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=Welcome to the First Class Help Page=

This page is intended to help provide guidance to staff members at Carroll Community Schools learning to use Web Publishing as part of First Class Client.
A help page for First Class Client is available on the district webpage. Click here for more information.

A help page to choose colors for First Class web page is available by clicking here.

=The best way to learn First Class web publishing is trial and error!=

Getting Started:

 * 1) Open up First Class and sign - in.
 * 2) Double click on Web Publishing.
 * 3) On the left side - click on Web Publishing.
 * 4) Click on Appearance on the top toolbar - choose Advanced Web Configuration - this will allow you to set the colors for your pages.
 * website for additional help - http://ccsdtechhelp.wikispaces.com/FirstClass+Web+Page+Colors
 * 1) Go back to the left side menu and click on Web Publishing.
 * 2) Go to New Web Page on the top toolbar.
 * 3) When just starting you will probably want to use the Welcome page.
 * 4) Most of the time you will most likely use Blank Page.
 * Page name will appear on the left side of your website.
 * Page title will be the title on the top of your web page.
 * 1) Type information on the page you want on the web page.

Linking information on your website: The arrow pointing down is the link command -Rob Cordes 5/28/10 11:08 AM

Additional Help Hints for Linking:
To Link Documents to Your Web Page:
 * 1) Save your document as a PDF.
 * 2) Save your document in a folder in your Sites folder on Server-8
 * 3) Type the text on the web publishing document
 * 4) Highlight the text on the web publishing document
 * 5) Click on the link command (arrow pointing down - see toolbar above)
 * 6) A box will appear to you to link:


 * 1) Under Target URL type in http://server-8.carroll.k12.ia.us/~your last name your first name/folder name/document name with .pdf at the end IF it is a PDF document! Remember no spaces in the URL.
 * 2) Be sure to copy the URL before clicking OK.

Adding Links of Existing Websites to Your Website:
Example: I want to have a link on my website to the Carroll Public Library.
 * 1) Type the text you want on your web publishing document for example Carroll Public Library.
 * 2) Highlight the text your typed on your web publishing document
 * 3) Click on the link arrow [[image:http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcddrxw7_561c5nr8fdh_b width="21" height="22"]] . The Format Link box SHOULD appear [[image:http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcddrxw7_562f7rfm2g2_b width="398" height="272" align="center"]]

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 * 1) On your web browser go to the Carroll Public Library.
 * 2) Copy the URL.
 * 3) Past the URL in the Target URL box.
 * 4) Click OK.