DITA module 03

Internet and the WWW

The World Wide Web (WWW) is a service which is able to work because of the infrastructure of the Internet, it's history goes back to the early 1990's and was developed for the sharing of information between Universities.

Many establishments have an Intranet, which is only accessible from within the organisation or remotely with restricted access. The Internet is the part of the organisations computer system, often a single server, whose information is accessible to the public.

The use of either intra or inter nets becomes very relevant when producing information for a website which is going to be made public. From within the intranet system it is possible to drag images/files from many locations, which will still be seen. But if you were to publish the site as is, these links would show as broken and not be seen by the public. All the files need to be copied to the public site server or the pages which include the scattered images need to be saved as single MHT files and then be accessed via anchor tags.

I have generated the following web site in Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), some editing was undertaken in Microsoft Notepad and some in Unix using vi. It includes further links to first.html, GIS.html and GI_Greenwich.html.

http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~abhj012/index.html

I used the html tutor material, mentioned on my site, to add tables such that I could generate the four columns of information and the two pictures located side by side.

The moving of the different pages for the site was undertaken using telnet (internally) and Secure Shell FTP, SSH (externally).