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Technology Services
Editing Web Pages

General Instructions
  1. If you have never edited the Web site before, you will need to request that your account be given access to edit the site. You will also need Microsoft FrontPage 2003 (or 2002/XP) or Microsoft Office 2007 SharePoint Designer software.

  2. Start Internet Explorer

  3. Go to the Woodring Web page you wish to edit
     
  4. Change www to dev in the address (URL) and press Enter
     
  5. Select File > Edit with FrontPage or Edit with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer

  6. Type your login (use your Outlook user name and password) and, if necessary, the domain (wwu).
    Note 1: if the login window displays dev.wce.wwu.edu\ in front of your username, change this to wwu\
    Note 2: if the page opens (you will see it behind the login window), but you are prompted for your user name and password again, then click Cancel.

  7. Edit the text on the Web page as needed

  8. Click on the File menu and select Save
    Note 3: you will be editing and saving your pages directly on the server. If FrontPage only lets you save to your computer, then you have logged in incorrectly in step 6, or your account does not have permission to edit that Web site.

  9. After you have made all your changes to your Web page(s) and saved them, fill out a Tech Request asking that your Web page(s) (indicate which one(s) were changed) be copied to the WWW (public) Web site.


Titles

Make sure each Web page has a unique title, so Search Engines can find and index it correctly.

  1. Click on the File menu and select Properties
     
  2. Type in a meaningful title for the page, such as
    Elementary Education - Program Description or
    Human Services - Forms
     
  3. Click OK


Adding a New Page

  1. Click on the View menu and select Folder List
     

  2. Click once on the Template.shtml file and select Edit > Copy and then Edit > Paste
     

  3. Rename the new Template_copy(1).shtml file to a new descriptive name without spaces or underlines and with the .shtml extension (e.g., ProgDesc.shtml)
     

  4. Open the new file (e.g., ProgDesc.shtml).  Change the second line heading at the top of the page to the new name of your file (e.g., Program Description). IMPORTANTRetain the existing format by typing one character in from the current heading and deleting excess characters from the end and then the character at the beginning
     

  5. Remember to change the page title of this new page (see Titles above).
     

  6. Add content to your new page and select Save from the Edit menu


Adding a Navigation Link

  1. Click on the includes folder in the Folder List
     

  2. Open nav.html (double-click)
     

  3. Copy and paste one of the existing navigation buttons (try to copy one that doesn’t have an existing pop-up menu associated with it); paste in alphabetical order—IMPORTANT—make sure you select two borders within the table when copying
     

  4. Type the name of your new navigation link to match the Title of the new page you created (e.g., Advising)
     

  5. Double-click on the new link
     

  6. Click on the Insert menu and select Hyperlink
     

  7. Click on the new file you created above (e.g., Advising.shtml). IMPORTANT: make sure you manually remove "../" from the beginning of the URL
     

  8. Click OK
     

  9. Click Save from the File menu to save the Navigation Links


Editing Notes

  • When editing, pressing Enter (Return) will put in a double line. For a single line, use Shift-Enter.

  • If changing a "mailto:" link, when your mouse-cursor is over the link you will note that the bottom of your screen will show "mailto: and the person's address. In order to change the address to the correct URL, you need to highlight the link on your screen (it will highlight if you double-click anywhere on the link), then click on the blue world "hyperlink" icon at the top of your screen (or click the Insert menu and select Hyperlink, or press CTRL-K) and re-type the correct address in the URL box that appears; click OK.

  • Do not use spaces or tabs to align columns of text or images horizontally, use Tables instead

Additional Information

 

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