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COMMON CUSTOMIZATIONS As always, if you have questions about any of these features, please contact us by e-mail at pposupport@museumsoftware.com or by phone at 1-800-562-6080. EDIT FOOTER TEXT Included with your PastPerfect-Online site is a footer area with text in it that, by default, says Put your footer here. You can customize this text to say almost anything your museum s contact information, visitation hours, copyright rules, tips for searching, etc. To change the footer text, please follow these steps: 1. Open your Internet browser and navigate to your IMS SITE ADDRESS as listed in your PPO Welcome Letter. 2. Type in your IMS USER ID. 3. Type in your IMS PASSWORD. 4. Type in your IMS PROJECT CODE. 5. Click the Go button. 6. Click the Change Messages link. 7. Click the ALL PAGES link. 8. Click the DP_FOOTER link. 9. Enter the text you want to appear in the Text field of the Change DP_FOOTER page. 10. Click the Save button. 11. Open your Internet browser window and navigate to your PastPerfect- Online site. You should see your customized text appear in the footer area at the bottom of your site. 1

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 2 CREATE A CLICKABLE PAGEBANNER One popular option is to hyperlink your PastPerfect-Online pagebanner/logo to your existing website. To do this, follow the steps below: 1. Open your Internet browser and navigate to your IMS SITE ADDRESS as listed in your PPO Welcome Letter. 2. Type in your IMS USER ID. 3. Type in your IMS PASSWORD. 4. Type in your IMS PROJECT CODE. 5. Click the Go button. 6. Click the Change Messages link. 7. Click the ALL PAGES link. 8. Click the AP_PAGEBANNER link. 9. Enter the text below to replace what s in the Text field of the Change AP_PAGEBANNER page. Be sure to change the highlighted areas to fit your website. <a href="http://www.yourwebsiteaddress.org"> <img src='/graphicslocation/pagebanner.jpg' name= Your Institution' alt= Your Institution' BORDER=0></a> 10. Click the Save button. 11. Open your Internet browser window and navigate to your PastPerfect- Online site. Now, if you click the pagebanner image at the top of your search screen, it should return you to your main website.

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 3 ENABLE SEARCH ENGINE RECOGNITION FOR YOUR PPO SITE To increase exposure to your PastPerfect-Online site, you may want to have us submit your site for indexing through Google and Bing, two of the most widely used Internet search engines in the world. Indexing is the process of scanning information on each webpage of your PastPerfect-Online site and creating a list that can then be quickly referenced when an Internet visitor performs a Google or Bing search. With millions of websites being added to Google s and Bing s indexes each week, please allow two to six weeks for your catalog records to show on the list of search results from Google and Bing. Going forward, Google and Bing will periodically re-index your site, removing bad links and adding new links; however, there is no way to force immediate indexing of your site. Because of these potential delays, please be sure your site meets your own professional expectations before submitting the site to these search engines. Unlike PastPerfect-Online, changes made to your records in the Google and Bing indexes may take weeks or months to filter through to the search engine search results pages, due to the number of websites that these search engines index. Please take care to check for fields that you do not want included, spelling issues, and major mistakes made during data entry. When your site is ready, send an e-mail to pposupport@museumsoftware.com or call 1-800-562-6080 and request that your site be submitted to Google and Bing for indexing.

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 4 CHANGING TEXT FOR NAVIGATIONAL BUTTONS To change the text on any of the navigational buttons (Home, Click & Search, Keyword Search, Advanced Search, Random Images, Search Results, Help) on your PastPerfect-Online site, please follow these steps: 1. Open an Internet browser window to display one of your records from your PastPerfect-Online site 2. Open a second Internet browser window or a second tab and type in the IMS SITE ADDRESS from your PPO Welcome Letter 3. Log in with your IMS USER ID and IMS PASSWORD 4. Click the Change Messages link 5. Click the Add New Message to Your Site button 6. In the Name field, type the Message name from the table below that you want to change. For example, to change the text on the Home button, you would start by typing MM_HOME in the Name field. 7. Then, in the Text field, type the button name you wish to display. Using our example, you could type in Museum Website in the Text field so that it will display Museum Website on the button. If you want to have spaces in the new button name, please use the following HTML code between words instead of a space: 8. Once you are finished, click the Save button 9. Next, go back to the Internet browser window that has your PastPerfect- Online showing (from Step 1). Then click the Refresh button at the top of your Internet browser window. You should see Home change to Museum Website. (If you see the HTML code, step 7 is incorrect.) 10. You can repeat steps 5-9 to change other messages 11. If you want to go back to the Default text, you can just delete the message using the Delete hyperlink for that particular message 12. When you are finished, please close the IMS Internet browser window Table: Main Menu Messages Message name Default Text Notes MM_HOME Home Use between words MM_CS Click & Search Use between words MM_KS Keyword Search Use between words MM_AS Advanced Search Use between words MM_RAI Random Images Use between words MM_SR Search Results Use between words MM_HELP Help Use between words

