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Creating and Editing a Page
I want to create a web page.
Click, Manage Tools. Click, Add a Page.
Click, Add a Custom Page. The new page will come up. For Page name give your page a title. Use no more then
sixteen characters. Do not use a dash (-), the sign for and (&), and
asterisk (*), and other symbols similar to this. In Page Description write what the page should cover.
Then go into the page and put your material in it. Or scroll
down to Save Page, click to Save Page and insert
material in the page later.
I saved my page to use later. How do I get into it?
Click the title of the page you want to enter. Below you will
see, Edit this Page. Click, Edit this Page, and the
page to be edited will appear.
Can I start typing in the page?
Yes, you can or you can type it on your word processor and
copy and paste that material on the page. If you are going to use something from another web site, if
you copy and paste their HTML, it might not be compatible to your
HTML and your lines may not appear correct. I believe the best advice as I am
seeing these pages working is not to copy and paste anything from another web
site. I would insert material from my own typing or word processor.
What size typing does this use?
Go to Font Size. Notice they have
numbers from one thru seven and it shows you what that number would look like.
Number three is the size that is automatically use. That is what I prefer to
use. With Font number one, two, and three you can highlight your word or words
and make them bold. If you use four, five, six, and seven, the letters will be
bold. Should you want to change the Font Size later,
highlight the word or words, go to Font Size, click the other size and it should
change, even in making it bold no more. I have not found this to be true in all
cases in trying to get a bold font to turn to a font that is not bold.
I put the title of the page and made it bold. Now as I type
the body of the letter, it is bold. Now what?
Try spacing down further away from the title and see if this
will do the correction. Another thing you might have to do is highlight the body
of words, bring it to a smaller font, by clicking on Font Size
and then choose a smaller number, then click bold to make it not bold and then
changing it to the correct number.
I am typing our address, and when I hit enter after our name
to put our street address, I am getting too much space between the two. I would
like it directly under it without that space. How do I make this correction?
Instead of hitting Enter, hit at the same time, Shift/Enter
and that will give you a single space.
Some of my sentences have large gaps between the words and/or
they are not extending out to the end of the page. How do you correct this?
Put your browser at the end of the last word where you want
to bring the other word(s) to meet. Then hit the key, Delete. You
would do the same with a sentence that is not extending out long enough to bring
a group of words to be connected to that sentence.
Some of the words in one of my sentence have extended out too
long and I must scroll my side bar to read it. Those words need to be brought
directly down without a large space. How?
Put your browser at the beginning of the word you want to
bring down and then at the same time, hit, Shift/Enter.
I put a paragraph where I didn’t want it. Can I move it?
In your Edit Page at the menu bar you will see
a pair of scissors, two sheets of paper, and a clip board with a sheet of paper
in front of it. Scissors stands for Cut, two
sheets of paper is to Copy Text, and the Clip Board
is to Paste Text. To Cut (remove) a word or group of words,
highlight the word(s). Click, scissors and the words will
disappear. Put your browser where you want the words to be and click the Clip
Board to Paste Text. In many cases, you can go to the Tool Bar above
the Edit Page and go to Edit, and there you will see Cut,
Copy, and Paste and do the same things.
How do you copy a word(s)?
Highlight the word or words, Go to Edit, Scroll
down to Copy, and you have copied it. If you want to remove it to
place somewhere else, still highlight the word or word, go to Edit,
Scroll down and click, Cut. After you have done either one of
these, put your browser where you want the word or group of words to be, go to Edit,
scroll down and click, Paste. You could do the same on your Edit
Page using the right symbols.
I want a line as a divider in my page. How?
Click the solid line in the Menu bar, titled "Create
your New Page," and you will get the line.
I want to put Yahoo as one of my links and I want Yahoo to
show. How?
First, go to Yahoo’s web site and get their address (URL)
by copying their site. To do that, highlight their address, go to Edit,
scroll down to Copy and you have it. Get it all because I have
found too often that just www, doesn’t work.
Yahoo’s URL: http://www.yahoo.com/
Go to your Edit Page and type Yahoo. Highlight, Yahoo, Click the Blue ball with a chain in front of it in the Menu Bar. A box will read: htpp:// then a blank space. Put, Yahoo’s URL in it. Then click Insert.
I want to put Yahoo as one of my links and I want their URL
(address) to show, but in the same essences, I want a person to be able to click
their URL so they can go to that site. How?
Put your browser at the end of their URL and hit Enter. It
will make that address a hyperlink which a person can click and go to.
I would like to have my E-Mail name as a hyperlink? How?
Write your name, Highlight, go to the
blue ball with the chain in the Menu Bar and click, there is an arrow on
the left of htpp:// move it to Mail To. Put your e-mail address in
it and click, Insert.
I want a chart. How?
Click the Chart, put how many Rows and Columns
you want and then click, Insert Table.
I want to put the title of my page in a box. How?
Click the chart. A screen will appear and for
rows and columns, change the numbers, two to one. Now click, Padding and
Spacing and if you want the number to be larger, make the necessary
changes. Now click, Border and change the width if you so desire
and then choose your color. This will be the color of your border. Now click, Background
and pick a color. Concerning background, this will be the color inside your box.
Now click, Insert Table. The single box will appear. Put your
browser inside your box and type whatever you wanted. You can make those words,
bold, give it color, etc. If you do not like the color for the background, put
your browser in the background section, click the icon for background color, the
one with the paint bucket with a bar below it. Choose your color, and the change
will be made for the background. Once you are pleased with the end result of the
page you have just edited, scroll and click, Save Page.
