Tech Tips for BHSEC Students

Download and install Kompozer
Select EDIT — Publishing Site Settings…
For BHSEC, write in:

For the first time you set this up, select “Save password”. However, if you’re not on your own computer with your own username and password, after you’re done with Kompozer don’t forget to go back and uncheck the box. You don’t anyone else being [...]

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Dreamweaver is your classic WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get). A WYSIWYG user does not need to know how code works because s/he can simply use the program’s interface (buttons and tools) to do all the formatting. A WYSIWYG is like making web pages with MS Word. In an editor, you work only with the code. The best way [...]

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The first “web basic” I want to impart is to make backups of all your work! For this you’ll need an FTP client.
FireFTP is, IMHO, the simplest ftp client. It works on osx/win/linux. It’s opensource (”free as in beer and free as in speech”). It’s a firefox addon, so you’ll need firefox. Go ahead and [...]

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