Tutorial 1 - Developing a Web Page

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Carefully read this page, and all other pages for this week, like News, HTML myself, and Strategy for editing HTML. Then read everything again. Ask for help, don't stay confused.

This is a graded assignment. You will:
    1). agree to HTML myself
    2). participate in BlackBoard Discussions
    3). complete your first webpage
    4). Setup your web space on Tulane's Student Web Server
    5). FTP your first webpage

Readings from the Text
You should be well along with Tutorial 1. If not, you should begin now. A great deal of fundamentals are covered here. You cannot afford to fall behind before we start. We will continue working in Tutorial 1 through next week. You should look ahead to Case Problem 4 ... which will be your assignment for next week.

BlackBoard Discussions
20 Points Maximum
There are eight (8) new BlackBoard discussions setup in the Discussion Board section of BlackBoard. Each discussion should be self-explanatory. The name of each discussion ends with - 1Sep, indicating that it is to be used during the week of class beginning on September 1 and September 8.

The help discussion is "HELP - 1Sep" Use this to ask any and all question you have. You earn 0 points for asking a question. You earn 4 points for correctly answering a question.

The remaining 7 discussions ... you may add as many threads to these discussions as you like. Each time you substantially participate in one of these discussions you earn 3 points.

First Web Page
10 Points
This is not hard. I will help you. Ask?

You will complete and turn-in your first web page written in HTML, with complete tags as described in the beginning of Tutorial 1 (from our text), with the necessary comments about the text editor you used (see this week's news). Turn-in early and I will send you feedback. If needed, you can make corrections and turn-in again. When I browse to your web page it will look like this ...

Without any content, and without the required in-line comments (documention) the minimum HTML required for this page is (remember, you are required to include minimum comments as explained in HTML_MySelf ) :

Turn-in your web page
   The preferred turn-in method will be for you to use FTP to upload your HTML document to your Tulane Student Web space (see this week's news). Copy the URL of this page and paste it into a new eMail message to George (gnorth@tulane.edu). If this makes complete sense to you, GREAT! If this sounds like Greek to you, don't panic. I will help. Ask?
   The alternate turn-in method will be for you to attach your HTML document to an eMail message to George.

This week's news has information about how you can setup your own Web Site on Tulane's Student WebServer. And information about FTP and how to find a FTP client program for your computer. And information about Text Editors and where to find them.

If you use a Windows computer, you already have a text editor named Notepad (you may also have one named TextEdit) ... not to be confused with MS Word, which is a word processor, not a text editor. If you use a Macintosh, your text editor is named TextEdit.