- This is not an HTML reference guide...
- Tools to help developers: "Where do I find them?"
- Tips for Netscape tools
- Tips for Microsoft Frontpage
- Tips for Macromedia Dreamweaver
- Tips for FTP tools
- Various HTML Tips & Tricks
- Search Engines
- Tips for TSPS HTML team members
- Instructions for Foreign Sermon Filenames
- Font Archive for Foreign Languages
- Guidelines for Foreign Translation Ministry Team Leaders
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This is not an HTML reference guide...
... but you can find an excellent HTML complete standard reference manual at the "W3C Web Site": http://www.w3.org/MarkUp (you can also find a link to download these specifications translated in many languages).
You can also see an extensive Tutorial about HTML at this location: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
Here we'll see some tips about using "HTML developers tools" such as Netscape Navigator Gold, Microsoft FrontPage and other applications.
Tools to help developers: "Where do I find them?"
First of all you must know what kind of operating system you're currently using. If you're an Apple user I can't help you, because I have no experience with that kind of computer, but if your system is Microsoft Windows based, I can help. (We need an Apple user to adapt this guide for Apples.)
If your Windows version is 3.0 or 3.1 or 3.11 (now called "3.x"), you'll need 16-bit programs. Windows 95 or NT users will need 32-bit programs.
Text Editor
First, you absolutely need a good and simple text editor to modify the HTML code manually. I suggest TextPad, a very powerful editor. It's shareware and you can download it from this Internet address: http://www.textpad.com - You can also use the Windows Notepad, but this last one has a very limited number of functions. With TextPad you can open a large number of files and search & replace text in all the opened files!
Visual HTML Professional Editor
You have to choose between:
| Tool | Pro | Cons |
| Netscape Composer | - Simple to use |
- Need large hardware resources |
| FrontPage | - Direct import from WordProcessor - Enhanced tables management - Possible to insert direct HTML code - Template managent - Multilanguage support |
- Program not downloadable from Internet* - Need large hardware resources - Expensive |
| Dreamweaver | - Enhanced tables management |
- Need large hardware resources |
* (The Microsoft tools are suitable only in the 32-bit version - Windows 95 and NT - and aren't downloadable from the Internet. You have to buy them!).
Tips for Netscape tools
We'll examine here the Netscape Navigator Gold 3.x. However, Netscape Composer is very similar - but not compatible!
When you have an open page in your browser, simply press the EDIT button to enter into the editor mode.
Editor Preferences
With the Netscape Gold browser open, click on "Options" from the pulldown menu. When the "Editor Preferences" dialog box opens, you will need to fill in some information:
- Your Name
- The Text Editor program
- Choose if you want to save your documents automatically
It's important to select the text editor because you'll need to modify directly the HTML code.
Document Properties
You can start editing your page by setting the "Document Properties". Again, with your browser open, click on "File" from the pulldown menu. Then choose "Open File in Editor". Open the file you want to edit. Then click on "Properties" in the pulldown menu and select "Document". For example:
General
This section is very important. Here you can specify a TITLE for the page, your NAME, a brief DESCRIPTION for the page and the KEYWORDS for the search engines. The CLASSIFICATION isn't important.
These fields are converted into this HTML code:
<HEAD> <TITLE>HTML Tips & Tricks</TITLE>
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Marco Fornasini">
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="HTML Tips & Tricks - Using Netscape Editor, FrontPage, FTP and more">
<META NAME="KeyWords" CONTENT="html, tips, tricks, manual, documentation, tips & tricks, netscape, navigator, gold, composer, communicator, microsoft, frontpage, ftp, ws_ftp, wsftp, text editor, editor, text, language, help, christians, bible, home page, web, world wide web, www, htm"></HEAD> (See below for an explanation of the search engines)
Appearance
In this section you can select the document colors and the background image for the page.
Advanced
Here you can specify some advanced META tags (for advanced users only!).
Images
There are two ways of managing images: editing a page with or without the "Auto Load Images" switch.
If you have all your images in your directory and you want to pre-format the image size, you must select the "Auto Load Images" switch. In this way all the pictures will be sized correctly.
Deselecting this switch, Netscape will set a standard size to the new images (24x22) and you'll need to change this wrong setting, modifying the code directly by deleting the HEIGHT and WIDTH properties from the IMG SRC tag.
