HTML Template for NRM Profile Pages

           IMPORTANT! The HTML Template page has been updated as of 2/14/00! The page you will create will incorporate a newly-designed Navigation Bar at the top (the HTML for which you should not modify). Your page will also incorporate HTML META tags. These are, very simply, a way to let Internet search engines like Google, Altavista, HotBot, and Excite know what kind of content you have on your page. You should come up with a 2 to 3 sentence description of your religious group, as well as 10-15 keywords describing your group, and input these where indicated on the HTML template.

    Also new is a faster, easier way to copy the Template to your floppy disk for editing in WordPad. Simply click here - the browser will display the full text of the template, saving you much laborious cutting and pasting. Once you do this, move the mouse up to the browser's edit menu, find "Select All," and click. All text in the browser window should now appear highlighted. Next, go back to the edit menu and select "Copy." You have now stored a copy of the HTML Project Template in your computer's memory. Go back to the Windows Desktop (you can minimize the Netscape window by clicking on the requisite button in the upper right-hand corner of the browser window) and find the WordPad editing software by clicking the Start button, moving the mouse to Programs, then over and up to Accessories in the submenu which appears, then down and over to the Wordpad listing in the second Accessories submenu which appears. WordPad will now load. Once it has loaded, go to WordPad's Edit menu and select "Paste." The entire template HTML code should appear in the window. Now, save this to your floppy disk from WordPad's Save menu as a file of type Text (NOT AS A FILE OF TYPE "WORD 6.0"!!!). Now you're ready to enter text information on your religious group into the template file. Remember to save (as file of type text) periodically! Note that you should refer to the (older) instructions below to understand which section of the template corresponds to which section of the actual profile page, which you can (and SHOULD) preview in your browser window by clicking here.

           Below you will find an HTML template for each major section of the profile you will need to mark up. Each section template will include the source for one section element; in the case of the Group Profile section and the Links section, as well as others, you will need to use the same template multiple times in order to mark up all the elements within a section of your profile (for example, the HTML source for ONE Link will appear here; because your profile undoubtedly has multiple links to other sites in the Links section, you will have to use pieces of the Link template several times (it's really more self-explanatory than it sounds here - read on!).

           In general, the order of templates here is the order in which you will need them as you mark up your Profile. The order in which the elements of your profile should appear is as follows: Group Profile, History, Beliefs, Issues and Controversies, Links, Bibliography. There will be a brief explanatory note above each Template which will explain the HTML commands used within that template as well as how to use that template in your HTML'ized NRM profile.

           The template for the beginning of your HTML document. Note that you will have to insert the appropriate title for your profile page (e.g. Suma Ching Hai if you were doing that group) where it says "Your Title Goes Here."

    <HTML>

    <HEAD>

    <TITLE> Religious Movements Homepage: (Title of Your Page Goes Here)

    </TITLE>

    </HEAD>

    <BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF" LINK="#990000" VLINK="#0000FF" ALINK="#0000FF">

    <!-- Meta Tag Page Description and Keywords - Enter info as specified -->

    <META NAME="description" CONTENT="This (insert name of your group)Page is your gateway to accessing comprehensive web based as well as print resources about the (insert name of your group). As part of the New Religious MovementsHomepage, it includes a profile of the (insert name of your group), comprehensive links with abstracts, and a print bibliography.">

    <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="(Include all the key concepts and names in your page; this normally runs about 10-15, but in some instances will be much larger. After your own concepts and names, insert the following:) -- be cult, sect, new religious movement, new religious movements, religion, sociology, sociology of religion, cult movement, sectarian movement, parachurch">

    <META name="robots" content="all">

    <!-- End Meta Tag Page Description and Keywords -->  

    <!-- Navigation Bar - Don't Touch -->

    <P>

    <center>

    <TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING= 0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=562>

    <TR><TD>

    <img border= 0 src= "../navelements/profilebar/a.gif"><BR> </TD><TD><a href= "../home.htm">

    <img border= 0 src= "../navelements/profilebar/b.gif"></a><BR></TD><TD><a href= "../welcome/welcome.htm">

    <img border= 0 src= "../navelements/profilebar/c.gif"></a><BR></TD><TD> <a href= "../cultsect/cultsect.htm">

    <img border= 0 src= "../navelements/profilebar/d.gif"></a><BR> </TD><TD><a href= "../profiles/profiles.htm">

    <img border= 0 src= "../navelements/profilebar/e.gif"></a><BR>

    </TD></TR></TABLE> </center> <pre></pre>

    <!--End Navigation Bar-Don't Touch -->

           The HTML below displays the large red group name heading which should appear at the top of your web profile page. Note that you must edit this template to reflect the name of the group you are doing (where it says "YOUR GROUP NAME"). Be sure to familiarize yourself with the HTML commands being used in this template, including the text size modifier command <H2>, the separator line command <HR>, and the Paragraph or Line Break With Extra Space command <P>. While we're on the topic of line break commands, make sure you also know that <BR> is a simple line break, without an extra space afterwards. Two <BR> commands in a row do the same thing as one <P>. <BR> will be more important later on, in places like the Links section.

    <CENTER>

    <H2>

    <FONT color=#990000>

    YOURGROUP NAME

    </FONT COLOR>

    </H2>

    </CENTER>

    <P>

    <HR>

    <P><

           The template for the Group Profile, which is the numbered listing of orienting group information which appears as the first section of the NRM profile page. Copy the HTML below and fill in your group's information. Make sure that you are familiar with the "ordered list" HTML command, which is opened by <OL> and closed by </OL>. Each numbered element in the ordered list should be preceded by an <LI>. Remember that you do not need to number each element in the list manually - the <LI> command does that for you. 

