Senior Center of
Charlottesville

Gus began by briefing us on the "60 minutes show" the night before. It turned out to be so interesting and informative that we all joined in. We've got to see some pictures of where Gus and Audrey live. Beautiful place they have. I personally think that those 15 mimutes had relaxed us a lot before we had to "dig" in the unknown of this html jungle. I forgot some of the anxiety and sleepiness thanks to that. Let's do it again and more often. :-))

1- We looked at Jenny's homework.

A home page with tables, pictures, and links to the other sites. It's all came from a floppy A disc. So nobody can see it from their own computer yet. Not until we can publish the page.

1. Tables and pictures:
   • Jenny said she inserted "one row, one column" table in first and she typed the path to the pictures right next to the table path.
   • She also inserted another table with one row and 3 columns. Then next she put a picture in each column (or cell).

2. Comparing source code pages
   • Gus took one file (lesson11) and brought it to FrontPage so we could see the difference between front page made with FPE and the ones we made manually. When we opened a page made on Notepad (lesson 11) with FPE, we saw pictures of funny looking robots and squares of question marks. There were also arrows pointing downward and left without any clue as to why and what they were there for. We found out from the source that they were interpreting the (br) that we had put in our notepad. FPE don't seem to like these (br) (?) As for the question marks and the robots hanging around them, we just have to play around some more with them to learn to know them better.
     
   • There were more of these weird symbols that we found in the code source of the FPE pages, for example the (OP) (/OP) the (20%)... etc... These were details that were added to the code pages that we had to pay attention to. Notice the (&+nbsp) for space (instead of the space bar)
     
   • We found out that from FPE we can "fix", "correct","change" or "redesign" our pages at the web page instead of going to the source page. We can fix text or use tools as we do with Ms Word, which is a plus for us lazy folks. However note that with FPE source code, there is no menu/tool bars so it's very difficult to make change like save, copy, paste etc.. (It may drive you crazy as it did me. If you happen to know a way out of this, let me know) The only button is the {OK} at the bottom of the page. That is for us to save our work. I have to say that I miss the {Search} and {Find}of notepad a lot too. It would come in so handy at times.

3. Learn by a mistake Jenny made.
   • Gus went to a link that Jenny had on her home page but she couldn't get it through on line. Then we found out that the name of the file on the path to the hyperlink was not EXACTLY the same as the name of the files she has on her Websites folder. When Gus and Bruce corrected it we were able to see it displayed on line. WOW!! Once, Gus even went to the file and changed its name to fit the one on the hyperlink (he did it so fast I was impressed)

2- Visit some Interesting links for Seniors

• We visited and discussed "Senior Net" as an example and decided that we have to pay attention to the "quality" of the link we choose for Seniors. It should not lead us to another commercial source of selling and buying for profits. We will talk more about it in the future. For now we are still on the stage of getting familiar to the "how-to". Technical practice instead of Artful choices.( That means mastering the trade by the quantity first)
  

  Gil was taking pictures of all of us, separately. His project was to make a collage picture then he would show us how to do it. ( I am telling you, this fellow has all the time to do things!! He has a digital camera too. 5 years ago you can tell how "high tech" a Senior can get by asking him/her if they own a computer, now you should ask if they have bought the latest digital camera yet? :-))

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  End of lesson twelve

  
  

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