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User's Guide to AOLpress 2.0 - Lehrer-Uni

1. None If there are any images in the page you are importing they are not imported to the same folder that contains the page If you want the imported page to reference the images in their original loca tion check the Relative Links to Full URL field Relative All relative images are saved locally into your folder and they are linked within the text of the document as local images See page 106 for an explanation of relative and absolute references All All image files in the document are copied to your folder Relative Links All relative links in the imported page are converted to absolute to Full URL URLs Use Basewhen You can ignore this field Checking it has no effect when you possible import from most pages O1 P D to D Q Y D lt to U o Q T Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 57 Creating and Saving Pages Selecting files Selecting files 58 Several commands in the File menu windows let you select a file In addition the Browse buttons in various windows open similar windows These windows let you manipulate files on both your local disks and on your PrimeHost hosting service directory When you save or open a file you may be prompted for a user name and password if the file or location is protected MS Windows The file selection windows under Microsoft Windows are much like file selection windows in other Windows software Location Impar c apt w1B HEL
2. gt O g U 7 ii Browsing with AOLpress Viewing a page Viewing a page 36 A small web animation appears in the top right corner of the AOLpress window This means AOLpress is searching for and loading a page The status bar at the bottom of the window shows what AOLpress is doing You may see hour glasses appear in the page soon to be replaced by images The hour glass appears while an image is being loaded and is replaced by the image when it is ready to be displayed If your system and network connection are fast enough images may load before you see the hour glass If you have set your preferences so that pictures are not loaded see page 192 an hour glass icon or question mark icon appears and the image does not appear automatically This is a useful option if your modem is not very fast You can click the mouse on the icon to cause the image to appear A lightning bolt appears if the image cannot be loaded This usually occurs because a link is incorrect Reloading pages and images When you load a page it is cached stored in your computer s memory If you open that page again it does not have to be transferred over the network again Ey However sometimes you want to reload the current page For example if the page provides current weather photos or stock prices To do this you can use the Reload button or the BrowseReload Page menu item This causes the page and all the images it
3. catalog Checking this box makes the match case sensitive When this box is not checked the program finds matches that use either upper or lower case letters For example if you check this box searching for ZIP matches ZIP but not zip or Zip Checking this box makes the program search backward through the page beginning at the cursor position The default is to search forward User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating Text and Lists Editing text Search If you are finding and replacing in a MiniWeb you can search the HTML HTML tags directly see page 153 for more information 4 Use the buttons on the right side of the window to control the search Find Finds and selects the next match Close Closes the window Replace Replaces the current selection with the characters in the Replace With box Replace All Finds and replaces all the characters that match in the entire page Find Next Finds the next match The Search Backward field controls whether this is the next match in the forward or backward direction Wrap amp Find Same as Find Next but starts over at the beginning of the page if it gets to the end of the page Checking spelling You can check the spelling of the text in your page or your entire MiniWeb by using the Spell Checker gt To check spelling 1 Choose ToolsSpell Check 2 AOLpress will start checking your page mise Replace starting at your cursor location If
4. gt To save frames When you save the contents of one frame the frame layout and the contents of the other frames are not also saved automatically To save the contents of other frames select each frame and choose the File gt Save menu item To save the frame layout select the FrameSet and choose the File gt Save menu item If you followed links within any frames the pages that are displayed when you save the FrameSet will be displayed the next time you open the FrameSet If you use Save As to save the FrameSet to another folder AOLpress normally saves the pages and images inside the frames unless you made absolute links to them To control whether frame contents are saved click the Options button Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 133 s 1 Q m Q TI Q 3 1 V Creating Frames Linking to frames Linking to frames 134 gt To create links to frames If you want a link to show a page in a particular frame you use the name you gave the frame as the Target Frame in the link In addition there are some special frame names you can choose from _blank Opens another page window and displays the linked page in that window Each time someone clicks on a link to the _blank frame a new window opens even if that page is already open in a separate window _self Puts the linked page in the same frame that contains the link This also happens if you don t
