Simple XHTML Demo

This demo will introduce you to the most basic aspects of web authoring (making a web page using XHTML). Following this demo, you'll make your own page with an online tutorial.

Complete the following steps:

Setting Up

  1. Open Notepad and, if you haven't done so already, Firefox.
  2. Save a (blank) Notepad file to your computer's desktop as "demo1.htm" (no caps, no spaces, no quotation or question marks).
  3. In Firefox, open a new tab (ctrl + t) and then open (ctrl + o) temp1.htm from your desktop. You should have a nice browser window view of a blank page.
  4. Next, still in Firefox, open this text file, copy all the code in the file, and paste it into your open Notepad file ("demo1.htm"). Then save.

Coding Demo

  1. We're now going to fill in some basic page elements. Follow along with the instructor's demonstration.
  2. Remember to save demo1.htm regularly.
  3. Create a folder on your desktop for storing images and call it "images". You can do this by using Firefox (ctrl + o and then create the folder ) or Windows.
  4. Find a photographic image of a MOOSE online and save it in your "images" folder.
  5. Next, follow the instructor in adding the moose picture to demo1.htm.
  6. Finally, save a copy of demo1.htm in your "drafts" folder on Eden. Use the SSH file transfer program to copy the file from your desktop to your Eden space.
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~ Jonathan Bass