Assignment 4 — Extending Links
Description: | The assignment for this week familiarizes you with the concept of what a hosting service is, how to update your site to a hosting service, and to connect to it via URLs. It also covers how to make links to external sites, as well as how to make links to specific information on a web page. When you want to make your content available to the people across the Internet, you'll need to work with a hosting company. For the purposes of this class, we'll use HostGator. You develop your content in a local environment. When you complete it, you upload the content to your hosting site. You use a domain name that uniquely identifies your site. For example, the domain name of Austin Community College is austincc.edu and the domain name for Amazon is amazon.com. When you create your own unique site, you'll have to determine a unique domain name for you to use. In this class, we'll provide information for you to use. People access your site by entering a URL (uniform resource locater) into their web browser. For example, if you want to go to the ACC home page, enter: To a specific location on the ACC web site (such as a schedule), you can add a path to location: http://www.austincc.edu/schedule The browser will look and load a file named index.html or default.html file that is located at the URL if an exact file name if the file is not specified. You can link to external web pages on your web site by using the same type of URLs. If you wanted to make a link to ACC, you would add an <a> tag to your web page like: <a href="http://www.austincc.edu">Austin Community College</a> For more information, see Chapter 4 of the Head First HTML and CSS book. |
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Due: | By 10/16 |
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