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Introduction to HTML
Contents

Getting Started..

What is HTML?

How to create and View an HTML document?

Basic HTML Document Format

The HTML Basic tags
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Publishing Pages
What the following term mean:
 Web
server: a system on the internet containg one or
more web site
 Web
site: a collection of one or more web pages
 Web
pages: single disk file with a single file name
 Home
pages: first page in website
Think about the followings before working your
Web pages.
 Think
about the sort of information(content) you want to
put on the Web.
 Set
the goals for the Web site.
 Organize
 Come
your content into main topics.
up with a general structure for pages and topics.
What is HTML?
 Telling
the browser what to do, and what props to use.
 A serises of tags that are integrated into a text
document.
Tags are ;
 surrounded with angle brackets like this

 Most
tags come in pairs

 The
off.
<B> or <I>.
exceptions: <P>, <br>, <li> tags …
first tag turns the action on, and the second turns it
What is HTML?
 Telling
the browser what to do, and what props to use.
 A serises of tags that are integrated into a text
document.
Tags are ;
 surrounded with angle brackets like this

 Most
tags come in pairs

 The
off.
<B> or <I>.
exceptions: <P>, <br>, <li> tags …
first tag turns the action on, and the second turns it

The second tag(off switch) starts with a forward slash.


can embedded, for instance, to do this:


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<HEAD><TITLE> Your text </HEAD></TITLE> it won't work.
The correct order is <HEAD><TITLE> Your text </TITLE></HEAD>
not case sensitivity.
Many tags have attributes.


For example ,<B> text </B>
For example, <P ALIGN=CENTER> centers the paragraph following it.
Some browsers don't support the some tags and some
attributes.
Basic HTML Document Format
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>WENT'99</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Went'99
</BODY>
</HTML>
See what it
looks like:
How to Create and View an HTML document?
1.Use an text editor such as Notepad to write the
document.
2.Save the file as filename.html on a PC. This is called
the Document Source.
3.Open Internet Explorer (or any browser) Off-Line
4.Click on File, Open File and select the filename.html
document that you just created.
5.Your HTML page should now appear just like any
other Web page in Netscape.
7.You may now switch back and forth between the
Source and the HTML Document
 switch to Notepad with the Document Source
 make changes
 save the document again
 switch back to Internet Explorer
 click on RELOAD and view the new HTML
Document
 switch to Notepad with the Document
Source......
Tags


in head
<HEAD>...</HEAD>-- contains information about the
document
<TITLE>...</TITLE>-- puts text on the browser's title
bar.
Tags
in Body
 Let's
talk Text
Heading: <H1> </H1>
Center:<Center> </Center>
Line Break <P> ,<Br>
Phrase Markups: <I></I> ,<B></B>
 Create
a List
 Unordered list : <UL><li>
Ordered list: <OL><li>
Nested
 Add
Images
Use <IMG SRC=imagefilename> tags
How to specify Relative pathnames
Attributes of IMG tag
-width,height
-Alt
-Align
-<Img src=my.gif width=50 height=50 align=right
alt=“My image”>
 Add
some Link
Use <A href=filename|URL></a>tags
How to specify Relative pathnames
Kinds of URLs
-http://www.mail.yahoo.com
- ftp://ftp.foo.com/home/foo
- gopher://gopher.myhost.com/
- news://news.nuri.net
- mailto:[email protected]
 How
to make colors changes?
Hexadecimal number :
Color names : <Font color=white>
Changing the Background color
<BODY BGCOLOR=#19378a>
Changing
Text color
<BODY BGCOLOR=#19378a TEXT=#ffffff LINK=#ffff66
VLINK=#66ffff>
Spot
color
<FONT COLOR=#66ffcc>WENT'99</FONT>
Image
Background
<BODY BACKGROUND=bgimg.gif >
The current HTML document is my.html and the current directory is Iam
C:\- Iam -my.html
-your.html
Type this ; <A href=your.html>Your link </A>
C:\- Iam -my.html
Child -your.html
Type this ; <A href=Child/your.html>Your link </A>
C:\-  Iam -my.html
 Sister -your.html
Type this ; <A href=../Sister/your.html>Your link </A>
C:\-  Mother -your.html
 Iam -my.html
Type this ; <A href=../your.html>Your link </A>
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What is HTML?
 Telling
the browser what to do, and what props to use.
 A serises of tags that are integrated into a text
document.
Tags are ;
 surrounded with angle brackets like this

 Most
tags come in pairs

 The
off.
<B> or <I>.
exceptions: <P>, <br>, <li> tags …
first tag turns the action on, and the second turns it

The second tag(off switch) starts with a forward slash.


can embedded, for instance, to do this:




<HEAD><TITLE> Your text </HEAD></TITLE> it won't work.
The correct order is <HEAD><TITLE> Your text </TITLE></HEAD>
not case sensitivity.
Many tags have attributes.


