Simple Web
Pages
Botany 606: Graduate Research
Skills
Get Your Resources Ready
- Make a folder to hold your web page project.
- Place any photos you intend to use on your web page
into this folder.
Get the Page Established
- Start FrontPage.
- Type a title line (choose carefully since this line
will not only appear on the page, but it will be the page title as well).
- Save the web page (even though you just started it)
with an appropriate name.
- "default.htm" is used by many server to be the page
used if no page is otherwise given for a folder.
- Use all lower case (especially if the page will be
moved to a unix-based system).
- No spaces or punctuation in the name (except "-" and
"_").
- Keep the name relatively short.
- Make the background (Format -> Background -> Colors:
Background) white.
Work on the Major Organization
of the Page
- Decide on a page layout.
- Use a table to hold multiple columns.
- Don't make too many columns and rows in the table.
Just a few is usually enough.
- Set the Table Properties (Right Click on the table)
to Cell Padding: 5, Cell Spacing: 0, Borders Size: 0. This causes the
table lines to disappear and the materials inside the table won't be too
close to each other.
- Select an entire column (click about the column when
you see a "down arrow") and choose whether you want it to have a fixed width
or for the column width (Right Click, Cell Properties -> Specify Width)
to self adjust.
- You can fill cells with a colored background for
emphasis (Right Click, Cell Properties -> Color: Background).
- Use Horizontal Lines to break a page into sections
(Insert -> Horizontal Line).
- Save your file frequently.
Enhance Your Page
- Insert pictures (Insert -> Picture -> From File...).
- Link pictures, if necessary, to larger versions (Select
picture, Insert -> Hyperlink... -> Address).
- Make text hyperlinks.
- At the bottom of the page, put a "global link" (such as
the Botany Dept. Home Page) and hyperlink the "global link."
- At the bottom of the page, put the function that
automatically inserts the date the web page was last updated (Insert -> Date
and Time).
Move the Web Page to the
Server
- Use SSH to connect with the server.
- Drag and Drop your file into your folder inside the
gradstud folder.
Last Updated:
09/03/2007