Assignment 3 - Due February 14th, 2007

This assignment will be out of 1000 possible points.

THIS NEEDS TO BE HAND EDITED, NOT MADE USING A WEB PAGE GENERATOR (we can tell the difference)
DO NOT USE MICROSOFT WORD – the page will likely not come out correctly, or Word will alter your code for you and count as a Web Page Generator (see above)
BE CAREFUL OF EMAILING YOUR HTML TEXT – some students do this to transfer their html from one computer to another, and many mail programs automatically convert this code to another format
If you are using a Macintosh, you may have problems generating plain text. Using a PC is recommended, but if you only have access to a Mac, here are some useful suggestions.
INSTRUCTIONS:

Take a look at “Publishing Your Webpage” – a PowerPoint presentation on uploading your files and creating HTML tags.

Generate a basic web page accessible in your Personal Webspace directory, and upload it to WebCT Assignment 3 (upload the file you have created named "index.html" and any pictures), containing the following mandatory elements (100 points each)

The web page should contain a brief description of yourself or at least of your family pet.
A tip for creating a list: Maybe you could list the classes you've taken. This also gives you the perfect place to put a link (like the page for this class)
Your instructor has created his own sample web page. Feel free to use this as a basis for your web page. But you will not get ANY credit by only copying the sample page.
Submit the file index.html to the assignment 3 section of WebCT – you must do this IN ADDITION to making the web page publicly accessible.
You will need to upload both the index.html file and your picture(s) to your UCSC Personal Webspace directory.
To Upload these files, you will need to use a file transfer program, and set up your personal webspace. Here’s a link to download: SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol).
One way to upload is to have the index.html file and the picture.jpg on your desktop first.

If using the campus lab computers, click on Start->Internet Tools->_Unix-Telnet&SSH->unix-ic.
If using your home computer, download and use the Secure File Transfer program (SFTP)
Enter your username and password – these are the same as your UCSC email account and WebCT. In the top toolbar there are binoculars and some gears, and two icons in between. Click on the file folder with the blue dots. This opens the file transfer window. Drag and drop your index.html file and your picture.jpg file into the folder called "public_html."

Once you upload the index.html file and any picture files to your UCSC account directory "public_html", check that the file is publicly readable by viewing it online.

getting started

Open a plain text file, using Notepad (Available from Start>Accessories>Notepad) or the more versatile program Textpad, available for free download.

If Using Notepad:

If Using Textpad:

Create your web page (covered in class, there are also many, many web page tutorials available online) Feel free to use the sample web page as an example.

You can view the HTML source text of the sample web page by selecting View>Source on your web browser.
You can also use File>Save As> to save the sample web page to your desktop, and use a text editor to look at the HTML source text.

Use your text editor as you would use any editor. The .html file needs to be hand edited. If there are things in the file which you personally did not type in, then this is not your work, and you cannot receive credit for this. If you are in doubt about this point, use Notepad or Textpad instead of any other editors.
To view changes

Scan a picture, upload one from a digital camera, or transfer one of your existing digital photos

Save the file with no spaces (you’re uploading this to a system that doesn’t always handle blank spaces correctly)

Save your picture into your public_html directory
Advice: Upload the picture to your public_html directory BEFORE adding the photo link to your web page. Frequently, students accidentally have their HTML page pointing to a picture residing on their home computer – so it shows up fine on their home computer, but doesn’t show up on the Internet (which is our goal).

Count.cgi
You do NOT need to write your own CGI code or Perl script. You should be able to just add the "img src" line to your page and it should work. But you can use other sources for counters if you like. Any working counter on your page will earn you this extra credit.
Keep in mind that the counter may not increment when it gets multiple repeated hits from the same IP address. This means it may not increment when you hit the "reload" key of your browser. This is normal.

Thank you to Dr. Chane Fullmer and Dr. Doanna Weissgerber for their authoring and contribution towards this (historic) assignment.