Introduction to the
World Wide Web

Course Length: 1 day

Course Overview

• The concept of Hyperlinking, the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Tagging Language, the Universal Resource Locator (URL), Browsers to retrieve documents, Web Servers to provide pages to clients, and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to do transfer of document.
• Setting up a Web Server. We will discuss the basics of setting up and installing a server at your site, includiing using inetd, the mapping of URLs to documents, setting up home pages, and conventions for public access.
• Authoring for the Web to create your own documents, an HTML overview with sample document, Autoflowing and Autowrapping, HTML Tag Syntax, Document construction guidelines, Hyperlinks, URLs, Lists, graphics, design issues and style guidelines. We will discuss several HTML authoring tools, conversion tools and filters. Also discussed are Clickable Image Maps.
• Web Gateways and Forms to access other services on the Internet, Common Gateway Inerface (CGI), prompting for input, forms processing, and Wide Area Information Service (WAIS) access from the Web.
• Web Access Control and Security, user authentication to control/reject access by Internet address or username/password.

Key Benefits

• Students will be able to set up a Web document, and understand the principles behind server setup.

Who Should Attend

Prerequisites

• Introduction to the Internet or equivalent experience.