Simple Steps to Making a Web Page with N Vu And posting to the U Drive 1 Open N Vu a blank document will be created Set the title of the document by going to the Format menu and selecting Page Title and Properties Add a title the other information is not necessary 2 Save the file using the extension html You do not need to keep the same name for the file name as for the file If this is your first page you should use index html why is this Other file names should be relatively short with only letters and numbers no punctuation and use underscore for spaces 3 Add text to your page by clicking typing and formatting just like a word processor To change the background color select Format and Page Colors and Background Select Use custom colors and click on the swatch for background 4 You can add tables for more formatting options e g two columns Click on the Table button or Insert menu Table Select the number of rows and columns If you want an invisible table click on the Precisely tab and set the Border to 0 zero table will show up as red line which will not be visible in a browser 5 To make a link set your cursor in the correct location and Insert menu Link Type the text to display the link and enter the URL for the location to link to For a link to another page in your site only include the folder an file names e g nextpage html a relative link For a link to another site include http and the full URL and absolute link 6 To add a picture you need to find a picture and save it as a separate file e g mypict jpg Put this picture into the appropriate location in your website This could be in the same location as your html page or in a folder called images or graphics The select Insert menu Image For Image Location click on Choose File and select your image You can set many properties of your image using this window you can recall this window by double clicking on any picture in NVu To make your picture a hotlink choose the Link tab and enter a URL for the file to link to either a relative or absolute link 7 Save your work often and take a look at what it looks like in a browser by clicking on the Browse button 8 Uploading to the site TBA when you are ready copy all your files to their same relative locations on your udrive in the folder public html
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