      <H3>

      I. Group Profile

      </H3>

      <P>

      <OL>

      <LI><B>Name:</B>

      <P>

      <LI><B>Founder:</B>

      <P>

      <LI><B>Date of Birth:</B>

      <P>

      <LI><B>Birth Place:</B>

      <P>

      <LI><B>Year Founded:</B>

      <P>

      <LI><B>Sacred Texts:</B>

      <P>

      <LI><B>Cult or Sect:</B>

        (Insert the template text from any existing Profile Page)

      <P>

      <LI><B>Size of Group:</B>

      <P>

      </OL>

           This template covers the History section of your NRM Profile page. Once again, just edit the text and insert your own where specified. You can insert more paragraphs by separating them with additional <P>paragraph spacers. Note that the <OL> command without the subsequent <LI> command that was used above. As used here, the <OL> serves only to indent the section as much as the initial Group Profile section is indented - all sections hereafter also incorporate an <OL> command at their beginning and an </OL> command at their end to preserve consistent indentation throughout the web profile.

      <HR>

      <H3>II. History of the Group</H3>

      <OL>

      <P>

      FIRST PARAGRAPH OF TEXT GOES HERE

      <P>

      SECOND PARAGRAPH GOES HERE

      <P>

      THIRD HERE, AND SO ON - JUST INSERT A <P> BETWEEN EACH PARAGRAPH YOU HAVE IN THIS SECTION

      <P>

      </OL>

           This template covers the Beliefs section of your NRM Profile page. Once again, just edit the text and insert your own where specified. You can insert more paragraphs by separating them with additional <P>paragraph spacers. Note that the <OL> command again serves only to indent the section as much as the initial Group Profile section is indented - all sections hereafter also incorporate an <OL> command at their beginning and an </OL> command at their end to preserve consistent indentation throughout the web profile.

    As you develop your page, you may wish to insert additional sections. For example, many pages have a section of Issues and Controversies. To add an additional section, you can use this same template and change the Part # and name of the section at the top of the new section.

      <HR>

      <H3>III. Beliefs of the Group</H3>

      <OL>

      <P>

      FIRST PARAGRAPH OF TEXT GOES HERE

      <P>

      SECOND PARAGRAPH GOES HERE

      <P>

      THIRD HERE, AND SO ON - JUST INSERT A <P> BETWEEN EACH PARAGRAPH YOU HAVE IN THIS SECTION

      <P>

      </OL>

           Below is the template for the Links section of your web profile. Each link should have the following information: (a) the complete URL of the link,(b) the name of the link (this is usually the name by which a web site identifies itself, although sub-sections may require you to make up an appropriate name), (c) an annotation or abstract describing the content of the link (usually two or three sentences), and (d) a repetition of the URL in italics.

      <HR>

      <P>

      <H3> Links to YOUR GROUP Web Sites</h3>

      <P>

      <OL>

      <a href= http://SITEADDRESS.COM>

      NAME OF THE LINK

      </a><br>

      A AN ANNOTATION OR ABSTRACT OF THE CONTENT OF THE LINK GOES HERE

      <BR>

      <i>http://SITEADDRESS.COM</i>

      <P>

      <a href= http://SITEADDRESS.COM>

      NAME OF THE LINK

      </a><br>

      A AN ANNOTATION OR ABSTRACT OF THE CONTENT OF THE LINK GOES HERE

      <BR>

      <i>http://SITEADDRESS.COM</i>

      <P>

      </OL

           The template for the Bibliography section. This template incorporates the Bibliographic list HTML command, <DL>. Once you open a Bibliographic list, the first line of each bibliographic entry should be preceded by the <DT> command; the second, indented line of each entry should be preceded by the <DD> command. As with all list and indeed most all HTML commands, remember to close the Bibliographic list after you are finished with your bibliography with the </DL> command (notice this close command at the end of the template. Make sure you leave it there!).

           To use this template, just replicate the bibliographic entry HTML below as many times as you have entries, and substitute your text. One more thing: remember that <i>YOUR TEXT HERE </i> italicizes text and <u>YOUR TEXT HERE</u> underlines it.

      <HR>

      <h3>V. Bibliography</h3>

      <P>

      <DL>

      <DT>Aidala, Anthony. 1985.

      <DD> "Social Change, Gender Roles, and New Religious Movements." <i>Sociological Analysis</i> 46: 287-316

      <P>

      <DT>Claiborne, William. 1996. <DD>"Self-Styled Zen Master Has Attained Financial Nirvana." <i>The Record</i> (20 December): A40.

      <P>

      <DT>Lofland, John. 1977. <DD><i> Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization , and Maintenance of Faith. </i>. Enlarged ed. New York: Irvington.

      </DL>

           Below is the last template you will need to use. This is the end-of-file template, which will let the web browser program know that it has come to the end of the HTML file. Thus, make sure this is the LAST element of your marked-up HTML document. Remember to incorporate your name and email address, the appropriate semester (Spring or Fall) and year where specified below. Once you've got this element tacked onto the end of your file (presumably right below the Bibliography), you are done! 

    

    

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For Soc 257: New Religious Movements

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University of Virginia

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Created by Craig Hirsch
Last modified: 02/14/00