Day 2 Workshop 1 - basic formatting tags

    Part 1

  1. Make sure you are out of windows: double click on the box in the upper left hand corner of windows screen, or select exit from the file menu.

  2. Either use access or type in 'telnet ns' to access the networ k server.
  3. Log in to your network server account, get to the main menu.
  4. Type in 'scan /ahome/inwww/public' and enter.
  5. Tab or cursor down to www-data and press enter.
  6. Tab or cursor down to seminar (middle of the page) and press enter.
  7. Now copy the file benefit.txt from /ahome/inwww/public/www-data/seminar to your /ahome/userid/public/www-data.,br> Find the file benefit.txt (middle of page), place a 'c' next to the entry, and press enter.

    Note:: the page that now comes up only shows the file name (benefit.txt) and not the path (directory structure) we have taken to find this file.

  8. File to copy: should be: benefit.txt ;
    In newfile: place /ahome/userid/public/www-data
    and press enter .
  9. Wait for the message: benefit.txt copied to .... which means the copy was completed.
  10. Press F3 to exit copy.
  11. Press F3 to exit scan.
  12. You have returned to the main menu.
  13. Now scan /ahome/userid/public/www-data.

    Part 2

  14. The benefit.txt file must be renamed to benefit.html so that the server will recognize the file as a www document rather than a ascii text (ie txt) file.
    Place a 'r' next to the entry for benefit.txt.
    ...name of file to rename ===> should be benefit.txt.
    For ...new file name ===> type in benefit.html, and press enter.
    Wait for the message benefit.txt renamed to benefit.html.
    Press F3 to exit rename.

    Part 3

  15. You will be editing the benefit.html file to place tags in the file.
    Place an 'e' next to the benefit.html entry, and press enter.

  16. Place the header information, the title information, and the body informaton, with text attribute tags into the file:
    1. At the top of the file place the tag <htmlplus>, this helps to identify the document type to the server. Next place the tag <head>, which names this as the header information for the document.
    2. Make a new line to place the title information and place the <title> tag in it.
      (note: there should be no characters between the head tag and the title tag) .
    3. Make a title for the page and then place the </title> tag after it.
    4. Make a new line and place the </head> tag after it (again there should be no characters between the /title tag and the /head tag).
    5. Make a new line and place the <body> tag in it (again no data...). This names this part of the document.
    6. Now place the <h1> tag before "EXEMPT STAFF BENEFITS SUMMARY", which is the first line of the document, and place the </h1> after it (this makes the Title of the document a 1st level header - h1).
    7. Make a new line between the header (EXEMPT STAFF BENEFITS SUMMARY) and the following paragraph and place a <p> there to create more space.
    8. Place <p> on either side of the "Flexible Benefits" topic so that the two paragraphs are preserved, and the text stands alone on a single line.
    9. Next place a <b> before the "Flexible Benefits" in front of the topic text, to make it bold.
    10. Place a <pre> tag before the paragraph that follows "Flexible Benefits", and the rest of the document will stand as it is.
    11. Go to the end of the document (F10) and place the </pre> and </body> tags to finish the document.
    12. File the document by pressing F3.
  17. Exit from scan by pressing F3.

    Part 4

  18. Now view the document by using the text browser available on the network server, lynx. Type in lynx at the main menu and press enter.

    Part 6

  19. Go to netscape and display the URL:
    http://www.lehigh.edu/~userid/benefit.html

End of exercise.