LSCI 110: DIGITAL ORAL RESEARCH PROJECT

DEVELOPING YOUR ORAL RESEARCH WEBPAGE

Select a background
Insert pictures
Create bookmarks and hyperlinks

To develop your final project into a web page, you should:

  • Go to the Oral research project Webpage template
  • Save the Webpage template webpage on your computer.
    IMPORTANT: When saving:
    • change the file name to: index.html,
    • change "Save as Type" to: Web page, html only (*.htm, *.html) (in some web browsers, this may be called: html source),
    • save this file in the same folder that contains any pictures (.jpg) or sound files (.mp3) you want to include in your page

This gives you a basic outline of a web page which you can edit and to which you can add your own information.

  • Open this file using Microsoft Word.

To select a background:

The default background is white. To change the background, click Format and then click Background. For a solid color, choose any color on the Background submenu. From the Background submenu, you can also create a custom color by clicking More Colors, or for a texture, you can click Fill Effects, then click on the Texture tab.

To insert a picture:

a. Place the cursor in the location where you want to insert the picture

b. Use the Insert pull-down menu and click on Picture , then click on From File... from the second menu

c. Browse to find and select the file you want to insert; click on the file name and then click Insert.

d. After the picture is inserted, you can click on the picture to be able to adjust the size by pulling in or out from a corner or side.

e. To center the picture, or align it to the left or right, click on the picture to select it and then use the text alignment tool on the Word toobar: click on the icon for center, align left or align right.

To create hyperlinks and bookmarks:

" Hyperlinks" allow you to let the reader jump from one place to another in your web page (called a "bookmark") and from your web page to another anywhere else on the Internet.

You can insert a bookmark within your page in order to identify where to hyperlink (from another part of your page) should jump to. For example, you can create a table of contents of all of your audio segments or any other sections in your web page and allow the reader to jump down to each of the different sections on your page. "Bookmarks" mark each spot where you want a reader to be able to jump to.

To insert a bookmark:

a. Place the cursor in the location where you want to insert the bookmark.

b. Use the Insert pull-down menu and click on Bookmark

c. Under Bookmark name, type or select a name.

d. Click Add.

Note Bookmark names must begin with a letter. You cannot include spaces in a bookmark name.


To insert a hyperlink:

a. Highlight the word(s) that you want to make into a hyperlink.

b. Use the Insert pull-down menu and click on Hyperlink (Ctrl-K is a short cut)

c1. To create a hyperlink to a bookmark within the same webpage:

  • click on "Place in this document" on the left side of the "Insert Hyperlink" dialog box;
  • click on the name of the bookmark that you want to link to (you may also select to link to the top of the document) ;
  • click OK.

c2. To create a hyperlink to an audio file or to another webpage:

  • click on "Existing file or web page" on the left side of the "Insert Hyperlink" dialog box;
  • in the box that says "Address",
    • to link to an audio file, enter the exact file name (ending with .mp3). (you will receive a list of the audio files I have for your page); OR
    • to link to another webpage, enter the exact URL (web address) for the webpage you want to link to. Be sure to always start a URL with: http://
  • click OK. 

 

last revised: 12-5-05 by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA

These materials may be used for educational purposes if you inform and credit the author and cite the source as: LSCI 110 Digital Oral Research Project. All commercial rights are reserved. To contact the author, send comments or suggestions to: Eric Brenner at brenner@smccd.net