LAB ASSIGNMENTS


1. (To be done Thursday, 11 th of June)

    A) Connect to the Internet 101 text book internet site and write a
       summary of what is available there. 
       The URL address of the site is
http://www.awl.com/cseng/titles/0-201-32553-5/

   B) Use a search engine to find material on some topic of interest to
      you. Write down the URLs of the sites you want to link to your homepage.

2. (Due Friday, June 12)
   A) Exercise 21, page 192 from your Internet textbook. (Only need
      to choose one topic of interest---the topic you will write your
      final hypermedia project report on). Keep a record of any
      interesting web sites you encounter.

   B) Test the following unix commands:
      (both at the local host of the University of Malta and by
       telnet to your rhf account back home)

     ls

     ls -l

     ls p*

     cat filename

     cp file1 file2

     mkdir public_html

     cd public_html

     ls

     cd ..
     

   C) Learn how to use the pico or vi editor.

      Enter your public_html directory and using pico create a file called
      index.html containing your name, student id #, and the topic of
      interest on which you are going to research and write your final
      project report on.

   D) E-mail me the file you created in part C.

   E) Use the chmod command to make your files available to the 
      public:

      chmod 755 index.html

      cd ..

      chmod 755 public_html


3. (For Saturday, June 13)

    Modify the index.html file in your public_html directory so that instead
    of just text, it also contains the hyperlinks from exercise 2.
    Include < html > , < body >, and < head > tags in your
      homepage.

4. (Monday, June 15)
   
   A) Insert a link in your homepage that links to an image file.

   B) Set the background and text color, and the color of unvisited
      and visited links of your page by using:

   < body text="#0000A0" bgcolor="#000000" link="#FF0000"vlink="#808000" &g$

   C) Use the blink tag to test what happens:
      This < blink > text > does what?
      To change color of selected text use:
      < font COLOR="#00FF00" > green text < /font >

   D) Try out the allign tags:

      < p ALIGN="center" > This will be centered < /p >

      (can also align "left" or "right")  

5. (Tuesday, June 16)

   A) Insert an online image in your homepage.(exercise 4, page 422)
   B) Use the ALIGN to align your images:

    < IMG SRC="http://....../one.gif" ALT="this will be displayed if
image ca$

    (or can align center or right)

  

6. (Wednesday, June 17)

   A) Create a link which will start the mail program :

 < A HREF="mailto:whtevr@rhf.bradley.edu" > Click here to mail me< /A >

   B) Create and insert a table in your page containing the names and URLs
      of your classmates.