Senior Center of
Charlottesville

HTML class at the Senior Center(continued)

Teacher: Gus Goldsmith

Lesson Eight : We are learming to publish a web site = to transfer our file to the web page.

A-Procedure by which we could transfer a file into our website and vice-versa.

  1. At the Senior Center, we use a program called WS.FTP95Window LE (?) or WS_FTPLE for that purpose.

  2. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, like HTTP does for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.

  3. You can use WordPad or MS.Word to write instead of Notepad except that with Notepad we have a neat and simple Source page. Remember that Window 98 lets you save documents as Website page html. if you want to paste it to NotePad, do save it as Text File

  4. Use the command View, choose Source to check on a web page while you are on the Web.

  5. Gus shows us a list of "the html class group 1" "members's links and suggests that we have one on our web site.

B- Our Web site

  1. We need a Browser and a Internet Service Provider. Unfortunately, we students don't have the same one. Some of us use Netscape, some of us use Internet Explorer. We all have different ISP. That makes it very difficult for Gus to teach us the Where, What and How-to in the making of a website.

  2. It is agreed that we would go home and find out how to download Front Page Express from Window 98 in order to get ready for the next lesson (FTP).

C- Sample of a Web Page

  1. The URl of the sample web page is:
    http://users.nexet.net/gusgo/group2/group2start.html

  2. From this web page, we have learned:

    • To do background color, text color, vlink color, and alink color, the html code looks like this: (body bgcolor="ivory text="#ff0000" vlink color="__" and alink color="___")
      (attention:in order to be able to display the codes, all the angled brackets in my notes are changed into round brackets)

    • To change size of horizontal break (hr size="10pt")

    • To change font size (font size="+4") or ( font size="-2")

    • To look for a word to correct or to change, go to View, choose Source, click Search, choose Find type the word Find next or Replace.

    • The difference between an outside link and an inside link.
      (a href="http://www."___")__(/a) is an outside link, as the path shows that it comes from another web site.
      (a href="C://__")___(/a) is an inside link because the path shows that it comes from a file that belongs to the same computer.

    • We also learn that we can lengthen or shorten the url to go back to another web page. For example:
      http://users.nexet.net/gusgo/group2/Group2start.html can become:
      http://users.nexet.net/gusgo/group2/ColorChart2.html .

      End of Lesson Eight

      Home Work: Study http://users.nexet.net/gusgo/group2/group2start.html

      There is no class next week 4th of July.


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