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A. You need a place to "compose" your website just like you would need a word processing program to write a paper. You actually have several options - each with pluses and minuses.
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I apologize for the CAPITAL letters in the first few
questions/answers listed below - the info was copied and pasted from
email messages I sent students with my replies woven within their
original message - in order to make my comments easy to find (html was
not an option) I had to use caps. Hard to read, isn't it?
Remember that when you use all CAPS. 1. Question: Where do I find little symbols to put beside my titles within my table? YOU CAN ACTUALLY GO TO MY HOMEPAGE AND LOOK IN THE GREEN/BLUE TABLE (SCROLL DOWN) ... YOU WILL SEE LITTLE STARS, LADYBUGS, APPLES, ETC. THE ONES I SHOWED IN OUR SESSION ON TUESDAY CAME FROM HEE YUN'S WEBSITE (http://www.hulamall.com/hawclip/clip04.htm) ... JUST PUT A LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR WEBPAGE THAT LEADS BACK TO THE WEBPAGE WHERE YOU GOT THE GRAPHICS (DON'T LINK BACK TO MY PAGE AS I AM NOT THE ORIGINAL ARTIST FOR THOSE IMAGES). |
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2. Question: If I had wanted to put
"Welcome to Susie's Homepage" within a table with a white background
should I have made the table first? YES. MAKE THE TABLE - RIGHT CLICK IN IT AND CLICK TABLE PROPERTIES ... THEN MAKE IT THE SIZE, COLOR, JUSTIFICATION YOU WANT. THEN TYPE THE INFORMATION YOU WANT IN IT (OR INSERT A WELCOME GRAPHIC - WHATEVER YOU WANT). |
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3. Question:
Whenever I insert my
images I cannot move them and they end up making my text move. How do I
place them exactly where I want them? TABLES ARE YOUR BEST FRIEND. MAKE TABLES AND THEN RIGHT CLICK IN THEM AND CHANGE THE BORDER SIZE TO 0 SO THEY LINES WON'T SHOW UP WHEN YOU PUT THE WEBPAGE ON THE INTERNET - THEN THE IMAGES AND TEXT WON'T "MOVE AROUND" ON THE PAGE. |
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4. Question:
Can you make an image
or photo your background as a single picture or will it always be
multiplied?
DEPENDS ON HOW THE IMAGE IS CONFIGURED. WITHOUT ADOBE PHOTOSHOP OR SOME OTHER TYPE OF PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO MANIPULATE THE IMAGES. |
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5. Question: How do I get creative
fonts or text effects on my Welcome to part?
YOU CAN GO TO http://www.cooltext.com or http://www.flamingtext.com (that is my fav) and generate new banners OR you can go to view and then toolbars and then click on DRAWING ... WHEN THE DRAWING TOOLBAR APPEARS YOU CAN CLICK ON TEXT ART AND GENERATE THE IMAGE THAT WAY |
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index.htm, am I
supposed to insert a hyperlink on each title within my table like I did my
name or am I supposed to do something different?
YES, YOU HIGHLIGHT WHAT YOU WANT TO HYPERLINK AND THEN CLICK ON THE "WORLD WITH THE PAPERCLIP" AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN. INSTEAD OF TYPING IN " mailto:" YOU EITHER TYPE IN THE URL YOU WANT TO LINK TO OR IF YOU ARE LINKING TO A WEBPAGE THAT IS ALREADY ON THE INTERNET, YOU CAN GO TO THE WEBPAGE, CLICK IN THE ADDRESS LINE AND THEN COPY THE URL. GO BACK TO THE PAGE YOU ARE MAKING AND PASTE THE URL IN THE BOX THAT POPS UP WHEN YOU CLICK ON THE "WORLD WITH THE PAPERCLIP" AND CLICK OK. IF YOU ARE MAKING HYPERLINKS TO YOUR NEW PAGES THEY WILL ALL BE MADE THE SAME WAY WITH ONLY THE FILENAMES CHANGING AS DEMONSTRATED BELOW: http://www.wku.edu/~yourusername/webquest.html http://www.wku.edu/~yourusername/teacher.html http://www.wku.edu/~yourusername/student.html http://www.wku.edu/~yourusername/voc.html http://www.wku.edu/~yourusername/pre.html http://www.wku.edu/~yourusername/during.html http://www.wku.edu/~yourusername/post.html http://www.wku.edu/~yourusername/vita.htmlIf you make Word documents for some of your voc/pre/during/post strategies, you would link the pages like this: http://www.wku.edu/~yourusername/voc.doc http://www.wku.edu/~yourusername/pre.doc and so forth ... Same way for linking a PowerPoint presentation: http://www.wku.edu/~yourusername/voc.ppt http://www.wku.edu/~yourusername/pre.ppt |
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7. Q. How many web pages are required in all and what do
I name them?
