HomeSite Quick Start
If you've never created a Web page from scratch, follow the steps in this Quick Start tutorial to create, save, and preview a Web page. You can use our sample text and graphics or work with your own materials.
If you have some experience creating pages for the Web, skip ahead to the Editing Web Pages section for instructions on using HomeSite's editing tools.
To create a Web page and add content:
- Launch HomeSite and click the New tool, located at the top left corner of the toolbar.
This tool creates a new document in the Editor window, with the basic tags for an
HTML page.
- In the TITLE tag, enter the title of your page in the place of "Untitled." For example, enter
My HomeSite Page.
Use a descriptive title in this tag. 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 the browser's
bookmarks or favorites list when someone bookmarks your page.
To add content to a new page:
- Click below the opening <BODY> tag.
- Choose View > Quick Bar to show the Quick Bar toolbars.
- Select the Fonts toolbar and click H1. The opening and closing H1 tags appear, with your cursor blinking in between.
- Type a heading for your page -- for example,
Quote of the Day.
- Select the Common toolbar and click the Paragraph button.
- Enter some text -- for example,
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." -Mark Twain.
- Click between the quote and "-Mark Twain" and choose the BR tool to add a line break.
- Select "-Mark Twain" and click the Bold button on the Fonts toolbar.
To preview and save a Web page:
- Open the Browse tab in the main HomeSite work area. The internal browser shows how your page would look in a Web browser.
- Open the Edit view again, and click the Save tool or use the CTRL-S keyboard shortcut to save the page.
- Enter a unique filename, such as
test.htm.
Keep your filenames short and descriptive. Web filenames generally appear in
URLs that users have to type or bookmark. Using all lowercase helps to minimize
typing errors and ensures cross-platform portability.
To add graphics and links:
- In the File list in the Resources area, navigate to the \HomeSite\Help\Allaire Support directory.
- Select the file named hs_logo.gif and drag it to the Edit window below the quote, and above the closing BODY tag. HomeSite automatically creates an image tag and calculates the image's height and width:
<img src="Help/Allaire Support/hs_logo.gif" width=90 height=34 alt="" border="0">
- Click above the image tag, and select the Paragraph icon on the Common toolbar.
- Enter some text that will include a link -- for example,
See the HomeSite page at Allaire's Web site.
- Select the phrase `HomeSite page' and click the Anchor button.
- In the Anchor dialog box, enter a URL in the HREF box -- for example,
http://www.allaire.com/products/HOMESITE/.
The text you selected becomes a hyperlink.
- Save the file and preview it again in your Web browser.
Next step
Now that you've created a very basic Web page, see the more detailed procedures in Creating Web Pages in this chapter.
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