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Homepage Setup

1. Open up Expressions 4

a. If your site does not automatically open,

Click open and find your site on your disk

Double click on your home page

2. Right click on your page and choose Page Properties

a. Change the Internal name of

your page.

b. Click on Formatting tab – this

is where you can save the

background

as well as your hyperlink

colors

c. Choose a background image

that you have saved in your

folder.

d. Choose Hyperlink colors that

you wish to use.

(We will be added a table to put our Information in. So, you can have a little more of a

pattern if you choose to. You may have to come back to this and play with some of your

colors)

Homepage Setup

3. Click on format

a. Choose Paragraph

b. Type ‘0’ in the spacing

c. Choose your line spacing

(Note: if your line spacing is

off, then chances are the ‘0’s

have disappeared and you

need to go back and put them

back in.)

Basic Notes:

We are going to add tables to help make our text visible and allow us to use some

fancier backgrounds.

General rule: Light background, Dark text. If we use this rule with the tables, we can use

more backgrounds.

On the Homepage, we can be more a little more out there. However, on additional site

pages, a little more subdued.

On additional pages, consistency is Imperative!!! You can group areas to be the same

or do the remainder of the pages.

Homepage Setup

The following images are three ways that the same background can be used. The first

one is not so great for several reasons. (Below is just a few of those reasons)

 Text is not all that easy to read

 Too much white space

 Background can be distracting overall

However, using the same background, you can use tables and the appearance is

improved

Way 1:

Way 2:

Homepage Setup

4. See Inserting Tables handout and insert either 2 tables (way 1) or 1 table (way

to) to create the appearance you like.

5. On the left side of the table, list the items that need to be on the homepage

a. These are items that are ‘main’ links – links that will make your user’s life

easier. For example: Students, Parents, Homework, Announcements …

b. You will need to decide what is appropriate for your site. Keep in mind, if

you overloading is as bad as listing everything and everything

6. Link each of your items

a. Highlight the text

b. Right click and choose hyperlink (or choose the hyperlink button on the

top)

c. Find your desired file and double click on it

i. NOTE: You MUST double click on the actual file. If you click on the

folder, and click once on the file, the link may go to the folder

instead of all the way to the file.

7. You may need to go back and change hyperlink colors (right click, page

properties, formatting tab and change colors for hyperlinks)

8. On the right side of the table, insert a picture of yourself

a. Insert a picture from file

Homepage Setup

b. An alternative text box will appear. This is for text reader. Give a name to

your image.

c. If the picture is too big, double

click on the picture

i. Click on appearance

ii. Change one side of the

picture (the other side will

change automatically)

Note, on your page, you can change sides. You can place the picture above your text.

There are a variety of ways you can organize. Remember, appearance matters and you

will be critiqued based on that. Some things change based on the background and

colors you choose. Your audience can make a difference as well.

9. Make sure your save your page before exiting the program