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 5 ENABLE INTERACTIVE BUTTONS (Image Request Form, Feedback Form, Email Page) PastPerfect-Online has optional features that help visitors interact with your site. Image Request Form This form allows Internet visitors to request a copy of a specific image from your organization. Using a simple three-step procedure, the Internet visitor fills out the form, clicks submit, and that form gets sent to your email address. You can then contact that visitor with the details of how your organization handles the ordering of images. Feedback Form This form can be used to compile feedback from your Internet visitors. By enabling this button, visitors can send an email directly to you, specifying a particular record. There are a wide variety of ways this form can be used including soliciting feedback, recruiting assistance in identifying photos, and much more. Email Page Feature This button allows visitors to email catalog record links to others, further spreading the word about your collection and your organization! To enable any of these features, please follow these steps: 1) Open your Internet browser and navigate to the IMS SITE ADDRESS as listed on your PPO Welcome Letter. 2) Log in with your IMS USER ID and IMS PASSWORD. 3) Click the Change Options link. 4) Scroll down the screen and make your selections for which button(s) you want to include: For the Image Request Form, add your email address to the field labeled Image Order Form. For the Feedback Form, add your email address to the field labeled Feedback Form. For the Email Page option, place a check in the box labeled E-mail This Page. 5) Click the Accept New Options button. When you view a full record on your PastPerfect-Online site, buttons for the options you selected should display. You may need to refresh the screen (by clicking the Refresh button or pressing the F5 key). To customize any of these forms, please see the next few pages.

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 6 CUSTOMIZE YOUR FEEDBACK FORM 1. Open an Internet browser window to display a record from your PastPerfect-Online site. 2. Click the Send Feedback button to view the Feedback Form. 3. Open a second Internet browser window or a second tab and type in the IMS SITE ADDRESS from your PPO Welcome Letter. 4. Log in with your IMS USER ID and IMS PASSWORD. 5. Click the Change Messages link. 6. Click the Add New Message to Your Site button. 7. In the Name field, type the Message name from Table 1 that you want to change. For example, to change the page title, you would type FB_TITLE in the Name field. 8. Then, in the Text field, type the message text you wish to display. Using our example, you could type in Comment Corner in the Text field to change the page title. 9. Once you are finished, click the Save button. 10. Next, go back to the Internet browser window that has your Feedback Form showing (from Step 2). Then click the Refresh button at the top of your Internet browser window. You should see Feedback Form change to Comment Corner. 11. You can repeat steps 6-10 to change other messages including the labels for the fields users have to fill in. When using the USERDATA fields, you may add an asterisk (*) at the beginning of the field if you want it to be mandatory. For email verification to work, *Email needs to be in FB_USERDATA1 or the default field, FB_USERDATA4. The Email field is always required. 12. When you are finished, please close the IMS Internet browser window.

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 7 Table 1: Messages for Feedback Form Message name Purpose Default Text (Suggested Words) FB_TITLE Page title Feedback Form FB_HEADING Page heading Please help us by providing feedback or information FB_INSTRUCTION Instructions to the user Click Send to email this information to the museum. Or call us at the number below. Thank you! FB_INFO Instructions for the box where the user Add your feedback here FB_WANTSEMAIL FB_WANTSMAIL enters information If this message is used, the form contains a checkbox where the user can request to be on the email mailing list. If this message is used, the form contains a checkbox where the user can request to be on the paper mailing list and a box for entering their mailing address. No default. (Add me to the email newsletter. (Please make sure your email address above is correct.)) No default. (Add me to the mailing list. (Please enter your address below.)) FB_USERDATA1 Client defined field *Name FB_USERDATA2 Client defined field Phone FB_USERDATA3 Client defined field Alternate Phone FB_USERDATA4 Client defined field *Email Address FB_USERDATA5 Client defined field No default FB_USERDATA6 Client defined field No default FB_USERDATA7 Client defined field No default FB_USERDATA8 Client defined field No default FB_USERDATA9 Client defined field No default FB_USERDATA10 Client defined field No default EF_ASKVERIFY Ask user Prove you are human! What is [Also applies to Image Order Form and Email Page Form]

