1. Insert the TEC 908 floppy disk into your disk drive.
2. Open Internet Explorer
3. Click on the File menu
4. Select Import and Export
5. When the Wizard appears, click on Next
6. Click on Export Favorites from the dialog box that appears
7. Click on Next
8. If the top Favorites folder is not selected, click once on that folder icon
9. Click on Next
10. Click in the radio button in front of Export to a File or Address
11. Click on Browse
12. Select the a: drive and the a:\root folder as the destination for the exported favorites
13. Replace the default file name with cswp1 (for curriculum-specific webpage #1) and be sure to leave the Save as type set to HTML
14. Click on Save
15. Internet Explorer will convert your favorites list to an HTML file (a webpage)
16. Your original favorites list will be left intact on your computer.
17. Click on Next when the Wizard screen reappears
18. Click on Finish to exit the Wizard
19. A dialog box will appear informing you that the export process was successful
    

Creating a Curriculum-Specific Webpage: Netscape Method

1. Open the Netscape browser software application.
2. Click on the Bookmarks menu.
3. Double-click View Bookmarks.
4. Your existing list of bookmarks should appear.
5. Click on the File menu.
6. Double-click on Save As…
7. You will be given an option of saving the bookmarks to a folder on your hard disk or to a floppy disk. (It is suggested that you save the bookmark file to a floppy disk. Insert a blank floppy disk into the disk drive. Under Drives, use the down arrow to select the a: drive and click OK. Your existing bookmarks will be saved to the floppy disk. When you are finished with this activity, you can import the file back to the Netscape application using the Import Bookmarks option.)
8. Now we will delete the existing bookmarks to create an empty file that we will use to store our curriculum-specific bookmarks.
9. Select the first bookmark on your list (click once, it will turn blue). Now move to the last bookmark on the list and click on that item. The entire bookmark list should turn blue. (You can also select them one at a time…)
10. Click on the Edit menu and using the Delete key, delete all the bookmarks in your file.
11. Double-click the close box (upper left corner) of the Netscape Bookmarks file.
12. You are now ready to begin collecting your curriculum-specific bookmarks.

Collecting Curriculum-Specific Bookmarks

You can use the bookmarks you collected earlier in the course or you can return to the Toolkit and use the Search Engines and Web Indexes to collect new bookmarks for this activity.

1. Insert the TEC 908 floppy disk into the disk drive of your computer.
2. Click on the Bookmarks menu.
3. Click on View Bookmarks.
4. Click on the File menu.
5. Click on Save As…
6. Select the a: drive under the Drives portion of the dialog box that appears.
7. In the Directories/Folders box, select a:\root
8. In the File Name box, replace the default file name with cswp1 (for curriculum-specific webpage #1) Note: Windows 3.1x users: Rename the file cswp1.htm (Be sure to include the .htm suffix on the file name or this won’t work!) Windows 95 users: Just name your file cswp1 and check that HTML Files appears in the Save as type: box.
9. Click OK.
10. Double click the close box to close the Netscape Bookmarks screen.
11. Close Netscape.

1. With the TEC 908 floppy disk in the disk drive, open the DiDa HTML Editor.
2. When the blank HTML Document screen appears, click on the File menu.
3. Click on Open.
4. Select the root folder where you stored the bookmarks. The path should be a:\root
5. In the list of files in the File Name box, select the cswp1.htm file by clicking on it and highlighting it in blue.
6. Click OK.
7. The HTML file should appear on the screen. Hint: You will want to maximize the screen by clicking in the up arrow in the upper right corner as this is a large document and we are going to need some room to work with it.
8. You should see something like this:
   
   
   
   
9. Don’t panic… this looks complicated but we can make sense of it…We are going to strip off some of the unneeded HTML tags that Netscape added to this document and modify it to suit our purposes.
10. Hold down the mouse button and drag it across the lines that appear above the <TITLE> <TITLE> tags. (The lines should turn blue.)
11. Hit the Delete key to remove these lines.
12. Hold down the mouse button and drag across the works that appear between the <TITLE> <TITLE> tags. (The words should turn blue.)
13. Replace the words with a descriptive title that you want to appear in the title bar of the web browser.
14. Hold down the mouse button and drag across the words that appear between the <H1> <H1> tags. (The words will turn blue.)
15. Replace the words with a descriptive title that you want to appear at the top of the webpage you are creating.
16. Now, look carefully at the top few lines of HTML text and you may see another line ending in the words > ….bookmarks</H3 (Note: this will vary depending on which version of Netscape you are using!)
17. If the …bookmarks</H3 tags are present, carefully, delete the words between the > and </H3, leaving a blank space. Take care not to delete the > < tags.
18. Your document should now look something like this:
    
    
    
    
19. You could go through the entire document and strip off all the other tags that Netscape added to the file to keep track of the date when the bookmark was last visited, but you don’t need to. The file will work just fine the way it is.
20. Save the changes you made (File/Save)
21. Be sure the file is being saved as a:\root\cswp1.htm
22. Click on the Preview Screen to take a look at your new curriculum-specific webpage.
23. Make any necessary changes to the webpage (background colors, horizontal lines, inserting graphic images, etc.) by toggling between the HTML Document and Preview Screen… Here’s where you can try out all the skills you developed in the last three activities!
24. Be sure to Save any changes that you make.
25. Close DiDa (File/Exit)

1. Log on to the Internet and open your web browser.
2. When the web browser is finished loading, click on the File Menu.
3. Click on Open File (or Open).
4. Select the a: drive.
5. Click on the root folder.
6. Click on cswp1.htm (It should turn blue.)
7. Click OK.
8. Your new curriculum-specific webpage should appear in the browser window.
9. Test the links to ensure that they are active and connect to the websites listed.
10. Close the web browser and log off the Internet.

