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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS AND SOCIETY SESSION 7 – THE WEB SEAN J. TAYLOR ADMINISTRATIVIA • Assignment 1 due tonight at 1am. • My office hours: moved to 3:30-5:30pm on FRIDAY (permanently?) • Assignment 2 due 2/23 • Blog tips BLOG TIPS Use Markdown: Include “!m” somewhere in the email. Links are then [Link name](http://linklocation.com) Use raw links and plain text: This is my cool link: http://www.google.com Don’t include dashes before your signature: Bad: --SJT Good: SJT LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Understand how the web works at a high level. 1. HTTP 2. URLs 3. HTML 2. Be able to create your own web page. THE WEB WEB HISTORY use hypertext "... to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will” - Berners-Lee and Cailliau November, 1990 WORLD WIDE WEB • web of hypertext documents • viewed by browsers • using a client–server architecture • HTTP: communication protocol • URLs: addressability • HTML: hypertext! LAYERS HTTP IN ACTION Request Response metadata HTTP IN ACTION: RESPONSE HTTP METHODS • GET – retrieve a resource • POST – create a new resource • PUT – update an existing resource • DELETE – delete a resource Always include a URL! URLS UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS Format: scheme://hostname:port/path?query_string#fragment_id • Scheme: http, https, ftp, gopher, wais • Domain: Hostname is usually subdomain.domain.tld • Port: Each server can have multiple ports • Path: + query string: define a resource • Fragment: used for web page navigation PUTTING HTML FILES ON THE SERVER EDITING HTML FILES BASIC DOCUMENT STRUCTURE <html> <head> <title>My Awesome Webpage</title> </head> <body> <h1>This is the heading!</h1> <p>It was the best of webpages.</p> <a href=“http://google.com”>Google</a> </body> </html> MORE TAGS <ul> <li>List item 1</li> <li>List item 2</li> </ul> <h1>Big header!</h1> <h2>Smaller header</h2> <img src=“http://link.to/image.png”></img> <div>Some content</div> <span>Some content</span> ADDING STYLE WITH CSS <style> h1 { color: blue; text-align: center; } P { width: 400px } </style> Or put a link in your <head> area. <link rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” href=“style.css”></link> EMBEDDING CONTENT PROGRAMMABILITY WITH JS • De-facto programming language for the web. • Tons of resources for learning. • Makes a webpage dynamic. RAW TEXT OR WYSIWYG MARKUP: DISPLAY OR SEMANTIC • Some HTML tags are intended to convey semantics. • This allows machines to understand web pages better but giving them an idea of what information is placed where in the document. “I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. “ -- Tim Berners-Lee Challenges? Benefits? “DIVE INTO HTML5” MARK PILGRIM WEB BOOK NEXT CLASS: ATTENTION ECONOMICS • The Information Diet (Chapter 3)