Computer Science 101 - Computer and Information Technology
Prof. Steven Skiena
Fall 1996

Laboratory Exercise - Week 10

This laboratory exercise is designed to increase your familiarity with HTML and Netscape tools for creating WWW pages. Do each step in sequence, and free free to explore.

• Click on the Netscape icon.
• Go to Prof. Skiena's WWW page. Select the view source option from the view menu. This displays the raw HTML commands used to generate the WWW page.
• Study the HTML and identify the following parts: (1) Where is the image linked in? (2) Where is the link to the CSE 101 page? (3) How are lists formed and formatted, like the list of papers?
• Now, let's use the Netscape Gold editor to create a test WWW page. Focus on learning the features of the tool instead of the content of your page. Select the New Document - blank option from the File menu.
• Walk through all the menu options and buttons. In particular, note the Insert menu, the a- and A+ buttons (which change font size), buttons to change the font style (italics and bold) and color. The paragraph style button on the left enables you to format text in many ways.
• Start to type some text in the big edit window. Experiment with different fonts, different colors, and different paragraph formats (including headers and lists).
• Save your page to a file on your floppy disk, working from the File menu. Exit Netscape
• Start Netscape again, and open your file for reading using the "Open File in Editor" menu entry.
• Insert a link to the CSE 101 home page into your document
• Using the browse document option, bring up the current page and click on the new CSE 101 link, to show that it is alive.
• View the document source of your file to see the HTML commands you created in the text. Save and exit.

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