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How Do I ... Change my Intranet Page?

All of you have a local Intranet page, it is the web page that is displayed when you:

How do you change what is there to customise it for your your practice requirements and needs. There are three basic ways:

  1. Edit the home page with ANY editor e.g. ste/pico/vi from any screen
  2. Use one of the graphical editors that comes with your system
  3. Use a Microsoft or other package from a Windows PC e.g. Frontpage, Word, Powerpoint etc.

Lets look at each of those options in turn:

Note: The 'home' page as far as your Web Server goes normally lives in /u/www and will default to 'index.html'. So the file to change is /u/www/index.html

Option 1 - Any Editor

Web pages are just text files, these files can be changed with any text tool you are familiar with - even the Premvet 5 Text editor.

Our Web site (http://www.premiervet.com), all the Vet 3000 and Premvet 5 manual pages, all the FAQ's (new version comes with 2.19.03 look pretty good!!) were all written with the basic Unix editor vi.

Edit the file /u/www/index.html and away to go.

Html pages are very similar to the definition files within Premvet 5. You add in various reserved words to change the text e.g.

What Premvet 5 Html
Bold &bs text &bf <b> text </b>
Enlarged &es text &ef <h1> text </h1>

There are a multitude of books available on the subject and many many web pages devoted to html. If you want a basic introduction then look at the manuals that come with OpenServer. In the help section there are some chapters that cover it. Or point your browser at:

http://name-of-your-computer:457/XHelp/helpD.html.html

For simple quick changes to pages this is one of the easiest options.

Option 2 - Graphical Editor

All OpenServer systems come with a graphical frontend, in addition to some very useful Admin tools (lot easier to use if you don't understand the command line options) - there are various applications (all graphical), an editor, mail package etc. all the programs you would expect to need or use. One of these is Netscape Communicator - identical to Netscape for Microsoft Windows. Netscape includes a web authoring tool - called composer.

Start up the graphical frontend by typing startx at the # or $ prompt on the main console (make sure you have a mouse plugged in!). Click the Icon 'Netscape' enter file:///u/www/index.html as the URL, then when displayed click 'File' -> 'Edit Page'.

You are now in composer, use the various tool bars etc. etc. to edit and tart up your page. See the on-line help for more details on tables, forms, frames images etc.

One advantage over just editing the text file is this way you actually see the changes you make there and then.

Option 3 - A Microsoft Windows Package

Most the Microsoft Windows packages Word, Powerpoint etc. have options to save/edit html files. There is even the full blown Web Authoring package Frontpage. You can happily use any of these to edit your pages.

The first thing to do (only needs done once) is to map the Unix directory as a shared drive under Windows.

Two Ways to do this:

  1. On your Windows PC, log in as the Vision Administrator, go into Network NeigbourHood, Double Click your Unix server, then VisionTools, VisionFS and click the Icon 'profedit' to start up the profile editor. Click the 'Add a New Share' icon, call it say, webstuff, and set the Unix Directory to /u/www. Save the changes and restart VisionFS.

  2. Log into Unix as the Vision Administrator (usually root), and type 

         /usr/vision/bin/visionfs share --add webstuff /u/www "Web Share"
     /usr/vision/bin/visionfs restart

    You should now see, when you browse your Unix host a share called 'webstuff', right click it, and select 'Map Network Drive', click it to map the drive.

    Once you have the drive mapped all you need do is just use that drive when you need to edit/create web pages.