Here are the things we will cover today:

1. Help! How can I get help while I am using Claris Home Page?

2. Review on how to include images, links, and text and how to upload

3. Trouble shooting for images and links.

4. Author Identification: is your name on every page? Are your credentials indicated? Is it clear what the purpose of your page is? Can people mail you for questions?

5. Accuracy: how can I make sure the source of the information clearly stated (whether original or borrowed from elsewhere)?

6. Style and Organization: Indices and Navigation Buttons.

1. How can I get help while I am using Claris Home Page?

Did you know that Claris Home Page has a Help option? If you do not have Claris Home Page open, open it now and go to the last option at the top right end of the screen. You can teach or remind yourself how to do many things using this option. In general you will find it helpful to select "show balloons" under the help options menu. You can always ask me (Laura) or a T-watcher for help, too!

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2. Review: how to include images, links, and text and how to upload.

Open this page in Claris Home Page. (I should have sent it to you via email.)

A. To include an image, find the image you want in Netscape (or elsewhere), hold down your mouse on the image. An option menu should appear. Choose "save this image." Save the image into your file on the student back up server. To paste the image onto your page, select the "Insert Image" icon in Claris Home Page (the button with a red circle, green triangle, and blue square). Open the image you want to use from your folder on the Student Backup Server. It should now appear on your page!

Test: include a new image on one of your homepage

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B. To include a link, find the page you want to link to in Netscape. Copy the "Location" at the top of the page (it should begin http://). Return to Claris Home Page. Highlight the text you would like to make into a link. Click on the "Link Editor" button at the top of Claris Home Page (the button with a blue arrow that squiggles to the right). Paste the Location of the page into the link editor window where it says "URL." Close the window. Your link is made!

Test: put in a new link on your homepage

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C. To insert text you can type directly into Claris Home Page, or if you are like me and can't spell, you can write your document in word, run a spell check on it and paste into your WebPage. To paste text, highlight the text you want in your word document, go to the Edit menu choose "Copy." Return to Claris Home Page. Place your cursor where you want the text to appear. Go to the Edit menu choose "Paste." Presto!

Test: insert new text on your homepage

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D. Uploading. See instructions from last session at

http://academic.reed.edu/english/Courses/English303/webseminar.html

Test: upload the changes you have made.

 

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3. Trouble Shooting.

A. Trouble shooting for Images. What if you have done all of the above and an image doesn't work? What can you do? First, Open your page in Netscape. At the very top left corner of your screen there should be a menu called "View." Under "View" select "Page Info." This is a quick way to check if your images have the correct location. If they say something odd like "%20desktop/folder%20" or something else that doesn't make sense, it is probably looking for your image in the wrong place. To fix it, try copying the address of your page under "Location" and paste it before the name of your image in Claris Home Page. To change the address of an image in Claris Home Page, click on the image, and press "Edit HTML Source" button (third from the left at the top the page&emdash;it looks like this: </> ). Don't be frightened! You are looking at the code for your page and the address for your image should be highlighted. Paste in the correct and complete address for your page before the image's name (minus index.htm or whatever you page was called). To return your page to normal and keep working press the "Edit Page" button in the top left corner (a pencil). Your page should look normal. Save it and test it in Netscape ("Preview in Browser" then "Preview in Netscape").

Test: Try this now with this broken image:

What is the address given? What do you think it should be? Fix it in your version of this page.

B. Troubleshooting for links. Open your page in Netscape. Roll your mouse over the link but don't click on it. At the bottom of the Netscape screen it should show an address. Is this the address you want? If not return to Claris Home Page and fix the link. Sometime the address is wrong because you typed it in rather than copying and pasting it.

Test: Fix the two links below on your version of this page:

http://academic.reed.edu/english/Courses/English303/webseminar.html

 

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4. Author Identification: is your name on every page? Are your credentials indicated? Is it clear what the purpose of your page is? Can people mail you for questions?

A. The best way to indicate your credentials is to list them on your homepage. Who are you? What is your major? What is your year in school? Where do you attend school? What classes have you taken that give you extra experience in this subject matter?

B. To add an email button type "Questions? Email me at your.name@reed.edu

C. Highlight "Email me at your.name@reed.edu" and press the "Link Editor" button (the blue squiggly line)

D. After URL type mailto:your.name@Reed.edu

E. Close the link editor box

Test: add your credentials to your homepage and include a email button

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5. Accuracy: how can I make sure the source of the information clearly stated (whether original or borrowed from elsewhere)?

A. For each of your images indicate where you got the image and put in a link to that page. If the image is one you made by scanning a print document, let me know and either you can 1) contact the publisher for permission to use the image or 2) we can put in a code so the image can't be seen off campus

B. As with any print piece of writing, you need to indicate with quotes or indentation when you are borrowing information from a printed or electronic source. You must also include either a parenthetical citation or bibliography, or a footnote/endnote.

Test: add the above information to your homepage

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6. Style and Organization: Indices and Navigation Buttons.

A. Each page should include links back to your home page, the class page, and the page immediately preceding e.g. you might include at the bottom (or top) of the page

Location: [Name of Page] [Page it was Linked From] [Your Homepage] [Class Page] [Reed College]

(items in pink indicate a link to another page)

e.g. on my homepage I have

 

Location: [Laura Arnold][Department of English] [American Studies] [Reed College]

or see the way that I indicated the location of this page at the bottom on the page

Test: try this on one of your pages!

 

B. If you page includes more than one screen's worth of information, you should include section headings to the parts of your page and an index at the beginning of the page that links to these sections (see the top of this page for an example or see Laura's Homepage)

To make links to the sections follow these easy steps.

(1) Highlight the section header and click on the "Anchor" button in Claris Homepage.

(2) Label the Anchor one short descriptive word that reflects the content of the section.

(3) Copy the name of the section header and add it to your index.

(4) Highlight the name of the section in the index and click on the "Link Editor" (the squiggly blue arrow).

(5) The Address should be the name you gave to the anchor preceded by a #. (See the index at the top of this page for an example.)

(6) Repeat for each of the section headers and the rest of the index.

Test: try this on one of your pages!

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