5. Aa p Se ee LA me M 8 9 Adding Images Inserting images If you leave the Width and Height fields blank AOLpress will figure out the size of the image and use that size If you want to make the image appear bigger or smaller you can type the size you want to use in these fields You can also change the size of the image later In the Description field type the text you want to appear instead of the image for readers using browsers that do not display graphics Uncheck the Show Link Border box if this image is going to be linked to some loca tion and you don t want a rectangular border shown around the image 10 Click OK and the image appears where your cursor was positioned Copying images from another page You can copy images from one page to another If the image is not already stored in the same folder as the page AOLpress automatically copies the image to the folder that contains the page gt To copy an image from one page to another either Copy and Paste Choose from the Edit menu or use edit buttons in the toolbar or their keyboard equivalents You will see the Options window which is described on page 57 Drag and drop Deleting images gt To delete an image either Position the cursor just after an image and press the Delete or Backspace key Select the image and m Click Cut in the toolbar m Press the Delete key or m Choose File Delete For details on suc
6. Ordering tool to move this shape to the back gt Q to E x oO D Q D Q D Circle Use this tool to create circular areas in your map Then type a location for that area Polygon Use this tool to create multi sided shapes in your map Then type a Tl location for that area ii Delete Shape Click this button to delete the currently selected shape Delete All Shapes Click this button to delete all the shapes in the map Ahil Magnify Click this button to zoom in and make the image appear larger PER Reduce Click this button to zoom out and make the image appear smaller Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 113 114 Adding Links and Multimedia Image maps multiple links from images Al Ordering Select a shape then click this tool to select from a menu that lets you Bring to front Bring forward one layer Send backward one layer or Send to back If two shapes overlap the link for the shape in front is used zj Save Use this button to save your Pe changes You will see a window that looks like the one to the right By default z r 4 i I Server Map File worldi nm AOLpress creates both a server side map file for use on the AOLserver with an extension M Client Map Namef world1 of nvm and client side map information which it stores in your page with the name Cancel you specify You can uncheck one of the fields if you don t want t
7. This page is temporarily locked message at the bottom of your Page window You can use FileOpen to load pages though gt Close the Check Links window E Click the Done button E You can also cancel the link checking while it is in progress by clicking this button Stopping link checking gt Abort the link checking m Click the Stop button 999 This gives you an aborted http name of link currently being checked message and allows you to change the link Checking the next link gt Continue link checking m Click Next Use after interruption or if you wish to leave in a link that is currently unavailable Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 119 CO gt Q ro m 5 oO Q D Q D Adding Links and Multimedia Checking links Browsing to choose links If you want to change the URL of a link you may want to browse your local files or your PrimeHost hosting service directory gt Browse files or a server 1 Click the Browse button 2 Click on the down arrow to the right of the Drives Sites field to choose a drive or server to browse 3 Use the Files and Directory lists to browse files and directories once you have chosen a drive or server File to link to x Location Ok cArmyedir i Cancel Files Directory mydir Scan List Files of Type HTML Drives f Sites cn If you enter a site you c
8. When you save a page AOLpress can also save the images along with the page The Save Images field controls which images are saved None No images are saved If you don t want to save the images but still want them to be visible in the saved page you should check the Relative Links to Full URL field The page will display the images from their original locations Relative All the images with relative file references see page 180 are saved to the same directory as the page All All the images are saved to the same directory as the page Uncheck the Relative Java Applets to Full URL field if you are saving the page to a location that already contains the Java applets used in the page Check the Use Base if Possible box if you want to continue using relative links in the page but specify that they are relative to the original base location instead of the new location AOLpress can t use a base location if you are saving the page into an existing MiniWeb or if you are saving a page from your own computer to a server File names and URLS 188 File names have different restrictions depending on the type of computer you are using and the setting of the MiniWebs Create As field in the ToolsPreferences General window m If you choose DOS file names can be no longer than eight characters and must be at least one character They may end with an extension of up to three characters for example htm but not htm1 F
