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Hi Mike and fellow editors, Here's my procedure - I'm so used to it now I can practically do it my sleep. ;-) 1. While viewing the page to be edited, press 'e' to enter edit mode and make sure your cursor is the upper left hand position. 2. Do a 'read' using ^R and enter the following url to bring a copy of template.shtml into your editing page: /csuite/info/template.shtml (press ENTER) 3. You will now be viewing the last few lines of template.shtml. Use ^^ (Control 6) to set the mark and move the cursor upwards until you reach the the part below <page content ends>. Cut the marked spot using ^K and press the following keys while holding the Control key down: W V U W Y - what this does is it takes you to very bottom of the page, uncuts the cut section to leave it there where it belongs and takes you back up to the top of the page in the upper left hand. Now for the substitutions. 4. In the 'set title' line, enter the page name; move down to the <title> tag and add it again just before the - Chebucto Community Net. This is necessary as one browser may draw in the variable title setting at the top, others may require the actual title tag. This covers both. 5. In <meta tag description> put the description of the page, usually just about the same name as the page name although it may differ somewhat. 6. In <meta tag keywords> put words (separated by a comma) that you believe best describe the material on the page and that a search engine would pick up on. 7. Move down to the area where you see: Home > > and add the name of the page to bottom of it. Use the cut and paste to duplicate the 'Home' line and change the url and the name of the link for each level you working back from. for example: the Upcoming Events page in News, Events and Hot Topics is three levels down from the Homepage so the urls would look like: Home > > News, Evetns & Hot Topics > > Upcoming Events This renders: Home >> News, Events & Hot Topics >> Upcoming Events. The first two are working links to take you back a step and two. Some pages may have 4 or 5 levels but we're hoping to move things up higher so that the user doesn't have to go so deep to find the information they are looking for. I moved the PDA software links up from 4 levels to 3 by combining the directory listings with the first page of each area. 8. Move down to <h2>Main header looks like this... and erase the words 'Main header etc' and put the name of the page here. 9. The <h3> header is for sub-titles but I've found they look too 'big' so I've used <h4> and it looks a lot better. Now scroll down to <page content begins here> and delete the lines starting immediately below this. 10. Delete all lines starting with the top of your original document which you should be able to see just about now. Erase the CSUITE lines, the original header, the yucky paper.jpg link until you reach the solid hard copy of the page. 11. Rewrite any parts of your document which may need updating such as prices referring to now-ancient modems, text-only service (we now also offer PPP - you can add a link to our PLUS info by using: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/PPP), change any <hr> hard ruled lines to <hr align=center width=40%>. These look a lot nicer and more up-to-date than the original long lines across the page. See the PDA area if you want an idea of how they look. 12. Change any links going to other referred documents on the page to .shtml from .html but ensure that you are planning on changing those documents as well during this session as they will break if you leave them untouched and just change the urls. 13. Keep going down until you reach <page content ends>. Remove the old service bar links at the bottom of the old page as the new service bar is at the top of the page in the template. 14. Once at the bottom, review your update to see if you've forgotten anything. These seem like long instructions but they will grow on you pretty quickly. It's like second nature to me now. 15. Save your new updated document as .shtml and remove the # sign before the name before saving it. The # sign is for edited documents which already exist - you are creating a brand-new document and it will rename it with a # sign in front of the name unless you remove it prior to saving the updated document. However, if this happens and you are looking for it, look at the top of your dierctory listing. Just rename it to the proper name if it happens and it will be fine. 16. Once you have everything done that you are going to do this session, send an email to ccn-tech with the names of the old .html documents and their .shtml counterparts in the event you changed a name to make it easier to remember or shorter. A tech will create the symlinks for you and delete the old .html files at that time, preventing your links from breaking in case there are pages linked to the old .html files. Make sure you remove any RCS/ versions of the old files so that they regenerate themselves in the meantime. Just don't remove the main .html files - the tech will do that when the symlinks are created. Once all of CCN's public pages are converted, the symlinks will be removed by a tech and all pointers will go the .shtml pages. If you require any clarification on this procedure, let me know. Send your questions to the editors@chebucto.ns.ca list so everyone will see your question and benefit from the answer. CCN Userhelp --------------------------------
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