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HomeSite gives you control over your tags and content, while adding shortcuts to help you create pages more quickly -- as well as advanced features that help teams and savvy web developers increase their productivity.
Some users prefer certain HomeSite features depending on how they're working with text and graphics:
How you approach working in HomeSite depends on your level of experience coding Web pages and the kinds of pages you develop. This manual offers information and instruction for many classes of HomeSite users, from new users to savvy developers.
If you're new to HTML or just getting started on the Web, you'll want to begin with the HomeSite Quick Start, a mini-tutorial that walks you through the steps to create and view HTML pages. Then you can follow the procedures and examples in the Creating Web Pages section.
You can open the help pane in the Tag Chooser (CTRL+E) and the individual tag editors (CTRL+F4 for the current tag) to view tag syntax and usage information.
If you have experience creating Web pages in HomeSite, you may want to start by learning about some of the new features in HomeSite 4.0. Look through Working In HomeSite to learn about the features, tools, and elements in the user interface:
Note, too, the ways you can customize the user interface in Customizing the Workspace.
See Using Projects for Site Management to learn about creating and deploying your site as a HomeSite project.
See Maintaining Web Sites to learn about
See Customizing the Development Environment for information on adding your own buttons, tags, dialogs, and help files.
To learn about building dynamic Web sites with ColdFusion, see Developing Dynamic Web Sites.
If you primarily use HomeSite to create page templates, arrange page elements for navigation, add graphics and multimedia, and maintain your site's look and feel, there are several new and improved HomeSite features you'll want to explore:
See Enhancing Pages for information on using images, multimedia, and style sheets.
Working on a team of Web developers, designers, and content editors requires features that coordinate the work of several people, allowing you to access central code snippets and templates. These features help teams work together on Web page development:
See Using Projects for Site Management to learn about using the Projects feature to manage your files.
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