Dr. B's Tutorial

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Dr. B's

Today we are going to build a home in cyberspace following these directions:

Section One: - Setting Up Your Document

Section Two: - Creating a Table for Your Heading

Section Three: - The Body

Section Four: - Learning to link.

Section One: - Setting Up Your Document

1. Edit -> Document Options -> General -> Document Title (Give your document a title such as "Carolyn's Home Page") -> OK.

2. Edit ->Document Options -> Colors & Background -> Background (select a color for your background) -> OK

3. Edit ->Document Options -> Colors & Background -> Background Image -> Set -> Clip Art -> SuprSmpl -> file of types (click on the down arrow and select "JPEG" ) Then select any file just to test) -> OK.

4. To see how your background will look on the Web, click on the "preview in browser" button on the tool bar.

5. Click on the "save" button on the toolbar, and save your document file on the desktop. (Save file as "yourname.html")

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Section Two: - Creating a Table for Your Heading

1. Place you cursor at the top of the page and click on the "align center"

button on the tool bar.

2. Click on the "table" button on the tool bar. In the dialog box that appears, type in rows = "1"; Columns = "2"; width = "70"

3. Click on the left cell of the table; then click on the "insert image" button. Click on "Samples" -> images -> boxart. (This image will be replaced later with one of your choosing.)

4. In the right cell of the table, type your welcome message. Then highlight the text , and click on the large "a⁺" on the tool bar to increase the font to the size you want. (The small "a^-" decreases the font size; "B" makes it Bold and "I" turns it to italics.) Set it to your liking.

5. Click on the "save" icon to save your work.

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Section Three: - The Body - Write a brief paragraph or two answering the following questions:

1. What is your name?

2. Where do you work?

3. What is your specialty or field of expertise?

4. What is your purpose for creating this webpage? What is your webpage intended to provide or accomplish?

5. What are your special interests, hobbies, past-times?

6. Click on the "save" icon to save your work. back to contents

Section Four: - Learning to link.

Before we can complete this section, you will need to find some interesting sites on the Internet that relate to your responses to each of questions #'s 2 - 5 above. Once you have selected your interesting sites, be sure to record the name and URL (Internet address) of each site.

First study the example below. Then follow the directions.

Example:

I am Carolyn O. Burleson, coordinator of a technology project lab at Lincoln High School. I am especially interested in discovering how the technology of the Internet will impact upon the the teaching/learning process as well as upon the way we will relate to one another in the Twenty-first Century. I also teach classes for ITD on the Internet and its use for education. I have come to this class to teach you how to create web pages. This skill will enable you to make use of the Internet for expanding your lessons and your students' learning base. If I can be of assistance to you, feel free to drop me a line by e-mail.

For relaxation I enjoy listening to classical music, reading, writing and spending time with family and friends. I also like making new friends and engaging in philosophical discussions.

To create your links:

1. Highlight the word(s) that you want to link to a site on the Internet.

2. Click on the "Link Editor" icon on the toolbar. In the window that appears, type in the URL of the site you want to link. The word(s) will appear in your text as blue, underlined letters (see above). This lets you and the viewer know that more information can be accessed by clicking on the hypertext.

3. Click on the "save" icon to save your work. back to contents

This page is: http://lausd.k12.ca.us/~cburleso/Icourse/CHPtutor.htm Additional help from Claris HomePage FAQ's http://www.claris.com/support/techinfo/techinfofaq/Claris-Home-Page.html