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WEBSITE WEBSITE CREATIONCREATION

DOING IT MANUALLYDOING IT MANUALLY

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PURPOSE of WEBSITEPURPOSE of WEBSITE• To give colleagues and prospective

employers some information about your background

• To demonstrate your personality and interests

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PARTSPARTS• Three main types of information

– Educational: 393 materials--PowerPoint's (oral and process), class notes, link to Blackboard

– Professional: links to employers, examples of abilities

– Personal: autobiographical sketch, mailto link, pictures (optional)

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THE HEADTHE HEAD

• First part of document • Title appears in title bar, not on

page• Meta tags also belong in this section.

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THE BODYTHE BODY• Main part of document: paragraphs

of text, list of links, graphics, etc.

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SITE REQUIREMENTSSITE REQUIREMENTS• Opening banner, logo, or graphic (UMBC

logo)• No reliance on defaults or on my choices

(colors, fonts)• Compatible colors for

backgrounds/wallpaper text, and links• Navigational aids on each page• Last updated footer• Link to UMBC page

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TEMPLATE TEMPLATE • Open Notepad (NOT WORDPAD) to have mouse

abilities. • Type <html> and press ENTER. • Type <head> and press ENTER.• Type <title> MY PAGE </title> and press

ENTER.• Type </head> and press ENTER.• Type <body bgcolor = "tan" text = "#0000ff" link

= "coral2" vlink = "#808000”> and press ENTER. • Type <font face = “Comic Sans MS”> and press

ENTER.

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TEMPLATE 2TEMPLATE 2

– Type </font> and press ENTER. – Type</body> and press ENTER. – Type </html> and press ENTER. – Save as “template.html” including

quotation marks. Save to both the W drive (www directory/folder) and to portable storage medium. If your computer doesn’t have the www directory mapped, save to your desktop.

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INDEX.HTMLINDEX.HTML

Place cursor at end of line <font face> and press ENTER.

Type <img src = “umbclogo.gif"> and press ENTER. – Type <h1>My Page </h1>– Type <ul> and press ENTER.

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INDEX.HTML 2INDEX.HTML 2– Type <li><a

href=“education.html”>Education </a>– <li><a href=“job.html”> Profession</a>– <li><a href=“personal.html”> Personal

Page </a>– Type <li><a href=“http://www.umbc.edu/

”>UMBC Home Page </a>– Type </ul>– Save file as “index.html” to both the W

drive and to an A drive floppy/data CD.

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EDUCATION PAGEEDUCATION PAGE• Open template.html• Replace the title “MY PAGE” with

“Education.”• On line below <font face>, type <h2>

English 393 </h2> and press ENTER. • Type <h3> Course Materials </h3>

and press ENTER. • Type <ul> to begin a bulleted list and

press ENTER.

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EDUCATION PAGE 2EDUCATION PAGE 2• Type <li><a href="notes.html"> date when

you are to take the class notes </a> and press ENTER.

• Type <li><a href="orals.ppt"> article title in quotes </a> and press ENTER.

• Type <li><a href=“http://blackboard.umbc.edu"> Blackboard Login</a> and press ENTER.

• Include links to other courses and organizations/activities at UMBC with web sites.

• Type </ul> to end the list.• Save as “education.html” to W and A drives.

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Professional PageProfessional Page• Open template.html• Replace the title “MY PAGE” with “My

Profession” (or a title you prefer).• <h3> My Career Plans</h3> Write a career

autobiographical sketch beneath this heading. Use the <p> tag to start a paragraph.

• You may link to your current job, if it has a website; you may present examples of your abilities. Remember that the audience that views this page may include prospective employers.

• Save the file as “job.html” so that the link you’ve already created will work.

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Personal PagePersonal Page

• Open template.html• Replace the title “MY PAGE” with “All about

Me” (or a title you prefer).• <h3>My Life </h3> Write your personal

autobiographical sketch beneath this heading. Add links to friends’ websites, tasteful photos of family and friends, etc. The autobiographical sketch is mandatory; everything else you place on this page is optional.

• Save the file as “personal.html.”

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NAVIGATIONNAVIGATION• Visitors must get from one page to

every other page on your website.• Navigational aids must appear on

each page either horizontally or vertically.

• Open education.html. Place cursor at end of line </ul> and press ENTER.

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NAVIGATION 2NAVIGATION 2• Type <table border> and press ENTER.• Type <th><a href

=“index.html”>Home Page</a> • <th> <a href =“job.html”> Profession

</a> • <th> <a href =“personal.html”>

Personal Page </a> </tr> and press ENTER.

• Type </table> and press ENTER

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NAVIGATION 3NAVIGATION 3• Save file to w drive (www directory/folder),

the desktop, or a portable storage medium.• Use “Save As” so you can check that the file

has the correct filename.• Create a bar on the professional and

personal pages.• When using this navigation bar on other

pages, be sure to remove the link to the page you’re on. (There’s no education link because we put the bar on the education page.)

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IMAGESIMAGES• Banners, logos, pictures, Clip Art,

and animations belong in this category.

• Campus requirement: including the UMBC logo from the campus style guide.

• Loading time should be short

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UMBC LOGOUMBC LOGO• Go to http://

www.umbc.edu/umbcstyle/wordmarks.htmlto find examples of UMBC logos.

• Place your cursor on the image of your choice, and click the right mouse button.

• Select "save image as” (Firefox) or “save picture as” (Explorer) and left click.

• Name the image (umbclogo.gif) and save it in W drive.

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MAILTO LINKMAILTO LINK• Type these tags to place the mailbox

image and mailto link on your page.

– <img src = “maileyes.gif "> <a href ="mailto:[email protected]">your name </A>

– You can go to my home page and download my animated frog email image.

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UMBC HELPUMBC HELP• http://www.umbc.edu/umbcstyle/web

/• Templates as well as html guides

and tutorials are found here.

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VIEW YOUR PAGEVIEW YOUR PAGE• Open a browser.• Type your URL in the location box:

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~username/• When working on your site, keep

browser open so you can check your work.

• If page doesn’t work properly, first look for typos in html. Then call for the consultant if you can’t find problem.