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This phase of creating an Activity Page is strictly an
HTML thing. It assumes that you know how to "view the source." This
page guides you through reviewing your links list to see what sites "go together."
In other words, some links are on the same basic topic while others may be opposites
that you want to juxtapose. Once you're familiar again with the sites, then you'll
want to get at your HTML file and make the changes. (Do you need help
finding and working with HTML or saving and viewing your
changes?).
- Find the List of Links in the HTML on your Filamentality
page. It follows the "Activities" header:
- Go ahead and cut the line that says, "(you'll fill
in the activities that go with the links later)." Drag across with your mouse
to highlight it (as shown) then do an Edit - Cut from the menubar.
Notice that the HTML tags for an unordered (bulleted) list begin
with <UL> and end with </UL>. The tag for the bullet itself
is <LI>.
Also notice that what you're looking at is one specific link
to the THOMAS site of the Congress offered by the Library of Congress. What you're
going to do is rearrange the links that you want to group together and separate
any that should be by themselves.
- To move whole links around, highlight an entire link and
then do an Edit - Cut from the menubar.
- Next, you have to find the place where you want to paste
the link you've just cut. Look for the <LI> that shows the starting
bullet of a link you want to put your cut site above (or look for the <P>
that ends the link entry if you want to paste it after that link). When you find
the place, drop your cursor right where you want it, for example:
- Do another Edit - Paste from the menubar to insert
the site you'd just cut.
- Repeat this process until you have all the sites grouped
the way you want. You might need to add spaces between the links if they accidently
get cut or mixed up. This is done by typing <P> or <BR>
into the HTML code.
- The last step is to check your bullets for indentation. By moving
around the links, you may have gotten the <UL> and </UL>
tags mixed up meaning your bullets aren't lined up on the margin. At this stage
we'll just check to make sure they are lined up. In a later lesson (Adding
Activities), you'll learn details about setting grouped links off into separate
columns of bullets. So, scan your HTML code to make sure there's a <UL>
before the first <LI> and a </UL> after the last <LI>.
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