Develop your Personal Web Page: HTML

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Introduction to Computing CS101

LESSON 6

Learning Goals for Today

6.1 To develop your personal Web page

To upload your Web page to VU's Web server so that it becomes visible on the Internet as

http://www.vu.edu.pk/~xxxxxxx/

where xxxxxxx is your user ID

http://www.vu.edu.pk/~altaf

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>Altaf Khan's Home Page</TITLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY>

<H1>Altaf Khan</H1>

Adjunct Lecturer in Computer Science

<A HREF="http://www.vu.edu.pk/">Virtual University</A>

Building 1, 3rd Floor, Aiwan-e-Iqbal, Lahore

+92 42 555 1212

<A HREF="mailto:altaf@vu.edu.pk">altaf@vu.edu.pk</A>

I teach the <A HREF="http://www.vu.edu.pk/cs101/">Introduction to Computing</A> course.

</BODY>

</HTML>

Introduction to Computing CS101

http://www.vu.edu.pk/~altaf/index.html

http://www.vu.edu.pk/~altaf

http://www.vu.edu.pk/~xxxxxxx

where xxxxxxx is your user ID

<HTML>

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</HTML>

<HEAD>

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</HEAD>

<BODY>

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</BODY>

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Paragraph

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Line break

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Bold text

<A HREF = "action" > label </A>

http://

example: "http://www.vu.edu.pk"

mailto:

example: "mailto:altaf@vu.edu.pk"

HTML Code

I am at the

<A HREF="http://www.vu.edu.pk">Virtual University</A>. You can send me an

e-mail by clicking

<A HREF="mailto:bhola@vu.edu.pk">here</A>.

Browser Display

I am at the Virtual University. You can send me an e-mail by clicking here.

What have we learned today?

We now know how Web pages are built using HTML

We also know how to make our personal Web pages available to everyone on the Internet

Useful URL's

HTML for the Conceptually Challenged

http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/html_tutor.html

NCSA's Beginner's Guide to HTML

http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html

Homework Assignment

Develop your own home page.

It should be accessible as http://www.vu.edu.pk/~xxxxxxx (xxxxxxxx is your user ID)

Among other things, it should contain

At least one link to http://www.vu.edu.pk/~altaf

Your (clickable) email address

A paragraph (50-100 words) on what you see yourself doing 10 years from now.

Consult your syllabus for the submission deadline for this assignment

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