1. This is space where your webpage will be stored and where you will go to work on it from computer that has Microsoft FrontPage or SharePoint Designer installed. Instructions below will help you access your server space. 2. This software may no longer be on the University computer labs but some may have it on home computers. If you are developing your page using FrontPage on another computer, it will still work with SharePoint Designer, however. 3. elow is a very basic tutorial. It applies to both SharePoint Designer as well as FrontPage with a few differences. What you need to do is to play with it until it does what you want it to do. Please understand that everyone comes to this assignment with different degrees of experience with webpage development. So this may be learning something new!! Basically, the webpage becomes a place where you can post your Integrative Paper; your Power Point presentation; your Reflective Journals; your Volunteer Service Plan; and your journals. If you give anyone your web address they can see your work, however, I will be the one viewing it for the most part. You can personalize it further if you wish by adding personal things like favorite movies, foods, recreation, philosophy of life, etc. Pictures may be added if you wish. Remember that people who access your web page may not have the most up to date computers so if you include a large number of graphics or exploding words or banners, it may take a long time for them to load it and they will get discouraged. In order to access your pre-assigned space on the server do the following on your computer: 1. on your computer and under File choose . a. The Open Web dialogue box will appear and you will need to type your Your address (the name of your server space) will have the following format: . After a moment of searching a username/password box appears. b. SharePoint Designer will open your webpage that has your web address (as above) You are now accessing your web through SharePoint Designer. Be certain that you always follow these procedures. You will be working and saving your work on the CSTL server. A blank page will appear and you may now add text and other information to the blank page. There may or may not be a message that says, welcome to my web site. This can be placed there by CSTL when they arrange for your server space. This first page will become your splash page or home page which means it is the first page someone will see logging on to your web address. You will now be creating the page that appears when someone accesses your webpage from the Internetas mentioned above or when you go back to work on your page. You type on your page just like you type on a word processing document. You can do everything that you can do in word processingand much more. So while there are many sophisticated things you can do in , please keep it rather simple. Do, however, explore the background colors for the page and font colors as well as importing images, enlarging text, etc. There is a tool bar at the top that you can use much like when using Word. On the far right are the icons for changing colors of the font or highlighting. To change background color click on Format and choose Background. Create what you want the person viewing your web splash page to see. When you are finished with this session (you need not complete the splash/home page in one session. You can come back to it later for additions) you must save your work. Go to file and select save as. If you name it Marys Page I will know you did not read the instructions. You need not rename the page each time you access it. You will just need to save after every session. Windows will look for a page named index.htm and if it is not there your web will not open on the Internet nor will you be able to find that page easily when you go back to work on it. Be sure you have an index.htm page. You will add your Integrative Paper, Journals, Volunteer Service Plan, (all of which you have probably saved in Word) as well as your PP presentation, by importing them into your web. Create your power point presentation (or a Word document) on your computer and save it to Desktop. I like Desktop for things that you are going to transfer because you dont have to sort through so may files. Check to see if the file is on the Desktop. Next open your webusing , of course. Dont click on index.htm. You need your address/URL showing at the top of the left hand column. Now make your web smaller by clicking on the two little files icon between the minus and the X in the upper right hand corner of your screen. Now find your file on the Desktop and drag the file over your FrontPage web address. The web address should highlight. Release the mouse button and the file should copy to your Web. You should see the PPoint icon among your list of files in your web folder. Let me know if that does not work. Create any file/document (Word document, PP, etc.) on your computer and save it to Desktop or My Documents folder or a removable disk. I like Desktop for things that you are going to transfer because you dont have to sort through so may files. Now find the document on the desktop or disk, right click and select Copy. Next open your webusing , of course. Dont click on index.htm. You need your address URL (also called root web) showing in the left hand column. Next click on your web address to highlight it. When it is highlighted paste the document you copied into the web folder by simply right clicking (on the web address) and choosing paste. That should do it and the document name should be visible in your web. You can now, Which ever method you choose, remember you are simply adding a variety of files/documents for a variety of uses and storing them in your web. Your web is a where you place these documents/pages/files, You should see your files in the left window of your splash page under your URL. You can add just about anything you want to store in your web folder. You make it possible for people to view these documents by putting a title or text that identifies a document (like Integrative Paper) on your splash/home page and then hyperlinking the actual document to the text on your splash page. You will need to save the work you do on your page regularly. On the save (if did not name your initial file automatically with the name of index.htm) click and give this page the name index.htm. Remember, this is the default page that requires to show your splash/home page. Clicking on Save thereafter will automatically save the changes you have made. . Hyperlinks are coolthey make connections. You see them in your Assignments page all the time. You will want to add text or titles on your splash page like My Paper or Power Point Presentation, etc., and then connect those words or titles to the actual file/document your have stored in your web. The way to do this is by the use of a hyperlink. To do this highlight the words on your home/splash page, right click and choose hyperlink. A list of files that are in your web will appear and you can simply left click to select that file or document and the name will appear in the hyperlink line at the bottom of the window. You will notice that the highlighted text will turn blue and be underlined. There, it is done. Dont forget to save. Most of the pages you have been reading as you have accessed our class web have been created in FrontPage/ . is used for creating a website or web pages. The official title is Web Authoring Software. Cool, huh? When you get ready to create your PP presentation, visit this about how to create a Power Point presentation. Other instructions are found there as well. I can access your web page so I can check your progress any time or specifically when you want me to and address questions. Good luck. Let me know what I can do to help. Dr. S
