COURSE DEMONSTRATION MATERIALS

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This document is a collection of demonstration examples created to be used by the instructor in the DCN Windows-based Creating Basic Web Pages course. It is referenced to from the course outline, so if you are reading it top to bottom and not from the outline the headings may not make sense.

URL Schemes (II-E)

http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~csandvig/ip/demos.html#II-E

http://

What are you doing?
This shows that you are trying to use the HyperText Transfer Protocol (http) to get something.
(See also Other Types of Links, section VIII-B.)

www.dcn.davis.ca.us/

On what server?
This shows that you are trying to access a file on the DCN's WWW server. This segment can be either a name or an IP address (such as 168.150.253.1).

/~csandvig

In whose account?
This shows that you are accessing the home directory (the tilde "~" usually means home directory) of the account for "csandvig".

/ip

In what directory?
This shows that you are looking in a subdirectory, called "ip", within an account, or higher-level directory.

demos.html

With what file?
This shows the name of the file you are requesting.

#II-E

In what part?
This is the place within the file you want to look at. Frequently this is absent, and you will start at the top.

Filename Conventions (IV-C)

.html

HyperText Markup Language

.htm

HyperText Markup Language (DOS Filename)

.txt

Plain text

.gif

CompuServe GIF Format Image

.jpg or .jpeg

Joint Photographic Experts Group Format Image

Other Types of Links (VIII-B)

HyperText Transfer Protocol

http://

http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us

File Transfer Protocol

ftp://

ftp://wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us/

Gopher

gopher://

gopher://gopher.ucdavis.edu/1

News

news:

news:davis.crime

Mail To

mailto:

mailto:msmosaic@dcn.davis.ca.us

Telnet

telnet://

telnet://wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us
Input and suggestions are always welcome at msmosaic@dcn.davis.ca.us
Modified last on by Christian Sandvig