CSC 101 CompLit, Fall 1996
Merrie Bergmann
Ileana Streinu
Dominique Thiébaut

Personal Web Home Page

For this homework you are to create a file on sophia, in the directory public_html, named home.html, which will be your personal home page. You might already have such a file, if you created it in the lab; in this case you edit this file. If you didn't create it in the lab, you will make a new file, following the instructions from Lab 6.

Your home page should satisfy all of the following specifications:

1. Its title (what appears in the title bar) should be your (full) name.

2. A link to your Lab 6 page. Since this might not be in your own public_html directory, but rather in your partner's, you should specify the full path when you create the link using the Internet Assistant in Word.

http://www.smith.edu/~cs101axx/lab6.html

where "xx" is the account where the lab6.html file was created. Compare with (6) in Lab 6, where we could assume the file was in your own directory.

3. A link to Smith College's home page.

4. A link to another, subsidiary HTML document. To see how to do this, look at Lab 6 (6) where you linked to the lab6.html document. What you place in the secondary file is up to you. It should reside in your public_html directory, and be named something like extra.html. Don't forget to:

% chmod go+r extra.html

See (1) of Lab 6.

5. An image, any image, like this one from the Smith College home page. I would like this to be an image that you linked to at a remote site. To find where the image is, you might have to look into the source of the document, and search for some URL that points to a ".gif" file. For example, I got the previous image by looking into the source of the Smith College home page. The page itself is located at http://www.smith.edu. In the source I saw a reference to a gif file images/image6.gif. Combining these two pieces of information I get the URL of the image, "http://www.smith.edu/images/image6.gif".

6. An icon image that is a link to someplace. The point here is to make the icon active. (Hint: use the "hyperlink" tool).

7. Your email address, linked to your email URL, so that when someone click on it, they can send you an email message. This was explained in class, but just to remind you, the trick is to use the hyperlink tool with an URL of the form mailto:cs101a00@sophia.smith.edu. It might be possible that, when you will try to send email from Netscape in the Burton basement labs by clicking on this link, it will pop up the email window but will give you an error when you press on the Send button. In this case you have to go to Options/Servers and set the SMTP Server to sophia. [Also, remember from last week's lab to go to Options and set the sender's email address to be yours, when you are testing this feature.]

8. A list (ordered or unordered) of links to "cool sites," i.e., a cool site hot list. The sites don't have to be truly cool: you will only be evaluated on the technical aspects of this. The list should contain at least three items, and it should be a true HTML list. Each item should be a link to another page, not in your own directory.

Aside from these technical requirements, try to make the lay out of your page appealing. For instance, you could use the requirements for the Hw6 page as a guideline, and use tables, horizontal lines, fonts, etc. as needed.

All the homepages for everyone in the class will be accessible from http://www.smith.edu/~cs101a00, in case you want to look at other student's pages. Of course it would be inappropriate to copy other student's source for this assignment! Copy from anywhere but here.

There is nothing to turn in for this assignment: once the home page is on sophia, we will access it from there. However, remember that there is a time stamp on each file: your page should be finished by the Wednesday midnight deadline, and not modified after that (or else, you may get penalized for lateness - or, if you want to interpret it another way, for failing to understand the time stamp concept). To summarize: REFRAIN FROM MAKING MODIFICATIONS TO YOUR HOME PAGE for one week after the homework is due, to give us time to grade it and give you the proper credit for it. However, you can modify the auxiliary document, whose contents is at your discretion. Once the grades have been announced, you can get back and add to your home.html anything you want.