Transforming your Country Report into a Web Page!

1. Transforming your Country Report into a Web Page! by Mme. Marsolais

2. Contents Know your computer Make a Folder Copy from Word to Composer Format the Font Change the Alignment Format the Background Format the Colors Insert a Picture Targets and Links

3. Introduction: Know your computer screen: menu bar tool bar task bar Return to Contents

4. Step 1:Make a folder on the C drive. Open “My Documents.” • Right click in the folder. • Click “New.” • Click“Folder.”

5. Name the folder: Use the name of your country without any capitals, followed by your period of French without any spaces. Example: senegal6

6. SAVE EVERYTHING HERE! Save your country report Word document here. Save your Web Page here. Save your pictures here. Save your background here. If you don’t, your links will NOT work! Return to Contents

7. Step 2: Open your Country Report Word document:

8. Step 3:Highlight the entire document (Ctrl + a).

9. Step 4: Move the cursor over the highlighted area and right click. Step 5: click “copy.”

10. Step 6:Open Netscape Communicator Step 7:Click “Communicator” on the menu bar. Step 8:Click “Composer.”

11. Step 9: Right click and then click “paste.”

12. You are now ready to design your web page! Return to Contents

13. Format the font: • Highlight the entire document (Ctrl+a) • Click the arrow on the right of the font box. • Select the font you like.

14. Format the font: • Highlight the entire document (Ctrl+a) • Click the arrow on the right of the font size box. • Select the size you like. Return to Contents

15. Change the Alignment: • Highlight the entire document (Ctrl+a) • Click the button on the tool bar with several lines aligned to the left. • Click the button with the lines set up the way you want your page. Return to Contents

16. Format the background: • Go to freebackgrounds.com • Click the right arrow and select one of the backgrounds.

17. Format the background: • Right click over the background. • Click “save background as. . .”

18. Format the background: • Click the arrow in the file window and select “My Documents.” • Double click your folder (or single click and click “open”).

19. Format the background: • Click “Save.”

20. Format the background: • Click the composer button on the task bar at the bottom of the screen.

21. Format the background: • Click “Format” on the menu bar. • Click “Page Colors and Properties.”

22. Format the background: • Click the “Colors and Background” tab. • Click the “Use Image” box. • Click the “Choose File. . .” button.

23. Format the background: • Click the arrow in the file window and select “My Documents.” • Double click your folder (or single click and click “open”).

24. Format the background: • Double click your background, or single click and then click the “Open” button.

25. Format the background: Click the “OK” button. Return to Contents

26. Format the colors: If you have a dark background with a dark font, your text may seem to disappear.

27. Format the colors: Go back to “Page Colors and Properties:” • Click “Format” on the menu bar. • Click “Page Colors and Properties.”

28. Format the colors: • Click the “Colors and Background” tab. • Click the colored button to the left of “Normal Text.”

29. Format the colors: • Choose your new font color. • Or click the “Other” button.

30. Format the colors: • Click and drag the color and darkness selectors until you find a color you like. • When the “Color|Solid” button is the color you like, click “OK.”

31. Format the colors: • Do the same with the links. Click “OK.” Return to Contents

32. Insert a picture: You must have a copy of the picture saved in your file. • Go to the Internet site with the picture you wish to use.

33. Insert a picture: • Put your arrow on the picture and right click. Then click “save picture as. . .”

34. Insert a picture: • Click the arrow in the file window and select “My Documents.” • Double click your folder (or single click and click “open”).

35. Insert a picture: • Click “Save.”

36. Insert a picture: • Click the composer button on the task bar at the bottom of the screen.

37. Insert a picture: • Click your cursor into the position on your web page where you would like to position your picture. • Click “Insert” on the menu bar. • Click “Image . . .”

38. Insert a picture: • Click the “Choose File” button.

39. Insert a picture: • Click the arrow in the file window and select “My Documents.” • Double click your folder (or single click and click “open”).

40. Insert a picture: • Double click your picture, or single click and then click the “Open” button.

41. Insert a picture: • Click the “OK” button.

42. Insert a picture: You must site your source for each picture! • Go back to the site from which you took the picture. • Right click over the URL and click “Copy.”

43. Insert a picture: • Click the composer button on the task bar at the bottom of the screen.

44. Insert a picture: You must site your source for each picture! • Click your cursor under the picture. • Right click, and click “paste.” The URL appears below the picture. Return to Contents

45. Targets and Links Links allow the viewer to jump around from one spot to another on your page, or to go to another site.

46. Targets and Links • Click your cursor onto the top of your web page. Click the “Target” button on the tool bar.

47. Targets and Links • Type the word “top” in the space provided. • Click “OK.”

48. Targets and Links • A target appears on the top of your page. (The viewer will not see it.) • Move your cursor to the bottom of the page and type “to the top.”

49. Targets and Links • Select the text, “to the top.” (Click and drag your mouse across it.” • Click the “Link” button on the tool bar.

50. Targets and Links • Click the word “top.” • Click the “OK” button.