A. You are required to develop a homepage, a webquest portal page, a teacher page, a student page, and any other pages you need to be able to provide vocabulary, pre-reading, during reading, and post reading instruction, but you are welcome to do MORE than that. An example might be adding a button for your Philosophy of Education. Your pages should be named as follows:
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| 8. Q.
How can I link a WORD document so that I do NOT lose my formatting (like I
do when I paste the text in FrontPage)?
1) Type your work in Microsoft Word. 2) Open the webpage where you want the link to your document to occur. 3) Make your link ... I am going to make a link right here to a Word document titled: waltonscrying.doc - my link will look like this:
http://www.pampetty.com/waltonscrying.doc
4) Now here is the trick ... you have to FTP the .doc file to the server. It works just like doing an FTP for any other file. Go to the Technology for Teachers page and download an ftp program ... then go to the WKU Publishing link on the Technology for Teachers page and follow the directions for uploading files using an ftp program. 5) Anyone wishing to VIEW the .doc files MUST have Word. In other words, if the above link to "Waltons Crying" did not open on your computer, you do not have Microsoft Word. 6) Your formatting will be EXACTLY as you had it in Word on your computer and will print out nicely for those who want a copy. Get it? Works the SAME way for PowerPoint only the extension is .ppt
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9. Q. How can I
find out about my WKU email account so that I can publish on WKU's server?
A. Go to this website and look for the information you need: http://www.wku.edu/Webmaster/ A. Go to: http://webmail.wku.edu and follow the link to TORI to find out your WKU email address and password. |
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10. Q. Where can
I find a Composer Tutorial if I am using Netscape?
A. Right here: http://www2.wku.edu/www/webpages/learnComposer.htmlx - for using Composer A. Right here: http://www2.wku.edu/www/webpages/ftp.htmlx - for FTP instructions (transferring your files to the WKU server - "publishing" in other words) A. Netscape Composer: An Introduction A. Also, MORE information on Composer/FrontPage Tutorials from the Technology for Teachers page: http://www.pampetty.com/techtraining.htm |
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11. Q. Where can
I see the web sites that other Block 1 students developed?
A.
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12. Q. Who can
help me if I get stuck?
A. Dr. Petty has offered to help students with whatever technical support she can provide - that does not mean she knows all the answers to all the questions ... it means you are welcome to ask and she will do her best to find out for you. |
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13. Q. Will I
make a lower grade on this assignment if I ask for help?
A. No. This assignment is about learning, not about punishing those who ARE learning. You need help ... ask for it. You are guaranteed success on this assignment. |
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14. Q. How do I
get my Vita, Unit, and Vignette (or other text files) onto a page in
Composer/FrontPage if I select to include those?
A. 1. Click "New Page" while in your file manager in
Composer/FrontPage.
2. You can set your background now or wait until later. 3. NOW, go open your Word (or other) document where you typed your vita; COPY that page (control "A" (selects all), then control "C" (copies). 4. GO BACK to your opened VITA page in Composer/FrontPage, put your cursor on the page and click one time. Then hold down the control key and the "V" key at the same time ... this will PASTE the text onto the screen. 5. You may need to redo some bolding, centering, etc. but that is it. When it looks like you want it to look, click save, and type in the file name (vita.html, vignette.html, etc). Waa-Laa. |
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 15. Q. What should I do if I have tried and tried and am losing my will to live? A. Email Dr, Petty and attach the html (Composer/FrontPage) file you are working on. Include a description of what you are trying to accomplish. She will go in and patch things up for you. No problem. While she is working on your files, do one of the following: a) take a long walk; b) take a long bath; c) read something totally unassociated with school; d) call your best friend; e) eat chocolate (personal favorite). |
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16. Q: How do I
make LINKS in Composer/FrontPage?
A. If you are trying to link the buttons on your index page to the other pages you have designed (vita, vignette, etc), do the following: 1. Highlight the button or text you want to link (example: highlight VITA). 2. Click on the LINK button at the top of the screen (the world with the paperclip icon). 3. When the pop up box opens, key in the URL you are trying to link to. It should look something like this: http://www.wku.edu/~whateveryourusernameis/whateveryourfilenameis.html Another example: If you username is smithab and you are linking your vita ... what you type in would look like this: http://www.wku.edu/~smithab/vita.html 4. Click OK at the bottom of the screen - the pop up box will disappear. 5. Now, make other links, continue to edit, or just click SAVE and your index page will be updated ... GO to your URL on the INTERNET ... click on the buttons you just linked and they should take you to your new pages. REMEMBER: You must "publish" this page on the Internet before it will appear there. MOST COMMON ERROR: Folks are linking the buttons correctly and then going back their index file page IN Composer/FrontPage expecting to be able to click on the button and go somewhere .... your page is in FILE form there, not LIVE on the Internet. Open another window in Explorer or Netscape ... type in your URL for your index page and THEN try clicking the buttons. RELOAD/REFRESH the page in your browser or you will NOT see your updates/changes. |
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17. Question:
How can I publish using Composer/FrontPage from home or other remote site?
