Bob Jensen at Trinity University
How can I make my hyperlinks hot when I paste them in text?
Hi Glenn,
Here is my response to your query.
AutoFormat Hyperlinks
Suppose you paste a series of text hyperlinks into MS Word where each is separated by a space or a line break. Select all the hyperlinks simultaneously. Then choose the menu options (Format, AutoFormat, AutoFormat now).
If there is only one hyperlink pasted, you can avoid taking time with the above AutoFormat option. Simply backspace up to the last character in the pasted URL. and subsequently press the spacebar. The link should light up in blue.
AutoFormat Line Breaks
Now I'll add some advice that you did not ask for in your message. If you are pasting web text into Frontpage and want to get rid of unwanted line breaks, try the Paste Special command instead of Paste. Then choose the 'Normal Paragraphs" option. You can also paste it from FrontPage into MS Word without the line breaks.
However, if you really want the pasted text in a MS Word doc file and do not give a hoot about creating an htm file in FrontPage, you can paste the web text in your MS Word doc file. If the pasted text has unwanted line breaks, select this text and choose the menu options (Format, AutoFormat, AutoFormat now). That should remove most unwanted line breaks as well as liven up the hyperlinks.
Lastly, I advise FrontPage or some other HTML editor for creation of htm files. MS Word is not where it is as for creation of htm files, especially when you are dealing with tables and other finer features of HTML.
When I view a document in a web browser, a document with multiple frames often shows the document in a frame that is either too small or too large for my preferences. How can I change the frame size as a reader (user) in my web browser such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer?
Users can change frame sizes on their own in a web browsers. They should drag the mouse over the border of a frame until they see a two-headed arrow. Then they can drag a frame to a smaller or larger size. There are some documents where frame sizes cannot be easily changed. I have never been able to change the sizes of the frames in http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245gloss.htm. You can, however, easily change the frame sizes in http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/faqhm1.htm.
Bibliographies come in many formats. Some of the most popular formats are MLA (Modern Languages Association) and APA (American Psychological Association). There are variations on these formats. You can find out more about how to at the following sites:
http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/psychology/WEAPAS/
The Trinity's Coates Library also has a very helpful document on citations at
http://www.trinity.edu/departments/maddux_library/citations.html
How can a Netscape "Bookmark" htm file be converted into a Microsoft Internet Explorer "Favorites" file?
1. On the File menu, click open.
2. Locate the Bookmark.htm file in Netscape, click the file, and then OK.
3. Use the right mouse button to click on a bookmark, and then click "Add to Favorites" on the menu that appears.
4. Repeat step 3 for each bookmark you want to convert.
Also, you can download a converter from Microsoft's home page. The file is "WINBM2FV.EXE". Click on Support, then Knowledge base. I haven't used this product so I don't know how well it works, but it should be fairly simple. If you have any question give me a call at x7074.
Alphonso Cooper
User Services Tech e-mail: acooper@trinity.edu Trinity University
Phone: 736-7074 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212
What are JavaScripts and how can I learn more about these?
One of the best online reference (free) for Javascript is at
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/Gold/handbook/javascript/
Next term, I am considering the ISBN 1-57521-118-1 textbook by Richard Wagner (Javascript Unleashed) at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1575211181/1536-0202139-874064
A reference book by David Flanagan has an ISBN 1-56592-234-4 can be reviewed at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1575211181/t/1536-0202139-874064
What are JavaScripts and how can I learn more about these?
JavaScript is a web document scripting language introduced by Netscape. These are codes that allow users to go beyond what is possible in HTML coding of web documents. You may learn more about them by searching for the term "Java Scripts" in my bookmarks file. A good starting site is at Netscape's JavaScript File. You may also search some key references such as the web site http://www2.bath.ac.uk/~ccsnad/java/jsfaq.html. A summary of JavaSript commands can be found at http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1996/jw-12-javascript.html Some good JavaScript hints are given by Jen at http://www.frymulti.com/~jwang/jsintro.html .
What goes downstream up to 56 Kbps? 128 Kbps? 6400 Kbps? 50
Mbps? What is the difference between downstream and upstream (or equivalently download vs
upload)?
