COMP249 Web Technology
Practical - Week 2
Your task for this week is to create yourself a simple web site with at least three pages:
- Home page --
- some information about yourself
- a picture of you
- links to the rest pages
- Study page -- use two tables to list the unit's you're enrolled in this year in semester 1 and semester 2 respectuively. For each unit, list its unit code, unit name and the link to its home page.
- Interest page -- a page for your personal interests with links to web sites that you refer to frequently.
The Home Page should be called index.html so that it acts as the default page for your website. The names of the other files can be whatever you want but avoid spaces in filenames -- while they're not forbidden they can cause problems when making links.
Your web site should provide some kind of navigational structure with links to the other pages from each page. Don't work on the graphical appearance of the pages this week, just get the basic structure and content worked out. We'll work on applying style next time.
Note that you should not use an HTML authoring tool to write these pages. You need to learn to write the low level HTML code yourself. Instead use a simple text editor (eg. Notepad) or an HTML aware programmers editor (eg. Emacs).
Publishing
For now, we won't deal with publishing these pages on the web. We'll do that a little later when we look at web servers. You can browse your pages from your local hard drive.
If you're keen and you want to get started with the student web server, take a look at the instructions on the server..
Portfolio
You might include the above website in your portfolio. Next week we'll cover CSS stylesheets which will enable you to make it more impressive. You might also think of the intended audience: how would this be different if your main goal was getting a job vs. impressing your friends?
An alternate task would be to design a web page for another application - eg. your sports club, a company or a special event. Take into account the intended users of the page or pages and design them appropriately.