Creating Your Web Page:

An Introduction to the Basics

We've created a Page 'O Links so you can find images, animated GIFs, and backgrounds for your web page.

Students of the University of Scranton must make adjustments to their Tiger account before proceeding.

The steps you must take from here sound a little more technical than the previous but there is nothing to worry about. As I mentioned earlier, this manual will take you through step-by-step. To view your webpage you must start running Netscape. This is easily accomplished by double-clicking, with the left button of the mouse, on the icon(picture) for Netscape Communicator. Once this is done, you must take the mouse and position the arrow so that it is over the word File on the top menu bar. When the drop-down menu appears, glide your mouse down to New and then slide it over to Blank. You now have an empty pallette waiting for your artistry.

 To save the page you are working on,  move the arrow over the "save" button and left-click once. Now you will see a window appear. This window is to let you choose where in the computer you want to save your webpage. First, locate the box at the top of the window and left-click the down arrow that is inside the box, on the right side. After doing this you will see a list of various items drop down, extending from the top box. Locate the item that has a capitol letter c with a colon in parenthesis next to its icon. [i.e. (C: )] You must move the arrow over this item and again single left-click. At this point you should see a list of folders appear in the larger window below. Locate the folder entitled "Preweb" and now you must double left-click on that folder. If there is no folder named"Preweb"you can use the folder "My Documents". You should now see either the word Preweb or the words My Documents (depending on which you chose) in the top box of the window, where (C: ) formerly was. If you do not, you must repeat the process starting with clicking the down arrow in the right side of the top box. (Sometimes either clicking too slow or clicking too fast on the Preweb folder will cause a problem. Adjust your click-speed accordingly.)

Now that you have the Preweb folder in the top box of the window, you will now see a list of the "Files" in that folder. To rename your webpage you must now position the arrow in the lower box of the window. Left-click in the box that has the words "File Name" on the left side. You can now proceed to click the save button on the bottom of the save window.

At the top of the screen you will see numerous square blocks. These blocks represent different tools that are there to help you. Starting with the blocks in the upper left corner of the screen, we will go through them horizontally, and then move to the next line.

This is just a brief overview of what some of these tools will do. For the majority of these, you must first highlight the text or object. This can be done by holding down the left button of the mouse and sweeping over the desired text/object. While doing this look at the bottom of the screen for a more detailed explaination. To see how your page will look when it is put on to the World Wide Web, click the Preview Box that was mentioned in the list above. After you have made all of your modifications, you now must publish your page. To do this you must click on the Publish Box that was also mentioned above. There are several empty spaces in this window that you must fill in. First of which is the Page Title and HTML File Name.  The Page Title can be anything you choose, but the HTML File Namemust be Default.html if this is your primary page.  Next, you will see one long white space where you must type:
ftp://tiger.uofs.edu/   Don't forget the last slash ( / )
In the two smaller boxes below that, as instructed, enter your user name and your password. Do Not place a check in the box that saysSave Passwordor else others will be able to edit your page.
After that there are two circles at the bottom of the window. This is important especially if you have placed images in your webpage. Also pertaining to images, make sure that you select all the ones that you want on your page by highlighting them with a click of the mouse. Usually, this is done for you. The images that you don't want, don't highlight.

When this is complete, click the OK button. When you have completed this step you will be informed that your files were uploaded and you should press the OKbutton. You can now minimize or close the Netscape Composer.

You can view your page by opening Netscape and entering your address. Most address at the University of Scranton have the format:

http://academic.uofs.edu/student/username/

Again, if you are faculty or staff, replace student with the appropiate term.
 
 

Congratulations on your first webpage!!!


Suggestions
For suggestions or corrections on this page please e-mailKen Herbert.