The Nature of the Web

The World Wide Web permeates or lives to an extraordinary degree. However, most of us are unaware of the its technical underpinnings. In this session we explore the nature of the Web and in particular the role of HTTP protocol and the HTML standard.

We can now explore the basics of HTML and we will try to get to grips with the fundamentals of the HTML language. As you will see, its structure and format is relatively straightforward, and you will be able to understand the basics very quickly. We will be focusing on a small number of 'tags' to get started, and also on the ways in which different html files can be linked together to form a site.

The labs are where you will do the real learning in this module. In Lab0-01 you will install and configure a program we will use to create and edit web site - Eclipse. We will then use this tool to create a simple multi-page web site containing a small variety of text, images and links.