The Internet and the WWW

This week we focused on writing our own websites using HTML. I got some practice first using a website--www.w3schools.com--that allowed me to type into a box the HTML code, and then to view what I had written.

I am not nearly as familiar with Unix as I am with Windows or Mac OS, but the whole process of changing the directory and putting the files that I had created into the public domain made a lot more sense than changing the directory did the first time.

After I moved my html files to the public folder, I made some changes to the files. I thought because I had moved my files to a new folder, the changes that I made would take effect in those folders, as well. However, I cannot see those changes when I view the webpage on my personal computer. I think that this might be true because I saved them to the U drive on the university computers. In order to make changes to the public, you need to save them to the public drive, instead of just to the home drive.

I'm sure it's possible to save these files to the public folder without using Unix, and I'm sure that we're using Unix for this type of transfer so that we can learn how to use the program. I wonder how one would create a website on just windows or just OS.

Click here to view the webpage that I created.