Homework 1: My very first web page

Purpose: (UPDATED Sun Aug 26)

Practice making two web pages with HTML
Setting up your UNC web space. That means transferring your files to your AFS space.
Practice the BlackBoard turn-in mechanism.
You are graded on completing the simple requirements.

Due: Thursday, August 30, 11:59 pm EST

For this assignment you will create two web pages and store them in the University file system so that they may be retrieved via http://www.unc.edu/~your onyen. The first page, stored in the file index.html, must contain the following elements

a <title> with your name.
some text (yours or some other famous author's). At least 10 lines.
at least one picture.
a link to your second page (local link).
a link to a page somewhere on the web, but not in your directory (remote link).

Don't put too much stuff on your page; it should be viewable without scrolling.

Your second page can be called anything you want and can contain anything you want.

You can create your pages using a simple editor such as Notepad, or with the composer feature of Mozilla (Sea Monkey). But if you use composer, use only the View HTML option under the View menu so that you are writing actual HTML. Note that the View HTML option may change or delete certain parts of the HTML you entered. Do not use MS Word or other similar editors. They insert additional stuff that will mess things up. Also do not use Dreamweaver or other similar web page design tools.

Turn in: (UPDATED Sun Aug 26)

On Blackboard complete the "Hw1 turn-in" in the Assignments section.
You will submit the web addresses of your two web pages, some comments, and commit to the pledge.
There is no reason to wait until the last minute to submit your assignment.
You can complete the BlackBoard submission form at any time, even before your web pages are complete. Without resubmitting you can continue to edit the pages until the assignment deadline.
You only need to resubmit if the web addresses (ie. file names) change or BlackBoard causes problems.
When making the submission, be sure to press the submit button. The save button does not submit the assignment.
Do not edit your web pages after the deadline.

Tips: (UPDATED Sun Aug 26)

Use the recitation notes for details on HTML . You can also use the w3 school web site.
Use the recitation notes for instructions to setup your UNC web space.
Your web pages must be on the UNC web server on your home page. The web addresses of the web pages must start with: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~your onyen/ (or equivalent)
Naming a web page index.html, makes it the default web page when you open your home page and do not specify a HTML file.
If you have already know how to build a simple web page, feel free to embellish you page as much as you want. But first, implement the basic pages just in case your embellishments do not work.

Dorian Miller, adopted from Steve Weiss