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 8 CUSTOMIZE YOUR IMAGE ORDER FORM 1. Open an Internet browser window to display a record from your PastPerfect-Online site. 2. Click the Order Image button to view the Image Order Form. 3. Open a second Internet browser window or a second tab and type in the IMS SITE ADDRESS from your PPO Welcome Letter. 4. Log in with your IMS USER ID and IMS PASSWORD. 5. Click the Change Messages link. 6. Click the Add New Message to Your Site button. 7. In the Name field, type the Message name from Table 2 that you want to change. For example, to change the page title, you would type IO_TITLE in the Name field. 8. Then, in the Text field, type the message text you wish to display. Using our example, you could type in Image Request in the Text field to change the page title. 9. Once you are finished, click the Save button. 10. Next, go back to the Internet browser window that has your Image Order Form showing (from Step 2). Then click the Refresh button at the top of your Internet browser window. You should see Image Order change to Image Request. 11. You can repeat steps 6-10 to change other messages including the labels for the fields users have to fill in. When using the USERDATA fields, you may add an asterisk (*) at the beginning of the field if you want it to be mandatory. For email verification to work, *Email needs to be in IO_USERDATA1 or the default field, IO_USERDATA7. The Email field is always required. 12. When you are finished, please close the IMS Internet browser window.

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 9 Table 2: Messages for Image Order Form Message name Purpose Default text IO_TITLE Page title Image Order IO_HEADING Page heading Fill in this form to order reproduction rights for IMAGEINFO (IMAGEINFO will be replaced by the path and file name of the image) IO_INSTRUCTION Instructions to the user IO_INFO Instructions for the box where the user enters the purpose of the request For permission to reproduce this image, please fill in this form and click Send, which will email it to the museum. The museum will contact you regarding fees and delivery schedule. Our contact information is below in case of problems or questions. (If you do not have Outlook Express installed, print this page and mail it to the museum.) Purpose: Provide the following information about where this image will be used: Description, title of publication, author, publisher, date of publication, number of copies produced, distribution, languages, and location of image (inside or cover). IO_USERDATA1 Client defined field *Name IO_USERDATA2 Client defined field Address IO_USERDATA3 Client defined field Address IO_USERDATA4 Client defined field City, State, Postal Code, Country IO_USERDATA5 Client defined field Phone IO_USERDATA6 Client defined field Alternate Phone IO_USERDATA7 Client defined field *Email Address IO_USERDATA8 Client defined field *Format Required (B&W/color, print/digital) IO_USERDATA9 Client defined field No default IO_USERDATA10 Client defined field No default EF_ASKVERIFY Ask user Prove you are human! What is [Also applies to Feedback Form and Email Page Form]

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 10 CUSTOMIZE YOUR EMAIL PAGE FORM 1. Open an Internet browser window to display a record from your PastPerfect-Online site. 2. Click the Email Page button to view the Email This Page form. 3. Open a second Internet browser window or a second tab and type in the IMS SITE ADDRESS from your PPO Welcome Letter. 4. Log in with your IMS USER ID and IMS PASSWORD. 5. Click the Change Messages link. 6. Click the Add New Message to Your Site button. 7. In the Name field, type the Message name from Table 3 that you want to change. For example, to change the page title, you would type EF_TITLE in the Name field. 8. Then, in the Text field, type the message text you wish to display. Using our example, you could type in Send this to a friend in the Text field to change the page title. 9. Once you are finished, click the Save button. 10. Next, go back to the Internet browser window that has your Email This Page form showing (from Step 2). Then click the Refresh button at the top of your Internet browser window. You should see Email This Page change to Send this to a friend. 11. You can repeat steps 6-10 to change other messages including Instructions. 12. When you are finished, please close the IMS Internet browser window. Table 3: Messages for Email Page Form Message name Purpose Default text Notes EF_TITLE Page title Email This Page If this message does not exist, no page title will be shown EF_HEADING Instructions Use this form to send a link to a friend EF_ASKVERIFY Ask user Prove you are human! What is Also applies to Feedback Form and Image Order Form To change the name of your institution that appears in the default email text, please contact PPO Support at pposupport@museumsoftware.com or 1-800-562-6080.

