Home Page and Web Site

Okay, it is time to clean up the web site and getting it organized with a great front door (i.e., your HOME page). Here is a summary of what I want:

• If you have not done so already, you need to create a folder named csit1060 in your public_html directory and move all of your homework files to this directory. Be careful to preserve the relative structure too. For instance, if you had an images folder where you kept your image files for homework pages, you need to move that folder into csit1060 too. Once you do this check EVERY link in EVERY homework to see that it works correctly. Also see that every image shows up. If not, you need to fix it. Ask the instructor if you need any help figuring out the problem (usually the problem is that you used an absolute URL when you should have used a relative URL).
  
  
• In your main public_html folder you should have a folder named images for any image files that you want to use in your main web pages that are not relevant to this course. Since you will have image files in this folder and other image files down in your csit1060 (or further down in its images folder), you should move the proper images to the proper folders. In some cases, you may have images used in your homework that you ALSO want to use in your main web site pages (or future ones). In that case, make a duplicate copy of the same files to put in both places.
  
  
• Clean up any unused files that you accidentally saved to the wrong directory (such as the parent directory of your public_html directory. Also throw away any of the LARGE image files that you were not supposed to copy to the neo folders (none should be larger than 200K).
  
  
• Create a home page in your main public_html folder and at least two other html files that it links to. It should also have a link to the csit1060 folder. Name your home page file index2.html until you have me check your site and tell you to rename it to index.html. This home page and the others that it links to (not counting homework pages) should display a wide variety of elements and styles that you learned during this course. For full credit I want to see examples of headings, paragraphs, horizontal rules, lists, tables, and images. I also want to see good choices for the layout, the color, and styles for attractive, professional, and readable content-- that is, no dark letters on dark background, appropriate sizes for images, and no obvious issues that someone who sees your page will wonder about why you did not fix it. I do not need to see use of frames, forms, or image maps in these pages.
  
  
• Put validation links in your main homepage and your other web pages so that they can be checked. Make sure that they validate. I might forgive certain errors that cannot be fixed (such as a complicated link URL to a facebook page that does not validate). But you want to have everything fixed that can possibly be fixed to avoid errors.
  
  
• Make sure that you update the links panel for homework 09 so that it includes any missing homework links and make sure that none of your links from the panel are deep links. If you did that incorrectly before, now is the time to fix that.
  
  
• Create a file called index2.html that is inside of your csit1060 folder. After I check your web site I will tell you to rename this file to index.html. This html file will automatically jump to your hw09.html page, giving the appearance that it is your class-home page (i.e., the home page for your csit1060 folder). This is described on page 29. Just create a simple html web page in which you include the following meta tag in the head section:

        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; URL=hw09.html" />

  and the only thing in the body section should be a simple message and a link such as the following (just in case the jump does not occur):

        <p>
           If you see this page then you need to click on
           <a href="hw09.html"> this link </a>
           to get to my class home page.
        </p>