1. If you don't have an account on MathLAN, find a partner who does; look on and collaborate constructively as your partner goes through the following steps.
2. Log in to your MathLAN account.
3. Bring up an hpterm window (by clicking on the small icon of a computer terminal on the bottom row of the toolbar). Move the mouse pointer into the hpterm window.
4. Create a subdirectory named public_html by typing the
following instruction at the prompt:
mkdir public_html
5. I've created a file containing the outline of an HTML document.
Copy this file into your public_html directory by typing the
following instruction at the prompt:
cp /users/stone/events/html-workshop/sample.html public_html
6. Start the editor and load your copy of the outline into it. (To use the GNU Emacs editor, click on the pencil-and-paper icon on the bottom row of the toolbar. When the GNU Emacs window appears, move the mouse pointer onto the word File on the menu bar at the top and press and hold the left mouse button. Select Open File from the menu that appears by moving the mouse pointer onto that option and releasing the left mouse button. A prompt will appear at the bottom of the GNU Emacs window; after the tilde and slash characters that GNU Emacs displays for you, type public_html/sample.html and press the Enter key.)
7. Erase my name and replace it with yours; erase my e-mail address and replace it with yours. In my sample document, the body of the document contains the traditional salutation of computer programs ("Hello, world!")--erase this and replace it with something more entertaining and expressive of a human personality.
8. Save the resulting file, but do not exit from the editor; leave the editor window open. (If you're using GNU Emacs, get the File menu from the menu bar again and select Save Buffer from it.)
9. Bring the hpterm window to the top by moving the mouse pointer onto the title displayed at the top of its frame (hpterm) and clicking with the left mouse button. Make your home directory, the public_html directory, and the sample.html file accessible by typing
share . public_html public_html/sample.html
at the hpterm prompt.
10. Still in the hpterm window, start the Netscape program by typing the command
netscape public_html/sample.html &
at the prompt. Admire the display.
11. If it's not 5:30 yet, bring the editor window to the top and add, in the body of the document, an anchor containing a hypertext reference to
http://www.math.grin.edu/
which is the "front page" for the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
12. Save the file again, but still do not exit from the editor.
13. There is a toolbar near the top of the Netscape window. On it is a square region containing the word Reload. Move the mouse pointer onto that square and click the left mouse button.
14. Click on the anchor you just added (in the Netscape window) to move through the link to the department's home page. Return to your document by clicking on the square region containing the word Back on the Netscape toolbar.
15. Start experimenting in earnest. When you're done, shut down Netscape by selecting the Exit option from the File menu on its menu bar, shut down Emacs by selecting the Exit Emacs option from the File menu on its menu bar, close the hpterm window, and log out. Good luck with HTML.
This document is available on the World Wide Web as
http://www.math.grin.edu/~stone/events/html-workshop/lab-1.html