_____Switched Broadband Key To Future Of E-Commerce____ Bell Atlantic chairman Ray Smith said yesterday at the Internet & Electronic Commerce Conference in New York that the success of Internet-based commerce depends on speed. He then described how his company will provide it: with high-performance "switched broadband" connections that he claims will render technology like ISDN and ADSL obsolete. "Switched broadband will obsolete everything that comes before." Smith said in his speech that Bell Atlantic's bandwidth "end game," lies with next-generation switched broadband technology currently under development and set for deployment in Philadelphia in 18 months. Switched broadband, built on unnamed technology licensed from Lucent Technologies, will offer downstream connect speed of 52 Mbps and upstream connect speed of 3 Mbps, while taking advantage of customers' existing telephone wiring. According to Smith, switched broadband is able to jump the performance hurdles posed by the final 20 yards between buildings and the fiber optic line that ends at the curb. Telephone companies like Bell Atlantic typically bury eight to 10 copper lines instead of just one when installing voice networks. Switched broadband uses devices licensed from Lucent that let data communications take advantage of those extra wires for data transmission, making high-speed connections across the copper. "[Switched broadband] turns that buried copper into gold," Smith said. --Jeff Sweat
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How can I use File Transfer Protocol (FTP) using Netscape
Navigator?
How can I listen to web text that appears on the screen?
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This is very important technology, because nobody wants to read a lot of text on a screen.
Printing can be expensive due to printer, toner, and paper costs. Next term I will be
using a textbook that is only available on the Internet. As we increasingly see books and
long papers on the Internet, we will need a way to listen to text without having to
record, digitize, and store audio files. The Bell-Labs technology synthesizes text without
having to record and store audio files. My only recommendation to Bell Labs is that Gnats
and Ridiculous should be replaced by quaint and lyrical Irish and Australian voices.
Both a message from Art Joy at Columbus College and my response are shown below:
Hi Art,
I made no claims with respect to graphics, audio, video, or text effectiveness in learning. What I do claim is having BOTH audio and text is a better option than text ALONE on a computer screen if having BOTH comes at a minimal cost in terms of hardware/software and Internet bandwidth requirements. A problem with video and audio files in the past is that they are quite large even in compressed formats. For example, there are 750 hours of audio of the attorney arguments in all cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (since 1955) available at the http://oyez.at.nwu.edu/oyez.html
That much digitized audio on a Northwestern University server must take up a huge amount of hard drive. In addition, playing it on each and every day at hundreds or thousands of sites around the world takes up a huge amount of bandwidth that is becoming increasingly precious with the massive growth of use of the Internet. The amount of storage required varies with the desired quality. My recording options range from 28,000 Bps at the low end to 5.2 million Bps for CD stereo quality. Most of my educational recordings are at Radio Quality at slightly over 300,000 Bps. Using Radio Quality, 750 hours of digitized video takes up more than 13,500 Mbs of storage. MPEG compression would reduce this storage requirement, but then users must have MPEG playback software such as that available from http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ukly/
Think of how much more efficient it is to have synthesized audio playback capabilities while the text is in on your screen without having to take up any added bandwidth to get that audio or take up any added space on your own computer system to store that audio. This synthesis option is enormously more efficient then audio recording and storage. However, synthesized audio is not as effective in most instances. For example, the OYEZ U.S. Supreme Court history site mentioned above contains the voices of the attorneys recorded live with all the inflections, pauses, volume changes, paper shuffling, chuckles, etc. that may have been very important in swaying some Court decisions. Much, indeed most, of this is lost in text to audio synthesis that plays back only the words using synthesized voices. However, for many purposes (such as having both audio and text options of Internet textbooks), perhaps the efficiency of voice synthesis outweighs the benefits of actual recordings of audio that clogs the Internet lines and gobble up gigabytes of my own hard drives. To date, all my Internet audio options clog the bandwidth of the WWW and take up space on a Trinity University server. For example, see Document 4 at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
I agree with you that audio is not a substitute for text on screens of computers. Audio cannot be easily printed. Audio cannot be easily searched for words or phrases. Audio cannot be scanned as quickly with the ear as the eye can scan text. However, audio relieves eyestrain. Audio can be played while the eye focuses on other things (the road, the equations, the animations, the pictures, etc.). Audio can be played when eyes are weary of looking at a screen. Audio can help learners learn more. For example, when learning languages, audio helps learners listen to and speak a language as well as read that language. Never would I argue that audio is a substitute for text.
