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How to create
a Web Enquiry
Using MS Internet Explorer
and MS Front Page
Tony Pickford
Creating a Web Enquiry
How to create a Web Enquiry page
1. Choose a place or location on which to focus your web enquiry page –
it can be in the UK or overseas, but should not be a whole country!
2. Open Microsoft Internet Explorer from either the
Start menu, the shortcut button on the Start menu
or the shortcut on the desktop.
3. Once the College IBIS intranet page has opened, type the following
web address in the Address box at the top of the screen -
http://www.btinternet.com/~tonypickford/gg/webenq.htm
4. Scroll down this page until you reach the web enquiries template link.
Click on the link to open the template.
5. Once the template page has opened, select Edit with Microsoft Front
Page in the File menu. The page will then open in Front Page.
6. Before doing anything else, save this page to your computer’s hard
drive so that none of your work will be lost.
Select Save As from the File menu and save the page to the desktop –
give it an appropriate file name, e.g. the name of the place that you are
going to research.
7. Now go back to Internet Explorer by clicking on the
appropriate button on the toolbar at the foot of the
screen.
8. You are now going to find some web pages which will help children at
KS1/2 to answer the questions on the template page:
Where is this place?
How do people travel to, from and around this place?
What does this place look like?
Natural and man-made features
Why do people visit this place?
What foods do people eat?
What jobs and activities go on in this place?
How have people made use of or changed the environment?
What changes are happening now? For better or worse? Are there any local
issues related to land-use?
What is it like to live here?
What do you like and dislike about this place?
What do the people who live here like and dislike?
Type in the Web Address of an appropriate search page/engine on the
Internet – Google is one of the easiest and fastest -
http://www.google.co.uk/
9. If you are using Google, you can put key words into the Search Box
(such as Buncrana Donegal Ireland) and Google will return web pages
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which firstly contain all three words, then two of them and finally just
one – this has the effect of widening the search automatically.
Be warned, however, that this method of searching produces a lot of
hits and only the first few will be directly relevant.
10. When you find a web page with relevant information to help answer
one of the questions, select the Address by clicking in the Address
Box.
Select Copy from the Edit menu or press Ctrl-C to copy the Address.
11. Go back to template page in Front Page by clicking on
the appropriate button on the toolbar at the foot of the
screen.
12. Type some appropriate text to describe the link under the relevant
question on the template page. Front Page has formatting buttons
similar to those in Word to help you format the text, e.g. change it to
Normal instead of Bold.
13. Select the text that you have just typed and then click on
the Hyperlink button in the Front Page toolbar.
14. When the Create Hyperlink dialog box appears, click in
the URL box and delete the contents.
Now press Ctrl-V to paste the Web Address that you copied in Step
10. Click the OK button to close the dialog.
15. The text that you have typed will now be underlined and in blue to
indicate that it is a link to another web page.
16. To test the link, click on the Preview in Browser
button in the tool bar.
17. You will be prompted to save the page – Click Yes.
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18. The page will either open automatically in Internet
Explorer or you may need to select Internet Explorer
by clicking on the appropriate button in the toolbar.
19. Test the link by clicking on it in the Internet Explorer window. The page
you found earlier should appear.
20. To add more links to the template page, use the Back button on the
Internet Explorer toolbar to find your search results again.
21. When you have found another link, you will need to
repeat Steps 10 – 19 again to insert it into the template
page. Go back to Front Page by clicking on the button
in the toolbar.
22. Depending on the chosen locality and age-range, you may not be able
to find web links, which provide answers to every question. Aim to find
at least one good quality link for at least half of the questions.
Remember you can add in your own questions specific to your chosen
locality!
23. Use the formatting functions in Front Page to alter, enhance and
improve the appearance of the Web Enquiry page.
Select Background or Theme from the Format menu to do this.
24. When you have finished your Web Enquiry page, you could go on to
use the MS PowerPoint template to record the answers that you have
found from the Web -
http://www.btinternet.com/~tonypickford/gg/webenq.ppt
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