Help:WWW help
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HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is used by www browsers to express mixed text and graphics with hypertext links.
To create your own home page on the MAE machines, use mkdir to create a subdirectory called public_html, and in that directory use an editor such as vi or emacs to edit a file called Welcome.html or index.html.
The World Wide Web Consortium has their own home page as well.
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[edit] Local Pages
[edit] Quick guides
- Making a homepage
- htaccess - controlling access to your web directories (passwords, etc.)
[edit] Web development software available in unix
| bluefish | unix based WYSIWYG html editor |
| firefox | safe web browser for windows or unix |
| mkindex | locally written tool to automatically generate a simple page for a directory of files |
| mkpicdir | locally written tool to autogenerate index and thumbnails for picture collections |
| webpw | simplistic locally written tool to add web password protection to a homework solutions directory |
Other tools available include apache, php, perl, mysql, and related tools. Please ask for help if you need something specific with these tools.
Also, students, clubs, and instructors are welcome to use this wiki to author their pages, as long as they are aware that anyone can edit pages in the wiki (and make improvements, corrections, etc.), so pages left here should be watched or you can ask to have it protected.
[edit] Quick reference material
- HTML 2.0 quick reference
- A sample html page (use the view source option in your browser, or save as source to use as a template for your own pages)
- HTML test sheet contains examples of more complex features, not all of which work
- table quickref
- form quickref
[edit] HTML Documentation
I have much more documentation on all the workings of WWW in my document collection, listed below. The links listed here are on specific topics that I felt were relevant to starting up, or were relevant to common questions people asked...
