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Q. How to open .html in notepad
A. Here is a shortcut I use to open my HTML files into Notepad First we have to create a shortcut to Notepad in the SendTo folder:
Step 1: Open Windows Explorer by right-clicking Start and selecting Explore
Step 2: Scroll down the left side panel to the Windows directory (folder) and
a. left click on it once to make all the files show in the right side panel
b. Be sure that there is a minus next to the Windows folder so that all the Windows directories are showing below it in the left panel (mine does this by default).
Step 3: Scroll down the list of Windows directories in the left side panel till you see the SendTo folder
Step 4: In the right side panel, scroll down to notepad.exe
Step 5: Right-click on the notepad.exe file, hold down the mouse button and drag it over the SendTo file in the left side panel.
Step 6: Let up on the mouse button and a menu will appear, choose Create Shortcut Here
Now any time you want to open a file using Notepad, right-click the file and you will see the SendTo option, scroll down to it and you will see Notepad on the list of programs that appears, click Notepad and that's it.
A lot of words to explain how to do a very simple thing. Basically, it just skips the step of going to the Open With box every time.
You need to write the names exactly as you saved them. You saved this one as notebook2.html but tagged it Notebook2.html Change the capital N to lower case<A HREF="Notebook2.html">
Q. I saved my file as an HTML file without saving it as a text file. Is there any way to get the text version back?
A. Click on your START button (lower left on task bar), then on the popup window click on PROGRAMS -- then ACCESSORIES -- then you should find an icon to open Notepad.
On the new blank notepad, click on FILE in the top left corner, then on OPEN -- when that opens, make sure on the bottom window (Files of type) that you have "All Files" --
You will have to browse to find your .html document -- click on that and your HTML coding for the page should open in notepad!! Go ahead and edit your page, make sure you "Save As" (under the File button) "All Files" in the 'Save as Type' window when you are done and that you use the same .html name you have been using!
If you do want to save it as a .txt file, save as notebook.txt
But you should work and save as .html
Setting HTML folder to Desktop.
To move your folder to the desktop, there are a variety of ways, the shortest I know is to go to start, find, files and folders, type in the name of the folder, then once you find it there do the following:
RIGHT MOUSE CLICK on the folder, while Holding the mouse button down, drag it to the desktop, then let go of the button, there will be a list that pops up. Pick move here. All contents should come with the folder.
Q. Lost text in template -
I made a template and saved it in my html folder, saved as: text file, with the file name template.txt.
I opened the file and wrote a tile and some body text. Saved in folder with file name:notebook1.html , saved as: all files. then when I went back in windows explorer to check it out I had both the files in my folder and the one with the e showed my text that I put in the body, but when I looked at my template there was no text between any of the tags. And I cant find the file with the text in note pad either.
A. This is what you did-you started with your template.txt. You added text to the body but when you saved the page with that text added you didn't save it to your template.txt, you saved it as notebook1.html, thus leaving the template.txt as it originally was opened-before you made changes to it. You did all of this correctly. Is it that you want to go back now and add more to your notebook1.html? Open the notebook1.html in your notepad and add to that. The template is only used the first time you start a new page.
Q. I downloaded the link.class file to get to the html code per the lesson. But I can't open the file. I tried Notepad and Word, but I only get a bunch of symbols. Suggestions please.
A. You can't open the class file. All you do with the class file is have it in your html folder and upload it to your page host.
Q. I saved assignment 2 in my HTML file as notebook2.html. But when I open it back up from that file, its blank. I can re-open it from notepad, but not from there.
A. check for missing < or > or <HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE></HEAD><BODY></BODY></HTML> tags any can cause page to appear blank in browser.
Q. HTML files try to open Netscape -
When I try to open my .html files, they try to find Netscape, which I had to remove from my PC. When I WAS using Netscape, my PC would freeze. What must I do to either use explorer exclusively or use Netscape without locking up my PC?
A. go to *Windows Explorer* or *MyComputer*,
highlight the file you want to associate with a program, like an *.html file
then hold down shift key and right click the file with your mouse,
from the popup menu choose *Open With* from the popup list,
choose the program you want to open that file type from the list that comes up next,
if the program you want to use isn't on the list,
click the *Other* button and locate the *.exe file for that program and double click it
below the list on the left is a little check box where it says *Always use this program to open this type of file*
Make sure the box has a check mark in it.
That file type is now associated with that program, you can change it to another program using these same steps.
when that file type is double clicked from Windows Explorer or MyComputer the program you selected should open and load that file.
Q. I can't open my notebook1 file from my IE4. I can't open the lessons I saved either. The path for my notebook1 is: <D:\HTML\notebook1.html> I get the message that accessing the resource has been disallowed. What Am I doing wrong?
I just find out that I could open them by going to the window explorer and clicking on the files. I was trying to open the files through my IE4 browser before and it wouldn't work. Is it suppose to work though through the browser?
A. Yes, in IE you should be able to go the File/ Open and browse for that file and open it that way
Q. Copying Digest from Bulletin Board -
I try to copy the digest 04-30-2000 by using "file" and then "save as" from by IE4 browser. It didn't work. How could I save the weekly digest from the Bulletin Board?
A. Here's one way to save a digest from the bulletin board to a file:
Right click on frame that contains the digest...one of the options on the popup menu should be "Open Frame in New Window"
Click that and, once the digest has loaded into a new browser window, you should be able to save it in the usual way.
A. I use IE5 so this may not be the same. You right click on the message title in the left menu. Choose Save Target AS and then save to a BB folder. To view I open my browser and Open it from there.
Q. Is there a method where you can make changes to segments of the page and save for future corrections; say you left out a word, or want to change a paragraph, title, font, image, color etc.
A. Say you want to make changes to your notebook.html. You open your notepad (or wherever you made it in the first place) and open your notebook.html. Make all of your edits and changes. When you are finished hit SAVE and the changed will be saved into the same folder where you opened it from and have the same name. Then upload it to your page host. If asked if you want to Overwrite-reply YES.
A. Once the page is created, you can reopen using these methods and change any areas of the page. Then Save the changes. If you wish, for some reason, to keep the original in tact, just SaveAs and give it a new name. This will create a second page. When you want to view the new page with the changes in your browser, be sure to use the new name and not the original name. This is helpful if you aren't sure of the changes. If you decide against the new look, you won't have to undo all your changes, just begin with the original and make new revisions. I use this a lot to compare an "old look" with a "new look" before I decide. I also open each page in a separate browser window and switch back and forth between them.
Q. What URL do I place in quotes when I want to go from one page to another if the two files are in different folders on my C Drive? I was able to move between pages where the files are located in the same folder and I was able to move to an actual web page from my page. But when I tried to access a page who's file was located in a different folder on my C Drive, it could not locate it. I even placed the full address C:\Aaall Our Stuff\Mac\VU Classes\NewRovers.html and it seemed to double up the address.
A. If your going to put them up on the net, you need the 2 folders both uploaded
then
<A HREF="../FOLDER2/page.html>
the ../ makes it back out of current folder and then it will look for folder2, as with webpages folder names must be exactly the same in code as on server 'Folder' and 'folder' are not the same as far as HTML is concerned.
Q. How to create a file into a folder?
A. You create a file in notepad. You SAVE files into folders.
A. One way to set this course up would be right on your desktop.
1.First, right-click your mouse any place on your desktop. Go to NEW and then FOLDER.
2. Click on the NEW FOLDER text and rename your folder HTML.
3. The first time you do your assignment and want to save it, go to FILE, SAVE AS. A window will pop up with a SAVE IN box at the top.
4. Click on the tiny arrow to the right of the box and select DESKTOP. Then double-click your HTML folder. It will open up and there will be nothing in it.
5. Make sure you type a name for your file in the FILE NAME box. Then click SAVE.
6. For the rest of the session, you can change your file and just click SAVE. It will automatically resave the file you created in the HTML folder.
7. When you start a new session, you can just double-click on your HTML folder to open it and then double-click on the file that you started.
Q:I followed the directions and used IE to get to my folder. What I don't understand is how put my work into the folder. Please help in detail please
A: You should have a folder on your desktop, or on your c drive that is called HTML, in that folder you will put your template.html and your notebook1.html or some similar name.
The best way to use the folder is to open it. Inside you will right mouse click a list should pop up. Go down the list to new... another list should appear, you will move over to that list and click on text document. Once the new text document is there, give it the name template.txt. Create your template.txt, and your notebook1.html and save in that folder. You will view your work in IE.
Q: I am having trouble uploading photos that I have in my "pictures" folder in html. I know that I have to do the exact pathway, but it still won't work unless I take the pic. out of the folder and resave it as a separate item in my html file...I have been writing <"IMG SRC="My Documents/HTML/pictures/
"boat.gif"> looks right to me...copied direct from the URL.
A:
Did you make a new subdirectory called pictures in your directory at geocities? Here are the directions how to do that there.
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/geo/gfiles/gfiles-06.html
Then you will upload your graphic to your pictures subdirectory instead of the main directory at geocities.
The full url in the location window when you see the url for your graphics file which you have in the subdirectory you create called pictures there would be
http://www.geocities.com/nb926/pictures/boat.gif
That is different than the path you take when the graphic is in your pictures subdirectory on your hard drive. When you include a path to your graphics files, the first quote starts with the path and and the ending quote goes after the filename.
For the link to work both places you need to write it like this, I also took out the quote that you wrote just before the IMG SRC part as it does not belong.
<IMG SRC="/pictures/boat.gif">
This would be what you need at geocities if you included the full url to your graphic.
<IMG SRC="http://www.geocities.com/nb926/pictures/boat.gif">
For a full url in both places the link is different, so you would need to make it differently to show on your web page when it is uploaded, but you would not see it on your hard drive. If you made the path in your html document the same as it is on your hard drive, then the graphic would not show up on your web page that you upload to your server as you would first have to make a subdirectory called My Documents (not good on the server as you should not use any spaces), then when you are in My Documents, create another one called HTML and within that HTML subdirectory one called pictures. Way too much!
<IMG SRC="/My Documents/HTML/pictures/boat.gif">
That would still create problems on your computer I think as you would have to do it even differently still since you are referring to directories that occur before your main HTML folder where your web pages are on your computer. On geocities they would be after your main directory. Now that I have totally confused you as well as myself, hope you can find something here that makes sense. Treat your HTML folder like it is the equivalent directory on the server where your upload your files. You do not make any reference to either when you make your links relative.
Q: In order to save a jpg to your html folder, do you first have to create a file within the html folder? Do you have to create a separate file for each jpg (or gif)?
I have dozens of jpgs (my own images) in folders on my c drive. For instance, one folder is called Sept pix, and inside it are 24 jpgs. If I want to use one of them on my web page...do I "copy" to a newly created html file within my html folder?
Is there a specific online resource that tells how to do this step by step?
A:
You can just upload them to the web server from where ever they are on your HD. If you have them in individual folders you will also need to include that folder name in the .html and have that folder also on your page server.
A: Some people create a separate image folder within the folder that has the html pages, this also makes for a neater hard drive and easier to find what you are looking for.
Your links will have to show that. Instead of <IMG SRC="my.gif"> you would use <IMG SRC="imagefolder/mygif">
and upload the image folder and the gifs inside it.
A:
How you set up your files really depends on how deep you get into this. My first term I started with a Main folder called HTML on my hard drive. In that folder I had everything I used to make my page -.html, images, sounds. Even if I had them elsewhere on my drive. No subfolders. It made it much easier to tag. It also was helpful when my server lost pages. I didn't have to go searching through hard drive for everything, it was all in one place. I can see how some may not be able to do this because of hd space.
When I do use an image, I have usually already pulled it into PSP or another imaging program to check the size and stuff. When it is the way I want it, I simple do a Save As and save it into the HTML folder. The original stays where it was and a new image is saved where I need it.
With sounds, unless I am editing them and save as after editing, I simply go to Windows Explorer and copy it from my main sounds folder into my HTML folder.
It is easy to do a backup-I backup each page and all its guts to a floppy. I make one printed copy of the .html and from the web. All in a binder.
Q. Every time I save a change and want to put the tag into either my .txt or .html version it will say notebook.txt already exists do you want to call it something else and if I say no I can not have the change in my txt or html UNLESS I change the text or html to something like text.1 of html.1. What am I doing wrong, and I don't see the change effect in my page
A. You should only use your template.txt when initially creating a new page. To make revisions or additions to the page, you should open the .html file in your Notepad or other text editor and edit it, then click Save to save the changes you have made. The only tags that should be in your template.txt file should be the basic tags from lesson 1.
A. Sounds like What you are doing wrong is - when you save you are going to Save As-instead of just Save. You can do that but must say Yes when asked Do you want to replace it. Yes because you do want to add the changes to that so named page. Normally Save As is only used when Saving a page for the first time. Like setting its home. From now on all you have to do is hit Save to save the changes made to a particular page. If you look in the top bar in Notepad it will tell you what the page has been saved as and will be saved as if you just hit Save.
