
Editing web pages with Contribute
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If you have time ...
Exercise 11: Use Contribute to update a
University website
What you will do
Connect to a School of Virtual Existence website, update it and create new pages.
How you will do it
You will use Contribute to browse to pages and update them. You will also create
new pages based on a School template.
Now you do it
Create a table of contents in the School home page
In Contribute, type in the address  http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/wamsweb/
trn-0xx/school/ (trn-0xx is the name of your website for this course. You will
nd a card on your desk with the full number – check with your course tutor if you
are not sure).
Edit the page. Â
Make some of the site contents into a bulleted list (news and events, location Â
etc.).
Create links from the list items to the pages: Â
Select the text "News and events". y
Choose y Insert > Link > Browse to web page and you will be presented
with the Insert Link dialog box.
Click on the y Choose button to browse through the school les.
Double-click the website URL. y
Double-click the folder "School". y
Choose the le "news" and click on the y OK button.
You will return to the Insert Link dialog box.
Click on the y OK button again.
Repeat these steps for all the items in the list, choosing the appropriate les. Â
Publish the page. Â
Apply layout to the other pages in the school web site
Browse through the other pages in the site improving the layout and appearance. Â
For example, use the Style drop-down list to add section and subsection
headings where required, and create bulleted and numbered lists.
Put the timetable into an HTML table
Use the menu on the left to browse to the "Timetable" page. Â
Edit the page. Â
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