9. m If Checked is selected this Check Box is turned on by default when the Form is displayed More than one check box with the same Form Tag may be Checked 4 Click OK to insert the Check Box at the cursor position within the form 142 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating and Using Forms Using the form palette Text Fields The Text Field is a one line box on the Form where the user may type in text It can have an initial setting or it can be blank gt Add a Text Field Position the cursor where you want the Text Field to be 2 Click the Text button on the form palette to see this window Text Field x Optional text Text displayed by mE ERE default nial Tex SSS Ca e Length of text Field Attributes field Display Size Maximum C Password Manne number of characters allowed Resulting field Name i 3 Type a Form Tag to give this field a name The Form Tag is required and must be unique in the form 4 You can provide Initial Text to be displayed within the text field by default and to be submitted with the form data if the user does not change it 5 Select the Field Type either Text or Password If Text is selected the text that the user types appears in the field If Password is selected an asterisk appears instead for each letter 6 You can provide a Display Size to control the length of the text field shown in the form 7 You can also provide a Max Inp
10. set values for each parameter speed 10 num_ satellite Cancel size satellite scale C atom planet solarsys C galaxy megacluster a label Hello World ee lt infolink Browse OK helplink satell help htmil Browse i centerimage satelliupiter gif Browse M Copy Eines satellimage Browse M Copy E gt Creating a parameter file 1 Choose File gt NewNew Page to open an empty page window 2 Choose FormatParagraph Preformatted 3 Type the text of your parameter file For example the parameter file that allows AOLpress to create the previous windows looks like this Parameters for Satellite Applet title set values for each parameter text speed 10 num_satellite size _satellite scale atom planet solarsys galaxy megacluster planet label Hello World next infolink url helplink url satell help html centerimage imageurl satell jupiter gif satellimage imageurl 124 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Links and Multimedia Java applets The first line in this example sets the window title for the first window You can use any text followed by title The second line puts text in the window to explain what users should do You can use as many of these text lines as you like Just end each text line with text The line that says next splits the list of parameters into multiple windows that have Next and Pre
11. Fruit Form Tag Apple Radio x TE Banana Button Label Fruit Form Tag Kiwi s See Value Apple Button Label Fruit Cancel Resulting field _ Defa TS kwi Coo UE Dafa Check Boxes Check Boxes are similar to Radio Buttons except they allow multiple values to be submitted with the same Form Tag g Check gt Add a Check Box Position the cursor where you want the Check Box to be 2 Click the Check button on the form palette to see this window Form Tag Send me more info If selected Button Label sendinfo Cancel box is turned Value yes on when form ea is initialized m Checked Help Resulting field E Send me more info 3 Specify values for Form Tag Button Label and Value You may also click Checked m The Form Tag is the name of the field Each field must have a unique name unless you want this check box to be a part of a radio field The Button Label is the text that follows the check box and therefore identifies it in your page It is not submitted with the form to the server m The Value is the field value when this check box is checked If a check box contains a check mark a string like Form_Tag Value is included when the form is submitted You can have multiple check boxes with the same Form Tag and different values If multiple check boxes with the same Form Tag are checked a string like FormTag Value1 Value2 ValueN is sent
