CS5014: Homework 1

Due Friday, 1 September

Make a World-Wide Web home page for yourself. You will probably want to put this page on host csgrad.cs.vt.edu. Here are the steps:

1. Log onto csgrad. In your home directory, create a new directory named "public_html".
2. Create, in directory public_html, a file named "index.html".
3. Review the documents on html listed on the 5014 home page, starting with the tutorial, to learn how to make an HTML document.
4. Send e-mail to gradcoun@csgrad.cs.vt.edu to have a link established from the grad student home page to your new home page.

The instructor and GTA will review all the home pages, and then show the best ones in a future 5014 class. There will be two categories of "best" home pages: for pages that use text-only, and for pages that use text and graphics.

Be creative! For some ideas, stop by my office and browse through recent issues of Interface Age, a magazine that has awards for the top home pages on the Web.