Tutorial

Most of you will be running Microsoft windows, and whether or not you use it for your E-mail, you will have "Outlook Express" on your computer.  Did you know that with "Outlook Express" in the "HTML" mode for creating and sending E-mails, it can also be used to create and edit Web pages?  You can even create an entire web site using nothing but this "WYSIWYG" (What You See Is What You Get) editor.

I am going to show you initially how to input and edit the Family Group Sheet pages found on this site.  I suggest that you print out this tutorial.

Let's start by setting "Outlook Express" to the "HTML" mode:

  1. Double click the Icon for "Outlook Express" or execute it from the "Program Menu.
  2. Maximize the window
  3. On the Icon Bar click "Tools", then choose "Options" from the menu.
  4. Click on the "Send" tab
  5. About 2/3rds of the way down You will see "Mail Sending Format"  Select "HTML"
  6. Click "Apply" and then "OK".  You are now ready to edit an "HTML" file
The next step is to "download" the group sheet to work on.
  1. It is well to make yourself a new folder on your C:\ drive in which to place the finished product before attaching it to an E-mail.  I suggest "C:\WebPages", but anything will do as long as you can find it to save the file to.
  2. when you are on the internet and viewing the HensonGenealogy web site, find the Family group sheet to work on.
  3. While viewing it, "Right Click" your mouse on the page.  Left Click "Select all"
  4. Right click again and this time choose "Copy".  The page is now on your "clipboard" for pasting.
  5. You are ready to go to your "Outlook Express".
Editing the file
  1. Open "Outlook Express"
  2. Click "Create Message" as if you were going to compose an E-mail
  3. Right click within your main window where the message would be.
  4. Choose "Paste" from the menu.
  5. The group sheet is now ready to edit.
  6. Go ahead and make the corrections/additions you want to make.
  7. At the bottom of the page, place the inscription as follows, using a font size of "12": Edited by: (Place your name here.)
  8. Save the file in the folder you made on your C:\ drive, according to the directions below.

Saving the file

  1. Save the file with an ".html" extension to your folder which was created for this purpose..
  2. Save it with the original name and an ".html" extension.  ( i.e. johndeegroup.html ) (no capital letters)
  3. To do this, click "File" on the menu bar at the top of "Outlook Express", then click "Save as".
  4. at the bottom of the "Save as" window you will see a small window to the right of "Save as type"
  5. On the right of this window is a button with a small down  pointing arrowhead.
  6.  Click the arrowhead.
  7. Choose "HTML FILES",  name the file and save it to your "WebPages" folder.
  8. go to your E-mail program, attach the file to an E-mail and send it.
  9. In this way you will maintain a file archive for all the files you worked on, as well as making an addition to the Henson Web Site.
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