I want to put either a photo, an animated graphic, or just a
graphic on my page. How do you do it?
Before you can put a photo, an
animated graphic, or just a graphic on a page, you first have to upload the
photo, etc. into one of your albums and then retrieve that photo, etc. from the
album to put it on the page. Please note, the photo, etc. must stay in that
album permanently for the photo, etc. to be displayed on the page. If you delete
the photo, etc. from the album then the photo will not show on the page. You
will only see an empty box with a small "x" in the left-hand corner of
the box.
Confused where to put
the photo, an animated graphic, or just a graphic in one of your album, then the
following is suggested:
More then likely the photo, etc.
which must be put in an album prior to putting it on a page you necessarily do
not desire to put in your major album(s), so you have an album which MSN has
provided just for this purpose. To get to the album do the following.
1. Sign into
your web site.
2. Now on the left side where the pages are listed, click
"Pictures."
3. Notice where the address of your web site is, just below you will see,
and I think it is in orange on all the web sites, the word "Pictures."
Just below the word "Pictures," you will see "display
albums," and then a hyperlink which reads: show photos. Click "show
photos."
4. You will see this album is no different then your regular album, so click
"Add Photos," and from your floppy disk or from your computer where
you save your photos, put a check mark in the photo you want and then click,
"Upload Now."
Very, very good. We now have the photo, etc. in an album. Now we are going to put that photo, etc., on a page. Remember, that photo has to stay in that album for the picture to be displayed on the page. Delete the photo, and the picture on the page will disappear.
Directions in putting the said photo, etc. on a page.
1. Go to the page you
want to put the photo, etc. in which you will see the title is on the left side
of your site and click, "Edit this page."
2. On the top of the said page you will see an elongated block with different
icons. Find the icon which is a square block and inside of the block, it have
two mountains with the sun over it on the right side. First, put your browser on
your page where you want the photo, etc. Click the said icon, notice when you
put your browser over the said icon, it says "Insert Photo." Click the
icon and a screen will come up and you will see the name of your web site on the
left-hand side in bold print. Click the name of your web site and you will see
the different albums you have in your web site.
3. In this lesson we put the photos, etc. in "Pictures." So click,
"Pictures."
4. Click the picture you want and you will see that it is encompassed by a red
line. Now, click, "Add Photo." Please note, now the photo is seen on
your page.
5. More then likely the picture is too large, so notice the small little square
boxes around the photo, etc. Put your browser on the box until it makes an
arrow. Then slide the arrow upward and/or sideways to make it smaller. If the
picture is not centered or you want it on the left or right of your page, while
the boxes are present, click the Left, Center, Right, justify lines. Once you
have the photo the size and the location where you want it, click on the outside
of the photo, etc. so the little boxes will disappear.
6. By chance you want to resize the photo, etc. or reposition it, or even delete
it, you have to make the little boxes appear again. Do this by clicking the
photo, then follow step 5 again. But to delete it, with the little boxes
present, put your browser in the photo, and on your keyboard, hit
"Delete."
7. Now click "Save Page." Remember a photo, etc. has to stay in the
album for the photo, etc. to be seen on a page.
If you want a graphic from the clip
art:
Click, Clip
Art Gallery.
In the list of subjects on the left,
click the subject you want
and some photos will appear. Click
the photo you want
and then click, Add
Photo.
The photo will appear on your page.
Then click
"Save Page."
I want my page to have color on it. How do I do that?
Click the icon where the paint bucket seems to be spilling
out of it. A chart will appear.
Click the color you want and it will put color on your page.
I want my words or group of words to have color on it. How?
Highlight the words or group of words. Click the icon which
is a capital "A." A color chart will appear. Click the
color you want and it will appear.
What is the icon, the smiley for?
These are different graphics, click the smiley and you will
see the graphics. Click the graphic you want and it will appear. If you will put
your browser over the graphic, you will see a plus sign with pointers at the
end. Click it and small blocks will appear around the object. .Put your browser
at one of the blocks until you see an arrow and then you can expand the graphic.
You will not be able to expand too much or you will distort the image.
I have just edited my page. When I clicked, "Save
Page," a screen came up and said, "Entry too long." When I
clicked "Back, " only what I tried to save is lost, but insertions
prior to that is still intact. What is happening?
In a page, you are allowed about five pages from your word
processor, but to be on the safe side, I would use four pages from my word
processor as a guide. If you exceed the amount limited to you, you cannot save
the changes. Only the article you were trying to save will be lost. All
that was there prior will still exist. If I put an article on a page and I
think I may have already hit my five page limit, prior to saving the page,
I copy the article inserted. Then if the article is is rejected
because the entry is too long, I make a new page and then paste the
article on the new page. It beats retyping it again.
I know after you edit your page, to save the changes you
scroll down and click, Save Page. I am not sure what I did wrong, but the end result is a
disaster. What I had prior to the change was better. Help.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click, Cancel.
The page you had prior to editing the page will be the one that is saved.
The page I just created is at the bottom of the list. Can it
be moved?
Go to Manage Tools and then to Manage
Page.
In the box titled, Select the Page to Change find
the page you want to change and it will become highlighted. You will see on the
right, Location in List and the title Move Up and Move
down. Click one that you desire, moving it up or down and the page will
move. After you have done this, click Save Changes.
For more help concerning editing a page, go to your Home Page, though any page will do. Where you see "Home," "My Communities," and "Help," click Help. A page will appear on the right-hand side, titled, "Help." You will see a title, "For help on MSN communities" and a box below it. Type, edit page and the click, Go. Additional information will be given to you concerning how to edit a page.