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 11 MWEB TM SEARCH REPORT The MWeb TM Search Report gives you the option to receive monthly reports regarding the searches made on your PastPerfect-Online site. This report includes the number of visitors, the number of searches, which searches are most popular, and more! RUNNING AND ACCESSING THE REPORT The MWeb TM Search Report is automatically set up when you purchase PastPerfect-Online if you provided an email address, and it is scheduled to run once a month. After it has run, you will receive an email with a link to your most recent report. You can also go directly to the following address, filling in your own userid and clientnumber from the PPO Welcome Letter, to see the current report (whatever it reported the last time it was run): http://userid.pastperfect-online.com/clientnumber/reporter.htm You can also run the report yourself if you need it produced on a different date. Follow these instructions below. 1. Go to this address, filling in your own userid and clientnumber : http://userid.pastperfect-online.com/clientnumbercgi/runreporter.exe. 2. Enter your client number. 3. Choose the date range to be included on the report, either Current year or All years. 4. Click the Begin button. 5. Once you ve clicked Begin, wait a couple of minutes and then click the Click here link. You may also receive an email saying the report is ready and can access it by clicking the link in the email.

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 12 VIEWING YOUR REPORT Report Date: When viewing the report, the date at the top is the date the report was last run for your site. This report is cumulative. If you need more recent data, you can run the report yourself (using the instructions above), which will include the most recent search statistics. 1. General In the General" section, you'll see four different sets of graphs: Searches, Full Records (users), Full Records (Google), and User IDs. o The Searches graphs show the number of searches that have happened on your site. o The Full Records (users) graphs show the number of full records web visitors have accessed on your site. o The Full Records (Google) graphs indicate the number of full records Google or Bing has accessed for indexing purposes (once you request to have your site submitted for indexing). o The User IDs graphs show the number of "User IDs" or visitors to your site who performed those searches. (User IDs are temporarily assigned when visitors access the site. Once a web visitor closes out of the web browser, the User ID is completed. If the web visitor accesses the site again in a different browser window, it will be counted as a new User ID.) In the charts, the first number ( 12 ) refers to the year (2012), and the second number listed is the total number of searches or visitors in that year. To see a month-by-month break down, you can use the bar graphs. Each color theme represents one year, with the different months in lighter and darker colors. For instance, the green graphs show the numbers for 2011 and the blue graphs show the numbers for 2012. If you move your mouse arrow over the different shaded bars on a graph, you will be able to view the numbers (of searches or of visitors) for that particular month. 2. Searches by Type In the Searches by Type" section, you'll see graphs for each of the different types of searches that are available for your PastPerfect-Online site. Again, the totals for the year are listed in the charts, and the bar graphs show the month-bymonth comparison. Similar to section 1, you can move your mouse arrow over

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 13 the different shaded lines on these bar graphs and view the number of that type of search performed on your site for that month. 3. Top Ten Searches for the Year The Top Ten Searches for the Year" gives you the ten searches that resulted in the most hits for the years your site has been in existence. The number in the "Instances" column indicates how many times these searches were performed by web visitors. 4. Searches with More than 10,000 Hits If any web visitors search for a broad term that results in more than 10,000 hits or results, the type of search and the term searched will be listed along with the number of hits. MWeb prevents the visitor from seeing the results of such queries, as they are probably too broad to be helpful and take too long to display. 5. Searches with More than 5,000 Hits If any web visitors search for a broad term that results in more than 5,000 hits or results, the type of search and the term searched will be listed along with the number of hits. MWeb will allow the visitor to see the results of these searches, but indicates that visitors are searching for general terms instead of specific ones. 6. Searches with No Hits Used 15 or More Times This section lists any common searches (items that have been searched for 15 times or more) that resulted in no hits. These indicate that the terms web visitors are seeking are not in your online database. 7. Top Ten Records of the Year The top ten full records for each year will appear under this section. The Request column tells you the Catalog, Object ID and the Object Name as long as the record is still online. If the record is a Person or Search Term, the Name field will display. Images show the PPID. More than 10 records may be listed to show ties. 8. Errors Encountered Any errors encountered will be recorded here. 9. Notes The Notes section lists notes about the search report and how the reporting works. You can also download tab-delimited statistics for further analysis.

