pigeons and ants

Time to upload a file.

First up, we'll need to understand what file transfer is all about - the wikipedia article's a good spot to find out.

Next, we'll need some ftp clients to play with. Peruse the list on wikipedia, or search google and select two that will fit your pocket and operating system (recommended: filezilla).

Install your client of choice and connect to the bathurst tafe web server using the login details provided (if you've lost them, or not received them yet, give me a call and I'll see what I can cook up). Once you're logged in, create a directory called: exercises then upload the index.html and other files you created in our HTML lessons and see if you can bring it up in a web browser: http://www.bathurst-tafe.nsw.edu.au/~yourname/exercises

Got troubles?

• make sure you're using Active rather than Passive transfers in your ftp client
  
• double check the user name and password
• remember, if you're in the computer lab, our ip address is different from the bathurst-tafe.nsw.edu.au address
• the web server can only see the public_html folder
  
• you may need to change the permissions on the file so that others can read it

Once you finish this challenge, write a short article on the experience. Make sure you mention:

• The name of your ftp clients
• The URLs you got them from
• any installation woes you encountered
• some comments on their ease of use
• $
• the platform(s) they work on
• the install file sizes

and any other interesting bits of information you came across. Let those pigeons fly!

Image: 'Venice: Pidgeons in Piazza San Marco'
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sql has a new home

to celebrate our combined CertIV SQL class I've created a new blog just for our database subject. You can see it and read all about our subject on:

http://certivsql.blogspot.com/

laying the table

create a tables.html page with the table shown above on it - save this and link to it from your exercises page.

Web development, exercise 1

A to-do list

Create a web page with the heading: ‘things to do before I die’ (this should also be the title of the page in the head area)

On the page create a numbered list with a couple of items on it (stuff that you’d like to accomplish before you shuffle off this mortal coil)

At least one of these things should link to another page which gives some more details about the item.

Image: 'sonrisa'
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html made easy

Welcome to the bloggy home of Bathurst's Cert IV general course.

Last week we kicked off our html odyssey by learning how to edit pages with notepad ++ , creating meaningful page names, and opening pages in the browser.

We went on to look at parts of the excellent HTML beginner tutorial on htmldog. Specifically...

• Getting Started - What you need to do to get going and make your first HTML page.
• Tags, Attributes and Elements - The stuff that makes up HTML.
• Page Titles - Titles. For Pages. Difficult to get your head around, I know...
• Paragraphs - Structuring your content with paragraphs.
• Headings - The six levels of headings.
• Lists - How to define ordered and unordered lists.
• Links - How to link things together.

To recap, I've written up some quick quiz questions for you to work through on trainingo2


Image: 'html tag italicized'
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