Assignment No. 3

ASSIGNMENT NO. 3

This exercise will teach you how to build your OWN homepage on the internet. You must start at least a few days before this is due to make sure it works in time.

FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.
1. Go to your e-mail account. In the library, this is will be option "C" on the e-mail computers, or "E-Mail" or "EWAN" in the Earth Science Computer Applications Laboratory.

2. Log in with your gsi# and password.

3. Once you are logged in, type in the word 'webpage' next to the $ prompt. Answer the questions it asks.

4. Once that is completed, you have a homepage!! You must, however, wait overnight for computer services to update their server. Your webpage won't show up until the next day.

5. To see what your page looks like before you edit it, type in the following address:

http://www2.gasou.edu/student/gsi#####
with gsi##### being your five digit gsi number. This is your homepage address.
6. At your next available opportunity, log-in your e-mail account again to edit it.

7. At the $ prompt, type in 'cd public_html' to change directories in your account.

8. Then, at the next $ prompt, type in 'pico index.html' which will allow you to edit your current homepage.

Pico is an html (hyper-text markup language) editor that allows you to edit your homepage in your e-mail account.

9. Once in pico, you will be able to do anything you want. Probably the first thing to do is find the text that says "Do Not Erase". Find the parts that say "myemail" and "MyNameGoesHere". Erase them both and put type in your e-mail address in one place and your name in the other. (To make sure you are doing this correctly, see Brian Holt's page (http://www2.gasou.edu/student/gsi00253/). Once on his page, click on View and Document Source. This will show you exactly what he did.

10. You'll probably also want to edit other parts of the page, like including a link or two to other sites. This can be done by using something called "A HREF". Anytime you want to make a link you must use this command. This is how it would look on your page:

Dr. Good's Page.

11. One thing to remember: if you ever leave out just one character (i.e. quotation mark, less-than or greater-than mark, etc.), your page might not appear like it should. You can always double-check it by Viewing the Document source while in Netscape.

12. For future reference, put a link to Dr. Good's page on your page. You can do this by copying the code above. Be sure to type it in exactly as it appears.

13. Once that is done, put links to other favorite sites of yours. You might put in CNN, Weather Channel, or others. Just remember: type in the whole http:// address between the quotation marks and type the site name between the > and marks.

14. If you have any problems, ask Dr. Good.

Enjoy this activity and e-mail paragraph or two stating how you liked this, didn't like it, etc.

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