web basics
More about the course wiki :
Walk through ideas in "head first" :
- "web server"
- "web browser"
- "text editor"
- mac (textedit, textwrangler)
- windows (notepad, notepad++)
Disscuss: what kind of computer do you use?
Text files
- have a .txt extension
- ... which you may need to "turn on" in your OS to see.
Uploading to a web server:
- "akbar" is our campus-wide file storage
- ... which you can "mount" as a disk on your desktop
- ... and which is also www.marlboro.edu/~your_username
- Other methods for remote computers: sftp
Creating folders to organize your stuff.
HTML files
- have a .html extension
- ... but are really just more text files
- ... even though the web server and web browser display 'em differently.
Using the examples in the "head first" text:
- walk though some common HTML tags
- "a" anchor tag
- "img" image tag
- css blocks
- folder and file paths