12. General window See page 193 for details about how tags differ in HTML 3 2 and Netscape In addition to the HTML tags you can add through WYSIWYG editing in AOLpress the effects of additional tags and attributes listed at the end of Chapter 6 through Chapter 11 can be seen in AOLpress Other browsers may not yet support all of these additional tags You can add these tags and attributes to your pages by editing the HTML directly However you should have some experience working with HTML before you do this Detailed information about the HTML standard is available on the Web See the following URLs for details on these HTML tags and their attributes HTML 3 2 http www w3 org pub WWW MarkUp Netscape h N D a Q Q m r L mr r7 10n html uid index htm Microsoft http www microsoft com workshop author newhtml htmlr000 htm Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 155 Viewing and Editing HTML N Learning more 156 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Part 3 Managing and Publishing Pages Part 3 shows you how to publish and manage your pages with AOLpress Chapter 13 describes the MiniWeb which helps you organize and manage collections of pages With a MiniWeb you can visualize and organize a collection of pages into a document Chapter 14 covers saving pages and publishing Web pages to the Web Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 157 Chapter 13 Worki
13. In this book the icon to the left identifies new features in this version If you are using to AOLpress v2 0 please visit our Web site http www aolpress com Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 221 What s New in V2 0 Frames Frames Frames let you divide the page window into sections that can be scrolled separately See page 129 for details on how to create and control frames with AOLpress New window design The windows in AOLpress are cleaner and clearer The Absolutize Relativize buttons have been replaced with smaller Abs Rel buttons Creating pages Links 222 The File menu contains a New submenu that lets you create any of the following items Pages MiniWebs and FrameSets If you install the 32 bit version of AOLpress and choose Posix in the MiniWebs Create As field in the Tools gt Preferences General window you can use file names longer than 8 characters and file extensions longer than 3 characters with Windows 95 You can create an e mail link by choosing the Element E mail Link menu item Then type the e mail address of the person you want the link to send mail to If you select text before choosing Element E mail Link that text will become a link If you did not select anything first the e mail address will automatically be added to the page and linked If you leave your mouse cursor motionless over a link for a second AOLpress shows the link location in a blue popup area You can tu
14. My Place lets you use AOLpress to publish directly to http members aol com members Go to keyword My Place on AOL to learn more Domain Service This service level gives you a unique domain name such as mycompany com This makes your company easy to find on the Web http www mycompany com and helps you project a professional image Commercial Service In addition to a domain name this service level gives you control over most administrative database and programming capabilities of the AOLserver where your Web site is hosted Dedicated Service In addition to the features of the Commercial service this service level gives you full access to the system your choice of hardware and soft ware configuration and secure financial transactions PrimeHost also provides the Storefront Solution which lets you quickly put your catalog of products online so that you can accept electronic payment securely What are AOLservers AOLserver is the software the PrimeHost hosting service uses to store your Web pages and send the contents to people who want to read your pages If you want to set up your own Web hosting service you can download the AOLserver software for free from http www aolserver com The AOLserver is extendable with C and Tcl APIs that can access various types of databases Full CGI support is also provided Why give our software away for free In our ongoing effort to promote publishing on
15. See AOLpress User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Do it Yourself Publishing for the Web 1997 America Online Inc AOL20 040797 Information in this document is subject to change without notice Both real and fictitious companies names addresses and data are used in examples herein No part of this document may be reproduced without express written permission of America Online Inc 1997 America Online Inc All rights reserved America Online is a registered trademark and AOLpress AOLserver PrimeHost AOL the AOL triangle logo My Place Netizens and WebCrawler are trademarks of America Online Inc GNN is a registered trademark and Global Network Navigator GNNpress and GNNserver are trademarks of Global Network Navigator Inc MiniWeb NaviLink NaviPress NaviServer and NaviService are trademarks of NaviSoft Inc Illustra is a trademark of Illustra Information Technologies Inc All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or organizations Author Yvonne DeGraw Cover Art and Illustrations Amy Luwis Special Thanks To Thomas Storm Cathe Gordon Angela Howard George W Williams V Dave Long Dave Bourgeois Joel Thames Natalee Press Schaefer Robin Balston Linda T Dozier Jeff Dozier Doug McKee and Jeff Rawlings Quick Table of Contents a Part 1 Getting Started Welcome 11 Chapter 1
