Day Three - Lab

This lab will determine how much you have learned from the first HTML lecture. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask any of the lab monitors.

  1. Open an EMACS window.
  2. Add the beginning tags (the four tags needed for each page) and make the title "Lab #1".
  3. Type "Hello World!" using heading 1.
  4. Stop and check your progress by saving the file as 'Lab3.html' and opening it in Netscape.
  5. Center "Hello World!" on the page.
  6. Type "Congratulations! You've arrived at my web page!"
  7. Underline the text you added from item #6.
  8. Start a new line and tell the world something about yourself. Include your name, your high school's name, the city where you live, and any other information you wish to provide.
  9. Stop and check your page again. Fix any errors before continuing.
  10. Place your high school's name (from number 8) in italics.
  11. Place a horizontal line half the size of the screen on the next line.
  12. Create a link to WPI's web page (http://www.wpi.edu) on one page and a link to the Frontier's web page (http://www.wpi.edu/+outreach/Frontiers) on the next.
  13. Using Netscape Navigator, find a cool picture from the World Wide Web, save it to your 'public_html' directory, and add it to your web page. (NOTE: Don't forget to change the permissions on the file to world readable, chmod 744.)
  14. Add a link to another page you like.
  15. Test your page for errors.
  16. Let one of the lab monitors take a look at your finished page.

Once you are completed feel free to browse the web, work on your web page for the contest, or play around with this page.

The answers to this page can be found here. (But try to do it yourself first!)