Tutorial 2 - Developing a Web Site

Forums: There are many new forums in the Discussion area of BlackBoard that are part of your graded assignment for the week of Feb 9. All these forums name's end with "- 9Feb".

Site Index: Are you using our site index? It has links to every web page we've used so far (and into the future). New this week is a link to an HTML Template, that is a good starting point for beginning a new web page. And a link to The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML Markup Validation Service.

Student WebSites: Are you using the Student WebSites page? It has links to assignment web pages, and to their item level grading. Remember, once you are looking at some web page, you can "view source" ... meaning you can see the HTML for that page.

Required: All the HTML
you write for assignments in this class is expected to be error free as certified by W3C.org's Markup Validation Service. This is a graded element of all assignments. I suggest that you make a habit of checking your HTML as you write. Use W3C Markup Validation early and often. It is a lot easier to correct an error when you first make it. Remember - Strategy for editing HTML?

Required: FTP Client
Read what Wikipedia has to say about FTP ... and about FTP Client software. FTP is how I want you to copy the web pages you develop for this class from your own computer to your web space on Tulane's Student Server. There are many FTP clients. Wikipedia has a list of some. There are others. I like SSH - freeware FTP Client for Windows, and the one Tulane recommends. For Mac, I like Fetch ... although it is a commercial product, you can apply for a free educational license.

Using an FTP client, you "connect" to Tulane's Student WebServer. To do so, you need to know the Hostname (the name of Tulane's computer), Username, Password, and maybe Initial Folder.

public_html/     folder is where all your Web Pages reside. As we go along, we will see that you can have as many sub-folder inside of public_html/     as makes sense for your web sites. If you already have web pages on Tulane's Student WebServer, I suggest you make a sub-folder named, for example, CPST-240.

I expect that everyone will succeed using FTP. If you experience problems, you can attach your web page documents in an eMail message to me.