Contribute 3 - Basics

Creating your Homepage or a new page!

If this is your site and you are the administrator you will be able to create and add pages to your site by doing the following.

Please note, if you are using an access key to access a site administered by someone else, you may or may not have permission to add pages (and delete them). Please check with the website administrator if you have questions.

This is very important! Please go out to the web and enter your tilde information (e.g.,http://www.d.umn.edu/~jdoe) and test it to make sure that you do not have an active site that you may overwrite. If you are using your tilde account, please save your "index" page in a newly created folder (see directions below).

Workshop Activity:

To create a new page:

1. Click on File
2. Select "Starter Web Pages" and find a page that you would like to use for your training session or select "Blank Web Page".
3. Give the Page a title and select ok
4. After you select OK you will be in edit mode.

Notice that when you are in edit mode the toolbar looks like this, click Publish to publish your page to the web.

When your page has been published the tool bar looks like this, click Edit Page to make changes to the page and then select Publish again to save changes.

5. Make a few changes to your page and select publish. After you click on "Publish" you will see the following window: select yes

6. The next window will ask you how you want to publish your new page.

If you are not using your tilde account and this is going to be the homepage for your site, your homepage must use the filename index.htm. Other pages in your site can have the same identifying filename as the page title, but not the homepage. Please note the web address for your site: http://www.d.umn.edu/~yourname/index.htm.

Remember! If you already have an active website, create a new folder by clicking on the "Choose Folder" button and save your "index.htm" page in a new folder.

Select Publish!!

Thursday, 22-Mar-2007 07:47:23 CDT