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- Thank you for your interest in the Home Page Wizard.
-
- The Home Page Wizard is an authoring tool that makes it easy for
- members to create a home page on the World Wide Web (WWW) through
- CompuServe's Personal Home Page Service. It offers drag-n-drop editing,
- templates, tips and context-sensitive help to assist members in the
- creation of their home page. The Wizard also has a "TEST" button that
- will display the page in a browser before placing it out on the Web.
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- When creating a new "project" in the Home Page Wizard, you will be presented
- with a few choices that will help you get started creating your home page.
- Choose one of the styles you would like to start with and fill in each of the
- fields. These templates are created as starting points and can be edited or
- changed. If you prefer to use your own style, begin with a blank template
- and build your page from scratch.
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- Home Page Wizard FAQ
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- How long will it take for my page to be "on the net"?
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- Moments after the publishing process, you and everyone else using WWW
- (World Wide Web) will be able to access your home page.
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- What information am I allowed to post on my Personal Home Page?
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- Any content on your home page must abide by CompuServe's Operating Rules
- and Service Agreement Terms. Use of "inappropriate material" such as
- profanity, pornography, illegal or copyright material on any home page,
- will result in removal of your home page; and flagrant or repeated
- violations may lead to termination of membership. If you need to review
- any of the Rules or Service Agreement Terms please use the GO RULES
- command online.
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- How much does it cost to download the Home Page Wizard and setup my
- Personal Home Page?
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- The download of the Wizard is free. Members may also place their Personal
- Home Pages online free of charge. Please note, standard connect time
- charges and any supplemental network surcharges do apply during the
- publishing process.
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- How often can I submit updates for my Web page?
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- You may update your Personal Home Page as often as you feel necessary.
- You will not be charged for any changes or updates made to your Web page.
- Once again, standard connect time charges and any supplemental network
- surcharges do apply during the submission process.
-
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- How much storage space do I have available for my page?
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- CompuServe is allowing a maximum of one megabyte of storage space for
- each member publishing a home page.
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- I've published my web page, but how do I view it? What is the address?
-
- During the publishing process, you are prompted for the address you would
- like to use for your home page. Be sure to write this address down so
- you do not forget it. The address that you choose for your web page, will
- also pre-register your for a mail alias. In the future, mail aliases will
- allow you to use a name instead of your User ID number for a mail address.
- For example, if you choose JOE, your web address or URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
- will be:
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- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/joe
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- and your mail alias would be: joe
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- and your Internet mail address would be: joe@compuserve.com
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- If you forget your URL, you can find your page by searching through the
- OurWorld Home Page database (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/) or you can
- submit your page again and the same URL will be displayed.
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- Can I use other HTML authoring tools and HTML documents to create my home
- page, or do I have to create a new page with the Wizard?
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- Any HTML file can be published on CompuServe by using the Publishing
- Wizard. Be sure to include all the HTML documents and any .gif,.jpg files
- that are "called" within your home page.
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- Is there a Mac version of the Home Page Wizard?
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- At this time, there is only a Windows version of the Wizard, although we
- do plan to release a Macintosh version in the future.
-
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- What do the tabs on the left-hand side of the Home Page Wizard do?
- How do I use them?
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- The Home Page Wizard allows you to create multiple pages in your project.
- This allows you to have a "theme" or style for each page. The tabs simply
- give you a way to see and access all the pages in your project. For example:
-
- One person may have the main page (or index) that gives a short
- description about themselves and a overview of the contents on their
- home page. Then they may have a page created of their favorite hot links,
- a page of their favorite restaurants, a page of their Top Ten reasons to
- have a home page on CompuServe, etc. with all of them linked together with
- Internal Links. With this type of design, it is easy to keep home pages
- organized and easy to follow.
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- How do I get assistance if I'm having difficulties with the Wizard?
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- The Wizard was designed with the novice user in mind. If you run
- into problems while building your Personal Home Page, please choose
- the HELP pull-down menu, and you will receive context-sensitive
- help that will guide you through virtually any problem you may have.
-
- If you continue to have problems, you may receive further assistance
- by using the NetLauncher Support Forum. Please read/search the messages
- that are posted in the forum, as someone may be having the same problem.
- If you do not see a message that relates to your problem, post a message
- to SYSOP. When posting a message to SYSOP, please compose a clear and
- concise message that states background information about your machine,
- the software and version number you are using, what problems/questions
- you may have. If you are getting any error messages, please include the
- EXACT error message and the steps you used to produce the error.
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