1. At your leisure, visit the following site for ideas about starting your own website:
http://www.learningspace.org/tech/clrs_hmpg/chintro.html

It has some elements about storyboarding and web page design.

This link is to a page that has some ideas for starting your class page.
http://www.learningspace.org/ric/launcher/directions.htm

Also, try conducting your own search on the Internet for Teacher websites or School websites to see what other teachers are doing.  What you'll see is that the sky's the limit.

2. Type directly into Claris Homepage as you would type into ClarisWorks.  Edit text as normal, centering titles, making text larger, changing colors, etc.

3. Going to Style, Font, you can change the font on your webpage, but that doesnt mean that the fonts you choose will work on different computers (people may not have the fonts you choose).

4. Have a folder designated as your website folder.  Here are some options to consider:

• It will probably be easiest if you keep all your web pages saved in this folder.  If you choose to go this route, keep your table of contents page () out of all the folders in your main folder so there will be a way out of your folders.
• You can create different folders for different topics, i.e. different classes.
• Later on when you consolidate you will get a chance to create a separate folder just for images, you can call the folder img, images, picts, pictures or something that makes sense to you.

5. Go to File, Library, just as in ClarisWorks, to choose pictures, bullets, buttons and backgrounds.

6. You can add other pictures that you scanned, took with a digital camera, or got off the web from a free clipart site using the picture button.  Make sure you placed the graphic in your image folder.  Click the image button, then go into your images folder and double click on the image file.

Double clicking a picture (or using the object editor button) will bring up the following:

7. You can make buttons, pictures, or words links by clicking on the linking button.  You can link to WWW pages by copying the entire address from Netscape (http://www.sony.com) then pasting it onto the linking dialog box.  If you want to link pages you created, they must be created first before you can link to them.  Once you have them, click on the link button then click on browse files to select while page you want to link to.

Note: It's a good idea to link all your major topic pages back to the Table of Contents () file so that your viewers don't get lost.  All other pages should have a link back to their main topic page.  If you separate the bottom of all your pages with a horizontal line (the line button), then you can have links to all the pages in that section.  That way people can get to any page from any page instead of having to go through all of them to get to a specific page.

8. Save often.  Click on File, Save.  When you first save, you will be prompted to give your page a title.  Think of a title that makes sense.  Math Chapter 1 makes more sense than Page 1.  Once you click on Okay, Homepage will assume that you wanted the title to be the name of the webpage.  That should be true in every instance except the first.  The first page you save should be your page.  You must type in exactly then save.  As you name more and more pages, remember the following rules to keep your life easier - never use spaces, use the underline character in place of a space, keep your letter lowercase, using numbers is good, and never use any slashes, apostrophes, commas, periods, or any other symbols.

9. The waffle like button is for creating tables.  When you click on the table button you will see:

10. These three buttons are the Verify Links, Consolidate and Upload buttons respectively.

The verify links button makes sure all your links are working. 

The consolidate button is very important, the upload button makes you consolidate automatically by the way, consolidating places your pictures where they need to go, i.e. your images folder.

          

The upload button, once setup, will allow you send your completed or edited webpages to the school's web server.  See your webmaster to setup an FTP account.