I am trying to edit a page for my school newspaper. The problem is that the guy who designed it left us no information on how to edit the page. We do not even know what he created it with. Here is the all of the information that I could get from the site: the address: http://plymouthschools.com/eagle/staff.htm page source: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <!-- saved from url=(0048)http://www.plymouthschools.com/eagle/school.htm --> <?xml version="1.0"?><HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><HEAD><TITLE>Eagle Staff</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY> <TABLE id=table1 height=853 width=700 border=0> <!--DWLayoutTable--> <TBODY> <TR> <TD height="189" colSpan=3 valign="top" bgColor=#c0c0c0> <P align=left><IMG height=180 src="images/theeagle.jpg" width=576> </P></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD height="16" colSpan=3> <SCRIPT type=text/javascript> var memorywidth="700px" //scroller width var memoryheight="20px" //scroller height var memorybgcolor="clear" //scroller background var memorypadding="2px" //padding applied to the scroller. 0 for non. var borderCSS="border: 1px solid black;" //Border CSS, applied to scroller to give border. var memoryspeed=2 //Scroller speed (larger is faster 1-10) var pauseit=1 //Pause scroller onMousever (0=no. 1=yes)? var persistlastviewedmsg=1 //should scroller's position persist after users navigate away (1=yes, 0=no)? var persistmsgbehavior="onload" //set to "onload" or "onclick". //Specify the scroller's content (don't delete <nobr> tag) //Keep all content on ONE line, and backslash any single quotations (ie: that\'s great): var memorycontent='<nobr><span style="font: bold 13px Verdana">Happy Holidays from The Eagle Staff</span></nobr>' ////NO NEED TO EDIT BELOW THIS LINE//////////// var combinedcssTable="width:"+(parseInt(memorywidth)+6)+"px;background-color:"+memorybgcolor+";padding:"+memorypadding+";"+borderCSS+";" var combinedcss="width:"+memorywidth+";height:"+memoryheight+";" var divonclick=(persistlastviewedmsg && persistmsgbehavior=="onclick")? 'onClick="savelastmsg()" ' : '' memoryspeed=(document.all)? memoryspeed : Math.max(1, memoryspeed-1) //slow speed down by 1 for NS var copyspeed=memoryspeed var pausespeed=(pauseit==0)? copyspeed: 0 var iedom=document.all||document.getElementById if (iedom) document.write('<span id="temp" style="visibility:hidden;position:absolute;top:-100px;left:-10000px">'+memorycontent+'</span>') var actualwidth='' var memoryscroller if (window.addEventListener) window.addEventListener("load", populatescroller, false) else if (window.attachEvent) window.attachEvent("onload", populatescroller) else if (document.all || document.getElementById) window.onload=populatescroller function populatescroller(){ memoryscroller=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("memoryscroller") : document.all.memoryscroller memoryscroller.style.left=parseInt(memorywidth)+8+"px" if (persistlastviewedmsg && get_cookie("lastscrollerpos")!="") revivelastmsg() memoryscroller.innerHTML=memorycontent actualwidth=document.all? temp.offsetWidth : document.getElementById("temp").offsetWidth lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",20) } function get_cookie(Name) { var search = Name + "=" var returnvalue = "" if (document.cookie.length > 0) { offset = document.cookie.indexOf(search) if (offset != -1) { offset += search.length end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", offset) if (end == -1) end = document.cookie.length; returnvalue=unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, end)) } } return returnvalue; } function savelastmsg(){ document.cookie="lastscrollerpos="+memoryscroller.style.left } function revivelastmsg(){ lastscrollerpos=parseInt(get_cookie("lastscrollerpos")) memoryscroller.style.left=parseInt(lastscrollerpos)+"px" } if (persistlastviewedmsg && persistmsgbehavior=="onload") window.onunload=savelastmsg function scrollmarquee(){ if (parseInt(memoryscroller.style.left)>(actualwidth*(-1)+8)) memoryscroller.style.left=parseInt(memoryscroller.style.left)-copyspeed+"px" else memoryscroller.style.left=parseInt(memorywidth)+8+"px" } if (iedom){ with (document){ document.write('<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="'+combinedcssTable+'"><td>') write('<div