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 Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: Capturing or "cloning" webpages for later display. |
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How to capture or "clone" a webpage for later display in your book
Sometimes you will wish to capture or "clone" a webpage which you want to preserve for display in your book. Links go bad, webpages which are up today can be gone tomorrow, so preserving a webpage for later display is often of interest.
a. In your browser view the wepage you wish to capture. As an example we will use an article on the vanity fair website. Typically this kind of page is what authors will be wanting to display in the gallery section of their books as an archive or reference.
b. If at all possible choose to view it in print friendly mode (some times there will just be a link that says Print).
c. Use your browser's save mechanism (File/Save as..) and save the page.
d. Be sure to save as "webpage complete" (you have several options in IE.. don't choose "webpage htm "or any ot the others).
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e. Be sure you name it with an htm extension (and keep everything lowercase with no spaces).
f. Finally, don't take the name which the save mechanism tries to give you, name it something simple with one word, like vanityfair1.htm
g. When you save a file as "webpage complete" (remember not to choose one of the other options like webpage html) if there are any associated image files, they will be automatically included in a separate folder.
h. After saving, when you go look in your computer at where you saved you will see two things: | Quote: | 1. The htm file you saved, for example named vanityfair1.htm
2. The folder with the graphics, auto named, vanityfair1_files |
In your PC you will see this:
i. Upload to your WriteandShow File manager, the saved htm file
| Quote: | Read the special instructions for how to use the Writeand showFIle manager
Link here: (coming soon). |
j. Now in the WS File manager, in the same directory as where you uploaded the htm file, create a new folder (directory). Name it exactly the same as that auto-created folder on your PC. . (in our example it's called vanityfair1_files)
Here is what your uploaded file (and new folder) will look like in the WS file manager:
k. Now upload the contents of your autonamed folder from your computer into your newly created folder (of the same name) in the WriteandShow file manager (might be several files).
l. Copy the link to your new htm file and display that with an iframe.
Here is the link about how to use an iframe in your book:
http://writeandshow.com/answers/viewtopic.php?t=20 |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject: Other ways to create a webpage |
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The simplest way there is to create a "webpage." The text method:
A. Just write (or copy and paste ) or plain text into your Windows notepad, then
B. put in a simple command at the beginning and another at the end (you type in <html>at the beginning and </html> at the end.
| Quote: | a. There are many "formatting" codes which you can use such as bold and italic and showing images or inserting links.
b. We will describe how to make those changes in another help panel (and provide a link to that here). |
C. Save your document with an .,htm (or .html) extension .
| Quote: | a. If you have done your page in a program other than notepad, be sure to save it as a pure text file (even though the extension is .htm, it might say (save as ,txt).
b, Be sure to name your new webpage file something descriptive (that relates to the subject).
c. Remember, don't put spaces in your filename. Some browsers have trouble with spaces in filenames. |
D. follow the simple "how to upload" instructions for your WriteandShow filemanager(easier than photobucket). Then
E. it can be linked as a url anywhere (and it will display like any webpage anywhere) or, more to the point...
F. put it into an <iframe> in your book and you can have it scrolling in your gallery (or just make the iframe narrow to scroll on a regular page).
Any file with an htm extension or a txt extension will display on the web in a browser.
Two ways of using MS Word to create wepages
A. Using Microsoft word "from scratch" to create a webpage
1. Take any text file... or any text at all and just paste it into a new microsoft word document. Any textual information can bechanged into a webpage.
2. Now you can do conventional MS Word formatting. Bold whatever you want. Italicize anything you want.. Add images.
3. Save it.
a. Choose File, Save as... but, notice as you save there is a down arrow in the saving window that lets you pic what to save it as. Save it as a webpage htm file.
b. When you save a file in word... be sure that you are creating the filename... don't let it create it for you from the first word in the file. You ended up with a file with spaces in the name... so to save it as a webpage it ends up with all thos %20's in there
4. Then upload that to your webpages folder in WriteandShow filemanager and see what you have.
B. Copy a webpage into MS word.
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When you copy a webpage into your clipboard then open Word. Click on new to start a new blank file... over to the right it will show you choices as to what kind of document. Choose Webpage. Then paste it in. For some reason... that sequence produces better results.
You do not need to create the text file first. Copying directly from a web page and pasting into word, then saving as webpage is a correct procedure for existing webpage capture. This is the only way you can "capture" live links.
Remember, there are several techniques. Each one has different uses.
But, From an existing webpage... you copy (into your clipboard) from the webpage.. then you paste into Word... then save as a webpage. Just keep on doing what your doing. I will cover different techiques in my how to files.
More about about how to use MS Word to create a webpage. That is very easy to do.
You have to be sure that (on their side panel) you click start a new document.. then you will see a choice "create a webpage." Chose that.
The very best approach is if you see a webpage somewhere you like, to select, copy and paste that webpage into your Word program (after you did the step above to "create a webpage."
A little known method is to find one of these template shops where they provide webpage templates (often for free) and follow the procedure I described. The templates are often very difficult to work with if you just download them and often are riddled with additional bits of code that can really be ad-ware or mal-ware.) However, when you use the copy and paste into Word... it translates that webpage into something very workable (easy to make changes).
This will be an expanding topic in the help. Lots of people want to capture page (or create new one using a particular format they like).
ALL THIS WILL BE EDITED FOR CLARITY |
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