Working with Publisher Websites

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1 Working with Publisher Websites Open your Publisher website file (probably saved in htdocs directory). If you are starting a new one, you will need to open a template which may be revised. Navigating and Editing Pages: In Publisher 00, pages are displayed on the Page Navigation pane at the left side of the screen. Basic text and image editing is found on the Home button and is similar to Word. Right click on a page to see page editing options. Click Insert Page or Insert Duplicate Page to add pages to your site. You may also Delete or Rename pages here.

2 Publishing your website: Go to () File; () Save and Send; () Publish HTML; and (4) Publish HTML. This will bring up a dialogue box. Click My Computer and navigate to Htdocs directory. Find the teacher websites folder (or the folder where your site is published in Htdocs) and click Save. w: htdocs Your file must be named index. Do not change this! If you are updating an existing site, it should ask you if you want to overwrite the existing file. This is OK and tells you that you are indeed updating your site. Once published, the folder with your name on it (or the name of your activity) should have a folder in it called index and a file named index. You will overwrite this index file each time you update your site and republish it. You must republish every time you make changes you want to be live on your website.

3 Web Tools: To access the web specific tools like hyperlinking, click on the Web tab. Web Page Preview Click to view your webpage in a browser such as Internet Explorer. This will allow you to test hyperlinks and see what visitors will experience. Hyperlinks:. To create a hyperlink to a website: () highlight the text or image you want linked; () click the hyperlink button on the ribbon; () select existing file or web page; (4) type or paste the URL of the site to link; (5) click OK Link to Pages: To link to another page in your website, follow the same process, except click the place in this document button instead of existing file or web page and select the appropriate page. The address will automatically be the page you select.. Link to an address: Follow the same directions, except click on Address on the side Link To: menu. Then type in the desired address.

4 . Linking to a file. First, you need to save the file in the index folder you created when publishing your site. This should be in htdocs as before. You may create subfolders inside the index folder if you wish to organize your files. You may simply copy and paste files into this location. Note: You will see a lot of other images in the folder. These are all the parts of your web page packed together in this folder. Once your document is ready to link, follow the steps for hyperlinking: () highlight the text or image you want linked; () click the hyperlink button on the ribbon; () select existing file or web page; (4) navigate to the folder with your index file and folder; (5) click inside your index folder and locate the file you wish to link; (6) delete the address file name up to the name of your file. If you created a subfolder, leave that as well; (7) click OK Note: If you want everyone to be able to open your documents, you should make them into.pdf files instead of leaving them as word docs.

5 Hotspots: Use this button to make a part of a picture into a hyperlink by () Click hot spot; () use the selection tool that appears to click and drag a box around the area you want to be a hyperlink; () when the dialog box appears, enter the web address you wish as your link destination; (4) click OK. 4 Navigation Bar: This allows you to create a new navigation bar for you page. This is useful if you need to reset your navigation or if you want a new style. If you add a new navigation bar, you will need to delete your old one and move the new one into position. This may then be copy and pasted to your other pages.

6 Bookmarks: This allows you to mark a place on your page which can then be used as a hyperlink destination. If you do this, people clicking on your hyperlink will jump to this location in your document rather than to another page. It can be useful for very long pages, but it is not used often. To set bookmarks, () highlight words to mark your destination/bookmark location; () click Bookmark icon; () type a name for your bookmark; (4) click Add and the box will close. 4 Later, when hyperlinking, you will select () Place in this document () choose the bookmark you wish to be your destination; and () click OK.

7 HTML Code Fragment: Use this to insert code from a rd party web application (youtube, google calendar, etc.). To do this, () simply place your cursor in the desired location on your page, () click HTML Code Fragment button on the ribbon, () paste the code from the rd party site into the dialogue box, and (4) click OK. Note: When people view your page online, they will not see the code. They will see the application to which this is linking. 4 Web Page Options: These are not critical. However, the one part that may be useful is the page description and keywords sections can help people find your page through a search engine like google. These are the key words that will be indexed for your page.

8 Saving: This is a simple, File/Save As like you d use for any program. However, it is recommended that you save this in your htdocs website folder where you have published your website. This will keep both the working Publisher copy and the Published Web in the same location for convenience. Note: Each time you update your page, make sure you Save your Publisher file AND Publish to the Web to make your changes live.