E.A.C.U.G

Creating your personal local portal to the Internet

March 20, 2001 Meeting
This will let you bring up your browser OFF LINE
and select where YOU want to go without the advertising on most portal pages

The following should help in the event you missed the meeting or some of the procedures shown there

Read This First !
At the meeting we said you could not get in any trouble, although we did stress this be sure to save YOUR PRESENT START PAGE address before replacing it in your browser. This way you can return to the original settings if needed. You may also need it to access your accounts with your provider, if so it should be put on the new portal page as demonstrated.

1. Click here and download the self extracting file portal.exe

When asked tell the program to "Save the File" and remember where you put it !

2. Find the file with windows explorer and double click on it.

It will self extract the file portal.htm to your c: (root) directory.
If you lose it use the [ Start ] [ Find ] command and look for portal.exe

At this point you may wish to edit the new portal and try it our before installing it
This may be done in Note Pad, [File] [Open] [ C:\portal.htm ]
After editing open your Browser then test it using [File] [Open] [C:\portal.htm]
Once it is working to your satisfaction install it in one of the following ways.

3. * Open your favorite browser and select [ File ] [ Open ] and browse down to your C: Directory .

4. Find and Open portal.htm

5 Find "Internet Options" if using IE it is on the menu bar at the top under [ Tools ]
- - - In Netscape it may be under [ Edit ] [ Preferences ] or [ Options ] [ Preferences ]

6. When you determine where the Start Page, Home Page of Browser Start Page is select [ Use Current ]

* BE SURE TO copy and save the ORIGINAL home page URL BEFORE you change it so it may be added
to your new portal page

7. Any time you wish to edit the portal.page you may do it using Note pad. It will be found in your C: drive.

Editing hints are included in the source code and you may copy and paste new addresses in as needed.


Other options to install the new portal page:


Internet Explorer 5.0 
                     Click "Tools" on the menu bar, then scroll down, click 
                     "Internet Options" Click on "General" tab,  In Home 
                     Page "Address" box,  enter  c:\portal.htm 
                     Click OK 

Internet Explorer 4.0 
                    Click "View" on the menu bar,  then scroll down, click 
                    "Options", then click on the "Places", "Start and Search 
                    Pages,"    or "Navigation" tab.  Enter  c:\portal.htm 
                    in the Address box.  Click OK 


Netscape 6.x        Click "Edit" on the menu bar, then scroll down, click 
                    "Preferences", In Home page "Location" box enter
                      c:\portal.htm   Click OK 

  

Netscape 4.x        Click "Edit" on the menu bar, then scroll down, click 
                    "Preferences", Click on "Navigator",    In Home page 
                    "Location" box enter   c:\portal.htm   Click OK 
  

Netscape 3.x        Click "Options" on the menu bar, then scroll down, 
                    click "General  Preferences". In the "Appearance" 
                    section, there is an option for "Browser Starts With:" 
                    Check "Home Page Location" in the box enter 
                    c:\portal.htm     Click OK
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