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Modify the instructions page or post a tip


Directory organization:

The main lab website is located at http://cancer.med.unc.edu/swanstromlab/index.html . The links page (the home page on the lab computers) is http://cancer.med.unc.edu/swanstromlab/links.html . The computer maintenance index is at http://cancer.med.unc.edu/swanstromlab/instructions/index.html - all of the pages and images describing subtopics referred to by that page are in the swanstromlab/instructions/ directory. Look at the source for one of the topics (View --> Page Source in your browser) to see how to refer to pages and images.

If you want to add a page to post a tip, use tip_template.html as a template: Just open a new file in BBEdit, paste in the contents of tip_template.html, and add whatever else you want. Then save the new page in the instructions directory using File --> Save to FTP Server. An easy way to copy the contents of the template page is to click on the link above, view the source, and highlight the text.

Modify the files by FTP

  1. Connect to the cancer.med.unc.edu server - this page is http://cancer.med.unc.edu/swanstromlab/instructions/index.html.
    You can view (but not modify) the source code using View --> View source in your browser. Use BBEdit to modify the source code in one of two ways:
  2. Capture screen shots using Grab.app - save as jpg (NOTE: images saved in tiff format will be displayed using some browsers, but not Internet Explorer!). Use Fetch to put screen shots in swanstromlab/instructions/
  3. Help with HTML can be found at: