Participant: Samruddhi Khandare

Pillai College of Engineering (PCE), New Panvel

FDP101x Foundation Program in ICT for Education

Self Exploration Resources

What is Internet?

Internet is a confused computer networks. It is an interconnection of computer networks all

over the world that are bringing billion of people online. Billions of computers are connected

to the internet. Internet is connected through wires. Therefore internet is physical i.e. it has

physical reality since it is connected using wires. Because of internet, billions of computers

are communicating with each other.

Internet is also a set of protocols. These protocols are used to find out how computers are

connected to the internet to communicate with each other to accomplish things. We cannot do

anything useful or interesting just by connecting the computers to the huge networks. To do

anything useful and interesting through internet, the computers should be able exchange data

as well as they should co-operate each other to perform other important functions.

The internet is people. Internet is the space that the humans have created. The factors that

make use of internet so excited are:

• What humans do with it?

• What content humans put online?

• How humans use the internet?

Therefore the content that is on the internet is created by the humans i.e. all the content that is

available on the internet is the reflection of us (humans) and what we do online is also a

reflection of us.

The internet represents the fulfilment of a deep human desire to communicate.

Summary

Therefore, internet is:

• A physical network that connects billions of machines.

• A protocol that allow the connected machines to work together.

• People that make it work for us to do new and exciting things.

How internet works?

• How do you use internet?

• What do you do on net?

• Where is the internet?

The answers to the above questions are discussed below:

We have internet in our computer, mobile phones and tablets because of which we can play

games, watch movies, listen to music, search for any information, etc.

Internet is the world’s largest network of computer and exists all over the planet except in

some remote places e.g., the South Pole.

How does it fit together?

At home we have a small network without wires but it is still connected to the internet by a

cable (an internet cable).

Usually our home is connected to the internet by a wire that is buried in the ground to a

cabinet where many wires are connected to a larger internet cable. We can also connect to the

internet with mobile phones without wires. In this process the signals are sent to and from the

mobile phones through a mobile mast (cell site or cell tower) which is then connected to an

internet cable.

When a person is using internet his/her device is a part of the internet network. The internet

cables in the ground form a small network. These small networks are connected with larger

networks and then further all over the world with the help of wires that send information at a

superfast speed (nearly five times around the earth per second). The information which is

transmitted over the large internet cables is called as internet traffic.

Tools for Website Creation “Wordpress”

Step 1: Select the site you want to create i.e. a blog, a website or a portfolio. The site selected

here is a website.

Step 2: Select a theme.

Step 3: Give a name to the website.

Step 4: Entering a site name or keyword.

Step 5: Selecting a plan. The plan selected here is “Free” which is highly recommendable for

students.

Step 6: You have successfully registered and you can start creating your website.

Basic Customization in Wordpress

1. Login to the site created.

2. User is logged in to his/her account.

3. On top left corner, click on “My Sites”. On clicking “My Sites” the site created is

visible to the user. This how the website looks with some default text already put

in. There is a text widget which allows adding any information. There is a menu

which contains Home, About and Contact.

4. At the bottom right hand side corner there is a customization link which consists

of various action items that can be used to change the site.

5. Select “Site Identity” to change the name of the site.

6. A logo can be set up by adding a logo.

7. A site icon can be set up by adding any image. The site icon is used as a browser

and app icon for the website.

8. Background can be changed by adding any image and selecting the colors from

color palette.

9. The font of the headings and the website’s content can be changed by selecting

any of the available fonts.

10. User can set a header image by selecting any image.

11. User can set widget for his/her website. Widget is a small application that runs

within the website. There are a lot of widgets available in Wordpress. The first

widget selected for this website is “Contact Info and Map”.

12. The first widget selected for this website is “Calendar”.

13. Home page of the website.

14. Home page of the website.

15. “Digital India” page of the website.

16. Blog page of the website.

17. Blog page of the website

Adding Content in Wordpress

This session focuses on how to add simple content such as pages and blogs in the Wordpress

site. Wordpress, by default provides two simple content types. They are the blog and the

pages.

Blog is a short form for web-log. Web-log is like a diary on the web. It could be a

commentary; it could be a collection of pictures or any other review.

The difference between a blog and a webpage is that; a blog may be periodic or occasionally

un-periodic. A blog is a time bound release, i.e., one can have a blog every month or every

day. Blogs are categorised by the date of release and keywords. Whereas, a page is a generic

web-page. It could be a static page with no time bound to it and it could appear in the front

page or in the menu items and so on. Pages can have other objects in it such as tables, lists,

images, attachments, etc.

• Creating a Blog

Steps to create a Blog:

1. Choose a title

2. Type in your thoughts

3. Preview

4. Publish.

1. For creating a blog click on the “Blog Posts”.

2. Section where the blog is written.

3. Type the post that is to be published as a Blog.

4. The Blog is published.

5. The blogs published by the user.

6. The blog posts are published in a descending order of time.

• Creating a Page

1. For creating a page click on the “Site Pages”.

2. Section where the page is written.

3. Type the post that is to be published as a Page.

4. The Page is published.

5. The pages published by the user.

Managing Content in Wordpress

This section focuses on how to manage various contents such as blogs, pages and comments

in Wordpress site.

Apart from publishing the posts, they can be sent to the trash if we do not want to post them.

The posts that are created and not published are stored in the draft. Posts stored in trash can

be restored and published or removed permanently. Posts stored in drafts can be published or

moved to trash.

The blog posts are published in a descending order of time. The post published latest is the

first.

1. List of all the posts that are created in the website.

2. Posts moved to trash. There are two posts in trash.

3. Posts moved to draft. There is only one post in draft.

Advanced Customization in Wordpress

This session focuses on few configurations which are not present in the default profile. These

configurations are to be done through the dashboard.

A. How to add media and link to the pages:

1. Go to the site and click on “Site Pages”.

2. The pages created are listed.

3. “Computer” is the latest created page.

4. To add media to the page “Computer”, click on “Add Media”.

5. The media library is displayed. If the media that the user wants to add is not

present in the library then the user can click on “Add Media”.

6. Select the media which is to be uploaded.

7. The media is now available in the media library.

8. Select the media which is to be uploaded and click “Insert”.

9. The media is now added to the user’s page.

10. User’s page.

B. How to add a page to a menu.

1. Click on “Themes Customize” in “Personalize”.

2. Click on “Menus”.

3. Click on “Primary”.

4. The current menu structure has got home, about and contact.

5. To add any created page to the menu structure, click on “Add Items”. On

clicking “Add Items”, different items will be displayed. Click on “Pages”. On

clicking “Pages” different items under “Pages” will be displayed.

6. Click on the page “Computer” which was earlier created by the user and then

click on “Save & Publish”.

7. Now we have “Computer” in the menu.

8. The user can reorder the pages to get a new menu. The order of previous menu

was (Home, About, Contact, Blog and Computer). After rearranging the pages

the current order of the menu is (Home, About, Computer, Blog and Contact).

The pages can be rearranged simply by dragging then up and down.

C. How to configure the look and feel of a website:

1. Select “Themes” on admin dashboard.

2. Several themes are available here. They are sorted by popular, newest, free in the

newest and paid in the newest.

3. Select any theme.

4. Hover on the selected theme and click on “Activate this design”.

5. Once the theme is activated, the user can go “Back to Themes” to select any other

theme.

6. The user can use the selected theme and can customize the selected theme by

customizing it. To customize the selected theme click on “Customize”.

7. These themes can be also be customized. They can be changed for site identity, fonts,

colors, backgrounds, headers etc.