Building Web Pages

The club meeting of February 24, 2022 was dedicated to a hand’s on Web Page Building Workshop.

We set up five Raspberry Pi Computers (Model 3A+) as both web servers and web clients. All computers were locally visible to each other by their color-coded domain names (“red.com”, “green.com”, “blue.com”, “yellow.com”, and “brown.com”). Each person on a computer built their own web site using HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), and that site was visible to all other computers in our local network. By the end of the class, each web site had a link to at least one other web site which created our own little “world wide web” (where our “world” was limited to five computers in the club house). The computers were configured as shown here:

We were all able to browse each other’s pages and show them on the big screen. Each page contained the standard <html> and <body> tags along with <h1> (heading level 1), <p> (paragraph), <hr/> (horizontal rule), <ul> (unordered list), <li> (list item) and <a href=…> (anchor for a link). The image tag <img src=…> was shown but we didn’t have time for everyone to add their own image.

The final HTML looked something like this: