HOW TO USE THE BASIC TEMPLATES

Dr. Richard L. Bowman, Director
Academic Computing, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA, USA 22812

The templates provided here are simply guidelines for where faculty members can begin on the journey to creating their own web pages. (I have also included a simple template to share with students for possible use with their PDP electronic portfolios.)

Copy them and modify them to make them your own.

• Add a photo of you at work or play, or of your family, or of a class you taught.
• Remove all references to Richard Bowman. (In this case you are the most important person!)
• Substitute and add links to your courses, your research and other resources you have found useful or that you think your students would find useful.
• If you wish to use the BC official web colors (as of June 1, 2004), here are their codes in hexadecimal and decimal form.

Here is an outline of how to use these templates.

1. Before copying a given template, create a folder on your X-drive into which you will place all of the files that you will use for your web page.
2. From the table below, save all of the items listed, placing them in the folder you created above. Copy these items by right-clicking on each hyperlink in turn and selecting "Save Target As..." from the resulting pup-up menu.
3. Then move to the appropriate folder on your X-drive and open the web page by double-clicking on the "index.html" file's icon.
   
   

   Faculty Template #1	Faculty Template #2	Faculty Template #3	Faculty Template #4	Student PDP Template
   index.html BClogo.png bcedu.jpg rb-office.jpg footer2.jpg gbar2.jpg title.jpg	index.html BClogo.jpg rb-office-2.jpg	index.html BClogo-2.jpg rb-office-2.jpg	index.html bottom.gif logo.jpg rb-office.jpg repeater.gif schedule.html top.gif	index.html autobio.html essay.html myphoto.jpg pdp/resume.html

   
   

4. From the browser, select the "Edit with Microsoft FrontPage" option in the list to the left of the arrow edit button on the browser's toolbar. If this is not available, go to the Start Menu and select Programs and then your favorite web page editor and open the web page in it from the File menu.
5. To learn more about using Microsoft FrontPage to edit web pages, check out the tutorial at this site.
6. Both of these templates are constructed using a "liquid" style. That is they will automatically flow to fit whatever size of browser window they are opened in and they will fit whatever style of printed page a user is using. This style means that any table used to format a page should be designed with no fixed width (in pixels) or a width of "100%."