Editing Your Web Page

You can now edit and update your web page on our web server.

You can use NetScape Communicator to edit the document.
You can also use a plain old text editor, but you will need to know HTML code.

Please, do not use recent Microsoft products (Internet Explorer or Word98/Word2000; Word 5 is OK) to edit the page. These programs insert a zillion tags (the web page triples in size), that are extremely tedious to figure out or to undo.

The following assumes that you are using Netscape Communicator.

• Make a copy of your web page:
1. Use NetScape Communicator to get to your page
   (You can get to your page via the Microbiology web directory).
2. When your page appears on the screen,
1. Choose "Edit Document" or "Edit Page" (in File menu)
2. A new window opens up:
   this is an Edit window, as versus a Browser window.
   You can edit a document only when in the Edit window.
   The browser window is used only to view a document.
3. Save the page ("Save" in "File" menu) in you computer.
3. You now have a local copy of your web page, that you can open and edit at your leisure.
• Edit the web page
  1. Open the document in the Edit mode of NetScape Communicator
     ('Open Page in Composer...' of the "File" menu)
  2. Don't worry if the images do not show up:
     they are still on the server, and will work fine when your page is put back on the server.
  3. Editing is not unlike using the usual word processing program.
     Have some fun, play with various options in the tool bar and the menus.
     If you don't like what you did, just close the document without saving it.

• Submit the web page
  Mac users:
  1. Log into the Microb Server, and choose 'Shared Volumes'
  2. Copy the document to the 'web page updates' folder.
     (Note that you won't be able to see the copy in the folder.
     This is to prevent inadvertant deletion of someone else's page).
  3. Log out of the server (drag the 'Shared Volumes' icon to the trash).
  Windoze Users:
  1. Send the page as an email attachment to Heinz or Henry.

• The page will be checked to make sure the graphics, links etc. work as advertised,
  and used to replace the old page on the web server.