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ANATOMY OF
http:// www.cs.williams.edu ~tom/courses/105/ syllabus98.html
PROTOCOL HOST NAME FILE PATH FILE NAME
  • THE "FILE PATH" IS A LIST OF THE NAMES OF THE FOLDER/DIRECTORIES CONTAINING THE FILE NAMED.

    • SLASHES ("/") ARE ALWAYS USED TO SEPARATE THE FOLDER NAMES.
    • THE OUTERMOST DIRECTORY COMES FIRST.
    • FOR SIMPLICITY, ASSUME THAT NAMES CONTAINING BLANKS OR PUNCTUATION JUST WON'T WORK.
    • NAMES OF THE FORM "~name" DESCRIBE A PARTICULAR USER'S TOP-LEVEL HTML FILE DIRECTORY. ( i.e: ~tom = my home directory).



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  • Useful Networking Background
  • The Client Server Relationship
  • Server Software and Protocols
  • HTTP and HTML
  • HTML Background
  • A Sample of HTML
  • What is WYSIWYG?
  • SAMPLE MS WORD SCREEN DISPLAY
  • SAMPLE OF TROFF MARKUP COMMANDS
  • The Motivation for Markup Languages
  • PHYSICAL VS. LOGICAL MARKUP
  • IS LOGICAL MARKUP LOGICAL FOR THE WEB?
  • HTML Standards
  • HTML Standardization Efforts
  • WHAT VERSION OF HTML TO USE?
  • Basic Syntactic Conventions
  • BASICS OF HTML SYNTAX
  • BASICS OF HTML SYNTAX (cont.)
  • BASICS OF HTML SYNTAX (cont.)
  • BASICS OF HTML SYNTAX (cont.)
  • BASICS OF HTML SYNTAX (cont.)
  • Overview of Document Structure
  • HTML DOCUMENT STRUCTURE
  • SPECIFYING THE DOCUMENT TITLE
  • THE STRUCTURE OF A DOCUMENT <BODY>
  • BLOCK LEVEL ELEMENTS AS CONTAINERS
  • THE ALIGN ATTRIBUTE
  • HEADERS AND PARAGRAPHS
  • HEADERS AND PARAGRAPHS (cont.)
  • HEADERS AND PARAGRAPHS (cont.)
  • HEADERS AND PARAGRAPHS (cont.)
  • PREFORMATTED TEXT
  • (Not-PRE) FORMATTED TEXT
  • CONTAINER CONTAINERS
  • MAKING LINKS
  • URL'S
  • URL Protocol Specifications
  • URL Host Specifications
  • URL File Names
  • URL Directory Path Specification
  • RELATIVE URLS
  • ANCHORS
  • URLS WITH ANCHORS
  • DEFINING AN ANCHOR LOCATION