CISC 1400 Web Project

Create your own web page file via OpenMail

To get to your account, use your web browser to go to storm.cis.fordham.edu/mail.html. Type in your username and password to login (as the following image shows). This will bring you to an OpenMail interface.

Once you login, you will see the so called OpenMail interface, a web based interface to the server, where you can access your files and access your emails, and so on.

On your very first time to login onto storm, change your password as follows:

• click on the button labeled Pref that appears at the top of the screen (second to the right). You will then be prompted for your old (current) password, and then asked to enter in your new password twice. Once you have done that click on the change password button.
• Now back on the preferences screen, scroll to the bottom of the screen and click on save.

Now you are ready to create your own web page. To begin, you first create a file in the storm server as follows:

1. In OpenMail, click on the button at the top that says WebDisk (the fourth on the right in the picture below).



2. Click on public_html that is listed in the window. You must ALWAYS go into this folder in order to make web pages.
3. Click in the Target text box (in the Action panel), type in the name of your file, index.html, and then click on the new file button.

   

4. The file called index.html should now appear in the listing of files. We can edit the file by clicking on the [Edit] link to the right of the file name.

   

So go ahead and click on the [Edit] button, an “Edit file” window will appears in which we can start to write our web page. You should type up what you would like your web page to look like using the html tags. A good way to get started is first to copy the above HTML file example, and make small changes each time.

You could get feeling about what your web page will look like by clicking on the “Preview” button at the bottom of the window. Note that preview does not show the images correctly. In order to see the exact look and feel of your webpage, you should follow the next step as below.

Save and View your HTML file

You should save your file frequently to avoid losing your work. Click on the “Save” button in the Edit File window. To see the real look and feel of your web page, type storm.cis.fordham.edu/~your_username to the browser window.

Please note that you can view your web page and use the OpenMail interfact anywhere that you have internet access.

Sometimes you will want to add files to your web page, like images. To put these on your web page you have to get the files into the public_html directory via the OpenMail interface. On the top right of the WebDisk window, click on the Choose File button. A window will pop up allowing you to choose a file from the local computer. Find the file that you want to upload, and select it. Finally, click the upload button.

List of Content

1. Introduction
2. What is a HTML Document?
3. Create your web page (via web interface, via terminal)
4. Requirement of your web page
5. Intro. to JavaScript (extra credits)
6. Delete your web pages