Creating Tree of Life Pages

Before You Begin...

Before authors start creating their Tree of Life pages, they should have completed the following steps:

Register

Make sure you have registered, and that your contribution has been agreed upon by the appropriate coordinator.

Look at examples

Look over the examples, so that you can see the general style for a page.

 

Read the information for contributors

Read the Tree of Life Contributors pages carefully, starting from the beginning. In particular, you should pay attention to the section on Planning Your Tree of Life Pages.

If you cannot bring yourself to read all of this, please at least have a look at the QuickStart Page.

Assembling Your Tree of Life Page

Once you have made up your mind about the content of your Tree of Life page, you will have to decide what tools you want to use to create your page. Currently, there are two different options:

• You can use a special version of MacClade to generate the pages yourself
• You can send us text and images and leave the creation of your pages entirely up to us

Preparing Text and Figures for Others to Compose

This page addresses those who will be authoring ToL pages, but who will not be composing the WWW pages themselves. We provide an address for authors to request technical help with their pages, and we give instructions on how you should prepare your text and figures so that we can easily compose them into ToL pages ready for the Web.

Using ToL MacClade

Most Tree of Life authors create their pages using the special Tree of Life version of MacClade. This page provides links to documentation on how to acquire ToL MacClade and on how to use the software.

 

Scanning and Editing Slides and Photographs

This page covers how to scan images into a computer, how to edit them in preparation for a Tree of Life page, and so on.