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Lab #0: Web Underpinnings & Client-side: Conforming Web Pages

Objectives

  1. Create Conforming Web Pages using HTML which includes Style Sheets, tables, graphics and sound
  2. Start a blog on your Project Description page
  3. Describe Client-server, TCP/IP and other web "underpinnings"

Background Material

0. Text: Chapter 1 [PDF] ,
Chapter 2 [PDF], and
Chapter 3 [PDF]

1a. HTML syntax

1b. Cascading Style Sheets

2. Client-Server Basics

3. Conformance Rules

4. Conformance Validator

5. Dave Hollinger's TCP/IP slides from RPI
    PDF version

6. Don McGregor's Client-server slides

7. About blogs

Assignment

0. Register in the Course Management System (we cannot give you grades until you do): Click on "Tools", then on "Login/Logout" and then on "Register". Follow the directions from there. Do not use a password you want private as we (Gleb and I) can see what you choose.

1. (3 points) Create an attractive course homepage at ".../wpi/~yourusername/awt" (nowhere else! You can link from there to somewhere else, but we will always go to this URL). Include links to the following 3 pages (read these carefully!):

2. (2 points) Create a CSS Style Sheet for your (actual) Project page (You can change it later. This is just to get you started on Style sheets if you've never used them)