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Creating Web Pages

The following procedures guide you through the basic steps for creating a Web page, entering and editing text, viewing the page in your web browser, and saving the page. You can follow along the exercises using the sample content we provide or by using your own materials.

Creating new pages

To create a new Web page in HomeSite, you choose File > New to open the New Document dialog box. Here you can choose to

To create a new web page:

  1. Launch HomeSite and click the New tool at the top left corner of the HTML Standard toolbar.

    The basic codes for an HTML page appear in the editor window.

    The New tool creates files based on the default template stored at \Allaire\HomeSite4\Wizards\HTML\Default Template.htm. You can customize this file to change the content of your default template.

  2. In the TITLE tag, enter a descriptive title in the place of "Untitled."

    The text you enter in the TITLE tag appears in the browser's window title, in a search engine's results list, as well as in a user's bookmarks or favorites list when someone bookmarks your page.

  3. Click below the opening BODY tag to position the cursor in the document text area. Now you're ready to enter text, graphics, and HTML tags.

Using Wizards to create pages

HomeSite offers wizards that help you save time in creating new HTML pages. Choose File > New to open the New Document dialog box, which has three panes:

Note that Standard, Tables, and Frames toolbars in the Quick Bar offer wizard tools to lead you through the process of creating a new file, a new table, and a new frameset.

See Customizing the Development Environment for more information on creating your own Wizards and tag editors.

Opening existing files

You open existing files using the standard Windows File commands or using the Files pane of the Resources window in HomeSite:

Tip

To open files you've used recently, choose File > Recent Files.

Setting File Open preferences

In the General page of the Settings dialog box, you can choose to always restore the last open file when you start HomeSite. This feature is particularly useful if you frequently open the same file every time you start HomeSite.

By default, HomeSite always opens to the folder you had open when you last closed HomeSite. But you can change HomeSite's default start up folder in the File Locations pane of the Settings dialog box (F8).

Using the Edit tool bar

The Edit tool bar offers a command to show all the open files. You can also move from one open file to the first, previous, next, or last open file using the arrows on the Edit tool bar.

Mapping Remote FTP Servers

To access files on remote servers, you need to configure the server in HomeSite.

To map remote servers:

  1. Choose File > Open to access the Open dialog box.
  2. Choose the Remote tab, right-click on Remote Servers, and choose Add FTP Server.
  3. In the Configure FTP Server dialog box, enter a description, host name, user name, password, and initial directory for a remote server. The default port setting for FTP servers is 21.
  4. Click OK. The server is now available in the Remote tab of the Open dialog box and the Remote Files tab in the Resource window.

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