Creating a Web Page on Cubist

Step 1. Get on in front of a computer, preferably in the Sieg building.
Step 2. Log on to cubist. You can use telnet, or ssh if you want to be fancy. Just type: telnet cubist and enter your project group account and the password (you have received paper sheets in class with these).
Step 3. Check whether you have a 'www' directory in your home directory on cubist. If you don't create one. To create it type:
mkdir www
Enter the 'www' directory. Type:
cd www
Create your root HTML file. This file must be named index.html . For example copy the following into a file named index.html

<html>
<body>
<TITLE>This is my root html page</title>
<p>This is my first HTML page.
<p>This is another paragraph.
<B>This is bold text</B>
<p>I will create a table now
<TABLE BORDER=1>
<TR>
<TH>Rows
<TH>First Column
<TH>Second Column
<TR>
<TD>First Row
<TD>Al
<TD>Gore
<TR>
<TD>Second Row
<TD>George W.
<TD>Bush
</TABLE>
<a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/cse444">Link</a> to the class webpage
</body>
</html>
For more information on HTML goto google and type HTML Tutorial or HTML Reference or HTML Guide and you should get back a lot of different tutorials. Pick one and start playing with HTML
For every html file you create you need to turn on read permission for everyone (so that everyone can access and read your file from their browsers). To do that type:
chmod a+r index.html
The above command sets for everyone (the 'a' stands for all) read permissions ('+r' means enable reading) on the file index.html . If you want to turn read permission on for all the files in your www directory do:
chmod a+r *
Open now your browser and type:
http://cubist.washington.edu/~cubist_logon
Next thing you should do is pick up a report that you will have in your project and some database instance and create a table showing the results of the report. For example, suppose you have a book store project, create a table with 5 books written by Shakespeare, for example. You should have columns such as, book title, book price, ISBN, how many on stock, ...