Practical 2 --

Publishing your work on the World Wide Web:

Work in teams where at least one of you is familiar with preparing documents for the World-Wide-Web using HTML. (see below)
Each person in the class should prepare a document containing their references collected in Assignment 1 and post it to a WWW homepage on their students.uiuc.edu account.
Enter the address of your homepage in a message posted to the FirstClass discussion forum so that we all can link to it and see what you have collected.
Give yourself plenty of time to make changes after you have made the document.
Post it by Monday morning at 10:00am.

On-line help:

Working with HTML:

There are some tricky parts to this practical and not enough instructor to go around. For that reason I'm suggesting that even though this is an individual assignment it will be wise to work in small groups.

This is what we are aiming for -- check out these refs on my "staff" homepage:

http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~b-orland/341prac.html

Your address will look just like that but for the word "staff" and the login "b-orland." -- something like http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~a-stude/341prac.html

ps. if the server is too busy to find that file, and you get a "not found" message, try this one instead:

http://www.imlab.uiuc.edu/~brian/341prac.html
or even
http://bajada.landarch.uiuc.edu/~brian/341prac.html

To help get your accounts set up to serve up your home pages, I will be around in the first practical as well as Deanna Koenigs.

Deanna has been scouring the net and has found a tutorial for using Netscape Composer as an html editor. Please work through the tutorial and ask for help as you need it.

Setting Up Your Student UNIX Account for Web Publishing

Guides you through the set up of permissions on your UNIX account for serving out your web pages.

Tutorial on Creating Pages with Netscape Composer

Designed for beginners with no html or web design experience. Uses a wizard for creating your first web page.

Publishing Your Page

Guides you through the publishing process in Composer to get your pages onto your UNIX account and viewed by everyone.

After you have created your first page using the Netscape Composer Wizard, you will want to edit that page to make it more suitable to your assignment in Practical 2. The following links will provide you with more help on editing pages, adding links, adding images, etc.

Netscape Composer Tutorial - change fonts, add images, etc.
Inserting Hyperlinks and Images by University of Essex
Change your fonts, create hyperlinks, and insert lines by IDG.net
Netscape Tool Chest for adding clip art and backgrounds to your web pages
Links to other Netscape Composer tutorials
Netscape Gold Tutorial - This tutorial, created by ESLARP, is outdated, but it still has some useful directions for cutting and pasting text, adding images, adding links, etc.

If you get ambitious with your own home page check out the UIUC CCSO pages on Web Publishing and especially the page on Publishing via your UNIX account on students.uiuc.edu.

If you are interested in creating a well designed website or adding the latest features, check out the following links on web design:

And now ...

At the end of this Practical you may have realized that you now have your own site on the Web. You might also decide there is more to your life than 341 and you want a more personal image out there. If you create a new page and name it index.html the servers at CCSO are set up to automatically serve up that file when a browser asks for your account without an /????.html at the end. For an example, you might look at mine:

http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~b-orland or again if it's too busy try:

http://www.imlab.uiuc.edu/~brian

LA/UP 341 Fall 1999