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Composer
Cheat Sheet
The Kaleidoscope
online learning resources website has hold-you-by-the-hand instructions for
using the
Composer module of the SeaMonkey Application Suite (formerly called Mozilla)
to create web pages:
Kaleidoscope Composer instructions.
This page is a "cheat-sheet" to refresh your memory of the steps
involved in creating a basic web page. Tip: Print this page and refer to it
as a checklist when you are preparing web pages.
Open SeaMonkey to create a basic
web page, then...
- Choose Composer from the Window menu.
Close the original SeaMonkey window.
- Click the New button to create a new page, or click the
Open button to open a page previously saved. If the latter,
select the file on your hard drive. Confirm that "file"
appears in the title bar of the window.
- Edit the page; add text, links, images, etc. Save as often
as you like by clicking the Save button.
- Do not use spaces in filenames (e.g., use aboutme.html instead
of about me.html).
(Do not paste text from Microsoft
Word, or junk code will appear when the page is viewed with many versions
of Internet Explorer.)
- When you are finished editing the page, it's time to publish it. First click
the Save button to make sure that all recent changes are
saved to your hard drive, and then click the Publish button
to publish the page. When successful, "ftp" will
appear in the window title bar where "file" used to be. This signals
that the document now open is not the one on your hard drive, so do not continue
to make changes in this one, which resides on the server. Don't publish
very often, because of the extra steps to open the file on your hard drive
again. Never publish without saving first.
- Close the document that has "ftp" in the window title bar as soon
as you publish it. Do not make any further changes after publishing; just
close it immediately.
- If you need to continue editing the document, go back to step #2, or choose
Open from the File menu, to open the version of the file on your hard drive
that you saved before publishing it to the server.
*** Before editing, confirm that "file" appears
in the title bar of the window!***
Alternatively: Most students will be able to access their
OU Webspace by entering ftp://students.ou.edu/ in the address
of your web browser. Then you will be prompted to enter your user name and password.
This allows you to drag files back and forth between your OU Webspace and the
master pages in your MyWebProject folder on your hard drive.
To create a link...
- In your web browser, go to the web page that you want to link to and copy
the url ("uniform resource locator," which is the
same as its "http://" address).
- Open Mozilla and follow steps #1-3 above.
- Place the cursor where you want the link to appear.
- Click the Link button.
- Complete the resulting dialogue box.
- In the resulting dialog box, enter the link text or
title of the web page that you want to appear when someone is reading
your web page.
- In the resulting dialog box, enter the location or
http address (url). The simplest way to avoid typos is
just to paste the url into the field. If you cannot choose Paste from
the Edit menu, use the keyboard shortcut instead.
- Note: To create an email link, instead of pasting a url, enter "mailto:johndoe@ou.edu"
instead.
- Click OK, then save your page. Return to step #4 above.
"Never
pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel." Casey Stengel (on sportswriters)