Copy/Cut and Paste
Copying and pasting images will generate a bug in the HTML code: a local path (example: "file:c|///program files/dummy/...") will be inserted before the filename. The only way to correct this erroneous link is to edit the HTML code directly with a Text Editor. (TIP: You can correct the problem simply with a Search & Replace operation).
Subdirectories
If your image files are stored in a subdirectory, remember to set the correct switches in the "Editor Preferences" - "Publish". With the Netscape Gold browser open, click on "Options" from the pulldown menu. When the "Editor Preferences" dialog box opens, select the tab that reads "Publish". Then deselect the 2 switches:
Fonts
Navigator Gold doesn't let you select multiple fonts. If you want to use a different font, you have to directly insert an HTML tag. For example:
<FONT FACE="Arial">Greetings from Italy</FONT>
will generate this result:
Greetings from Italy
Remember to use a standard font; every web user has a different environment (PC, MAC, etc.) and different fonts! If you want, you can also specify more than one font in the FONT FACE tag:
<FONT FACE="Dummy,Dummy2,Arial">Greetings from Italy</FONT>
The user PC will select the first font matching his configuration.
Carriage Return
You can use the ENTER key to separate paragraphs...
like this. (I've pressed the ENTER key after "paragraphs.") Using the ENTER key, you can format each paragraph as you like. (Equal to <P> tag)
But there's another way to separate rows: the LINE BREAK.
To obtain this, I've pressed SHIFT+ENTER. This is only a paragraph line break. These aren't 2 paragraphs, so if you align the paragraphs right, all these lines will go to the right. (Equal to <BR> tag)Tips for Microsoft Frontpage
Importing a document
That's a very simple function with FrontPage. Open the "FrontPage Editor." Then click to Menu "File", "Open", "Browse" and select the WordProcessor type you prefer. FrontPage will directly import your document in HTML format and then you can save it.
Tables
You can manage tables with enhanced functions, such as selecting a column and giving it some format or splitting a cell.
Tips for Macromedia Dreamweaver
There are no tips for this program because the built-in Tutorial it's really good!
Previous | Next | TopTips for FTP tools
- FTP Voyager is a perfect tool for Web developers or anyone that moves files on the Internet. FTP Voyager is available for evaluation and can be downloaded for free from RhinoSoft.com. Current language versions include English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Finnish and Japanese.
The interface of FTP Voyager has the simplicity to allow beginners to use it with ease while including advanced features for the experienced FTP user.
The free 30 day trail download version of FTP Voyager can be found at http://www.ftpvoyager.com/customer/record.asp?prod=fv
Click here to read the tutorial about this program: http://www.ftpvoyager.com/
- You can also use WS_FTP or LeechFTP.
You can download a freeware copy of WS_FTP or LeechFTP from:
Download a zipped version of WS_ftp.
Download an zipped version of LeechFTP.These are older versions of FTP software. WS_Ftp works well in Windows 95, 98, and ME. LeechFTP works in
Windows 95, 98, Me and XP.WS_FTP for Windows 95 or Windows NT
Remember that Windows 95/NT is case sensitive about files, so the "DUMMY.HTML" is different from "dummy.html".
WS_FTP for Windows 3.x (16-bit edition)
Windows 3.x isn't case sensitive. Files are always UPPER CASE, but you can select a switch in WS_FTP to force lowercase when uploading. With WS_FTP open, go to your remote site, click on the "Options" button, located on the lower bar. Then select the "Session" tab:
You can set the "Convert Extensions" switch if you want to convert the extensions. For example, to convert from "htm" to "html" open WS_FTP, click on the "Options" button on the lower bar. Then select the "Convert" tab. Here you have to insert the Source extensions and the Destination. Then press the "Add" button to insert this rule:
If you do not want to assign a rule for these conversions, you can also "Rename" the files after the data transfer.Various HTML Tips & Tricks
Testing Pages
Always test your pages with multiple browsers; Netscape Navigator is different from MS Internet Explorer. Be sure your pages run well in both browsers.
Search Engines
You should take a look at the document web-evangelism.html which explains very well how to make the best use of search engines.
Index
There are a lot of search engines on the web. I think the most complete document index is AltaVista - many other engines use the AltaVista index to search (such as Yahoo!, etc.), so registering your URL only with AltaVista will let you be known by a really wide number of Internet users!
