Creating HTML links to Plotly graphs
Overview
- In this lesson series we will learn how to create an HTML page with links to data graphs produced using Plotly.
- This will create a simpel Dashboard for us to use so that we can monitor the water quality of a local lake – Peter Hopper lake in Mill Park.
- An example of a Dashboard is included below.
- It includes data on dissolved oxygen, pH and water temperature.
Learning Objectives
- Revision for how to create a HTML web page
- Revision on how to create and link Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to your HTML document
Create a simple HTML page
- In a previous lesson we already created a simple HTML web page.
- We will repeat many of the steps as a simple revision exercise.
Create a directory named peter-hopper-t3
- Open the Terminal from the top left of the menu bar on the Raspberry Pi.
- Enter the command ls to list all directory contents.
- Enter the command mkdir peter-hopper-t3 to create a new directory named peter-hopper-t3
- Check that the new directory peter-hopper-t3 has been created by listing entering the command ls