style="position:relative;overflow:hidden;'+combinedcss+'" onMouseover="copyspeed=pausespeed" onMouseout="copyspeed=memoryspeed">') write('<div id="memoryscroller" style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;" '+divonclick+'></div>') write('</div>') document.write('</td></table>') } } </SCRIPT> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD width="175" height="640" align="left" vAlign=top><p><img src="images/school_news.jpg"> </p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">1. <a href="macbeth.htm">Shakespeare's Macbeth</a> </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><img src="images/classroom.jpg" alt="" height="19" width="106" border="0"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">1. <a href="freshmen.htm">Less Freedom, More Structure</a> </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><img src="images/town_news.jpg" alt="" height="17" width="106" border="0"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">1. <a href="question1.htm">Question #1</a> <br> 2. <a href="hunt.htm">Plymouth Boys and Girls Club Director Arrested on Drunk Driving Charges</a></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><img src="images/entertainment.jpg" alt="" height="17" width="105" border="0"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">1. <a href="cuckoo.htm">One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Four Stars!</a> </font><br /> <font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">2. <a href="kiskadee.htm">Kiskadee’s Downtown: Café, Free Internet, Cozy Couches, and Best of All, a Live Performance!</a></font><br /> <font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">3. <a href="petty.htm">Tom Petty’s New CD Isn’t Much of a Companion</a></font></p> <p><img src="images/school_sports.jpg" alt="" height="18" width="106" border="0"></p> <p>1. <a href="football.htm">Football @ PNHS</a></p> <p>2. <a href="soccer.htm">Soccer @ PNHS</a></p> <p>3. <a href="volleyball.htm">Volleyball @ PNHS</a></p> <p>4. <a href="golf.htm">Golf @ PNHS</a></p> <p>5. <a href="redsox.htm">Red Sox</a></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a href="staff.htm"><strong>Eagle Staff </strong></a></font></p> <p><strong><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a href="../index.htm"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Back to PNHS Home</font></a></font></strong></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong><font size="3"><a href="../../index.htm">Back to PPS Home </a></font></strong></font><strong><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a href="../../index.htm"></a></font></strong></p></TD> <TD width="25"> </TD> <TD width="500" valign="top"><p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">From the staff of <em>The Eagle:</em></font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">We hope you enjoy the year’s first issue of the school newspaper. As the year goes on, we will be covering more and more aspects of school, town, and national events. If you wish to offer suggestions, or invite one of our reporters to cover your event, please email Mr. Crosby at <a href="mailto:jcrosby@plymouth.k12.ma.us">jcrosby@plymouth.k12.ma.us</a>. Also feel free to stop by P1 on Tuesday or Thursday right after school.</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">We appreciate your reading our paper and hope you continue, and tell your friends!</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The staff of <em>The Eagle</em> is:</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> Kristine Auger<br> Lauren Benning<br> Nick Coit<br> Colin Crociati<br> Rob Driscoll <br> Laurie Graham<br> John Haigh<br> Joe Kenyon<br> Tim Lovely<br> Gina Lucas<br> Tori Verrengia </font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Mr. Crosby (advisor)</font></p></TD> </TR> </TBODY></TABLE> </BODY></HTML> [/COLOR] META: text/html; charset=windows-1252 MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802 I need to know how to edit this page. Can someone please help me?
Then the easiest think to do is open the file in Dreamweaver and make your changes there, in the design view. It doesn't seem like you should have any particular complications, but if you have an specific question, ask.
