As this is already a html document your browser will open it as a page. To obtain the file you need to edit go to the template using your browser, then go to the "View" menu at the top of your screen and select "Source..." (Mac version). This will open the template in Teach Text or Read, or whatever basic text reader is selected in your browser as a text reader (look under Helper Apps to change the selected program). Once the source file is open, save it to your hard drive and call it "whatever.html". Edit this file using your text reader program, such as Teach Text or Read, then save it agin. Do not try and change pages in NetScape, it will not work.
Save the edited file as Whatever.html, and send it to me along with your image files. Test out how the text looks when you are done by opening the file with the "Open File"command in NetScape (under "File" in the upper left on the main menu). You will not see images.
A more complex template with image paste in is also available. For this to work the images must be in the same folder as the html file. Make both a small gif thumbprint, and a large high resolution jpeg. The small file should be about 150 x 100 pixels, 72 dpi, 8 bit color. If you cannot make gif files send jpg thumbprints, which also work. The large file should be about 600 x 400 pixels, 72 to 100 dpi (no higher). Please use JPEG View, or PhotoShop 3.0 to make JPEGs and not PhotoShop 2.0 (not a universal jpeg format), and name the files name.jpg. If you make your images with Photoshop 2.0, save the files as TIFF, then open the tiff file with JPEG View, and save it as a JFIF (=jpg) format.
Substitute your file names (Both GIF and JPG) for those between the square brackets. The high resolution file is listed first (.jpg), and the small gif file second (.gif). Save the file, then preview it in NetScape. If you want more than three photos, copy and paste the entire section between the hr markers (=horizontal line).
PLEASE conform to the page standard where possible, anterior to the left, posterior to the right, dorsal up and ventral down whenever possible. In early stages keep animal up and dorsal to the right. I can flip images for you electronically if necessary. Also please include a description of the staining patterns that can be posted with the images (for example see the 4A6 page)
Notes on Option 2.
Scanning images on a flat-bed scanner
If you scan pictures yourself, use a moderate resolution (e.g.100 dpi), as I will have to lower the resolution on files that are too large. Remember that people will be viewing the images on a computer screen, so generating files with a resolution greater than screen resolution (92 dpi max) will waste space and make the file cumbersome to download. You may want to play with the scale of the images more than the resolution. For example, lets say you have a 4"x 6" colour photograph, and the interesting part of the photograph occupies about one quarter of the photograph.
Select the following scanner options. Color depth, 24-bit (or 32-bit). Resolution 92 dpi. Darkness, normal
Do a pre-scan.
Use your mouse to select just the area you wish to scan. The previewer will tell you how many inches (or cm) high and wide the area is. Think about pixels not just inches. Many computer monitors only display 640 x 480 pixels, so don't make images bigger than this. Decide on the scale and adjust it to make the final image between 4 and 8 inches across. Lets say you selected an area 3 inches wide. Select 200% scale.
Scan. You will have scanned an area three inches wide and generated a 92 dpi file that will be 6 inches wide when opened.
If it looks good, save it. If it doesn't, play with the parameters (Darkness is the main variable, also try Contrast and Sharpness) and rescan. It is much better to play with the image now rather than in "Photoshop" or "Image" later.
To save the file click on "Save As", under the options box select "TIFF" or "JPEG", give the file a name, and select "Save". If you can only use PICT format go ahead, I can convert them to JPEG for you. Please include the file format in the file name. For example if it is a tiff file call it "file.tiff", if it is a JPEG file, call it "file.jpg". Finally, please do not leave spaces in files names if it can be avoided (I will have to remove them or UNIX will spit them out).
If further options come up, choose Mac format if it gives you a choice of Mac or PC, and do not use compression if you don't need to. JPEG is of course a compressed format. If you are asked for a compression ratio, select a modest setting (probably the default) such as "10" on the numerical scale, or "good image quality" on the Mac-speak type scale.
Tiff images should be about 1 megabyte (LZW compression is OK), JPEG 0.05 to 0.1 MB. The bigger the image is, the lower the resolution you must use to generate a reasonably sized file. Color bit depth should be 12 bit or greater for maximal impact. Alpha is OK (=good) on TIFFs.
If you have a digitizer board on your computer simply "grab" the images and save in TIFFor JPEG format, try not to use GIF for the high resolution files if you can, its not really good enough (it's only 8 bit colour). Screen resolution of 640 x 480 pixels is fine.
If you scan slides you will probably need to use something like 800 dpi to generate a TIFF file of about 1 MB.
The resource is actually exported from a Gateway 2000 cheapo PC (66MHz 486, 16 MB RAM), a good cheap computer, running the NeXTSTEP operating system and the CERN httpd. If you use a PC can can spare a little time to learn NeXTSTEP (it makes a Mac look like Dos) it will be worth your while. I would be happy to tell you more, or talk to NeXT computer