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Notes for HCI 201 -- 1/5/06
Review Questions
- What is the Internet?
Ans: A publicly accessible network of networks to which
any computer in the world can (in principle) can be connected.
- What are some popular web browsers?
Ans: Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox,
Opera, Safari (Apple).
- What are the four Views in FrontPage (Version 2003)?
Ans: Normal (for WYSIWYG editing), HTML (for editing source code
directly), Split (to see both Normal and Code simultaneously),
Preview (shows exactly (hopefully) how the page will be displayed in
a browser).
- What does URL mean?
Ans: Uniform Resource Locator.
- What does HTML mean?
Ans: Hypertext Markup Language.
- What is a Website in FrontPage?
Ans: A folder that contains HTML pages, images and stylesheets
that form a website.
- What software can you use to download a web page?
Ans: Any web browser, SSH, FTP.
- What software can you use to upload a web page?
Ans: SSH and FTP. Web browsers are read only for web content.
Topic for Hobby Website
- Submit the topic of your hobby website as a comment (not a file)
under HWT.
Exercise Ex1
Marking up an HTML File
- HTML means Hypertext Markup Language.
- To mark up an HTML page means to add HTML tags that alter the
appearance of the page.
- An HTML start tag is delimited with angle brackets, for example
<b>.
- An HTML end tag
contains a forward slash ( /
), for example
</b>.
- <html> ... </html>
delimit an HTML file.
- See the HTML
File for Exercise 1. Here is the
source code for that file.
- What HTML tags do you see in the source code file for Exercise 1?
The Quiz 1 Review Guide
- Quiz 1 will be given on January 10, 1:30am to 1:50pm.
- Here is a link to the
Quiz 1 Review Guide.
Creating HTML Files with Notepad
- Complete exercise
Ex1 using FrontPage.
- See the document Using Notepad to
Create a New HTML Page.
- Use Notepad to edit the HTML
page you created for Ex1.
- Test this HTML file by invoking the Internet Explorer from the File
Explorer.
Submitting a Homework Project
Publishing an HTML Page