Try reading the bits in bold (I've added them as comments tags to help you), no need to touch the code unless you really want to. Dreamweaver should work fine for this or notepad. Italic bits are your main text. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <!-- saved from url=(0048)http://www.plymouthschools.com/eagle/school.htm --> <?xml version="1.0"?><HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><HEAD><TITLE>Eagle Staff</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY> <TABLE id=table1 height=853 width=700 border=0> <!--DWLayoutTable--> <TBODY> <TR> <TD height="189" colSpan=3 valign="top" bgColor=#c0c0c0> <P align=left><IMG height=180 src="images/theeagle.jpg" width=576> </P></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD height="16" colSpan=3> <SCRIPT type=text/javascript> var memorywidth="700px" //scroller width var memoryheight="20px" //scroller height var memorybgcolor="clear" //scroller background var memorypadding="2px" //padding applied to the scroller. 0 for non. var borderCSS="border: 1px solid black;" //Border CSS, applied to scroller to give border. var memoryspeed=2 //Scroller speed (larger is faster 1-10) var pauseit=1 //Pause scroller onMousever (0=no. 1=yes)? var persistlastviewedmsg=1 //should scroller's position persist after users navigate away (1=yes, 0=no)? var persistmsgbehavior="onload" //set to "onload" or "onclick". //Specify the scroller's content (don't delete <nobr> tag) //Keep all content on ONE line, and backslash any single quotations (ie: that\'s great): var memorycontent='<nobr><span style="font: bold 13px Verdana">Happy Holidays from The Eagle Staff</span></nobr>' ////NO NEED TO EDIT BELOW THIS LINE//////////// var combinedcssTable="width:"+(parseInt(memorywidth)+6)+"px;background-color:"+memorybgcolor+";padding:"+memorypadding+";"+borderCSS+";" var combinedcss="width:"+memorywidth+";height:"+memoryheight+";" var divonclick=(persistlastviewedmsg && persistmsgbehavior=="onclick")? 'onClick="savelastmsg()" ' : '' memoryspeed=(document.all)? memoryspeed : Math.max(1, memoryspeed-1) //slow speed down by 1 for NS var copyspeed=memoryspeed var pausespeed=(pauseit==0)? copyspeed: 0 var iedom=document.all||document.getElementById if (iedom) document.write('<span id="temp" style="visibility:hidden;position:absolute;top:-100px;left:-10000px">'+memorycontent+'</span>') var actualwidth='' var memoryscroller if (window.addEventListener) window.addEventListener("load", populatescroller, false) else if (window.attachEvent) window.attachEvent("onload", populatescroller) else if (document.all || document.getElementById) window.onload=populatescroller function populatescroller(){ memoryscroller=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("memoryscroller") : document.all.memoryscroller memoryscroller.style.left=parseInt(memorywidth)+8+"px" if (persistlastviewedmsg && get_cookie("lastscrollerpos")!="") revivelastmsg() memoryscroller.innerHTML=memorycontent actualwidth=document.all? temp.offsetWidth : document.getElementById("temp").offsetWidth lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",20) } function get_cookie(Name) { var search = Name + "=" var returnvalue = "" if (document.cookie.length > 0) { offset = document.cookie.indexOf(search) if (offset != -1) { offset += search.length end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", offset) if (end == -1) end = document.cookie.length; returnvalue=unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, end)) } } return returnvalue; } function savelastmsg(){ document.cookie="lastscrollerpos="+memoryscroller.style.left } function revivelastmsg(){ lastscrollerpos=parseInt(get_cookie("lastscrollerpos")) memoryscroller.style.left=parseInt(lastscrollerpos)+"px" } if (persistlastviewedmsg && persistmsgbehavior=="onload") window.onunload=savelastmsg function scrollmarquee(){ if (parseInt(memoryscroller.style.left)>(actualwidth*(-1)+8)) memoryscroller.style.left=parseInt(memoryscroller.style.left)-copyspeed+"px" else memoryscroller.style.left=parseInt(memorywidth)+8+"px" } if (iedom){ with (document){ document.write('<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="'+combinedcssTable+'"><td>') write('<div style="position:relative;overflow:hidden;'+combinedcss+'" onMouseover="copyspeed=pausespeed" onMouseout="copyspeed=memoryspeed">') write('<div id="memoryscroller" style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;" '+divonclick+'></div>') write('</div>') document.write('</td></table>') } } </SCRIPT> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD width="175" height="640" align="left" vAlign=top><p><img src="images/school_news.jpg"> <!-- no need to touch the info above this --> <!