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But first ...

• If you haven't already, send me a message with an URL to another tutorial
• If you have, make sure the link works
• If you haven't already, send me a message with an URL to an exemplary personal web page
• If you have, make sure the link works

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Review of your choices of good tutorials

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Introduction to HTML

• Formatting language
• Cross-platform
• A beginner's guide to HTML
• Multiple ways to create HTML files

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Accessing your course project folder on the LRS server

• FTP: File Transfer Protocol

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FTP

• From home or from other computers
• FTP client (for Windows- WS_FTP or for Mac - Fetch)

• host: lrs.ed.uiuc.edu
• user: your network id
• password: your password
• path: can navigate, or can specify: students/your-network-id/

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Web editing

• To help create your web documents, you can use Netscape Composer (or any other tool you prefer instead).

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Netscape Composer

• browser & editor
• WYSIWYG (mostly)

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Using Netscape Composer to modify a personal web page template

• accessing the j-test folder
• changing the template
• saving & publishing

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Web Page Design

• What makes a good web page?
• Design of web pages: similarities and differences from design of print
• the Yale style guide
• See these web style guides

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Personal Web Pages

• What makes a good personal web page?
• a personal web page "template"
• Lab assignment: create a personal web page (you can start with the template if you want)
  or if you already have a personal web page, work on improving it
  When it is ready, send me email with the URL

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Your personal URL

• http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/YOUR-FOLDER-NAME/
  where YOUR-FOLDER-NAME should be replaced by your folder/directory name (which is your network id). The final "/" is optional.

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URL to files you create

• http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/YOUR-FOLDER-NAME/YOUR-FILE-NAME

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Naming new web files

• end with ".html" or ".htm"
• Don't use spaces or any punctuation except for "-" or "_"

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For next week:

• Send me an email message with the URL of an exemplary personal web page (a web page a person creates describing him/herself)
• Read several web style guides
• Create or improve your own personal web page; send me the URL when it is ready
• Read the Bruce & Levin paper "Educational Technology: Media for Inquiry, Communication, Construction, and Expression"