University of Malta  WWW WORKSHOP 

SESSION 2
TEXT STRUCTURES & FILE TRANSFER


Contents

Text Styles

The user has control over various aspects of text appearance, notably headings, font size and style, and colour. To experiment with these, open this document using composer:

Headings

There are six heading styles: H1 to H6, in decreasing order of importance. A level 4 heading is about the same size as normal text. To try these out: Notice that with headings, the entire text in the current paragraph changes since the entire paragraph surrounding the position of the cursor is made into a heading.

Font Size, Style and Colour

You can experiment with font sizes and styles using the menus immediately to the right of the heading menu. This time, however, it is necessary to select a particular piece of text. This is the only text affected by subsequent changes of font, style, colour or weight.

Exercise

Try to make the word "without" large, helvetica, bold, and red.

Lists

HTML provides three kinds of list: Click on the links to see examples of each kind. Ordered and unordered lists are easily created as follows: N.B To insert vertical space between list items, go to the the "insert" menu and select "New Line Break"

The technique for creating description lists is slightly different.

Hypertext Links

A link (often called an anchor) is the textual device used within a hypertext to point somwhere else. Each link is associated with two pieces of information, namely

Inserting Local Links with Composer

Links can be inserted with Composer. Initially, we will try inserting strictly local links links into this document.

FTP File Transfer

FTP stands for file transfer protocol. This is used for transferring files either from your computer to a server (uploading) or from a server to your computer (downloading). For the time being, you need only worry about uploading your pages to the server. In this case we will attempt to upload the numbers page to the server from your local directory. To perform the transfer we will use the "smartFTP" program.

Exercise

The aim of this exercise is to consolidate the skills you have acquired so far by

Part 1. Creating the Home Page

Create a new directory called "Home" within the "My Documents" directory on your local machine. Call the new file index.html for yourself or your organisation. You should use You can either start from scratch or use the page as a starting point. If you want to use one of these start as a basis you have to make a local copy first. To do this first browse the page and then use save-as

Part 2. Put the file on the server

Using the methods just explained, transfer the entire "home" directory to the server.
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Mike Rosner (mros@cs.um.edu.mt)
[Tue Sep 28 18:41:09 1999]