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"YOUR OWN WEB PAGE" is an electronic file that includes information prepared for presentation by YOU, then uploaded on a Server. Once your file is on the server, others can access it by using a Web Browser, such as Netscape or Net Explorer.
Although there are several commercial "web page builders" on the market, you can create such a page with nothing more than a word processor and understanding of a few HTML terms. One of the best teachers is the web itself. You can look at the HTML coded text of any page you see, simply by asking your net browser to view the source document of the page currently showing in your browser. Don't be afraid of messing up someone's page, you cannot make any changes to the source document, but you may print it out to examine it more carefully.
There are several sources for web training on this campus, including academic departments, Morris Library, and friends and colleagues. This on-line introductory lesson, with its links to other sources, should help you to prepare a personal/professional web page that can be accessed by your students and colleagues. Please note that each page has links back to the university, the college, the tetpd page, and my e-mail address. If ASA faculty have specific questions, they may e-mail them to me. I will post common questions and answers at the bottom of this page. You will work with a website monitor to upload and update your web page on the university server.
If you are using a word processor such as Microsoft Word or Word Perfect, remember to save your file as a TEXT ONLY file. (Once you have saved your file, you may see what it will look like on the web by using your WEB Browser, and instead of opeing a URL, open a file, and browse for your new file name.)
When ASA faculty have completed a personal web page, they should send it (and any related files such as images files) to me as an attachment to e-mail at the address on the bottom of each of the pages in this help file, and I will load it onto the server, accessible through ASA Special Services, Faculty Directory.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1Q) How can I change the color of the text inside a table or table cell? 1A) There are different ways to control the color of the text on your page with the words in the tags, placement of the words, and placement of the tags. a. To cause all text in the body of your web page, including text in tables, to be a specific color (where xxxxxx is the code for a specific color), you must insert the following within your opening body tag: TEXT="#xxxxxx" as shown below: <BODY TEXT="#xxxxxx"> b. If you wish all the text inside the table to remain default black, and only wish to change the text outside of tables, you must add the code for font color AFTER the body tag, as shown below: <BODY>
<font color=#xxxxxx">c. If you wish to change the text color from the chosen or default text color of the whole page, only inside a particular cell of your table, you must add a tag for font color after the opening <TD>, or table data tag for the specific cell you are dealing with, as shown below: <table width=100%>
<tr>
<td width=n%> <font color=#xxxxxx"> contents of cell </td>More questions wanted here!
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