Writing Questions and Answers  for TicTacToe using Windows NotePad
(Avoid using MS Word for this even thought it *Says* it can write things in HTML)

In the TicTacToe folder, the files labeled "quest01.htm" through "quest09.htm" are the question and answer files for the game. They correspond to squares one through nine on the game board. These are the ones that need to be changed if new questions are to be written for the game

To write your own question, we'll start off with Square One on the game board, however,  all questions can be written this way when you open the corresponding 'quest01.htm through quest09.htm' files in the TicTacToe folder.

1) Start off by finding and opening the "quest01.htm" file in NotePad. Don't DOUBLE CLICK on the file to open it. That only opense it up in your browser program - which is useless for our purposes here. (Some browsers do have built in HTML editors, but we'll get to that later.) The easiest way to open an 'htm' file in NotePad is to RIGHT CLICK on the file, look at the resulting drop-down menu, find the "Open with..." option - which opens another menu with all the possible programs that can display HTML files. One of them will be NotePad. Click on it and it will open that file in NotePad.

2) You now have a page mostly filled with HTML gobble-de-gook. Ignore this for a moment and let' find out what MY question was for square #1. My question was "What is the first thing one must do in a medical emergency?"

3) Okay. Look at the file you just opened in Notepad. About halfway down through the HTML garbage you will  find the words "What is the first thing one must do in a medical emergency?". That's the question! That's what needs to be changed.

4) So, if you want to write your own question for Square One, just type it in the same place where my question was. (Erase mine question first before typing in your own obviously , but then you know how to use a word processing program, Right?) Ta da. You've just changed the question.

5) A little bit farther down on the page amidst more HTML stuff are the words "Survey the scene and make sure it is safe for both the rescuers and the victim." That was my answer for square one. Once more, you type in your own where mine was.

6) Save the file back to the folder you got it out of but DO NOT CHANGE THE FILE NAME or it won't work in the game! Remember when you click on the link to question one on the game board, you're essentially telling your browser program to look for the "quest01.htm" file. If that's not the name of the file you just saved - it won't come up.

7) You're done. You now have a new question and answer for Square One.

Do the same thing with the files names 'quest02.htm' through 'quest09.htm' and you've got a new game. Thats how to do it in NotePad.

Now, Netscape or some of its 'clone' browser programs like Mozilla, have built in HTML editors. If you open the "quest" files from above in those composers, they automatically eliminate all the HTML hoo-haa and just present you with the question and answer. Once more, type in your own and save it.