However, never would I argue that BOTH is not better than one if having BOTH is virtually costless to the user and to other users of bandwidth. Thank you Art, however, for adding some important insights regarding learning. I just refereed a paper for Issues in Accounting Education that supports your arguments regarding differences in learning styles.
Bob Jensen
PS I must admit that the synthesized Carpenters cannot hold a candle to the real Carpenters. See http://pi0959.kub.nl:2080/jaap/midi/index ******************************************************************************* At 09:48 AM 3/25/97 -0500, you wrote:
Bob Jensen recently stated, in referring to new audio synthesis technology: This is very important technology, because nobody wants to read a lot of text on a screen, and printing can be expensive due to printer, toner, and paper costs. This statement assumes that people can learn equally well either aurally or visually, and this simply is not the case. Some people learn better by seeing material, while others learn better by hearing it. My wife, for example, is a "visual person" -- she needs to see something in order to retain it; if complicated material is presented aurally, she must write it down and read it in order to retain the material. I do not know what causes this difference in learning styles, but it is real and we ignore it at our (and our students') peril! I absolutely agree that "nobody wants to read a lot of text on a screen", but for "visual learners" aural technology is not an adequate substitute. Therefore, we can _not_ expect to eliminate the printed page; if educators stop providing the printed page, we simply force students (and faculty members) to print their own individual copies of the material -- a much less efficient reproduction process. Not every student owns a laser printer. (At this institution, not every student owns a computer.)
Why does my printout of some WWW documents have blanks when I know that text is visible on my browser?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using
scrolling marquees? How can you create and edit marquees in FrontPage?
Hint: Go to the following website in Internet Explorer and then go to the same site in
Netscape Navigator.
The answer is that scrolling marquees cannot be viewed in
Netscape Navigator.
How can exact phrases (character strings) be searched rather than combinations of words in any order be searched?
The options for this vary in some search engines. In most search engines (e.g., Altavista Advanced Search), it is possible to enclose an exact phrase within quotation marks. In other search engines, there is a menu command of some sort. For example, in HotBot, you click on the drop down list box to change the options from "All the words" to "The exact phrase."
For general help on web searching, students should go to
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
I also recommend that you take a look at http://www.cob.asu.edu/users/class/acc591/03Search.html
How can foreign phrases be more efficiently searched?
This week's Alta Vista Tip
Don't Sweat the Grammar in Foreign-language Searches
If you are performing a search in another language, don't worry about getting the
prepositions or connective words exact. For example, in a search using the French terms
techniques de entrevue, you can search using the preposition de, you can elide it
grammatically with the next word as
d'entrevue, or you can leave de out altogether. It won't make an appreciable effect on
your search since AltaVista Search ranks your hits according to the words with meaning,
techniques and entrevue.
from--The Cobb Group's Power Searching with Alta Vista newsletter
How can USENET messages be searched?
You can search USENET easily at the following web site:
The trick is to change "Search the Web" into "Search Usenet." The
Usenet listings will let you read previous email discussions on topics of interestto you.
In HotBot, there is a USENET choice
button.
How can I be creative in my web searches?
In advanced searches, make full use of the Boolean operators, especially if you're
searching for acronyms with more than one interpretation. For example, if you're searching
for music CDs, you don't want to forget that AltaVista
Search will find anything to do with financial CDs (certificates of deposit) in
addition to music CDs if you fail to construct an exact search string. To avoid such a
problem, try this: CD AND (NOT (financial OR money OR invest*)) AND music AND (NOT spoken
word) AND (NOT *-ROM).
from--The Cobb Group's Power Searching with Alta Vista newsletter
What are some good Javascript references?
One of the best online reference (free) for Javascript is at
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/Gold/handbook/javascript/
Next term, I am considering the ISBN 1-57521-118-1 textbook by Richard Wagner (Javascript Unleashed) at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1575211181/1536-0202139-874064
A reference book by David Flanagan has an ISBN 1-56592-234-4 can be reviewed at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ats-query/1536-0202139-874064
How quickly will your pages download in a browser?
If your FrontPage development environment includes a high-speed Internet
connection, it's easy to forget that most users still have 28.8 Kbps
modems. Fortunately, FrontPage will tell you how quickly (or slowly) your
pages will download through a 28.8 modem.
