Microsoft expressions website correction

Setting Up New Site

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Basic Expressions Step-By-Step Instructions

Setting Up New Site

Note these are basic instructions – there are other ways to do your assignment. These

instructions are meant to help those that need more than others. We will be stepping

through this in class, so, you make want to make notes as well. There are other ways of

doing things. What is listed below is only one way. Plus, there are many things that we

will not cover, but we will cover enough so that you will be able to make pages like a

pro.

1. Create folder on your disk named

WWW your name

2. Create the following folders in side of your WWW folder

a. Images

i. Inside images, create a folder called backgrounds

b. Templates

c. Style Sheets

d. Parent

e. Announcements

f. Newsletters

g. Students

h. Homework

i. There may be additional folders you need to create based on YOUR

structure

3. Open up Expressions 4

4. Click on new site

5. Choose empty site and click on

browse

a. Find your WWW folder,

double click on your WWW

folder, click open, click ok

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6. You need to be aware when you are

creating files, where you are creating

files. For example: This is the root

directory. You will also see your

other folders. You need to be aware

of where the files are and make sure

you keep them in appropriate places

7. Click on new page

(there is more than one way to do

this. This is just one way)

8. Save this file in the root directory. Because there are no other html files, it will call

it default.html. That is what we want to name our homepage.

9. Looking at our design layout that we did in Inspiration, we will create our other

pages the same way making sure they are saved in the correct folders.

I suggest that you go out and find images that you think you might want to use for

backgrounds as well as an image of yourself for your homepage and any other pictures

you might want to include.

Make sure all images are saved in your image folder.

Note: If all your files do not see all your files in the file list and you have the folders

open, you may need to ‘refresh’ your site

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 Click on the file list

 Click on view and choose refresh