Updating Information on Your Homepage

1. Double-click on "Network Neighborhood" on your Windows 95 desktop

2. Double-click on "Hoyleoffice" in the list.

3. If you are a faculty member double-click on the "facweb" folder; staff members double click
on the "staffweb" folder.

4. Find and double-click on the icon whose name corresponds to your homepage address.  The file will open in a Windows program called Notepad.  Notepad is a text editor, which means it does not include fancy frills such as fonts and sophisticated formatting capabilities.  It does allow one to cut, paste, and save, which is really all you will need to do to edit the HTML source file for your homepage.  (A bit of advice:  If sentences want to continue endlessly past the right edge of your monitor, pull down the Edit menu and select Wordwrap.)

5. Edit the file as you wish, taking care not to delete any of the HTML "tags."  You will recognize the tags as nonsensical strings that are placed between <>s.  If you are editing the description of your research program, be sure that each paragraph begins with <P> and ends with </P>.  If you are editing publications, be sure that each entry begins with <BLOCKQUOTE> and ends with </BLOCKQUOTE>.  Underlined journal titles and volume numbers are placed between <U> and </U>.  If you want to add a hot link to your page, insert the URL (i.e., http://www.xxxxxx) about where it goes, notify me, and I will add the proper tags once you have saved the updated file.

6. Save the updated file and notify me of the update via e-mail.  I will upload the updated file to the web server.

7. Pictures are in the "photos" folder.  To replace the one I currently have for you, save the new one on your computer in JPEG format (xxx.jpg; if you know how, crop it to no more than 240 pixels high and around 180 pixels wide), then copy it over the one in the "photos" folder.  Notify me of the update and I will upload the new photo.  (If need be, I can do the cropping for you as time allows).

8. If you update either your information or your photo, notify me so I can upload the new files to the web server.

9. Note: The files in the "facweb," "staffweb," and "photos" folders are not password protected. 
I assume you'll modify only your own file