For a good understanding of the World Wide Web, see the World Wide Web FAQ (click here).
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a text-based language which contains special "tags" which describe the formatting of a page. For example, some tags indicate that whatever is contained between should be in a particular font. Other tags describe the position and location of an image file, and other tags spell out the address of other documents which can be linked to text in your document (this is known as "hypertext").
For an illustration of HTML code, you can view the source code for any page on the Web. Viewing the source code for a page is very easy. All you need to do is display the page on your browser, then go to the Netscape "View" Menu and select "Source..." The machine will then download and display the HTML source code in a text editor. Try this now with this page. You can also save the source to a local file and modify it as necessary to include you own content.
Check out the HTML Primer site to learn more about HTML. In addition, The Web Designer site is also a good information source for HTML beginners.Once you have an understanding of HTML syntax, you might want to take a look at our list of HTML graphics resources for inspiration.
Web authoring tools (editors which facilitate the creation of HTML documents), are in a state of constant flux. For the most up-to-date information about Web tools, go to Yahoo and search for "HTML editors".
In the Sloan Mac lab, we have several HTML editors:
In the Sloan PC lab, we have:
Netscape Navigator Gold
Netscape 3.0 contains a very easy to use home page creation feature
known as "My Home Page". The instructions are very easy to follow.
To access this program, follow the instructions listed in HT #1.
This section will walk you through the process of creating a web page on AOL (America Online). All you need to do is follow the steps below.
Ask Education Services or contact America Online directly to get the
software.
Under "Go To" menu select "Keyword...".
Type in "My Place". This will take you to the area where
you can store your AOL home page. Read the FAQ there.
The general idea is that you create your home page on your local PC using
the ability of Netscape to access local files. Once you are satisfied with
the results you transfer the files from your PC to AOL where they become
visible to the net community! The drawback with AOL is that you are limited
to 2 Megabyte of disk space. If you want to use lots of graphics this will
cramp your style.
This section will walk you through the process of creating a web page on Athena. All you need to do is follow the steps below.
Follow the instructions on How
to Register for an Athena Account
A good place to look is CWIS
Services. The information is all there but sometimes it is hard to
decipher.
To get started quickly follow these guidelines:
mkdir www fs sa ~/www system:anyuser read
The second command will allow the web server to look at your page.
To transfer the files from the Mac to Athena use "Fetch" which is located in Software Library/Communications (Lab)/Fetch 3.0.
Now "Put" the files you want to transfer to Athena. Use only lowercase letters and make sure Athena doesn't add any additional suffixes to the file your are transferring.
Register your home page to make it available to the net community. For Athena users, this address will typically be something like:
HTTP://web.mit.edu/"USERNAME"/www
This section will walk you through the process of creating a web page on the Sloan server. All you need to do is follow the steps below.
As a Sloan student, you are entitled to "personal" space on the Sloan server. To arrange to get the space, contact Ray Faith in the Computer Lab.
HTML is HyperText Markup Language. It is the text format the World Wide Web uses to interpret information to be displayed graphically. HTML is not particularly complex. The easiest way to learn it is to take a look at the sourcecode for an existing page and compare it with the graphical representation.
Register your home page to make it available to
the net community. For Sloan students, this address will typically be something
like:
HTTP://www-sloan.mit.edu/Homepages/individuals/"YOUR DIRECTORY NAME"/"YOUR FILE NAME".html
This section lets you register your homepage with various directory services.
Your page is no good unless other pages around the Web are linked to it.You can register your site with these three groups by simply sending an e-mailto the webmasters of these sites. You must send them your name, your class(i.e. first-year Sloan student), and the address of your homepage.
For your convenience, we have created an automatic registration process to register yourpage with MIT, Sloan and 15.566 in one simple step. Clicking on the Auto Registration will open an e-mail addressed to the webmasters of all three sites. Once you have registered, it will take several days before a link to your page appears on the respective MIT, Sloan and 15.566 sites.
If you have previously registered your homepage with MIT and Sloan, then just e-mail Joyce Kline to register with 15.566 alone.
Comments? Questions?
Joyce
Kline 
