The first laboratory is devoted to HTML markup and developing HTML documents without using advanced design tools.
Use the text editor to create a file called "index.html" in your "public_html" directory. This file should be the main home page for you on the servers at La Trobe.
Create a page that includes your name and a brief description of yourself. Divide the page into sections with headings and paragraphs. Experiment with creating dividing lines, centering, and creating coloured and blinking text. Your page should demonstrate that you can write HTML for the following,
If you have not already done so, read the primer on HTML programming at the NCSA web site. You will find a link to this document on the MS resources page.
Create a bulleted list of links to other interesting web sites, and documents. You should create a link to a personal MS page from your homepage. There you can start to collect links and build a site that helps other students of MS courses. You should also include links to at least one other local document in your own html document tree.
Use the editor to specify the layout of a simple HTML form that connects to a cgi script that prints out the contents of the form fields. You might like to use the form processing perl script at
http://www.speakeasy.org/~cgires/perl_form.cgi
Create a form that uses appropriate types of fields to collect Name and Address, and Postcode information. Implement a popup menu that allows the user to select a country of residence. Include two linked radio buttons which record a preference for "Smoking" or "Non Smoking", and a text box with dimensions 10 lines and 60 characters. The text box should be equipped with a slider which allows vertical scrolling.
Remember that you will need to name your fields so that the meaning of the data (its context) will be available at the server side of the connection.
Finally add submit and clear buttons which have the labels "Send" and "Clear Form" on them. Link the form document to your MS web page, and test it to see how it operates.
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