Physics & Astronomy Graduate Students (PAGS)
Template Page (edit to add your own title)
When you edit this page put the text you want for your page
here.
Notes on page construction:
This page is intended as a template page to be copied and edited by
people wishing to create a page for the PAGS site. Please attemt
to keep the decore of your page consistant with the rest of the
site. In general this will mean the navigation bar at the top and
bottom of the page, the "Physics & Astronomy Graduate Students
(PAGS)"
line, an optional image 295 pixels wide and 178 pixels high and your
page title (edited of course) will be kept to match this template and
the page will be white text on black background. If you don't
like this format don't blame me I just copied it from an earlier
incarnation of the PAGS site done several years prior.
For those of you compleatly new to making web pages what you normaily
look at (and are probably looking at now) is the rendered page in your
web browser. How this process works is you either enter a url
(the piece of text that goes www.pha.jhu.edu/pags) into your web
browser. Your web browser looks up "www.pha.jhu.edu" in a domain
name server (DNS) and receves back an ip address, in this case
"128.220.143.21" (try typing "http://128.220.143.21" and you will see
the same thing as www.pha.jhu.edu as it just skips looking up the ip
address from the url). Your web browser then goes to
128.220.143.21 and asks it for the "/pags" html source code. The
server then sends the html source code which your browser then renders
and displays (after downloading any images embedded in the page).
Almost all browsers have an option to show the html source code, look
for "show html", "show source" or something like that. You should
see a large page of text that has the text of this site in it and lot
of funny things between < and > symbols. These funny things
are called html tags and contain all the formatting information that
tells your browser how to display the page. Note: Not all
browsers render everything exactly the same way. I use a variant
of mozilla as my main browser and thus this page may have a few
oddities when viewed with some other browsers. If you see
something strange email the webmaster.
The navigation bar at the top and bottom of the page are generated by
inserting another html page inside this one using an iframe. This
is done with an "<iframe>" tag. Please do not edit
this; If you want to have something added to the navigation bar please
email the webmaster and I will change it. If you do not want to
have the navigation bar remove everything between and including
the "<iframe>" and "</iframe>" tags. The
advantage of using an iframe for this task is that only the page
rendered by the iframe need be changed in order to chage the navigation
bar as apposed to having to change by hand the top and bottom of every
page on the site.
Normally
a "</body>" tag goes just before end of the page.
This
tag should be omitted to prevent
the automatic insertion (by the pha appache web server) of the linked
image shown below at the end of
your page. Removing this tag should have no effect on modern web
browsers. If you are using website making software (like netscape
composer or microsoft frontpage) this tag will be inserted for you and
you will have to remove it afterwards. It is usually the second
to last line in the page; just delete it using whatever text editing
tool you prefer.
Below is a sample table:
This is a sample link back to the main page.
Below is a sample image:
This is how you center text.
This is how you right justify text.
This is how you left justify text.
Good luck with making web pages.
