I have been using the Internet for more than a decade, but I have never created a website. I thought that designing a website required vast technical knowledge - and the prospect overwhelmed me.
During the Session 3 briefing, Richard Butterworth emphasized that the following tags are all you need to create a website: “<HTML>, <Head>, <Title>, <Body>, <P>, <Span>, <A>, <Embed>, <Object>, <EM>, <HR>, and <BR>”. I began the lab session by consulting A Beginner's Guide To HTML to learn more about basic HTML. I created my first website using Notepad. It is very simple as it was my first-ever attempt at writing HTML code by hand. I then created a second website using EditPlus 2. This program provides a template for a website, so for my second and third website, I only wrote the code for the content of the pages. Now that I had made three websites, I created links between them and to external pages. I ran into very few problems using basic HTML during the process of making my simple websites.
The next step was to publish my websites to the City University Web Server. I transferred the three .html files to the W:Drive. This made them accessible on the University Unix machine, which has a WWW server. Public documents stored on a WWW server can be accessed from any computer with Internet. I entered the Unix system and issued a series of commands to place my three .html files in my public_html folder. I did not find the Unix interface to be user-friendly. Consequently, I struggled - initially - to comprehend the processes I was using to publish my website. However, I finished the session having successful published all three websites to my City homepage.
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