Lab 4 – CS 101 Fall 1998

Web Page Development

 

Due Dates:(NOTE: UPDATED FROM ORIGINAL)

Labs C1,A2,B4: Monday Oct. 19

Labs C2,C4: Tuesday Oct. 20

Labs B1,A4,C3: Wednesday Oct. 21

Labs A1,B3: Thursday Oct. 24

Labs B2,A3: Friday Oct. 25

 

Goals: Develop a web page by learning some HTML; If you are interested and complete the assignment, you can explore using MS Word to create/modify web pages

 

To turn in for grade: Send email to your TA as follows: the subject should be Lab 4, CS 101; Inside the email type your full name, your student number at UB, and the URL of your UB web page. Your web page will be graded on whether it has the items listed below

 

At the end of this lab your UB web page should (minimally) have the following on it:

 

  1. A link to the web page for CS 101 (see syllabus for address)
  2. A link to another person’s web page (ideas: someone from class, a friend, your TA’s web page)
  3. A link to your high school web page (if there is one – use a web search engine to check)
  4. A link to the UB home page (http://www.buffalo.edu)
  5. A link to one other web site of your choosing
  6. A short paragraph (at least 4 sentences) about one problem you envision with copyright issues and the use of the WWW
  7. A new color for either the background of a font -- anything except the default is ok
  8. Some text in italics

 

You will probably want to change/delete the statement on the UB default web page that says you are still using the default web page (once you fix it up, you won’t be J IF you don’t have a UB web page yet, see the previous lab assignment.

 

If you have a web page somewhere else, make a like to it from your UB web page. You MUST make a UB web page even if you have a web page elsewhere.

 

There are a number of ways you can edit/create web pages. We will teach you about the first method, that is, using the pico editor in your UB unix account. If you are interested in modifying your web page in any other way that is fine, feel free to do so:

 

LOAD up this web page in a browser while you are doing the lab, it contains links to helpful information and sites. It's web address is:
http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~burhans/Courses1/CS101FALL98/lab4.html

For lots of on-line information about HTML, ranging from basic tutorials to information about colors, the BODY tag, etc, go to: http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~burhans/Courses1/CS101FALL98/web.html

  1. Use the pico editor in your UB unix account directly
  2. Download a page from your UB unix account and edit it on your PC using MS Word , Notepad, or Wordpad
  3. You can select the New Office Document option from the MS Office toolbar, select web pages and blank web page. Or, you can select blank document in MS Word, and under the file menu select Save as HTML. Once you have done either of those, you will have the web document menu options available. If you right click your mouse on your document, you will see menu options to create a link, etc. If you go to viewà toolbars, make sure the one that says web is checked. Move your mouse across the different icons at the top of the MS Office window, you will see choices related to web pages.
  4. If you want to work with raw HTML, follow one of the links to web pages that teach HTML, also, see your class notes on HTML.

 

Your TAs can help you with the mechanics of creating, downloading, and uploading web pages. As for help if you need it.

 

Your Grauer book section on MS Word will be very helpful if you want to use MS Word for this project.