As you work in FrontPage Editor, the program monitors the page size and
estimates the page's download time. That estimate, which is continuously
updated, appears in the lower-right corner of the editor window. A nearly
blank page might say "2 seconds," while a complex, graphics-intensive page
might say "300 seconds." You can then decide whether your content is
compelling enough that people will wait 5 minutes to see it.
Keep in mind that this number is just an estimate. You should still preview
your site across a modem line if possible.
From--The Cobb Group's Inside Microsoft FrontPage newsletter
What is the difference between a web search and a "meta" web search?
Meta search tools
Even the largest keyword indexes don’t contain all the information on the Internet, and many tend to specialize in certain types of information. Using a meta search tool is one good way of making sure your search is comprehensive. Meta search tools let you access several databases at once.
There are many pseudo meta search tools, such as All 4 One Search Machine,
Metasearch, and FindIt!, which are really search link stations that embed
multiple search engines on a single page so that you can access them one at
a time. These search link stations can prove useful if they’re
well-designed. For example, the Research-It! Web site at
http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html
is a great link station for searching dictionary, thesaurus, language translation, and other reference databases. But true meta search engines, like the ones shown below query multiple search engines simultaneously from one search query and then return the results organized by search engine or combined into one set of returns. Meta search engines can give you more complete search results, but there’s a cost. Meta search engines tend to be slow precisely because they query more than one search engine at a time. Conducting a search with a meta search engine can take a minute or more, as opposed to the 5 or 10 seconds it takes using other search tools. And meta search engines won’t let you specify search parameters for individual search engines (most meta search engines allow only simple Boolean operators), so you’ll have more results to sift through.
SavvySearch http://guaraldi.cs.colostate.edu:2000/
The Internet Sleuth http://www.isleuth.com
Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/
MetaCrawler http://www.metacrawler.com
Highway 61 http://www.highway61.com
SuperSeek http://w3.superseek.com/superseek/too many frames!
Personal Compass http://www.personalcompass.com/
Inference Fine http://www.inference.com/ifind/
Mother Load http://www.cosmix.com/motherload/insane/
DigiSearch http://www.digiway.com/digisearch/
ProFusion http://www.designlab.ukans.edu/profusion/
From—The Cobb Group’s Power Searching with Alta Vista newsletter
Click here for more guidance on web searching http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/busn2311/helpers1.htm
How can I add a free search engine for documents in my own web site?
Navigate to the document at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/search01.htm
Then scroll down for instructions and some important email messages.
What are the main types of links in HTML?
A "bookmark" link us used to link to a designated (named) word or phrase within a document. The # sign is used to designate a link to a bookmark. For example, consider the link http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245glosf.htm#Speech1
The link not only goes to my 245glosf.htm file, it scrolls down to the term "Speech Recognition" that I have assigned a bookmark name "Speech1".A "relative link" is a link to a file contained within the same folder (directory) as th file you are viewing in your browser. For example, if the file collie.htm is contained in the same folder as dogs.htm in a web server, you can create a relative link from dogs.htm to collie.htm by only assigning the file name collie.htm to the link.
A relative link to a bookmark within a given document might simply read #Speech1. However, if it is to a document not in your web server, then you must use the full URL http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245glosf.htm#Speech1
If collie.htm is in the same server area, but is contained in a subfolder "large," then a relative link can be created by assigning the link
../large/collie.htm to move up a directory and ./large/collie.htm to move down a directory.
To view illustrations of such links, go to http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/busn2311/linktest.htmAn external (absolute) link is created by assigning the full URL to the file name. For example, an full URL external link is shown below: http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/busn2311/linktest.htm
Another example is "mailto: rjensen@trinity.edu "A file path link is a link to a file on the local computer that you are using at the moment. For example, if the file collie.htm is contained in the path c:\dogs\large\collie.htm the link will work while you are developing web pages. However, the link will not work for external users who do not have access to the c drive of your computer. The major cause of broken links to files that students develop is the failure of those students to ultimately change the file path links into relative or external (absolute) links.
I recommend that you take a look at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/busn2311/linktest.htm
Go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob.htm#WWW2 for a listing of other sites for FAQs. (This will open in a new browser window.)