This site applies only to CMPT 165 (Distance Ed) in Summer 2016. See the CMPT 165 sections page for other sections.

This lab is designed to get you used to working with the tools. You will probably have to download and install some of the course software. See the instructions in the appendix of the Study Guide and instructions on the website.

  1. If you haven't done it already, set up your SFU account. You can start by going to my.sfu.ca. [Thompson Rivers/Open Learning students: You should have an SFU computing account created as part of this course, but contact the course supervisor to have your cmpt165 account set up.]

    See the accounts page for more information on the computer accounts for this course.

  2. Save this empty XHTML file to your computer: either right-click the link and select “Save Link As” or follow the link and select File → Save Page As. (Do not use Internet Explorer for for this. It has a habit of mangling HTML files it saves.)

    Open the file with a text editor.

  3. Fill in the title (in the <title>); add a heading (in an <h1>) and a few paragraphs (in <p> tags) to the page (all inside the <body>). You don't have to write a lot: the point is to do some markup, not write an essay.

  4. Open the modified page1.html in Firefox (by selecting File → Open File, and finding the file). You should see the heading and paragraphs you just added.

  5. Upload this file to your web space on cmpt165.csil.sfu.ca. You can find instructions on uploading to the course web server on the course website. Make sure to put it in the public_html directory.

  6. Go to the page in your web space to make sure it's working there. The URL will be like this (substituting in your userid):

    http://cmpt165.csil.sfu.ca/~userid/page1.html

    [Note: if you're a Mac user and get a “forbidden” error when accessing that URL, see instructions on how to fix the problem.]

  7. Submit the URL of the page (that you visited in the last step) to CourSys.