Goals

Today you'll get only a brief overview of a very big subject.  In this unit you will learn how

1. web servers work on the internet
2. HTML markup affects format
3. images are included in text
4. file resources are linked in a single static page

1. Write some simple HTML making a static web page to view in a browser on your computer
2. Place files in a directory that can be accessed by a web server and adjust file and directory permissions so that the web server may access them
3. Create a simple dynamic web page.

The assignment for students in GINF5001 this week is to follow these instructions and create a static web page and two or more dynamic web pages.

IMPORTANT: In making your web pages, don't take shortcuts and use programs others may recommend to you. The goal of this exercise is to master a few "tags" that perform important basic functions in rendering HTML code into web pages. Bioinformatics specialists who write the code you use include these very same simple tags into their programs.

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