Update or Make
changes to Your Web page
You can keep your Web page current by making changes to it using an
ASCII (HTML code) editor or Visual editor (or you may decide
to start over and re-enter your information into a blank form). We
have provided instructions to edit templates using Netscape Composer,
a visual editor component of Netscape. Most web borowsers include a
web editing component. Three web Browsers are available from our PAC-ITS
CD of from the PAC-ITS Web site:
Netscape, Internet Explorer, and Mozzilla.
I. Open Your Web
Page in Netscape Composer
1.
Launch Netscape Communicator.
2.
Click on the Communicator menu on the top menu bar.
3.
Select Composer in the drop down menu.
Note:
Composer may open a blank page automatically when launched.
4.
Click on the Composer File menu:
Windows
- Select Open Page. Click on the Choose File button.
Locate and double click on your Web page file.
Macintosh
- Select Open > Page in Composer. In the Open
File dialog box locate and double click on your Web page file.
II. Edit your
Web page with Composer
The Web page file you opened will not appear in Composer exactly
as it does on the Web. Hyperlinks (indicated by blue underline text)
will not function.
Editing Text
For the most part, you can work with text in Composer as you would
in a word processing document. To change text on the page, select
and type over it.
Page title
The page title is the text that appears in the top bar of your Web browser.
To change the page title on your Web page:
- Choose
Format > Page Title (Macintosh)
or Page Properties (Windows) from the drop down menu.
- In
the Title text box replace the default text with the title
you want to appear on your Web page.
Note:
On
this Web page, the page title is "Penn State Personal
Web Page Templates: Making Changes"
Hyperlinks
As you probably know, a hyperlink is text, often indicated by a color
or underline, that responds to a mouse click to take you from one
page or location on a page to another.
When you view your Web page in a Web editor such as Composer, remember
that each hyperlink has two parts: a. The text that is visible on
the Web page; b. a Web address, not visable on the Web page, which
tells the viewer's Web browser where to go next.
- To
change the text of the hyperlink that appears on the Web page, select
it and type over it with your changes.
- To
change the location where the link will take the viewer when s/he
clicks on it, select
the hyperlink text and choose:
Windows-
Insert > Link
Macintosh-
Format > Link Info
- In
the URL text box in the Insert (Windows) or Format
(Macintosh) dialog box, insert the URL (Web address) of the to which
site you want to link.
E-mail links
When
a user clicks on an e-mail link, their browser is prompted
to open a
new pre-addressed e-mail message.
- To
modify an e-mail link, select
the text and replace it with your own.
- Select
the new text and choose:
Windows
-Insert
> Link
Macintosh-
Format > Link Info
- In
the URL text box in the Insert (Windows) or Format
(Macintosh) dialog box replace any default text that follows "mailto:"
followed by the desired e-mail address (for example,
"mailto:xyz123@psu.edu")
Note:
The text "mailto:" in the URL text box prompts the browser to
open a mail application. Without that text, the link will not
function.
Graphics
- To
replace a graphic, click on the image to select it.
Note:
If you don't want an image on your page, remove the graphic simply
by selecting and deleting it .
- From
the Composer main menu choose Format > Image Properties
(Windows) or Image Info (Macintosh) in the drop down menu.
- In
the Image Properties (Windows) or Format (Macintosh)
dialog box, type the name of the graphic you want to appear in your
page, or use the Choose File button to select the file on
your machine.
- Use
the Format dialog box to control other elements related to
the graphic, such as size, border, etc.
Note:
If you select a file from your machine using the Choose File button
instead of typing the file name, delete the path text that precedes
the file name.
Note:
Your images must be saved either as JPEG or GIF files to display
on the Web. For more information on using graphics in Web pages,
visit http://www.personal.psu.edu/faq/cacweb.html#sec3
When you upload your Web page using an FTP client, remember that
you must also transfer any graphics you have inserted in (linked
to) your page to the same Web directory. If you don't transfer the
image file to the same directory where your page is stored, a broken
link icon will display on your Web page.
III. Preview your
page in Navigator
To view your Composer file approximately as it will look on the Web:
- Save
the changes to your Web page.
-
In the Composer File menu choose Browse Page, or click on
the Browse Page button (the
ship's wheel icon) in the formatting toolbar.
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