BUILDING MATERIALS & INSTRUCTIONS
We pride ourselves on customizability and expandability. Now, if this is to be your FireFox homepage. then you may want to add material that is unique to your wants and needs and make a real homepage out of this; one that keeps on keeping on. Guess what: Yes we can. and we provides the goodies to do it, too.
You have two page building kits, the first is for building a sub-console/task/console if you wish and the second is to build task consoles like the pages used for IN TOUCH, WEB RESOURCES, etc.
You ought not need them but if you want them. Building is simple enough.
GENERAL NOTES
When you want a key, just copy the key image that you need. Choose a new name that includes the key filename ("key", "key2' or "key3") then add the specificname like "key3politcalforums.gif" or the like. This will help you keep track of keys.
You might need to learn a bit of HTML or a script language but that is not likely. Even if you do, go to the Web Resourced page. I've set things up so that just a bit of experience and common sense is all you need, but if you're a Da Vinci, don't hesitate to make it a work of art.
If you want to be esceedingly cute and clever. you can use the 3-column pre-formatted page as a templet for a task console and use a version of the sites' logos to which you are linking as image links arranged in columns. In That case just change or delete the page heading: the part that says "font size=7". It looks really professionlly done.
To use a copy/pate item:
- put your pointer in the box with the link and right click
Find and click "select all"
- Put the pointer on the highlighted text and right click
- You've got the material and can leave and put it where you want it.
INVISIBLE INK: You can store moderately sensitive or secret material here:
- in the page that you intend to use for this, having created and named the blank html file, Select all, copy and paste this code:
It causes everything to be the same color. Replace "The SECRETIVE BUSINESS" with a header of your choice. You will need to view it under special conditions
- Go to Tools, Options, Content, Colors and set the colors to your liking.
- When you want to read that page. go to Tools, Options, Content Colors and uncheck the Let pages choose their own colors,
- Reload
- When leaving the secret page, go to Tools, Options, Content, Colors and check Let pageses choose their onw colors
- Reload and exit. I do it all the time.
KITS
MyPage DIY subconsole kit:
- MyPage.html a preformatted 3-column page with space for column headers: Much like the Main Console, in fact it is a DIY subconsole
- MATH AND SCIENCE CUSTOM Is a math and science console page template with all the Global Operators in place and has preformatted columns. You will also have to add a key-link to the Global Operators sections on all pages so equipped for this new page.
DOING IT FROM THIS PAGE
- Minimize this page, create and name the blank html file that will be the new page. Maximize this page.
- Open the link to the page template you want to use (MyPage or MATH AND SCIENCE CUSTOM)
- Right click. Select View page source or it's like
- Select all and Copy. Close the window and the page. Minimize or close this page
- Go to the named blank html file, open with your editor (Notepad is fine for this). Paste and save/close
- Oen with your editor and start in.
a long key. To lebel, use font size 16
- a copy/paste (DO NOT CUT!!) link and image skeleton: These links must be pasted under the column headers and the previous link, and over the bottom center tag then filled in with the URL address between the first set of quotes and the spcific key name after "key3" and before ".gif"
- copy/past Mypage link: Insert this link immediately after the column heading text in the second column of 00starthere.html or the "IN TOUCH" text in news.html only if you use this subconsole.
The MyPage holds about 9 key3's in each column
Other materials:
- other page to use this, Use the same basic How-to as above. You also get
the smallerst key, use font size 14 or 12
This is a medium key and can use font size 16.
- text-only link
- key2 link
- key link