Read very carefully Rosario Ferré's novel, The House on the Lagoon. Think about the ways in which the novel could be used to engage in an analysis of Puerto Rican history as studied in class, but also to develop a critical dialog with the ways in which Ferré portrays Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans. Think both in terms of key issues present as well as absent from the novel.GOALS: Our main goal is to expand and update the FrontPage websites you created during the workshop so that everyone completes the project on time.
Please remember that the work done during the workshop was only the beginning of your work on the final class project. You must now work hard on the following tasks:
- Re-read José Luis González's essay "The Four-Storeyed Country." Think about the ways in which your knowledge of Puerto Rican history has expanded over the course of the semester, and how would you write an analysis of this essay.
- Re-read the YAPP online debate "Approaching the Question of Puerto Rican Identity." Look for key questions and ideas raised during that discussion, and how you would like to address some of those issues in your final project.
Generally speaking, you will continue to use the PC Labs in MCEC, to use FrontPage98. However, you might want to install FrontPage in your personal computer. Trinity has recently purchased a license from Microsoft that allows students to install FrontPage on their computers. To do this you should consult the staff at the Computer Center.
First of all, you must decide which "view" of you site do you prefer: the "Folder" view that lists your web pages very much like folders and files as you are accustomed on a personal computer, or the "Navigation" view, which gives you a "chart" outline view of your web pages, level by level. You can also use the "Hyperlinks" view to check on the relationship between the various pages in you web site, or between your pages and web pages located elsewhere on the Internet.
Given the fact that you will be working with a small number of pages, and that keeping tab of how these pages relate organizationally to each other is very important, I recommend that you use the "Navigational" view most of the time. Exceptions will be when you need to copy, import, or delete files – use the "Folders" view for this; or when verifying the links among your pages or between your pages and external websites – use "Hyperlinks" view for this.
First, make sure you are using the "Navigational" view by clicking once on its button on the vertical toolbar found on the left margin of your computer screen.
Second, double-click on the file you want to edit, as seen on the bigger, central window pane. This will activate the FrontPage "Editor" program and load that particular file. Please remember that you will work with your individual web pages very much like you work with a wordprocessor document.
Third, remember that you can work editing more than one web page at the same time. To open a second web page, you either return to the FrontPage Explorer, and double-click on this second file, or you use the FrontPage Editor’s "File" menu just like you would use a wordprocessor to locate and open a document for editing.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO SAVE YOUR WORK EVERY FEW MINUTES. REMEMBER ALSO THAT FRONTPAGE HAS A VERY HANDY "UNDO" BUTTON THAT ALLOWS YOU TO RETURN TO HOW YOUR PAGE LOOKED LIKE EVEN BEFORE THE LAST SAVE.
This is a fairly simple procedure, as explained in class and in Trinity’s guide to FrontPage:
- click ONCE ON the web page UNDER which your new page will belong in the structural organization of your web site [personal or class project pages]. Next, click on the mouse’s RIGHT BUTTON. This will bring a floating menu that includes an option for creating a NEW PAGE that will be placed beneath the existing one in your navigational structure.
- after the new page is created, please make sure it has the name and title you want. You should do this in two different ways: first, in FrontPage Explorer’s "Navigational View" –where you can rename the page by clicking once on it with the left mouse button and then once with the right button to select the RENAME option from the floating menu; AND, in the FrontPage Editor program, by selecting the FILE | PAGE PROPERTIES menu options, and then typing the FULL PAGE TITLE in the "Title" space provided in the form that this action will bring up, and then clicking "OK".
There’s a simple way of "previewing" the look of your web pages using FrontPage: you can just simply SAVE THE PAGE FIRST, and the click on the "Preview in Browser" button on the toolbar [the one to the right of the printer icon], which will open the **default** browser and show you how your page looks there. This is a simple procedure that should be enough at the beginning of your work.
However, as you continue working on your project and strive to make it as nice as possible, you will have to deal with a complicating fact: since about half of the people use Netscape and the other half use Microsoft Internet Explorer to surf the web, YOUR PAGES MIGHT LOOK QUITE DIFFERENTLY FROM ONE BROWSER TO THE OTHER!!! This is especially so since you are not doing HTML programming but using a Microsoft product biased in favor of Microsoft’s own browser and against it’s main competitor, Netscape.
THEREFORE, you should preview your web pages in BOTH browsers before you can be sure that they look the way you want them to look like [or at least as close as possible]. This is by NOT using the toolbar button but rather the MENU OPTION for previewing – FILE | Preview in Browser – which gives you the option of viewing the page in either Netscape or Internet Explorer, and using different screen resolutions [like screen sizes].
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