Our assignment for this week at Pedagogy First! is to make a short FAQ. Mine is huge.
But the question that’s come up a couple of times now, at least for those who aren’t experienced at HTML, is how to get that cool effect where a student clicks on a linked Q at the top, and the cursor bounces to the corresponding A at the bottom. This is called an internal link or an anchored link.
Here’s how to create those links in a FAQ using OpenOffice. This can then be copied and pasted into a blog post or Dreamweaver.
Handy to remember copy/pasting html into blog or other html compose screen. Kompozer is another free html composer, Mozilla based, less garbage code than Microsoft.
You can also use targeted links to anchors like standalone URLs to embed and anyplace asking for a page link. Anchors are also an easy way to improve page navigation.
Thanks so much for this video. Just curious, are there other tasks for which open office is particularly useful?
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I asked Laura Paciorek about this, since she first suggested to me that OpenOffice could do stuff like this when another faculty member asked us about it after a workshop. Laura says that it’s great for creating accurate HTML and converting to PDF. She says having to create your own watermark is inconvenient but totally doable.
Aha! I tried to do an internal link within the WordPress editor a couple of weeks ago, and failed completely. Now, however, I’ve fixed it using LibreOffice. Thanks, Lisa.
Since Laura led me to it, I credit her (or rather I should have, in the post). Glad it’s working for you.
IT is huge! I love how it organized though and very informative! Thanks for sharing.
[...] When browsing and landing on a new site, one of the first pages I visit is the FAQ page, it provides structured information about the site/product. It seems to be a must have page. There is mention of how to make a FAQs on Lisa’s blog. [...]
[...] archive of html files, so I was able to go into Sigil and see the tags and clean it up. I even used Lisa’s tutorial on anchored links to link to endnotes within the chapters. It took a few hours, partly because I was figuring out how [...]
Mostly a combination of default / inertia, because it is free (but not as big a download as Open Office) and I am already used to Mozilla (less exhausting for aging and easily exhausted learning curve), but I have been using a combination of Kompozer, ad hoc html coding searches … and even remembering the ones I use the most. I end up learning a fair amount of code on the hoof by switching back and forth between wysiwyg and html views
Word does the targeted anchor thing too with header settings but there is all that garbage code (but free online code cleaning software too)