HTML Tutorial 2

Adding Hypertext Links to a Web Page

Creating a Chemistry Web Site, Continued

Additional Information

Using FTP

FTP is still one of the most popular ways of retrieving files on the Internet. You may want to look at using FTP servers and FTP clients so that you can access an FTP server without a Web browser. Using FTP clients has the advantage of giving you access to non-anonymous FTP servers.

If you are using UNIX, you can access FTP servers using the built-in ftp command. You can get more information on UNIX's support for ftp by typing:

at the UNIX command prompt.

Windows also provides FTP support. You can access a Windows text-based FTP client using the Run button on the Start Menu. You should:

1. Click the Start button
2. Click Run and type “ftp ftp_server.”
   Where ftp_server is the name of the FTP server you're trying to access.

Windows does not provide any documentation on its text-based ftp client, however it uses the same commands as the UNIX ftp client.

If you want to use a graphical FTP client, you can retrieve the following freeware or shareware clients for your personal computer:

Windows

• File Dog
• WS_FTP

Macintosh

• Anarchie
• NetFinder

Using USENET

USENET is one of the most popular ways of meeting people and starting discussions on the Internet. Netscape and Internet Explorer provide e-mail clients that include built-in newsreading software.

If you're using a UNIX system you can use the “rn” command to access the system's news server and retrieve messages from USENET. rn is a command-line program and you may have to spend sometime learning to use it.

If you're not interested in installing a full-featured newsreader, you can retrieve shareware or freeware programs from the following locations:

Windows

• Free Agent

Macintosh

• InterNews
• NewsWatcher

Once you've gained experience with USENET, you may find it a valuable source of information for creating your own Web pages. Here are some of the USENET newsgroups that deal with HTML:

• alt.html
• alt.html.editors.enhanced-html
• alt.html.editors.webedit
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html