Web Design Introduction

The Basics

Setting up your homepage

If you haven't already, visit the CS office, and get a CS account.

Make a directory called ".mosaic"

% mkdir .mosaic

Change the permissions on this directory and your home directory so that everyone can read them

% chmod 701 .mosaic
% chmod 701 ~

The CS website has a generic homepage you can copy -OR- you can make your own

% cp ~webmastr/index.html .mosaic/

For your new index.html, as well as all your other html files, you must change the permissions

% chmod 705 index.html

Getting a feel for HTML

Visit instructional websites. My favorites:

View the source code of interesting webpages.

While you can't copy exactly what you see, you may be inspired to try some new formatting techniques.

And the best way to learn:

EXPERIMENT!