EASY WEB PAGES

with MS PUBLISHER

This introduction to web page design is intended for anyone with a basic understanding of any word processing program... MS Word,  Corel WordPerfect, even Notepad !!!

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When you double click on the MS Publisher icon,  this is the first thing you will see:

 

From the Wizards list on the left of the screen above,  click on Web Sites to display the templates:

Click on a Web Page template (We are using ARCS for this demo) and click the Start Wizard button:

This will display the web page template you chose, along with the Wizard:

This is too small a display to work with, so go to the top of the screen, and click the “down arrow” next to 27%,  and change it to 75%... This will allow you to see the changes you are going to make !!

Now,  go to the Wizard on the left, and click on Color Scheme – Here, you can change the colors of your page as a group which blend together well,  just by clicking on one of the sets in the Wizard...

Now,  to save a little time, (and lots of paper)  I will just list a few of the next Wizard steps:

 

Next,  click on BROWSE to get to the sound selections....double click any file to choose...

The Background sound file name is now filled into the proper field... Be sure to click on the radio button for  “LOOP   1”   or you will drive your visitors crazy !!!   Click OK.....

Next,  bypass all of the remaining Wizard choices, and click the HIDE WIZARD button on the lower left side of your screen... This will bring you here:

Now we are ready to create your web page !  First click the “DOWN ARROW” at the top of the screen again,  and change  75%  to  PAGE WIDTH... This is what you should end up with...

Please note the faint dotted lines around the text and pictures on the web page template... These are EDITABLE REGIONS,  which can be changed simply by highlighting the same way you would do in Microsoft Word,   and typing in your own text.  Here is an example of the new Home Page Title:

For a few more examples,  you could change Dell Computer Corporation to your school name, and the Business Tag line region to your school motto... I have also changed the font for the page name, and added Bold and Italics to highlight it :

Now, let’s move on to the pictures... To change any picture or clipart appearing on the page,  just double click it, and this is the screen you will get:

In the white field at the top,  change “Type one or more words”  to “school” and click enter:

Click on the school house, and then click on the top button of the pop-up window that appears... This will insert the picture into the area you selected on your web page:

Now you can see that you have inserted a picture into your web page.  You can re-size it larger or smaller simply by dragging any of the highlighted boxes around the perimeter of the new picture.   You may also move the picture around the page,  but be sure that the little “Moving Truck”  shows when you do it !!

These are the basics of a 15-Minute Web Page using MS Publisher... Just continue to edit the page by replacing the sample text with information about your class or club... To see how your page will look once it is placed on the World Wide Web,  go to the top of your screen and click on FILE, and Web Page Preview:

This is how the page we are creating will look on the WWW:

Let’s  close the web browser by clicking on the upper right X box,  and save our work so far.   To do that we go to the upper left of the screen again,  and click FILE and SAVE... When the box appears below, change the name of the file to your last name... (I’ve already done it in the picture below)  and click SAVE...

Now that we have saved our page in MS Publisher (.pub),  we need to save it as a Web Page, so it can be put on the Internet and seen by millions !!! ... Go back and click on FILE and then click on SAVE AS WEB PAGE..

Leave the Folder Name just as it is, and just click OK...  (See Picture Below) This will save everything you need to be seen on the WWW in a folder named Publish,  which will be in My Documents on your Desktop.   I would suggest re-naming the folder “Publish” (once this is done) to your last name.  More on that later....

 

 

Go to your Desktop,  and Double-Click on My Documents to open the folder... That’s where you will find the folder named “Publish”... Now is the time to change the name of this folder to “smith”  (Your last name)... Next,  Double-Click on the folder named “smith”  and you will see all of the files needed to see your web page properly on the Internet.   Copy the folder “smith”  onto a floppy disk and give it to your school Webmaster.   He/She will upload it to your site... You may also upload this to your own web space, if you have some  (For example,  all AOL accounts have their own web space).  

 

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