Poetry Lab 4

I. Basic Web Page Design - Today you'll gain a basic understanding of how to use Frontpage to make and design web pages. While one group member will ultimately have to coordinate the whole; all should learn the basics.
  1. Creating a Web - Open "MS Frontpage" | Select: "Create a new webpage" | Select "Empty Web" | Enter your group's name as title | and indicate where to place it. (If you brought a disk, select "A:/" and then you will be able to save it; otherwise, it will stay on this computer.)
  2. Create a Page - Select "New Page" at the top left of the screen | Double-click the homepage icon, and it will open a new window. You can type or paste text in here just as with a wordprocessor.
  3. Format - Experiment with the various menus | Create a title, insert your manifesto, etc. | Using the "Format" and "Insert" menus, design the home or introductory page: choosing font style, size, background colors, etc.

II. Group Design - Look at some other literary webpages to see how they are designed. Members of the group should gather around the techno-leader's computer and collectively decide on a homepage look (color, style, etc.).

  1. Publishing to the Web - [Group leader only: When you've created a good starting page, post this page(named index.htm) to your geocities space. ] From the Frontpage navigator page, select "Publish" from the "File" menu; enter the URL (ftp://ftp.geocities.com/yourgroupname), user name (yourgroupname) and password.

III. Build additional pages and links - Use the same procedure above to create a new page with group members' names. Create links between Main and Name pages. Post this new page to your geocities space. 

HW: Write one additional style poem for Monday; bring typed copies for all groupmates of at least 4 of your style poems to the next class.

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