First Link

Excellent ! You followed your first link.

As you noticed, unlike a browser, PageMill opens the linked page in a seperate window rather than the same one. The reason for this will become clearer as we move along.

The big difference between a plain browser and PageMill is that you can actually edit the pages in PageMill. See the big button on the top right of this window ?

Click it !

It toggles the window from browse mode into edit mode

. Now you are in edit mode.

Edit Mode

Select this line of text.

(If the selection is very dark or hard to read, use the Colors control panel to change the highlighting color of your Macintosh to yellow) Choose Bold from the Style menu or press command-B. Bingo. What you expected. Same with Italic (command-I). Or choose large (Heading 1) format under the Format menu (command-option-1 to 6)
Everything is undoable. Now drag the selection around in the page. You will see that PageMill is a very drag-and-drop friendly program. Text, links and graphics can be created and manipulated using drag and drop.
You can also change from left to center justification with the text alignment buttons:

Images

Here we have an image:

Select it !
You can resize the image with the image handles (holding down shift while resizing from the corner always scales proportionally). You can also drag the image around the page. Try it. The image alignment buttons

up in the toolbar change where text will appear relative to an image (these buttons are only enabled while you have an image selected) You can also make copies of the image by option-dragging it (this also works for text by the way). Copies can be independently resized.

To change the background color from the glaring white to translucent, double click the image. You will get the image view:

Ignore most of the tools for now, just click on the magic wand tool:
Click on any white spot in the image. You see the white in the whole picture turning transparent, with the background pattern shining through. You can click on any color to make IT the transparent color. Click again to get rid of transparency. Save the image (command-S) and close the image window (command-W).

Now your little image should look like this: Good.

Importing Images

You can drag and drop (or copy and paste) images from the Scrapbook, other PageMill pages or other applications like Photoshop (note that not many applications support drag and drop yet, although practically everyone supports copy & paste). You can also drag & drop images from the Finder directly into PageMill. Just find some PICT, JPEG or GIF images and drag them right in. Easy.
PICT format images from the clipboard, scrapbook or Finder are automatically converted to GIF (the preferred web format), saved and inserted into the page.
Open this page and drag the picture from there to here >>>>> <<<<<. Easy.
Now try the reverse: select this whole paragraph of text (including the link above and the image) and drop it back into the doggie page. Anything can be dragged and dropped !

The Pasteboard