CMPT 165 Lab 1

This lab is designed to get you used to working with the tools. It can be done on your own computer, or on the computers in room 4050. You will probably have to download and install some of the course software if you are doing it at home. See the instructions in Appendix A of the Study Guide.

  1. If you haven't done it already, set up your SFU Computing account. You can start by going to my.sfu.ca.

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

  2. Save this empty XHTML file to your computer. Open it 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 the markup, not write an essay.

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

  5. Your password for the CMPT 165 web server is the same as your SFU Computing Account password, i.e. the password you use to access your official SFU e-mail.

    Upload the web-page you created above to your web space on cmpt165.csil.sfu.ca. You can find out how to upload your files to the web-server here (found under the Technical link). 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

When you are done the above create a text file named handin.txt using your favourite text editor. Write your name, student number, SFU e-mail ID, and the URL of your created web-page in this file. Use the Submission Server to submit this text file. Make sure to read the instructions at the submission server web-page, i.e. you must compress your text file as described and follow the instructions to use the submission server.