Answer (compliments of Donna Thompson, Fort Knox):
I found out how to publish from home.
I am not sure that if you created your home page with Netscape
Composer/FrontPage 7.0 that you can publish with Version 4.79. I did
and it worked but I had a bare bones home page. I will create my new
one with Version 4.79.
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can I find a File Transfer Protocol (ftp) program for FREE?
Answer: Go here: http://www.csu.edu.au/webpublishing/install_body.htm Download the LE version - that version is free to educators.
NOTE AGAIN: I (Dr. Petty) use the WS_FTP program all the
time and don't have any trouble with the compatibility with WKU's server
- it is the only FTP program that I use. The trick is in getting the
"fields" filled in properly.
HostName/Address: www.wku.edu Username: yourusername Password: yourpassword
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| You might want to print this page and then
refer to it as you work through the "details" and bumps in the road on
your web pages.
Common Web Design Problems: 19. Problem: Links Don't Work FIX 1: Make sure you put http:// in the URL you type in. It should looklike this: http://www.wku.edu/~yourusername (or whatever you are trying to link)FIX 2: Check the URL to make sure it is correct ... when linking to public sites (like an Amazon page) it is best to go to the site and COPY the URL in the address line, then paste it in the LINK box in Composer (FrontPage, etc). FIX 3: You MUST put the extension on the end of the URL (the only exception is the index page). In other words, a URL would look like this: http://www.pampetty.com/techtraining.htm20. Problem: Image Pulling off the "A" or "C" Drive: FIX: open your html page in FrontPage Express .... right click on a graphic ... you will see a box pop up ... select image properties ... remove all the STUFF BEFORE the actual name of your graphic ... you will see lots of stuff like: file:///A:/bus.gif that sort of thing ... leave only the bus.gif (actual name of the graphic)... then save your changes ... then go back and upload your page again and ANY graphics on that page. To keep images from "pulling off the A or C drive": You MUST have all your files on the SAME drive BEFORE you design a page. In other words, you cannot save your index file on your hard drive and pull images from your "A" drive. You need to get ALL your files (html, gif, jpg) on the SAME drive! That is the answer ... if you do that you won't have that problem EVER again! 21. Problem: Don't KNow HOW to make a LINK FIX: Open your page in FrontPage Express and follow these directions: 1) highlight the words in the table (like "bibliography") 2) click LINK 3) type in the URL for the page (like: http://www.wku.edu/~yourusername/bib.html 4) do that for each page substituting the "bib" for the other files names. 5) click SAVE 6) upload your page to the WKU server. 22. Problem: Dr. Petty
"fixed" my page and I DO NOT want to copy the OLD file on my computer FIX: 1. BE SURE you go to your URL ( index file or whatever file you are working with) on the Internet 2. Click on FILE 3. Click on EDIT PAGE This will open your page in FrontPage Express (or whatever software composing program you are using) 4. Click SAVE AS 5. And Save the page OVER your OLD html page ... if you don't do this, the next time you edit your html page on your hard drive (or your A drive) you will LOSE all the changes I just made for you ... please don't do that! 23. Problem: Email does not work FIX: Make SURE you typed in mailto: before your email address. It should look like this: mailto:pam@pampetty.com24. Problem: You made changes and uploaded the file(s) but when you go on the Internet and look you see the SAME OLD page. FIX: Click RELOAD or REFRESH in your Browser so your computer will pull the NEW version off the Internet instead of using the one in your cache. HOpefully you won't have any of these buggers, but in case you do you should be able to repair the problem yourself with little or no anxiety. Don't put this off till the last minute, please. Dr. Petty Computer graphic found at: FortisGraphix |
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25. Question:
What is wrong if I edit a page and add a background or graphic, then I
move the files to WKU's
server and the background/images do not appear? A. The
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26. To find and use FrontPage Express once you have downloaded it to your computer: 1) Click START ... Click on FrontPage Express to open the program. 2) Once you open FrontPage Express click on FILE and then OPEN ... 3) Browse to find your html files and then open, edit and save them. 27. To use the WebQuest Templates: 1) Go to the templates in your browser ... 2) Click on EDIT ... Then on SELECT ALL ... Then on COPY ... 3) In FrontPage Express click on FILE and then NEW ... 4) put your mouse on the page and press the space bar or click your cursor on the page (that just gets the computer's attention that you want the next action to be ON that blank page) 5) Click on EDIT ... Then on PASTE ... 6) the template will be pasted into FrontPage Express where you can edit and save the changes. All pages AND graphics files are then uploaded to WKU's server via the FTP program. |
