(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: When doing the next step, make sure you use in the "Save as Type" box, a file type choice that is a "web" option, like "Web page, complete", or whatever similar option your browser uses. If you can't reopen this saved page in the steps below, try saving again as other web-option types.
File , Save As , in
(Web for "your userid" [P:] ) in your
Oakton network space--this is called the "P-Drive." [or save this at home if you have a web-authoring program at home.]
Important: Give it the file name: index . (Once you've saved it 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://www.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.)
And note the "~" (tilda)!
When you type that address in, however, it will redirect the viewer to a different address, labeled http://www.oakton.edu/user/#/youruserid/index
, where the "#" varies by faculty member. Once you see what
your particular number is, however, you could use that address to get
to your page, as well as the one with 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 either of the web addresses, and perhaps have your department page link to it (if they do
that sort of thing, like Math does.)
On your computer on-campus, Start at the bottom left of the screen, then All Programs, then NAL Explorer, then Internet Software, then Web Design, then NVU. You'll see a blank white page, like a blank Word document. To re-open the saved Web Template, click on File , Open File , and go to your public folder (Web for "your userid" [P:] ) 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 various "Table" options--there is more info about tables below in part 6. Eventually, delete all the inapplicable stuff (including these instructions). You could of course delete these instructions now, and simply read them on the Internet from on the original page that you copied, in a Browser window open next to the NVU window in which you are editing.
2. B. At the top toolbar, you can click on Format then Page Title and Properties to give your page an informal title (different from its formal file name of "index" and its formal web address), and also click on Format then Page Colors and Background to give it pretty colors and background images.
2. C. The Help menu at the top is fairly well-done. Click on Help, then Contents, and you see a LOT of help possibilities, including Index, which lets you 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--it shows you helpful things like table outlilnes, etc., that the public may not be able to see once the page is available live. 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. To see what it will look like (though the links still won't work) to the public, you must switch to the Preview Page by clicking on the the Preview button on the bottom toolbar at the bottom of the page. When done looking at it in Preview mode, click on Normal mode to go back to the more useful "practice page" mode, where you can see more things.
You will also want to view the page "live", on the Internet, especially to see if your Links are working properly. Do this (after saving the index page with your latest changes) by opening (and leaving open, in a separate window) a Web browser (like Firefox or Internet Explorer) and typing in the address of your index page. Be sure to hit the "refresh" button when the page comes up to make sure you look at the latest changes you saved.
From now on, every time you edit or modify the practice page, Save it after you have modified it, but then go back to your open browser and hit the refresh button to see how it now looks and works live on the Internet. Remember, 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.
Concern: As you do edit your page, saving changes lets people who know where your page is found see those changes, no matter how unfinalized or perhaps temporary they are. Not a problem while you make the initial page, but in the future, you may not want to risk that--if so, you should, before editing, first save a 2nd version of the index page, called "index2", edit that, view it live, then, when you are SURE all changes are finalized, re-save that as "index", replacing the old "index" page.
Regardless of what you are working on (index, or index2), you should of course save Practice Pages very frequently (as with all computer work!), and Preview or view them live 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 Live version to make sure they are working correctly. Links don't work in the editable Practice version even after you create them--you need to "save" and view live in a browser to see if they work.
3. A. Try It: Do a little editing:
Way back up at the top of this page, change
my name to yours in the top line, Save it, then view it in a Browser.
Remember "refresh"!! Then come back to this Practice
Page ready to do a lot more editing!
Now you can
edit to your heart's content--change all my info to your info.
Delete anything (eventually, but wait until you see what you
might want to keep below) you don't want, 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:
Example: mailto:pboisver@oakton.edu
To unlink something, highlight it, choose Insert Link , and delete the address in the Link Location box, then click OK..
5. B. Stealing Images from other Web Sites: You can right-click on any image (or wallpaper background) you find while surfing the Web (in your own Browser), select Save Image As , or something similar, and save it into your Web P-drive 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.A. 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 the "table ___" menu choices at the bottom of the pop-up menu. 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.) But I would avoid tables inside tables until you are a little more familiar with things--they can be a bit tricky to "adjust" later. Use the Help menu for more possibilties.
