(Go to bottom of page for directions
on how to save, edit and turn
this page into your own personal
Faculty web page.)
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E-mail: pboisver@oakton.edu Oakton Home Page Oakton Mathematics Program Dept. of Math & Computer Science
Current Classes: Spring 2003 Term
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1. Save this Template as your personal Faculty Web-Page:
File , Save As , in
("your userid" on 'Servercc'/Home/ H:) in your
/ Public.www folder with
file name: index . (Once you've saved the
first time, all subsequent saves use the Save choice rather than
the initial Save As.)
Your web address for your page will now automatically
be: http://servercc.oakton.edu/~youruserid/index
(but you don't need to put /index on the
end of the address: it's automatically assumed to be the default
page the address goes to first.)
[Note that there's no "www" in the address!
And note the "~" (tilda)! ]
Eventually, when you've changed this page
into your own, and are ready to have the public see it, have your students
and colleagues bookmark that web address, http://servercc.oakton.edu/~youruserid
, and perhaps have your department page link to it (if they do
that sort of thing, like Math does.)
Click on Communicator in the toolbar at top of the page, then Composer . You'll see a blank white page, like a blank Word document. To re-open the saved Web Template, click on File Open Page Choose File and go to your public folder ("your userid" on 'Servercc'/Home/ H:) / Public.www and open index . You should see the same page you just saved re-open, but looking a little different--there will be boxes visible around tables, for example. This is your "practice page" which you can now edit and transform into your own personal page. Read all the rest of steps 2 and 3 below before doing anything, however.
2. A. Now (or, soon) you can modify and customize this template page any way you want, putting in your information instead of mine. (But, read all of steps 2 and 3 before doing any modifications!) Edit it just like a Word Document. The boxes with rows and columns in them are tables, and are modified via the Edit and Insert toolbar menus using the various "Table" options--there is more info about tables below in part 6. Eventually, delete all the inapplicable stuff (including these instructions).
2. B. At the top toolbar, you can click on Format then Page Colors and Properties to give your page an informal title (different from its formal file name of "index" and its formal web address), and to give it pretty colors and background images.
2. C. The Help menu at the top is actually quite well-done. Click on Help, then Contents, then Index, then browse to your topic--most instructions and advice are fairly clear and easy to understand.
IMPORTANT: The page you have just
re-opened, which you are now ready to edit, is a Practice Page. The
public can't see the changes you make on this page until you save it again--but
you also can't see exactly what it will look like to the public yet, and
your links to other files and web pages won't work on this Practice Page.
To see what it will look like (and how your links will perform) to the
public, you must open up the "live" Preview Page by clicking on the the
Preview button on the top toolbar.
From now on, every time you edit or modify the practice
page, Save it after you have modified it, but then hit the
Preview
button on the toolbar at the top to see what the "live" version of the
page will look like in the browser--this shows how it will look to public
viewers of your page. This will be a new window, (which is NON-EDITABLE!)
that will open up right on your screen, hiding the separate, editable
"practice" version of the page underneath it. The live preview
version may look a bit different from the practice version you were editing
-- so you may want to re-edit, Save again, Preview again, modify some more,
etc. (Also, various different Internet browsers and monitors will
make your page look somewhat different to different viewers--you might
at some point want to look at it yourself from various browsers and other
computers to see these variations.)
IMPORTANT: Every time you Preview it,
you must close the Preview page to again be able to see and edit
the Practice page--if you try to edit a page and nothing happens, you're
in the Preview version and should close it! It's easy to tell
which page you're currently seeing: if the toolbar at top has
the Preview button visible on it, you're in the Practice Page, and can
edit. If the toolbar has no Preview button, you're already in the
Preview Page (and should close it when you want to do more editing of the
Practice Page.)
You should save edited Practice Pages very frequently
(as with all computer work!), and Preview them periodically--certainly
when you're completely done editing the page for the time being.
For example, links that you make in step 4. below must be checked in the
Preview version to make sure they are working correctly. Links
don't work in the editable Practice version even after you create them--you
must Preview the page to see if the links go to the places you want them
to!
3. A. Try It: Do a little editing: Change
my name to yours in the top line, Save it, Preview it (or just Preview
it without saving and the computer will prompt you to Save it, which you
should always do), then close the Preview Page and you will be back in
the Practice Page ready to do a lot more editing!
Now you can
edit to your heart's content, and also go ahead and read the rest of the
instructions when you want to make Links or do Images.
For an e-mail address link, type in mailto: followed (with no spaces) by the e-mail address. Don't forget the colon on the end of mailto:
To unlink something, highlight it, choose Insert Link , and hit your Backspace key, then Enter.
5. A. Stealing Images from other Web Sites: You can right-click on any image (or wallpaper background) you find while surfing the Web, select Save Image As , and save it into your H:/Public.www folder (with either its original file name or one you give it). You have just "stolen" a picture from the web!--and can now insert it as in step 5. above and use it on your web page! Just be aware that copyright violations are your problem!
6. A. All editing of tables is done by right-clicking anywhere inside the table and using Table Properties, Insert, and Delete. You can use Table Properties to give tables different background colors and images of their own, similarly to step 3, from this menu. Insert and Delete columns and rows, images, etc. You can even insert another table into a table (see the Office Hours and Current Classes at the top of this page, which are in little tables inside the bigger table.) Use the Help menu for more possibilties.