16. 2 Columns 1 Rows 3 Type the number of Columns and Rows the cell should span and click OK to merge the cells For example If you place the cursor in TT the result will be H a the upper left cell of this a table that looks table and merge that cell to Q like this span 2 columns and 2 rows DAT 4 Ifyou want to unmerge cells choose the TableSplit Cell menu item The merged area will be split into the number of columns and rows that were merged You cannot split cells unless they have already been merged User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Tables HB Learning more J Learning more To practice creating tables in the online tutorial choose Help gt Tutorial Scroll to the bottom of the first page and click on the TOC icon Yov lI see a list of the lessons in the tutorial Then click on the Creating Tables link Advanced HTML for tables If you want to edit the HTML for your pages directly see Chapter 12 to learn how Once you are comfortable adding finishing touches to your pages by editing HTML code you can add the following features to your tables Columns of text If you see a page with text narrower than the full width of the page window the empty space may be an extra column in a table with no borders To force an empty column to have the correct width you can use a transparent image with its Width set to the width you want the column to have Column widths Another w
17. Bulletin link 109 Bulletins 222 C Cached pages 36 Caption for table 84 226 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Cascading style sheets 82 Cells 84 header 87 normal 87 padding 85 spacing 85 Centering table 87 CGI scripts in forms 139 service levels supporting 139 Change bars 71 Character styles 70 applying and removing 71 formatted 70 logical 70 Characters 64 Check boxes 142 Check Links menu item 118 Citation type style 71 Clear menu item 65 Client definition of 22 Client side image maps 111 Clip art gallery 92 Cloning a page window 38 Close menu item 207 Code type style 71 Color default settings 103 in MiniWeb diagrams 162 of anchors 109 of arrows in MiniWeb 168 of background 28 of files in MiniWebs 168 of links 102 of page 102 of text 102 of type 72 RGB values 102 table cells and borders 89 Columns in table 84 Commercial service level 12 database forms support 139 form handling programs 139 publishing pages with 31 Computer location specifying in URL 107 Conform To field 193 Contact information 16 Content 45 controlling viewing of 100 Contents menu item 15 Controlling viewed content 100 Conventions file names 188 typographical 15 Copy File menu item 172 Copy icon 62 Copy menu item 62 Copying pages 55 Copying text 62 Copyright icon 117 Couldn t Find File Page MiniWeb message 39 Couldn t Find Server message 39 Counting visits to page
18. Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 63 O Q _ D ae F Q Q E N F N Creating Text and Lists Creating text Spaces Normally in HTML any number of spaces is shown as one space This means if you type two spaces you will only see one If you type a tab it will also show up as a space You can use the following methods in AOLpress to move text horizontally gt Move text horizontally m The best way to Aligning text horizontally align text into columns is to use You can use tables like this one to align columns 11 10 tables See page 84 55567 99 for details Another way to add If you turn on Hon breakine Spaces you can indent text by typing Wornzontal spaces ie multiple spaces You can also add spaces within text to choose Tools Or you can align columns in preformatted text Preferences Low 11 23 General and check Hish 3456 78 Non Breaking in the Text Edit Spacing field Then you can type multiple spaces However some browsers show these non breaking spaces as nbsp instead of as a space If you select One in this field you can only type one blank space at a time Another way to add spaces is to highlight the paragraph and choose Format gt Para graph Preformatted to change the paragraph to a fixed width font and allow you to align text by adding spaces Special characters gt If you want to use special characters such as punctuation
19. HTM drive or folder Click here to List Files of Type si a file All Files 7 Select a drive yp Drives Sites or site from this list 4 Youcan click the Rel button to change the reference to the image to a relative URL If the reference is already a relative reference you can click the Abs button to change the reference to an absolute reference See page 106 for an explanation of relative and absolute references 5 Check the Import Image box if you want to copy the image file to the folder that contains the page If you do not check this box the image file stays where it is and the page references the image in the location where it already exists m This box is dimmed if the image is already stored in the page s folder You don t need to copy it since it is already there You cannot uncheck this box if the image is stored on your computer s disk and the page is on a Web server The image will be copied from your local disk to the server automatically because people accessing your page on the server cannot see image files on your computer s disk 6 Choose an Alignment option Top Middle Bottom Left or Right to choose how the image is aligned with adjoining text Text aligns with images as shown below Top Middle Bottom Left Right You can horizontally align the text next to an image with FormatParagraph Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 95 Co gt Q D Q Oo 96 a 4
