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Saving Your Web Page...on a
Mac
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What You'll Learn in this Section
Before we go on to Images, you're going to need to save your
page. In fact, you should be saving your page every 5 or 10 minutes
in case your computer freezes, lightning strikes, or an errant
baseball comes crashing through the window and lands directly
in your monitor sending shards of glass flying like clipped toe
nails as you cover your eyes in a vain attempt to stop the bleeding.
I really should seek psychiatric help.
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Saving Your Web Page to Your Desktop
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Hello Mac users. Now that we've ditched those
pesky PC people (again, notice the fine use of alliteration), let's
get down to business.
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1. The first thing that you need to do is
click on "File." A pull down menu should, well, pull down. |
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2. Click on "Save As." A window
pops up that looks like this sans the circles and arrows.. |
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3. You're going to save this file to the
Desktop (and all successive web pages and images as well). The Desktop
should already be selected, but in case it is not, simply hit the
"Desktop" button  . |
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4. Now you want to create a folder on your Desktop where you
can store your files. To do this, click on the "New Folder"
icon.
A small window appears
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6. Now you must give the folder a name.
For our purposes, why don't you name the folder after yourself. Mrs.
Jones would name her folder "Jones." So, go ahead and type
your own name over "Untitled Folder," which should be highlighted
blue. |
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7. Click on the "Create" button,
which will open the new folder. |
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8. Now you have to name your file (aka your web page). In theory
you can name your web page anything you want, but there a couple
of ground rules you should be aware of.
Three Ground Rules of Naming Web Pages
1. Keep it short...no one wants to type supercalifragilisticexpialidoscious.htm
(did I spell that right?)
2. Try not to use capital letters...they will
only throw you off when you try to type the URL in the browser.
3. Never use spaces between words...If you use
spaces, your web page won't work. You can use markers between words
if you prefer: cat-in-the-hat.htm, cat_in_the_hat.htm.
4. If the baseball hits the telephone wire it
is a fair ball.
Okay, after all that, why don't you name your page
"home.htm" because this is the home page of your classroom
web site. You'll learn more about the file extension ".htm"
in the "Publishing" section and probably in the "FTP"
module. For now, don't worry about, just type it right under the
words "Save Current Document as.".
Click
here for more about file names.
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9. Click on "Save." From this
point on, every time you save something that concerns your classroom
web site, save it to this folder on your Desktop. |
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