INFM 603
Information Technology and Organizational Context
Spring 2015
Assignment H1

This assignment has two goals. Most directly, we will submit some assignments by creating Web pages, so in this assignment you will essentially create a place to put those. To do that, you will need to demonstrate mastery of some basic tools such as a text editor, a file transfer program, and a Web server, so the more academic side of this project is to draw on your understanding of how those tools work to actually get some experience using the tools. For this reason, the homework is designed to give you experience with one other tool, traceroute, in addition to the minimal tools that you would need to complete the assignment.

1. Create a Web page that would be suitable for use as your public Web site (Whether you use it as your public Web site or not is up to you). The Web page must be in hand-coded HTML. The Web page should include a photo (preferably of you!), your name, information about your professional experience and preparation, and at least one link to another page. Note that the goal here is not to create an elegant page (we'll get to elegance later) but rather to simply get some experience with creating and hosting a Web page. Place this page on the Web at http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~YOURUSERNAMEHERE/603/hw1.html (where YOURUSERNAMEHERE is your terpconnect user name). See the homework 1 video for some guidance on how to do this.
2. Create a Web page at http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~YOURUSERNAMEHERE/603/index.html that links to your hw1.html page. In later assignments, you will add more links to this page.
3. Use traceroute to discover the location of the server for http://www.flyonthewall.tv/casestudies.php?site=5 -- This is kind of an interesting task because this company is located in one place but its Web server is located in a different place. So you can't just look at the Web site to see where the company claims to be. By far the easiest way to perform this task is to use a visual traceroute. One option is to download Visual Traceroute (download the free 15 day trial, choose "add editions"). But another that does not require downloading anything (probably a better approach when you can manage it) is the online Monitis Visual Trace Route Tool. Note that these system need to determine the IP address, so the only part of the URL they need is www.flyonthewall.com. If they have trouble looking up the IP address for that domain name, you can use any DNS lookup tool (for example, the one at ping.eu. Note that I found all of these by simply doing Google searches for geographic traceroute and for dns lookup, so there's nothing special about these choices -- I just tried them and they worked for me so hopefully they will work for you too.
4. Send the professor (oard@umd.edu) an email with your name (as you prefer to be called), your email address (where you prefer to read email), the URL for that second Web page you created, and the answer to the third question.