Post on 12-Jan-2016
HTML HTML
Hyper Text Markup LanguageHyper Text Markup Language
A simple introductionA simple introduction
Agenda• What is HTML?• Basics• Tools• Important tags• Tables & databases• Forms• Publishing at Stern
What is HTML?• HTML
– stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
• It allows a user to “markup” a text document to indicate how one might want different parts displayed by a web browser.
The Basics
• HTML documents contain “tags” which instruct the Browser software on how to present the information within a tag. These are called “styles”
• Styles can be imbedded within styles– <bold><h1> TEXT </h1></bold>
• Tags begin with <tag> and end with </tag>
Adding Hypertext
• The <a> (anchor) tag• This tag is used for a clickable element which
is a link to another document (or another location within the current document)
• Documents can be located on any web server on the internet
• A hypertext reference looks like• <a href=“http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~nwhite”> My home page </a>
Creation Tools• Unix
– Pico editor– Vi– Emacs
• Windows– Notepad– Word – Bbedit– Dreamweaver – Front Page
Why do we need to know HTML?
• There are many tools that will generate reasonable looking web sites
• However, you usually need to know HTML in order to connect your web page to a data base
Easiest Tools• Unix
– Pico • cd public_html • pico file.htm• chmod o+r file.htm (makes it readable by the web server)
• Windows (need to move file to websys3)– Notepad – Word (add new ftp location to publish)– Sea Monkey– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Comparison_of_HTML_editors
Advanced ToolsWe will use Dreamweaver
• Dreamweaver – Handles Frames, Forms, Tables etc.– Generates Javascript behaviours– Handles site management details
• Broken links, publishing etc.
– Works with Flash and Fireworks– Latest version Supports HTML5– Also supports mobile devices
A Simple Document
• <html>• <head>• <title> This is the Title </title> </head>• <body> • This is the body of the page<p>• And here is some more• </body>• </html>
HTML BasicsImportant Tags
• Anchor statement– <a href=“URL” options> Text to display </a>– Examples
• <a href=“myfile.htm” >Click here for myfile </a>• <a href=“myfile.htm” align=center> Click here for
myfile</a>• <a href=“myfile.htm” target=mainwindow> Click
here for myfile </a>• Things to remember
– Links are relative to current folder if not fully specified– I.e. “websys/myfile.htm” means the myfile.htm file in
the folder named websys underneath the current folder– Good idea to use relative addresses whenever possible,
then you can move complete sites around easily
The IMG tag• <IMG SRC=“myimage.gif”>• Options
– <IMG SRC=“myimage.gif” alt=“this is my picture”>
– <Img src=“myimage.gif” map=mapname>– <img src=“myimage.gif” height=200
width=100>– <img src=“
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/images/nyu.gif” align = left>
Other interesting tags• <table>
– Use to define multicolumn tables– Useful for aligning items– Easy to make and very flexible
• Example
Sample Table• <table>• <tr>• <td> cell 1 row 1</td>• <td> cell2 row 1 >/td>• </tr>• <tr>• <td><img src=“..”> </td>• <td> <img src=“…” </td>• </tr>• </table>
Tables and Databases
• Since relational data bases are stored in tables, and the result of any relational query is also a table, guess what, we tend to display data base results as HTML tables.– Actually, this is outdated, now we use divs…
• But that is jumping ahead, first we need to understand the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) model and other related server side solutions. We will talk about that in a few sessions.
Advanced tags• Frames• Forms• Layers• …
Forms• A form allow users to enter data
through a web page so it can be processed by a program on a server
• Forms and tables are the two necessary ingredients for web enabled databases
Form Types• TEXT• RADIO• CHECKBOX• LIST• MENU• COMBOBOX• SCROLLBAR• …
Conclusion• HTML is pretty simple• Knowledge of a few tags can get
you a long way..• Have fun…• So let’s publish a web page.
Publishing Hypertext
• Need to move it to web server (computer) and place in a location the web server program can read it
• You need to give the WEB server program read access to the directory and page(s), since the program runs under a different userid (than yours).
Publishing at Stern
• Dreamweaver (This is what we will use throughout the course)
• Notepad
Stern File Servers
Your files are shared across several servers:pages.stern.nyu.edu (the student web server)andwebsys3.stern.nyu.edu(the class unix machine.)You can only login to sales and websys3.
Stern File System
All files in one place
Home Directories/homedir/grad/…
WWWPages
Web ServerSaleswebsys3
File System Standards• All grad student home directories are at:• /homedir/grad/fchar/userid
– Where fchar is the first character of your userid
• Undergrad files are at:• /homedir/ugrad/fchar/userid• But web pages are in
– …/userid/public_html (why??)
Publishing • You need to use the following address for
publishing– sftp://websys3.stern.nyu.edu/TheAddressOfYourPage
– I.e.• sftp://websys3.stern.nyu.edu/homedir/grad/e/ep5/public_html
• Where “homedir/grad/e/ep5/public_html” is the output of the pwd command you issued
– But you can view it at • http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~userid/filename.html• http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~userid/filename.html
– For this class, I would like you to put all of your files in a websys folder in your public_html directory.
Editing HTML in Dreamweaver
• You can either buy Dreamweaver in the bookstore, or run it from the Stern APPS server.
• The advantage of buying it is that it will keep all of your settings from one session to another.
• But, we will use Dreamweaver on apps for examples.• If you are budget constrained, you can use APPS for
the first part of the course, and then download a demo version of Dreamweaver that will run for 30 days.
• You can also buy a Dreamweaver academic license by the month
For more info
• Let’s try to create a web page…
More Details• First
– ssh to websys3.stern.nyu.edu (from PUTTY)– Login with your stern userid and password
• This should create a home directory for you.• Then type “cd public_html”• Type “mkdir websys”• Type “exit”
• Second– Go to http://apps.stern.nyu.edu with your web browser
• Third– Click on Dreamweaver (it takes a while to start)
Click on Dreamweaver
Click on Site
• Click on Site, add a new site
Put local copy in your H drive, Click Save
Click on the + to add a server
• You now should be able to use Dreamweaver to create a web page.
• The default web page is usually “index.html”. It will be displayed when you go to a location and don’t specify a file name.
• You can create your own home page at Stern by putting an index.html file in your public_html directory.
• But we don’t want to put one in your websys directory, so that we can list it’s contents for grading.
• Next, we click on • File, New in Dreamweaver and create a
file.
• Dreamweaver can show us both what the web browser will display, as well as what the html code is if we click on the “split” tab.
• The click on save as• And call it Page1
Now we are ready to publish to the web
server• If we click on the UP ARROW, it
should move files to the web server where we can see them with a web browser.
Your Homeworks• Please put all of your homeworks in the websys folder
so we can find them.– Name them hw1.htm, hw2.htm etc.
• Do NOT put an index.html file in that folder. It will hide your homeworks from us.
• If you wish, you can use Dreamweaver to put an index.html file in the public_html folder, and then you will have your own web page.
• To do that, create another site and make the root directory public_html
You should now be ready to work