| 1. Using a Template (1) Using the Mozilla browser, find a page that you would like to use as a template for your own page. For purposes of our seminar projects, I suggest you use the Leonard Peltier site on my "Famous Trials Lite" page. The page you want to go to is this: Peltier Trial (our template). (2) On the top toolbar in the left hand corner, you should see the word "File." Left-clicking on "File" should open up a set of options. Left click on "Edit Page." (3) Try changing the text on the page. Bring the cursor to the heading "Leonard Peltier Trial (1977)" in the middle of the page. Pull the cursor across the heading, which should highlight it. Now press the delete button. Type in the heading for your own trial in the now empty space. (4) To change the size of the text, go to the toolbar and with click the "A" with the small, downward-pointing arrow to reduce the font size, or click on the large "A" with the upward-pointing arrow to increase the font size. To make the font bold, click on the "B." To italicize, click on the slanting "I." To change the text color, click on the colored square to the left f the "A's" , which will reveal a color chart from which you can select your preferred color of text. (5) Try deleting tables. Click on the "Chronology" page. Click "File" and then "edit page." Bring the cursor inside one of the white rectangles (a "table"). On the top menu, click on "Table," which should bring down a set of options. Click to "Select" and then--on the right-hand set of options that appears click "table." This should have the effect of highlighting the selected table. Now click the "Delete" button on the keyboard to delete. (6) Try copying a table. Click on a rectangle, then "Table," "Select, and "Table." Now click on "Edit" on the upper toolbar. From the set of options that appears, click "Copy." Move your cursor to the place on the page that you would like to paste the copied table. Now click on "Edit" on the toolbar, then "Paste." The table should be pasted and you can edit it as you wish. (7) Try deleting an image. Go to the Peltier page. Click edit "File," then "Edit Page." Now right-click on the image of Peltier being arrested. Little dots should appear around the image. Now hit the delete button on your keyboard. The image should disappear. (8) Try inserting an image. Go to Google. Click on (above the search box) "Images." Search for an image--say, "Thomas Jefferson." Click on one of the images of T. J. that appear on Google's search. Click on the link (at the top of the page) "image in its original location." When the web page with the image comes up, hit "File," then "Edit Page." Right click on the image. Highlight and then right click "Copy." Now go page to your page and move your cursor to the place you would like to have the image appear. Right click and "Paste." 2. Linking Click on this official page: William Clinton. Highlight in blue (by running the cursor across it) the url for this page in the toolbar at the top of the page. Go to "Edit," then left-click "Copy." Now go to the Peltier page. Hit "File," then ""Edit Page." In the paragraph of text on the page, highlight the two words "President Clinton." Click on "Link" on the toolbar at the top of the page. A box will appear. Right click, then "paste." Cick "OK." (To link to a file on the computer, hit "Link," and when the box appears, click on "choose files." Highlight the file you wish to link to, then click "Open." Finally, click "OK.") You can also link to material on your page by inserting an "anchor" and then linking to it--more later on this. You can change the color of links, from the default color of blue, by clicking on "Format" and then going down to "Page colors and background," and then making your desired color choice--for links, as well as for the page background. 3. Creating a Table To create a table--which, you will find out, has many possible uses--click on "Insert" on the top menu bar. From the options that appear, click on "Table." A box will appear that will ask you how many rows and columns you's like (it could be just one, as is the case with the table in which this very text appears), as well as the preferred size of your table. You can also create tables within tables, have borders of whatever size you'd like between cells (or no border at all), and use different colors for different cells. The entire table can be moved, copied, or deleted. 4. Photo Editing Use the photo editing software of your choice to crop, resize, brighten, colorize, or in any other way edit your images. 5. Saving When you are ready to save your document, click on "File" at the upper-left corner of the menu bar. From the list of options that appear, click on "Save as" and give your file the name of your choice. |