Feb 7
html + css
Discuss nuts'n'bolts of simple web pages:
- main_file.html
- styles.css
- images.jpeg
Playing around with this is your Thursday homework.
Please interrupt with questions
In class, walk through creating and editing a basic web page, including the images, folders, etc; see how far we get.
Here are some places to explore this material:
Tutorials and design ideas :
some references :
Depending on time, start discussing some of the broader topics:
general web savy
Basic Tasks
Editing .html files
Finding or creating images
Uploading and moving files around.
- organizing 'em into folders
- SFTP : secure file transfer protocol (move file to another computer)
Modifying (resize, crop, ...) images :
Internet Infrastructure
Discuss possible services :
- domain name registration
- domain server
- web hosting (static, dynamic, shared, virtual, dedicated, ...)
- email ...
- CMS (content management system, i.e. WordPress)
- other internet (IRC, file sharing, ...)
- ... much of which costs money, although not a whole lot.
Some that I use :
- namecheap.com (DNS registrar)
- nearlyfreespeech.com (pay-as-you-go static & dynamic hosting)
- geekstorage.com (generic web hosting)
- linode.com (VPS - virtual private server)
Ways we could explore this stuff:
- you spend money to buy stuff.
- we set up a lightweight group account for all of us.