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 14 CHANGE EMAIL ADDRESS OR DEACTIVATE REPORT If you need to change who is receiving the MWeb TM Search Report or if you would like to disable the report notification, please follow these instructions. 1. Open an Internet browser window and navigate to your IMS SITE ADDRESS as listed in your PPO Welcome Letter. 2. Log in with your IMS USER ID and IMS PASSWORD. 3. Click the Change Options link. 4. Scroll down to the bottom of this screen and change the email address listed in the Statistics field (or delete the email address from the field to deactivate the report notification). 5. Click the Accept New Options button to save your changes.

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 15 PPO SPLASH PAGE Each PastPerfect-Online site also includes a free splash page, hosted on our server as a front end to your PastPerfect-Online search pages. This optional page can be customized to provide additional information to your visitors. If you don t have an existing website, you can use this splash screen to provide more information about your organization. Other organizations find it helpful to inform their web visitors about how to search using their site. Giving tips may help improve the visitor experience and help them attain higher quality results. The splash page must be created outside the PastPerfect program as one HTML page. You may edit the splash page yourself (we have provided some basic instructions here) or you can contact our Support Office for information about purchasing a customized template that mimics the look and feel of your main website. ACCESSING YOUR SPLASH PAGE SCREEN S HTML PAGE 1. Right click on the Windows Start button, then click on Explore or Open Windows Explorer. 2. In the address bar, type your FTP SITE as listed on your PPO Welcome Letter (ftp://server#.pastperfect-online.com replacing # with your oneor two-digit server number). Then, press Enter. 3. Type in your USER ID and PASSWORD as listed in your PPO Welcome Letter. Then, click the Log On button. 4. A window should display several folders, see Figure 1. Double click to open the 00000 folder (substitute your client number for 00000). 5. Inside the 00000 folder, there will be a file called index.htm. You can copy the file (Ctrl+C) and paste it on your desktop (Ctrl+V).

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 16 Figure 1 Folders on the FTP Site Double click on the folder with only your client number. MODIFYING YOUR SPLASH SCREEN S HTML PAGE 1. To open the file on your desktop, right click on it and then choose Open With and select Notepad. This will open the file in Notepad and allow for editing of the HTML. 2. Please see the following pages for some common HTML codes. You may also use an HTML editor to create the coding which can then be copied and pasted into this file several free ones are available online. 3. Once your changes have been made, you should save the file by going to File and then choosing Save. 4. After saving, please close the file. 5. To preview your changes in a Web browser, please double click on the index.htm file you have on your desktop. This should open the page in a Web browser so you can see your changes. If you see the HTML codes when viewing the file in a Web browser, you have something wrong in your HTML code. 6. If needed, you can go back to edit the index.htm file in Notepad. 7. Once you have finished making your changes to the HTML page and you can see your desired result in a Web browser, you need to repost your splash page to the FTP site so that it will be visible to online viewers.

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 17 REPOSTING YOUR UPDATED SPLASH PAGE 1. Copy the index.htm file on your desktop (Ctrl+C). 2. Right click on the Windows Start button, then click on Explore or Open Windows Explorer. 3. In the address bar, type your FTP SITE as listed on your PPO Welcome Letter (ftp://server#.pastperfect-online.com replacing # with your oneor two-digit server number). Then, press Enter. 4. Type in your USER ID and PASSWORD as listed in your PPO Welcome Letter. Then, click the Log On button. 5. The window should display several folders. Double click to open the 00000 folder (substitute your client number for 00000). 6. Inside the 00000 folder, right click on the index.htm file that is already there. Choose Rename and change the name to oldindex.htm 7. Click anywhere in the white area of your screen to save your changes. 8. Right click anywhere in the white area of your screen and choose Paste. You should see a file titled index.htm appear. 9. You can now exit from the FTP site window and go to your SPLASH SCREEN LOCATION as listed on your PPO Welcome Letter to see the changes. If your institution has its own website and you don t want to use the splash page we provide, you may create a link on your website directly to your SEARCH SCREEN LOCATION.

