Week 1: The Basics
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Please note that to save time and get a job done quickly, I'm using Netscape Composer to write these pages. The HTML is hideous - just right click and select View Page Source to see what I mean... but the pages work.
Objectives
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By the end of this face to face session, you will have
- Recalled some facts about paths and Web addresses (URLs)
- Solved some problems based around HTML code
- Created a couple of Web pages one containing a simple form using NotePad
- Added Action and Method attributes to the forms tag allowing your form to use FormMail.pl to process form output
- Added some 'hidden' input boxes to your form to tell the FormMail.pl script what address to send the information to and what page to display once the 'send' button has been pressed.
- Have used an FTP program to upload your pages to your BODMAS server space and test your forms
- Have accessed your BODMAS Web Mail account
Web Links
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HTML links
Andrew Jackson recommends the Joe Barta HTML tutorials at http://www.pagetutor.com/ - They seem quite neat and worth a look. The tutorials assume you are using Notepad and that ties in with the HTML in 15 minutes worksheet and Activity 1.
Maggie-Fitzpatrick-Jordan (my boss 8-) has found a set of tutorials that assume nothing at http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/ - again looks worth a try to me! This site has some stuff on the HTML 4.0 tags and cascading style sheets so us anoraks will find something. There is also reference material on colours and some stuff on ASP.
I personally recommend http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/html/#forms if you need a quick fix on more of the forms tags. The whole HTML Made Easy page can be printed and kept for reference.
Paths and URLs
The other mind bender I assailed you with yesterday was the general concept of paths on Unix servers and Web addresses. I'm still trying to find a web page that is accessible about Unix paths - I'll end up writing one but with more pictures and exercises than the handout I belaboured you with.
Activity
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The handouts we used in Week 1 can be downloaded from the links below
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Last modified: 2nd Feb 03