Homework due Saturday, June 17

This week you'll begin work on a basic personal Web site -- the successor to the primitive "home pages" of early Web days. We'll add features and refinements to this site in weeks that follow.
  1. We'll begin by repositioning the basic page you built last week, which is named yourLastName.hwk1.htm. This page will become the default arrival or index page for your personal site. Many of you have already installed this page in your personal directory instead of introShared. If you haven't already put that page into your personal directory, do so now. (That is, use FTP to upload the page file from a local disk to your personal directory on Cow.)

  2. Once you've moved your previous homework page to your personal directory, rename it index.html. (NOTE: because Cow is running ancient server software, it insists on the four-letter file extension "html" for index pages. More modern servers let you use various file extensions for indices. The present Cow server will be replaced at the end of this term.)

  3. Create a page called live.htm. (We can use the three-letter extension here because this is not the index page.) Use this page to describe the place where you live. Include a heading and at least one horizontal rule. The text need not be elaborate and you may omit sensitive details like street address.

    Upload this page to your personal directory on Cow.

  4. Create a page called work.htm. Use this page to describe your present job or career objectives. (Again, you may omit any details you don't care to publish to the world.) Include a heading and at least one horizontal rule. Upload this page also to your personal directory on Cow.

  5. Create a page called play.htm, describing what you do for fun or relaxation. Include heading and rule. Upload as above.

  6. Create a page called outlinks.htm. Along with a heading, place on this page a list containing at least five active links to sites on the Web that you feel might be interesting to others. Upload as above.

  7. Open your index page in the editor. At some appropriate point in the page (and here's where a sense of design comes in), insert links from this page to the other four pages of your site. Test the links to be sure they work.

  8. Duplicate the link structure you built for the index page on each of the four topical pages: live, work, play, and outlinks. Vary the links in each case so that they point to the four pages other than the present page.

  9. Pull up index.htm in your editor one more time. Add somewhere on this page a link with a MAILTO: argument to HREF so that readers who arrive on your index page can send you e-mail. Test this link.

Next week we'll add backgrounds, graphics, and imagemaps.