Spinning Practical Web Pages!
by Jay Deuel

  1. What is the Internet?
    1. History
    2. Acronyms & Jargon

  2. How does the Internet work? (see Figure 1)
    1. Client
    2. Server
      1. Top-Level Domains (see Table 1 and Table 2)
      2. Multilevel Divisions
    3. Network of Networks
      1. Modem vs Direct Connection
      2. E-Mail: account@server

  3. URL: Uniform Resource Locator (see Table 3)
    1. protocol://username:password@server:port/pathname
      1. Protocol = How
      2. Server = Where
      3. Pathname = What
    2. Various Assumptions
      1. Case Sensitivity
      2. To Space, or Not to Space?
      3. Tilda (~) vs Hyphen (-) vs Underscore (_)
      4. UNIX, PC, or MAC
      5. Default information (e.g. http:// may be omitted in some web browsers).

    3. WWW: World-Wide Web
      1. Browsers
      2. Home Page vs Web Pages
      3. .html, .htm, .txt, .gif, .jpg, .tif, .wav, .au, .mov, .mpg, .pdf, .ps, .exe, .zip (etc.)
      4. Graphics (Clip Art vs Save Image As...)
      5. HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language
        1. Tags: Paired vs Non-Paired (see Bare Bones Guide to HTML)
        2. Multiple Spaces, Tabs, and Hard Returns are ignored.
        3. Not case sensitive, although "URLs" used within tags are!

        4. Creating HTML Documents
          1. ASCII (text) File
          2. View - Document Source
          3. File - Save As...
          4. Software (Graphical vs Coding)
          5. Text Editor vs Word Processor
            1. File - Save vs File - Save As...
            2. Copy & Paste
            3. RGB Color Code (see RGB Color Charts)
              1. Red, Green, Blue
              2. 2. Name vs. Hexadecimal (see Table 4)

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            This page was last modified November 19, 1997.