Dita Lab Session 02

While writing this blog I make use of the Internet, I can visit websites and also access data from Moodle, the university online learning platform. I could very well be in Hawaii right now and still be able to access information and share documents the same way. Provided they would be connected to this network of computer networks that uses the agreed protocol world wide web I could send or receive information, transfer multimedia files and link to other information. The server software HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) would provide me the data and in order to read it I would be using a web browser, like Internet Explorer for instance. 
Email, Telnet, SHH are examples of different protocols.

Task: Achitecting our own simple Information

 From creating our humble index web page we managed to weave more pages using paths that allowed us to travel through information and to share images, text and web pages.

http://chronotext.org/Isaiah/

With these exercises I was able to learn HTML, the mark up language that forms the platform for the world wide web and allows to establish links and share information that can be viewed remotely. After becoming familiarized with HTML I went on to create a humble HTML document by using the right references, adding images and linking some other web pages to it. Oh the sense of achievement after opening it in a browser!:)

I learnt how to create hyperlinks to files either within the same document, other documents or within the internet, using an URL that would retrieve specific files in my computer like this file:///C:/Users/ME/Desktop/Ditalab2/first.html or an URL address from a specific web page, that way managing to incorporate them correctly in an index HTML page.

After finalizing my HTML page

http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~abkb860/Ditalab2/greatfinal.html

it came the publishing stage: where first I needed to map my HTML file into a public directory: the W:/ drive, in order to become accessed by a Web Server (quite easy to get) and by using Telnet program I was able to publish it. I didn't quite get it right straight away as I realized I had the html file name in the URL but forgot that I transferred the whole folder to the W:/ drive, so that way I had to add the folder name too.

Apart from HTML I also had a fiddle around with CSS, it was quite interesting to see the different looks a webpage assumes by using different style sheets. I had fun particularly with Blackle the energy saving search option from Google, since the inverse style sheet uses white on black to facilitate reading. This is how it would look...rather odd.