </B> Bold text 42 <A HREF = “action” > label </A> Anchor (Anchors are used to embed links in a Web page) 43 <A HREF = “action” > label </A> • http:// – Displays the Web page specified by the link – example: “http://www.vu.edu.pk” • mailto: – Sends an e-mail to the specified address – example: “mailto:altaf@vu.edu.pk” 44 <A HREF = “action” > label </A> label can be any text string 45 HTML Code I am at the <A HREF=“http://www.vu.edu.pk”>Virtual University</A>. You can send me an e-mail by clicking <A HREF=“mailto:bhola@vu.edu.pk”>here</A>. Browser Display I am at the Virtual University. You can send me an e-mail by clicking here. 46 End of HTML tag review 47 What have we learned today? 1. We now know how Web pages are built using HTML 2. We also know how to make our personal Web pages available to everyone on the Internet 48 Useful URL’s HTML for the Conceptually Challenged http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/html_tutor.html NCSA’s Beginner's Guide to HTML http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/ HTMLPrimerAll.html 49 Homework Assignment Develop your own home page. It should be accessible as http://www.vu.edu.pk/~xxxxxxxx (xxxxxxxx is your user ID) Among other things, it should contain – At least one link to http://www.vu.edu.pk/~altaf – Your (clickable) email address – A paragraph (50-100 words) on what you see yourself doing 10 years from now Consult your syllabus for the submission deadline for this assignment 50 Today’s was our 2nd Web Dev lecture In the 3rd Web Dev lecture we’ll learn about adding Lists & Tables to your Web page 51