Summary: Compose your own WWW home page.
Details: Be creative, be wild or just go crazy. Put in 2 or 3 images and at least 3 hyperlinks. Your page must also feature either a clickable image map or a frame layout. One of your images must be either a transparent GIF, (easily apparent), or an animated GIF. In addition, the page must contain either a Java applet or Javascript code. You may also add sounds (maybe a very, very, very small movie) and anything else within reason. Add links to your favorite hangouts on the Web or the most interesting sites you've stumbled upon. You might even surprise your friends and put them on your page also. Remember that anyone and everyone on the global internet might read your home page. (If you create mulitple pages, limit your site to no more than 3 pages for this assignment.)
You can place your home page on the following machine: fbox.vt.edu. You will need to request a an allocation of a WWW VT filebox. To do so read the instructions on the VT university Web site and then fill out the VT filebox request form.
After you have received your VT WWW filebox and composed your HTML documents that you wish to upload, follow the instructions that Ms. Judy Watson developed for this class.
Use a FTP utility and perform a login to the sfbox.vt.edu machine using your PID as the userid and your pid password as the password. Then change directory to: cd filebox/[capital letter of 1st character of yourPID]/[yourPID]/, (If your default directory is different when you login thru ftp, check with the pwd (print working dir command from within ftp) to see if it is different; or traverse to the correct directory if you are using a FTP program on Windows or Mac). Then put (upload), your home page with the file name: yourname.html, no spaces and no funny names (if we can't find it you lose points). Window and DOS users should use the solaris destination option in WsFTP. This will allow you to use the rename button to change the extension for the file to the html extension, instead of the .htm extension.
Disk space is limited to 5MB max for your web pages. Please read the filebox machine's quota information for limitations. Show everyone how creative you can be. Some people spend a lot of time on their home pages. If you don't believe me just take a look at some of the csugrad home pages.
All students must post the the URL for their home page to the course listserv. In addition, email the URL of your home page to your instructor by the due date. The URL for your home page if you are using the WWW Filebox should be:
http://sfbox.vt.edu:10021/[capital letter of 1st character of yourPID]/[yourPID]/[your homepage file].html
Everyone who does not already have access to a WWW server machine where they can store and make available their own WWW documents should read the following. For the WWW Home Page project, students should request their own WWW FileBox by following the instructions at the Va Tech WWW server. After reading the instructions, students will need to request a FileBox.
If you decide to publish your Web pages on a server other than the VT WWW filebox server it is your responsibility to ensure that the server is available 24 hours a day. When your page is accessed for grading if it is cannot be located or reached your grade will be a zero. Due to the large number of students in this course only one attempt will be made to access a page for grading.
There are a large number of sites that provide free space for publishing pages on the Web. Usually these free Web servers require/embed advertising in your pages. Some free Web publishing sites are:
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