How to create your homepage with Expressions Web, available in most classrooms and other computers on campus.
- Email Cheryl Kirkpatrick (kirkpatrickc@midlandstech.edu) and copy Bruce
Martin (martinb@midlandstech.edu) requesting a folder on the departmental
Website.
- Download the template and extract it from the .zip file. In other words,
save
WebPageTemplate.zip
to your hard drive, open Windows Explorer, find and click on
WebPageTemplate.zip and click "Extract all files". They should all show up in a
folder named WebPageTemplate.
- Open Expressions Web
- Open the Website by clicking on the "File" menu, then "Open Site", then, for
the Site Name, if "jones" is your name, enter
http://www.midlandstech.edu/edu/ed/ism/jones
- You will be prompted for a username and password. These are as provided by
Cheryl Kirkpatrick. Remember the "SOS\" part at the beginning of your username.
- Open the template by clicking on the "File" menu, then "Open", then click on
"My Documents" or "My Computer" as needed and find the WebPageTemplate folder.
Click on and open staticFacultyTemplate.html
- Click the "File" menu, then "Save As", then "Current Site" and change the
filename to "default.html" and save it. It will also prompt you to "Save
Embedded Files". Click OK.
- Edit only in the central grey area.
- Click on "Your Name" and replace it with your name.
- Fix the email address.
- Delete or fix the phone number.
- Right click on the picture, select "Picture Properties" and browse to a
picture of yourself. Resize it if you need to.
- For each of your courses
- Add the course number at the beginning of the line.
- Select the "Syllabus" link, click the link icon (a globe with 3 links of
a chain) and change the address to match your course.
- Select the "Addendum" link, click the link icon, and change the link to
the name of your addendum file.
- Delete extra lines, or copy and paste more of them.
- Add your degrees and certifications.
- Save, agree to save embedded files, and exit.