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Here are generic instructions on uploading documents to your blog and linking to them from a page: Steps: 1. remove the spaces in the names of the documents you have to upload. 2. logon to your blog and go to Dashboard 3. click on “Media” 4. click on “Add New” and a new page opens [...]

An Analy user who likes iWeb (a web page creation program native to the Mac) would like to be able to use different computers to edit the same web site. Dreamweaver and other web page managing applications deal with this issue easily–just download the site or folder or document and edit them and then FTP [...]

Q. How do I make a link on a blog? A. That depends on what you’re linking and where the document is. If you’re editing a page and you want to link to a document in your library of resources you click on the “media” icon (   ), find the document in your library [...]

To make your Google calendar public you can follow their instructions but this may be easier: you go to “My calendars” (left hand column) and click on the downward pointing triangle to the right of your calendar. A menu opens (see image below). Pick “Share this calendar”. When you do that another page opens. On [...]

Okay, so you’ve created a calendar in Google and made it public, so now you want to embed it on your web page? You can either follow Google’s instructions but this brief instruction works for most people: Go to your calendar. On the left hand column of the page go to “My calendars” and click [...]

Warning: in WordPress, only edit this post in HTML mode Inserting a current time and/or date into your web page is sometimes helpful. A current date/time can have a lot of meaning, especially when a deadline is looming. So how do you do it? Here’s an plain digital example of the time, with seconds: Here’s [...]

In the summer of 2005, Jim Goodenough and I took on a serious face lift of the Analy web site. Before that, the site was a class project, led by Ed Lynch, and used as a vehicle for teaching students HTML. With the exception of a few selected departments at the school (noteably Counseling and [...]

As a parent who worked on this site, and whose kids have graduated from Analy, I have one piece of advice for everyone building pages associated with analyhighschool.org: keep a consistent look and feel. A lot of people want to put a personal touch on their pages, including different colors, fonts and layouts. Here is [...]

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When you install Dreamweaver at Analy you’ll find that it comes with tutorials and a help index that you can consult. The Adobe web site also has quite a few videos that illustrate various things that you can do. There are also some web sites with basic tutorials that help out with fundamental parts of [...]