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Browsing Posts published in November, 2008
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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Some recent notes to a teacher on basic cutting and pasting of documents between Word and email: To copy (to the clipboard) and paste documents: 1) select text 2) go to “Edit” and select “Copy” (_not “Cut”) 3) go to where you want to paste what you’ve copied (e.g., another Word document or an email) [...]
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 [...]
