465 Lab Exercises, Sept. 25, 2001 [H1]
Old skills: [H2]
Whitespace: [H3]
File structure: [H3]
HTML, HEAD, BODY, TITLE
HEADINGS (H1-7)
File appearance: [H3]
BODY BGCOLOR, BACKGROUND
BIG, SMALL
FONT (SIZE, FACE, COLOR)
size: absolute or relative
font: choice, standard, default
color: names or RBG (additive color) statements
New skills: In Castro, Chapters 7-8 [H2]
Layout: [H3]
CENTER, BLOCKQUOTE
UL -- indent
Links: [H3]
ANCHOR <A... ... ... /A>
URL, destination, label
<A HREF="http://www.rutgers.edu">Rutgers home page</a>
<A HREF="thisfile.html#name_or_id">name_or_id -- with #</a> -- also called fragment
<A NAME="name_or_id">Optional label: name_or_id -- without #
Link Appearance [H3]
BODY LINK=color VLINK=color ALINK=color
Lists [H3]
- LI (list item)
- OL (ordered list, numbers with LI) -- as these 3 lines
- UL (unordered list, bullets with LI) -- as on group of lines below
- DL, DT, DD (definition list, definition term, definition detail)
- See source code for use of UL's without LI to produce indents
- Try View - Source (Internet Explorer only: right click)
Tooling Up:[H2]
Hard Disk (off campus): [H3]
Duplicate public_html directory and files
Optional: TRANSFER, UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD directories
Windows default directory: C:\My Documents
Transfer Floppy Disk: [H3]
Duplicate public_html directory and files
Others, same as above
Download and do the Castro Exercises: [H3]
Windows-Unix Interoperability: [H3]
Unix to Unix (Pico to public_html)
Windows/Mac to Unix (upload files)
Hyperterminal Transfer-- Send (text only)
FTP (all files)
Unix to Windows/Mac (download files)
Pegasus sz (text only)
FTP (all files)
Windows clipboard, Edit menu or keystrokes (text blocks)
Unix copy and paste: Edit menu only, not keystrokes (text blocks)
Download Free Software: [H3]
Utilities:
WinZip utility (uncompress ZIP files)
WS-FTP utility (transfer any file)
Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF format)
Windows Commander file utility (non-expiring shareware)
Browsers:
Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6.0 browser (Newark labs have 5.0)*
Netscape 6.1 browser (Newark labs have 4.7 -- not compatible with NS 6x)*
Opera 5 (interesting small browser)
* also available on inexpensive CD-ROM
Editors:
Notetab Lite editor: Notepad relacement
TextPad editor (non-expiring shareware)
Other:
JASC Paint Shop 4x (non-expiring shareware)
Heyward Ehrlich: 465_s25.html, 24 Sept.2001