- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 19:51:31 -0500
- To: Peter Altschul <atschu@EROLS.COM>, wai-ig list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
there is an html designers list too but right now, I can't seem to find it in my addressbook. I am not certain how the answers will reach this person, but I have none for what he wants but what seems to me obvious but is not a road he wants to take. Peter Altschul wrote: > > Could someone help with this? > > (Please don't respond to me.) > > Thanks, > > Peter Altschul > >X-Authentication-Warning: zoom1.telepath.com: majordom set sender to > >acb-l-request@telepath.com using -f > >From: "Ray and Karyn Campbell" <farmboy@concentric.net> > >To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@concentric.net;;;;;> > >Subject: Web Help Needed > >Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:52:23 -0600 > >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 > >Sender: acb-l-request@telepath.com > >Reply-To: acb-l@telepath.com > > > >+== acb-l Message from "Ray and Karyn Campbell" <farmboy@concentric.net> ==+ > >All: > > > >I need some help with getting something onto a web page. > > > >I'm trying to get the Illinois Council of the Blind's Quartly newsletter, > >"The Illinois Braille Messenger" up onto the web. What I was given is a > >large file that was saved into html from MS Word 97. What I want to do is > >take the existing table of contents located at the top of this file which > >has various titles in it and turn those titles into links to the applicable > >sections of the file so that a user reading the publication can jump > >directly to whatever he or she wants to read. > > > >I have tried using both Frontpage Express and Microsoft Word Web Authoring > >tools to do this. Also at the end of each article in the publication, I > >want to have a link returning the user to the table of contents. > > > >I have several questions: > >1. Which do you feel is better for what I am trying to do, Frontpage > >Express, MS Word Web Authoring Tools, or is there something else? For right > >now, I will be using Web Authoring tools. Keep this in mind for the > >remainder of my questions. > >2. How do I make each entry in the table of contents into a link? > >Specifically, how do I put in a location in the file that I want to jump to > >and use a more descriptive name in the table of contents? For example, one > >of the links I have I want to say "FROM THE EDITOR" to a person browsing the > >page. What do I have to do to make my link to say "%FROM_THE_EDITOR" and > >have the "FROM THE EDITOR" appear on screen without the "#" sign And "_" > >characters? > >3. What word command(s) do I use to put a name to a file location? For > >example, at the place where the "FROM THE EDITOR" article starts, I need to > >put an anchor in so the browser knows where the user wants to jump to if > >that link is clicked? > >4. Perhaps it would be better to use two frames for this application, with > >the left frame being the table of contents and the right frame being the > >display area for whatever article the user clicks on. How do I set up > >frames with Web Authoring tools? > >5. If I cannot do this with web authoring tools, what tools work best with > >Window-Eyes? Frontpage Express does not seem to be very accessible in > >Window-eyes and I'm contact GW Micro about this. Is there something better, > >though? > > > >Thanks for any help you can provide. I will be anxious to see your answers > >as I dig deeper and deeper into the worl of web mastering. > > > > > >Ray Campbell > >farmboy@concentric.net > > > > > > > >************************************************************ > >* ACB-L is maintained and brought to you as a service * > >* of the American Council of the Blind. * > >************************************************************ > > VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. > To join or leave the list, send a message to > listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu. In the body of the message, simply type > "subscribe vicug-l" or "unsubscribe vicug-l" without the quotations. > VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at > http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html -- Hands-On Technolog(eye)s Touching The Internet ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman http://poehlman.clark.net mailto:poehlman@clark.net voice 301-949-7599 Dynamic Solutions Inc. Best of Service for your small business network needs http://www.dnsolutions.com
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