CPSCI 105: Explorations in Computer Science

Lab 7

February 13, 2007

Today's Class

We're going to discuss a bunch of stuff today: we'll be reviewing work that you've already done on your website and we'll be talking about some XHTML topics in more depth. So it would be a good idea to take good notes.

Do the next section of the lab assignment as soon as you arrive in class today.

Your First Stylesheet

1. Open your warp homepage in a new browser window. Leave it sitting there.
2. Log in to your account on warp and make public_html your working directory.
3. Create a directory named style in the working directory. Then copy the file mystyle.css from the directory /home/public/web-authoring/ to this new directory:

   cp  /home/public/web-authoring/mystyle.css  style/

4. Now we need to make this file available to the web server. (You should already know exactly what to do to make this happen. This is the last time I'll tell you.) First, change the permissions of the style directory so that it can be accessed by the web server:

   chmod  a+x  style

   Then make all the files in that directory readable over the web:

   chmod  a+r  style/*
5. Go to the browser window that's open to your homepage. Refresh it. Do you notice any difference? Take the links from your homepage to your other pages and look them over. Now sit up and look attentive so that I'll know you've finished the lab assignment.

Homework 5a

Look over your website and make sure that you did Homework 5 correctly. Make sure that all your pages validate and that your stylesheet is controlling the presentation on those pages.

This asssignment is due at the beginning of class on Thursday, February 15.

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