HTML and Editing Your Profile
Objectives
This two-hour workshop is for Chebucto Community Net Users only. It will
teach Users the basics of using HyperText Markup Language (HTML) to add
content to their personal profile on Chebucto, including links to other
files and sites.
Prerequisites
User Training 2 and
User Training 3 or equivalent
knowledge. Will be using Chebucto's online editor program, PICO, to
create HTML files. If you are not familiar with PICO, you will not find
the workshop very useful.
Topics Covered
Basic HTML
- Terminology:
- HTML = HyperText Markup Language
- Tags
- Elements
- Using \ in Lynx to view HTML source
- The structure of an HTML document
- <HTML>
- <HEAD> ... </HEAD>
- <BODY>... </BODY>
- </HTML>
- Basic formatting tags
- Titles <TITLE> ... </TITLE>
- Paragraphs <P> ... </P>
- Headings <H1> ... </H1> to <H6> ... </H6>
- Italics and Bold Face <I> ... </I> and <B>
... </B>
- Horizontal Rule <HR>
- Preformatted text <PRE> ... </PRE>
- Lists
- Unordered lists:<UL>,</UL> <LI>
- Descriptive lists: <DL>, <DT>, <DD>, </DL>
Hypertext Links
- Terminology as Applicable to URLS
- Internet
- Gopher
- http
- ftp
- telnet
- Hypertext link
- URL = Uniform Resource Locator
- How to create hypertext links to other documents (the anchor tag with
HREF attribute)
- in the same directory
- in another directory
- on another computer system