1. Log on to the Internet and open your web browser.
2. Insert the TEC 908 disk into your floppy disk drive.
3. You can use the Favorites you collected earlier or you can revisit the Toolkit and use the Search Engines and Web Indexes to locate new Favorites related to your chosen topic.
4. As you find these webpages, add them to your Favorites list using the method specific to your web browser. Check the onscreen Help files for specific directions.
5. Hint: Internet Explorer has a Add to Favorites List option in the Favorites pop-down menu. AOL lets you drag the little heart icon at the upper right side of the screen up to the Favorites folder near the top of the screen.
6. Continue your search until you have added 10-15 curriculum-specific links to your Favorites List.
7. Close your web browser and log off the internet.

1. Double-click on Notepad to open the application.
2. Navigate to the File menu and select Open.
3. Insert the TEC 908 floppy disk into your disk drive.
4. Navigate to the a: drive
5. Double-click on the folder titled Tmpl.
6. Select All Files *.* in the Files of Type pop-down menu on the bottom left hand side of the dialog box. (A list of all the files in the Templ folder should now be on the screen.)
7. Double-click on the file titled cswp
8. A template for the curriculum-specific webpage you are about to create will appear on the screen looking like this.
   
   
   
   
9. Before you make any changes to this template, navigate to the File menu and select Save As.
10. Rename the file as cswp1.htm and save it to the root folder on the a: drive.
11. Note: This step is important as it will allow you to reuse the template for future curriculum-specific webpages.
12. Enter the title that you want to appear at the top of the web browser screen between the <title> </title> tags.
13. Enter the title that will appear on the webpage itself between the <h1> </h1> tags.
14. Save the changes you made.

Your screen should look something like this…

1. Leave the Notepad where it is on the screen.
2. Log on to the Internet and open your web browser.
3. If the web browser fills the entire screen, click on the resize box to make it smaller so you can see both the web browser and the Notepad windows.
4. Try clicking on each window to bring it to the front several times so that you feel comfortable with the process.
5. Bring the browser to the front and go to your Favorites List. Click on one of the Favorites you want to add to your webpage and wait for it to load on the screen.
6. Move the cursor up to the location box above the webpage and drag across the part of the address that follows the http:// (be careful… you don’t want to include the http:// You will see why in a moment…)
7. With the selected portion of the URL highlighted in blue, hold down the Ctrl key while you press the C key (Ctrl-C). This shortcut will copy the selected text to the clipboard. Note: You might be able to use Copy from the Edit menu… although not all web browsers will allow you to do this…give it a try if you want to.
8. Now, click on the Notepad window and go to the first of the lines beginning with <a href="http://
9. Hold down the mouse button while you drag across the words ENTERURLHERE The text should turn blue. Be careful not to include the http:// or the quotation mark after HERE … this is part of the HTML tag and must be left intact for the link to work.
10. Hit the Backspace or Delete key to remove the ENTERURLHERE.
11. Hold down the Ctrl key while you press the V key (Ctrl-V). This shortcut will paste the URL you copied from the webpage into the HTML tag. Paste from the Edit menu might work as well…again, not all browsers allow it. Give it a try.
12. Now, hold down the mouse button while you drag across ENTER TOPIC OF HYPERTEXT LINK HERE in the same line of the template. The words will turn blue.
13. Hit the Backspace or Delete key to remove the selected text.
14. Enter the text that you want to appear on the webpage as a link to the URL you just entered.
15. Save the changes you just made to the template by selecting Save from the File menu or using the Ctrl-S shortcut.
16. The template should begin to look something like this…
    
    
    
    
17. Click on your web browser and select the second webpage from your favorites list.
18. Follow the same steps outlined above to insert the URL and Topic of the Hypertext Link into the second line of HTML code.
19. Save the changes you are making to the webpage frequently.
20. Continue the process until you have transferred all the desired URL’s to the webpage you are building.
21. If there are more template entries than you need, merely select and delete the extra lines. If you need more, copy one of the lines of code and paste it to the bottom of the template.
22. Close your web browser and log off the Internet.
23. Save the changes you made to the cswp1.htm document one last time.
24. Close the Notepad application.

1. Log on to the Internet and open your web browser.
2. When the web browser is finished loading, click on the File Menu.
3. Click on Open File.
4. Select the a: drive.
5. Click on the root folder.
6. Click on cswp1.htm (It should turn blue.)
7. Click OK.
8. Your new curriculum-specific webpage should appear in the browser window.
9. Test the links to ensure that they are active and connect to the websites listed.
10. Close the web browser and log off the Internet.

Note: I would like to see the curriculum-specific webpage that you have created. E-mail the HTML source code of your cswp1.html file to me <bjost@josts.net> using the steps outlined earlier. Include the words "webpage D" in the subject of the message. You do not need to include any graphic images, just the HTML source code. Record the date you sent the file in your logbook.

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