Instructions for creating web pages: Once you have your alpha account, login, change your password, type the command install_html This will 1) make your page(s) available to an Internet browser 2) create a subdirectory in your account called public_html 3) change the access rights in that directory so that it is executable by the world (drwx--x--x) (Check this with the command ls -l) 4) create a file called index.html in the subdirectory public_html. you can reach this subdirectory with the command cd public_html 5) change the access rights for index.html to -rw-r--r-- 6) store an html beginner file in index.html that you can use as a template You can see this page through an Internet browser. Try alpha.fdu.edu/~gl..... (your account) Information on web pages is available on the Internet - Try http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/ You can change your index.html file and create new files (pages) with the pico editor Type pico index.html (or pico ) and follow the directions at the bottom of the screen for saving and editing the file. Organize your alpha account into directories containing information files Each directory should contain a file called index.html to be activated when the directory is clicked on. Each directory that you create should have its protection rights changed with: chmod 711 Each file that you create should have its protection rights changed, with: chmod 644 You can have text files and other kinds of documents in your web pages, but these may not provide the nice graphics and links of html pages. An html file must have an extension of .html or .htm An html document begins and ends with tags (they are case insensitive) ..... TITLE will place a title on the top of the web page

for new paragraph

html ignores more than one space and tabs
for line break (new line) Other formatting instructions include: ............... tabs for bold .. similar for italics underline

for a horizontal line drawn across the page You can divide the document into two parts ..... (contains the title) and ..... ........ (such as H3) will give you different size fonts or else use font sizing such as You can change colors with tags try or , and other variations For a link, use a tag such as description To insert an image, use a tag such as

Other things you can do: create lists, create frames, insert Javascript; Copy a file from the web by going to File, save as (local name) (be sure it is not copyrighted before copying) you can also use copy, paste. DO NOT COPY WORDS FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENTS!!!!! Copy an image by positioning the mouse on the image; press the rightmost buttom and select save image Note: the above will copy the files or images to your hard drive, not to the alpha; you'll still have to upload it to the alpha using ftp. Do not copy copyrighted images. Ordered lists:

operating systems networks Software engineering

Unordered lists:

operating systems networks Software engineering

Tables:

for a two- column table; heading and border=2" optional:

activities chart

web pages

two rows and two columns:

activites chart	web pages
x	y