Hints and tips on editing: Images and importing.
How to insert an image
- Click on the green tree icon among your WYSIWYG buttons.
- Insert image url (unlikely) or click on small Browse icon to the right (more likely).
- Choose your image from the one's already there (unlikely) or Upload a new one from your own machine, by Browsing and Uploading (more likely).
- Click Add, make choices about alignment etc., Insert, Submit. Like this ...
- How to insert an image
How to import a web page [you need GAT level skills to do this]
- Drag and drop from the old web page
- Import the images and other external resources
- Fix up the urls to 2.
- Tidy up the html, using a WYSIWYG html editor like Dreamweaver or Google Docs.
- There is a 'gotcha' with returns in the html code. Strict standards suggest that these be ignored. But our systems automatically converts them to line or paragraph breaks (which is the proper behaviour for helping folk unfamiliar with the intricacies). To stop this conversion, change the 'Input format' (below the WYSIWYG icons) to the filter that does not do this.
- LIke this... [Note that the movie below is 90megs large, which is 15 time bigger than the one above. The video 'streams' so it will start to run without your having to wait for it to download completely. Even so, you are probably wise not to try viewing this on a dial up connection.]
- How to import a web page