For example ,<B> text </B>
For example, <P ALIGN=CENTER> centers the paragraph following it.
Some browsers don't support the some tags and some
attributes.
Basic HTML Document Format
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>WENT'99</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Went'99
</BODY>
</HTML>
See what it
looks like:
How to Create and View an HTML document?
1.Use an text editor such as Notepad to write the
document.
2.Save the file as filename.html on a PC. This is called
the Document Source.
3.Open IE (or any browser) Off-Line
4.Click on File, Open File and select the filename.html
document that you just created.
5.Your HTML page should now appear just like any
other Web page in Netscape.
7.You may now switch back and forth between the
Source and the HTML Document
 switch to Notepad with the Document Source
 make changes
 save the document again
 switch back to Internet Explorer
 click on RELOAD and view the new HTML
Document
 switch to Notepad with the Document
Source......
Tags


in head
<HEAD>...</HEAD>-- contains information about the
document
<TITLE>...</TITLE>-- puts text on the browser's title
bar.
Tags
in Body
 Let's
talk Text
Heading: <H1> </H1>
Center:<Center> </Center>
Line Break <P> ,<Br>
Phrase Markups: <I></I> ,<B></B>
 Create
a List
 Unordered list : <UL><li>
Ordered list: <OL><li>
Nested
 Add
Images
Use <IMG SRC=imagefilename> tags
How to specify Relative pathnames
Attributes of IMG tag
-width,height
-Alt
-Align
-<Img src=my.gif width=50 height=50 align=right
alt=“My image”>
 Add
some Link
Use <A href=filename|URL></a>tags
How to specify Relative pathnames
Kinds of URLs
-http://www.mail.yahoo.com
- ftp://ftp.foo.com/home/foo
- gopher://gopher.myhost.com/
- news://news.nuri.net
- mailto:[email protected]
 How
to make colors changes?
Hexadecimal number :
Color names : <Font color=white>
Changing the Background color
<BODY BGCOLOR=#19378a>
Changing
Text color
<BODY BGCOLOR=#19378a TEXT=#ffffff LINK=#ffff66
VLINK=#66ffff>
Spot
color
<FONT COLOR=#66ffcc>WENT'99</FONT>
Image
Background
<BODY BACKGROUND=bgimg.gif >
The current HTML document is my.html and the current directory is Iam
C:\- Iam -my.html
-your.html
Relative pathnames
Type this ; <A href=your.html>Your link </A>
C:\- Iam -my.html
Child -your.html Relative pathnames
Type this ; <A href=Child/your.html>Your link </A>
C:\-  Iam -my.html
Relative pathnames
 Sister -your.html
Type this ; <A href=../Sister/your.html>Your link </A>
C:\-  Mother -your.html
Relative pathnames
 Iam -my.html
Type this ; <A href=../your.html>Your link </A>
Publishing pages
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Viewing your pages via
the internet

Send pages to a web server
 How a page is distributed
 Server space maintenance
 Common ways (protocols) of
sending pages to a web
server
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FTP
SSH
Through a mapped drive
Review: Client and Server
User uses HTTP client (Web Browser)
 It has a URL (e.g. http://www.yahoo.com/)
 Makes a request to the server
 Server sends back data (the response)
 User clicks on the client side...
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request (URL)
Client
response (HTML, …)
Server
Publishing pages
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Sending pages via FTP to a web server
 File
Transfer Protocol
 Plain-text data transfer
 Microsoft’s FTP client
ftp://username:[email protected]
 ftp://[email protected]
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 Other
FTP clients
WS_FTP
 CuteFTP
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Publishing pages
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Exercise: Publish pages to usiweb.usi.edu
through an FTP client
 Go
to your desktop
 Open “My Computer” or “Internet Explorer”
 Type in the following URL into the address
field: Oakland’s ftp address
Publishing pages
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Sending pages via SSH
 Secure
Shell
 Encrypted data transfer
 More secure than FTP
 SSH used with www.oakland.edu for offcampus access
 SSH clients
SSH Secure Shell
 PuTTY (Free Win32 SSH client)
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Publishing pages
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Sending pages through a mapped drive
 Method
used to publish on campus to
www.oakland.edu. Normally labeled “H:” or
“the H drive”.
Publishing pages
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Creating a mapped drive for www.usi.edu
 Make sure you have access to on the web server
 If not: Have your fiscal agent send an e-mail to Web
Services approving access
 Go to your computer’s desktop
 Right click on the “My Computer” icon
 Select “Map Network Drive…”
 Enter Q: as the drive letter
 Enter \\www\www_usi as the folder
 Click on Finish or OK
 Traverse to your folder you have access to using
FrontPage or another web publishing application