Registering with AltaVista is very simple if you follow these simple instructions:
Meta Tags
First, add the META TAGS to your pages (or only to your index pages if your index is linked to the others). See the previous chapter for an explanation on how to insert these tags.
The KEYWORDS are very important because they are the key index to your pages. You can insert a lot of characters in this tag, so don't worry! The AltaVista registration "robot" will use this tag to index your pages, so you can find your page simply by searching with one (or a combination) of these keywords.
The DESCRIPTION will be shown by the search engine when the page is found, so you know this tag is important, too.
Adding a Page
(Personally, I consider registration with the AltaVista search engine to be the most popular in the world and the simplest to manage!)
Second, go to AltaVista main page and select the "Add Url" text link. After the page is loaded, you should insert your URL in the requested field. For example:
http://www.tscpulpitseries.org/italian.html
Then press the button to submit and wait. If the URL is inserted correctly, you'll only have to wait a few days to view your indexed page. That's all!
When you upgrade your page with other KEYWORDS, you can do the same sequence to Add the URL and AltaVista will automatically manage the new keywords.
Tips for TSPS HTML team members
Sample Sermon (using a Text Editor)
When you have translated a sermon, save it in your word processor in either HTML or Rich Text Format (RTF). If you can save the sermon in HTML format, you will afterwards be able to add the necessary extra HTML code as in the sample sermon: finished.html
Translate the information in the header and the footer of this sermon and make your own <language> "finished.html" which you can use as a template for future sermons.
Please feel free to look at: norwegia.html
If you are not able to save your sermon as HTML, then you need to save it as "Rich Text Format" (RTF). Then take a look at: http://www.logictran.net/products/
There you will be able to download a filter that transforms your RTF file to HTML code. After you have made this conversion, you can add the HTML code from your template "finished.html" using an ordinary TEXT editor.
Concerning "special characters" and "accent characters" take a look at: http://devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/1998/htmlguide/tags22.html
The RTFtoHTML filter will take care of these characters, but if you save your sermons as HTML from your word processor, you might have to add them manually.
Sending finished sermons
( if you don't know the FTP parameters for this project.)
When you have finished the sermon, log in via ftp to our server and copy the sermon as an Ascii-File into the directory folder.
Then and tell her that you have a finshed sermon.
Please check your work completely, so Barbara does not have to do anything but post them on the web server.
Connection Troubles
There may be certain times of the day that ftp is not very efficient. If the server is set to handle a maximum amount of connections for FTP, one has to wait their turn to get on.
Keep in mind that the FTP server is located in the United States, so you can get a faster data transfer outside of the local working time. The Offset from GMT for the United States is -5 hour.
E-Mail attachments
If you have problems using FTP, you can choose to send your sermons via e-mail attachment. Remember to attach the files as separated attachments. Eudora and Microsoft Outlook Express will do this automatically, but Netscape will not! Netscape automatically includes the HTML attachment inside the message, so the e-mail body will be mixed with the HTML code, generating a lot of confusion. If you need to use e-mail rather than FTP for file transfer, the better solution is to always compress your attachments, using programs such as WinZip, ARJ or JAR. These are the most widely used archive compressors. You can download a shareware version via the Internet by simply clicking on the name.
- WinZip is the most common program. Its advantage is the Windows graphic interface.
- ARJ generates archives with a size similar to WinZip, but you have to use a DOS interface. The new version of ARJ (2.60) supports long file names.
- JAR is very similar to ARJ (same software-house) but generates very small archives.
Compressing attachments is a way to save connection time!
Instructions for Foreign Sermon Filenames
Please use the Pulpit Series Alphabetical Index to look up the proper dates of sermons. Then create a filename based on the published date. All foreign sermon filenames begin with "ts" (which stands for Times Square) and are arranged in 2-digit order of year/month/day and end with the .htm extension.Undated sermons begin with "ts" plus the first six characters of the English sermon title. Please use the English filename currently listed on
the Pulpit Series Alphabetical Index. However, end the filename with the .htm extension.For example, a sermon dated January 26, 1998 would be saved with the "ts980126" filename. An undated sermon with the English title "Famine in the Land!" would be assigned the filename "tsfamine.htm" on a foreign language site.
Double check the filename for accuracy, making sure it contains the right numbers in the right order for the published sermon date.
Font Archive for Foreign Languages
here you can find a non-English Font Archive designed to assist users who wish to display or type non-English fonts on their computers: http://www.dafont.com
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