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Saving Your Web Page
  

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.

 
     
 
Saving Your Web Page to Your Desktop
  
 
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to ask the Mac users to step outside while we talk about them behind their collective backs.
  
  1. The first thing that you need to do is click on "File." A pull down menu should, well, pull down.  
 
 
  2. Click on "Save As." A window pops up that looks like this.  
 
 
  3. The next thing you want to do is to select where you want to save the web page (and all successive web pages and images). For our purposes, let's save to the Desktop. To select the Desktop, click on the down arrow to the right of "Save in:."  
  4. Scroll up or down until you see "Desktop," then click on it.  
  5. Now you want to create a folder on your Desktop where you can store your files. To do this, click on the "Create New Folder" icon toward the top right of the open window. A folder should appear that looks like this.  
 
 
  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 name.  
  7. Now, double-click on your new folder, which should open it up. It should look something like this.  
 
 
 

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 (Four) 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's 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. Type your name to the right of "File name."

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.

  
  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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