-- this is the start of the links down the left of the page --><!-- just edit everything you want between the >this bit< (like <a href="macbeth.htm">SHAKESPEARS MACBETH</a> --> </p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">1. <a href="macbeth.htm">Shakespeare's Macbeth</a> </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><img src="images/classroom.jpg" alt="" height="19" width="106" border="0"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">1. <a href="freshmen.htm">Less Freedom, More Structure</a> </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><img src="images/town_news.jpg" alt="" height="17" width="106" border="0"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">1. <a href="question1.htm">Question #1</a> <br> 2. <a href="hunt.htm">Plymouth Boys and Girls Club Director Arrested on Drunk Driving Charges</a></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><img src="images/entertainment.jpg" alt="" height="17" width="105" border="0"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">1. <a href="cuckoo.htm">One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Four Stars!</a> </font><br /> <font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">2. <a href="kiskadee.htm">Kiskadee’s Downtown: Café, Free Internet, Cozy Couches, and Best of All, a Live Performance!</a></font><br /> <font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">3. <a href="petty.htm">Tom Petty’s New CD Isn’t Much of a Companion</a></font></p> <p><img src="images/school_sports.jpg" alt="" height="18" width="106" border="0"></p> <p>1. <a href="football.htm">Football @ PNHS</a></p> <p>2. <a href="soccer.htm">Soccer @ PNHS</a></p> <p>3. <a href="volleyball.htm">Volleyball @ PNHS</a></p> <p>4. <a href="golf.htm">Golf @ PNHS</a></p> <p>5. <a href="redsox.htm">Red Sox</a></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a href="staff.htm"><strong>Eagle Staff </strong></a></font></p> <p><strong><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a href="../index.htm"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Back to PNHS Home</font></a></font></strong></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong><font size="3"><a href="../../index.htm">Back to PPS Home </a></font></strong></font><strong><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a href="../../index.htm"></a></font></strong></p></TD> <!-- this is where the links down the left of the page END --> <TD width="25"> </TD> <!-- This is the START of the page text which you want to edit --> <TD width="500" valign="top"><p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">From the staff of <em>The Eagle:</em></font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">We hope you enjoy the year’s first issue of the school newspaper. As the year goes on, we will be covering more and more aspects of school, town, and national events. If you wish to offer suggestions, or invite one of our reporters to cover your event, please email Mr. Crosby at <a href="mailto:jcrosby@plymouth.k12.ma.us">jcrosby@plymouth.k12.ma.us</a>. Also feel free to stop by P1 on Tuesday or Thursday right after school.</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">We appreciate your reading our paper and hope you continue, and tell your friends!</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The staff of <em>The Eagle</em> is:</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> Kristine Auger<br> Lauren Benning<br> Nick Coit<br> Colin Crociati<br> Rob Driscoll <br> Laurie Graham<br> John Haigh<br> Joe Kenyon<br> Tim Lovely<br> Gina Lucas<br> Tori Verrengia </font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Mr. Crosby (advisor)</font></p></TD> <!-- This is the END of the page text which you want to edit --> </TR> </TBODY></TABLE> </BODY></HTML>
If this is a school web page, don't the students have a faculty sponsor who can help with learning html and css? Get with your sponsor and set up time to work through tutorials on the web. Learn html and css. In the html tutorials, ignore the sections on table layouts and the sections on frames. They're a waste of time. Use css to control the layout. Start rewriting the page. Leave the javascript out. You don't need it anyway, and marquees by any name an ugly affectation. Don't worry too much if it doesn't look like a pro did it—because a pro didn't do it. As you progress, you can juice it up. When you run into a problem, try to work through it, and if you can't, bring it to the forum. Read Eric S. Raymond's paper on how to ask questions the smart way so you won't look clueless. cheers, gary
the javascript in the page is mostly junk only simple html will be done for it using css if you want i can help you making the page ,just pm