The lab may be easy for some, and less easy for others. The overall purpose is to familiarize you with the SEASCF (SEAS Computing Faculty) environment and the World Wide Web publishing process here. You'll be using this familiarity to do other assignments throughout this course. Specifically, the lab exercise has several objectives.

1. make sure everyone's account at SEASCF is in good working order
2. learn to use a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) web page editor to create a basic personal web page
3. make sure everyone is able to scan graphics into the computer using the equipment here
4. make sure everyone is able to publish materials to their web sites here

1. Using Netscape Navigator,go to the site http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~csci41fall01, then click 'Student Questionnaire'. When the questionnaire appears fill it in. Don't forget to submit it by clicking the Submit button at the bottom of the page! We will use this questionnaire to make up class lists for the faculty and lab assistants in this course. Nobody but the faculty and lab assistants in this course will see your questionnaire.

 
2. Using Netscape Composer,create a basic personal web page for yourself and publish it on the SEAS web server. When your SEASCF account was set up, a web page "template" was put in your web account. You can download this using Netscape Navigator,then store it in a file on the lab PC, then edit it with Netscape Composer. Your web page file must be called index.html, and will contain the following minimum parts:

 
1. A photo of yourself, scanned with the SEASCF lab scanner; if you forgot to bring a photo, you may scan your GWorld card (cover the ID number before you scan the card) and include it. It's not a good idea to leave this on the web, so you must bring another photo and replace the GWorld image within one week.
2. An appropriate web page title tag.
3. An appropriate header, centered at the top of the page.
4. A link to your faculty advisor's web page; if you don't know your advisor yet, link temporarily to Prof. Feldman (http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman), then, within one week, find out who your advisor is and change the link.
5. Your name, hometown, major and two hobbies.

 

When you are finished editing your page, publish and test it:
 

1. Publish your page using the Publish dialog on the File menu. The publication address must be ftp://tangle.seas.gwu.edu/public_html/index.html,

using your SEASCF userid and password to do the transfer. The address for your photo should be
ftp://tangle.seas.gwu.edu/public_html/my_photo.jpg
 
2. Test your page by pointing your browser at http://student.seas.gwu.edu/~your_name, where you substitute your own user ID for your_name.

 
3. Using WebMail,log onto the SEAS mail server and e-mail the URL of your web page to your lab assistant and to Prof. Feldman (mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu).