Exercise 3: Editing HTML tags

Web-pages are formatted through a mark-up language called HTML. You can have a look at the HTML code of any web-page, simply by selecting View and then Page Source from the Netscape Window.
  1. Feel free to look at your own home-page. It probably has a lot of HTML tags in there.
  2. Go to my home-page (www.rose-hulman.edu/~wollowsk) and have a look at the HTML tags. There are probably much fewer tags. This is because I edited the page from scratch.
  3. If you would like to start all over again with you main page, you can do that by simply removing your index.html file from you AFS account (or you can rename it to some other name, such as index.bac) and start anew.
  4. I posted quick reference guides to some simple UNIX commands as well as to Emacs, an editor that you can use to edit your files.
  5. If you would like to learn more about HTML tags, log into one of your AFS accounts and knock yourself out.
  6. It is best to use a piece of software called Secure CRT to log onto your AFS account. You can find it by clicking on Start and Network Tools.
  7. Once in your account, you have to change directories to Public/HTML The command to change directories is cd
  8. I posted a simple beginners web-page. It does not just contain some of the most frequently used HTML tags, but also explains them. Please have a look, copy it to your machine, ftp it to your AFS account and edit it there.

If you want to get into HTML, I placed links to online HTML guides as well as a link to a rather good book on HTML. Check'em out.