PROJECT #2: FILE TRANSFER AND GRAPHICAL IMAGES
Updated February 2, 1999
PART I
The following project has three phases; in the
first, you will upload a graphic image to your diskette or f-drive;
in the second, you will have a color font and a color background;
and in the third, you will upload the graphic file to your home
page using WS-FTP, a software available as an icon in Windows down
in the NetLab.
The graphic image for you to capture is located at
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rpeterso/ravenspa.gif
Go to that location and do a File followed by Save As; save the file
as ravenspa.gif
Then, in the NetLab, click the WS-FTP icon and enter the world of ftp
(file transfer protocol) which has a left side ("Local System"), a
middle and a right side ("Remote System")--make sure the anon. login
is toggled off. In the middle (use lower case only):
Profile Name: uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Host Name: uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Host Type: Automatic Detect
User ID (enter your UNIX id)
Remote Host: type /pub/win3
Local PC: (leave blank)
now press Enter
type your UNIX password
press enter
On the left side, point mouse at drive a and double click; you will
see the various files you have on your diskette. Click to highlight
ravenspa.gif
On the right side, you will see directories such as mail and news and
you will need to cursor down to public_html and then double click on
public_html.
In the middle (between the left-hand side and the right-hand side) you
will see a left arrow and below that, a right arrow:
point mouse on right arrow and click and zoom, your ravenspa.gif will
arrive safe and sound in your public_htm file
PART II
You will be creating a new file called file2.htm and in effect you will be
creating another home page whose address will be
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~your Unix user name/file2.htm
To do this, telnet to Unix and at the % prompt type the following:
cd public_html (and then press Enter)
pico file2.htm and then press Enter)
Type the following:
FILE2
Using your name instead of Bob's, type the following:
Bob's Personal Home Page
BUS313 Home Page
The Seven Major
Internet Search Engines
Best Free
Searchable News Sources
Links to Company
Information, Stock Charts, and EDGAR Filings
How to Use
Interactive Stock Graphs: An Introduction
(end of typing)
The HTML coding for a color background is
and for a color font it is followed by
where you want that color font to end.
Some common colors are FF0000 (red); 00FF00 (green or lime);
0000FF (blue); FF00FF (magenta or fuchsia); FFFF00 (yellow);
00FFFF (aqua or cyan); 000000 (black); and FFFFFF (white).
For a table which gives the coding for colors, go to
http://www.netheaven.com/~wlarmon/fontclr.htm
PART III
In order for the graphic image "ravenspa.gif" to show up on your home
page, you will need to edit your file2.htm file some more:
Type the following lines after the ...Interactive Stock Graphs:
An Introduction:
(start typing):
Two Ravens Flying
(If the image ravenspa.gif is unavailable, try alaska.jpg and call it
Alaska instead of Two Ravens Flying.)
The next are examples of external links; the ravenspa.gif link was an
internal link.
Click here to see a beautiful mountain in China
(end of typing)
PART IV--Stock Graphs
CAUTION: Use NETSCAPE, NOT INTERNET EXPLORER
Go to BigCharts.com (http://www.bigcharts.com). Enter ION as the stock
symbol and select Interactive Chart. From the left frame, you will see
"time frame" and choose 2 years with frequency "daily" and from "compare
to" choose DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average). Then select Draw Chart.
The chart appears; point mouse inside the graph--right-mouse click--popup
menu appears--choose "View image"--select the URL and paste into the
statement below, but make sure there are no blank spaces:
Start typing and paste the URL between the quotation marks:
(end of typing)
To close pico:
Press ctrl-x and you will be asked if you want to save the
changes to a buffer--press Y for Yes. You will then be asked if the file
name file2.htm is ok with you--just press Enter to indicate
ok.
At the telnet prompt, type exit.