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 18 HTML BASICS HTML is Hyper Text Markup Language. To create a more advanced splash page, you can add HTML coding to your index.htm file. This will help you alter the appearance of text, change the background color, and integrate logos on your splash page. For a fully customized splash page that mimics the look and feel of your main website, please contact our Support Office for information about custom templates. HTML uses what are called tags to turn features on and off. These tags are noted by inserting the appropriate code between the < > symbols. These tags define special elements and attributes of text, lines, tables, and images. Two sets of tags are needed for each special element or attribute: an opening tag and a closing tag. For instance, <i> will turn on the italics, and </i> will turn it off. Whatever text you want in italics needs to be between the two tags. HTML codes are not case sensitive; however it is best to be consistent as you add your tags. There is also no priority of color, size, or other attributes when adding multiple tags to the same string of text, though good practice is to follow the first one in, last one out rule. Example: <b><i><u>this is the text</u></i></b> HTML does not recognize the Enter or Return key on your keyboard. If you would like a line or paragraph break, use the codes further below for each option. ADDING BANNERS / IMAGES To add a banner or logo to your splash page, you need to have the banner/logo saved as a JPG image named pagebanner.jpg. Our recommended size for this image is 800 pixels long by 100 pixels high. Part I: Putting your image file on the web server 1. Save the banner or logo of your current site as pagebanner.jpg. 2. Copy this pagebanner.jpg file (Ctrl+C). 3. Right click on the Windows Start button, then click on Explore or Open Windows Explorer. 4. In the address bar, type in your FTP SITE as listed in your PPO Welcome Letter (ftp://server#.pastperfect-online.com replacing # with your oneor two-digit server number). Then press Enter. 5. Type in your USER ID and PASSWORD as listed in your PPO Welcome Letter. Then, click the Log On button.

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 19 6. The window should display several folders. Double click to open the 00000 folder (substitute your client number for 00000). 7. Paste the image file into this folder (Ctrl+V). Part II: Adding the HTML tags to the index.htm file for the image 1. In your index.htm file, you will need to add the following line: <img src="pagebanner.jpg"> I suggest adding it right below your <body> tag. 2. If the image is not appearing correctly, you may need to add width and height attributes. Try this HTML tag instead of the tag listed in Step 1. <img src= pagebanner.jpg width= 800 height= 100 > You may need to adjust the width and height numbers to make your banner appear correctly. Adding additional images 1. You can also do a similar thing for posting other images on your splash page. Copy and paste the image into the 00000 folder. 2. Type the text below into the HTML document where you would like the image to appear, replacing the shaded text with your image name. <img src= your_image_name.jpg > 3. If the image is not appearing correctly or if you would like to adjust the size, you may need to add width and height attributes. Try this HTML tag instead, adjusting the width and height pixel dimensions so that the image appears correctly. <img src= your_image_name.jpg width= 800 height= 650 > CHANGING BACKGROUND AND TEXT COLORS For simple colors, you can write them out as text in HTML (for instance, black, white, red, blue, green, yellow, etc.). However, if you want a more specific color, you will need to use the six-character color codes. You can find these HTML color codes online if you are unsure of the code for the color you want. Here are some examples for background and text colors to be applied to your whole page: <body bgcolor="black" text="white"> <body bgcolor="0000ff" text="ffffcc"> Here are some examples for one line of text in a different color: <font color="red">text in red.</font> <font color="ffff00">text in yellow.</font>

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 20 CHANGING FONT SIZES There are several ways to indicate font sizes, but the simplest way is to just use numbers 1-7. Here are the approximate font sizes associated with the numbers. HTML Coding <font size=1>type your text here.</font> <font size=2>type your text here.</font> <font size=3>type your text here.</font> <font size=4>type your text here.</font> <font size=5>type your text here.</font> <font size=6>type your text here.</font> <font size=7>type your text here.</font> Approx. Font Size 7.5 point 10 point 12 point 13.5 point 18 point 24 point 36 point ITALICS / BOLD / UNDERLINE Formatting HTML Tags Italics <i>italics</i> Italics Bold <b>bold</b> Bold Example of Display Underline <u>underline</u> Underline Combination <b><u><i>bold-underlineitalics</i></u></b> bold-underlineitalics PARAGRAPH BREAK / LINE BREAK Break Type Description HTML Tags Paragraph Break Line Break Includes two returns (so there is blank line in between) Includes a single return Line 1.<p> Line 2. Line 1.<br> Line 2. Line 1. Line 2. Line 1. Line 2. Example of Display

PastPerfect-Online Customizing 21 WEBSITE LINKS / EMAIL LINKS To add website links or email links, insert the following HTML codes into your index.htm file. Replace the shaded text with your website or email address. Replace the bolded text with the words you would like to be the link. To link to another page on the web: <a href= http://www.museumsoftware.com >PastPerfect s Home Page</a> Resulting Link: PastPerfect s Home Page To link to an email address: <a href= mailto:pposupport@museumsoftware.com >Email Me!</a> Resulting Link: Email Me!