20. O g U 7 Collection of La Jolla Suring Weather http facs scripps edu surtfweather html commonly NWS Southern California Surf Forecast http nimbo wrh noaa gow Sal IMove Up Ci ski reports visited Web Hi tarmimoth Web Page http dwa Mammothweb com Move Down FSN Resort Cam Mammoth Mountain http Awww rsn com camsmar BREWING A Brewery In Your Home Brew Beer Wine or Cider at Home httpd Add Label Add Separator Remove Help 3 Double clicking on any entry in the Hot List brings up that page in the Page Window or you can single click on any entry to select it then click the Fetch button If no entry is selected the Fetch button is inactive locations You can open a Hot List item without opening a new page by using the Copy URL button to copy the URL of an item to the clipboard Then in a Page Window paste the URL into the Location field Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 41 ii Browsing with AOLpress Where to browse Editing and formatting the Hot List When you add a page to your Hot List it is added to the end of the list You can edit and rearrange your Hot List The buttons in the Hot List have these functions Fetch Causes the selected page to be displayed in the Page Window Click on Fetch after you have selected an entry from the list Close Closes the Hot List Window Add Label Allows you to add a label above a selection in the list When you
21. Pa brwswbmn gif Fa brwswbsh gif Select a server Sites Desktop Location field Macintosh HD A0Lpress Folder help refer 5rl gif Type of file File Type to look for You can type the full location of the file or an URL directly into the Location field the unlabeled field below the Sites field Disks folders and files are separated by colons in this field For example BigDrive Web Pages Club index htm is a file in the Club folder of the Web Pages folder on a drive called BigDrive In addition to local disks the Sites field lets you select Web locations you ve published to such as your PrimeHost hosting service directory or your AOL personal publishing directory http members aol com members See page 202 to learn how to add AOLservers MiniWebs and folders to this list After you use the Sites field and the scrolling list of files and folders to find a direc tory you can type a file name at the end of the text in the Location field below the Sites field To make your pages portable to all other platforms it is best to use file names with 8 characters and no spaces For pages use a file extension of htm for example my_page htm For MiniWebs use no file extension The Desktop button moves you to the files and folders on the Macintosh desktop O1 P D to D Q Y D lt to U o Q T Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 59 ow Creating and Savin
22. Reload item 153 Save As menu item 183 Save item 55 Upgrade option 20 File names length 195 File selection dialogs for MS Windows 58 on Macintosh 59 File types see also MIME types Files copying to MiniWebs 172 displayable or not displayable 170 extensions preferences 198 finding in MiniWeb 169 formats for saving pages 187 naming conventions for 188 selecting 58 specifying in URL 108 webizing 164 Find Next menu item 67 Find Page menu item 169 Find Replace menu item in MiniWeb 177 in page 66 Fire wall setting proxy 20 SOCKS host 197 First page icon 117 Fixed pitch type style 70 Fixed width text 75 Focusing view of MiniWebs 169 Font changing 82 Font preferences 198 Font size 72 Forbidden message 39 Index Forced Line Break menu item 63 Forced line breaks 63 Form Handler Location field 138 Form menu item 139 Form Tag 141 Format menu Body Attributes item 103 Delete Frame item 130 Exit Form Format item 140 Exit List Format item 76 Form item 139 Frame Info item 132 Frame Size item 130 Heading item 74 Hide Frames item 133 List item 76 Page Attributes item 102 Paragraph item 73 Paragraph menu New item 63 Preformatted item 64 quick reference for Page windows 210 Remove Form Format item 140 Remove Format item 73 Remove Heading Format item 74 Remove List Format item 77 Remove Paragraph Format item 75 Select FrameSet item 132 Show Hide Border items 81 Type
23. TI Q 3 1 V However the order in which you create frames affects the largest possible area a frame can have In general it s best to create all the frames that divide the entire window first Then divide any of those frames into smaller frames For example in the second row of pictures above if there were already a separate frame row below the frames shown you couldn t create a new frame row across the entire width of the window A better way to create the same frame layout would be Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 129 Creating Frames Resizing frames to divide the window into three frame rows and then divide the middle row into two frame columns These limitations exist because of the way HTML defines frames However you don t need to understand HTML in order to create and use frames If you can t create the frame layout you want try creating the frames in a different sequence gt To remove a frame Put your cursor in a frame you want to remove and choose Format gt Frames Delete Frame or 1 Move your mouse cursor to the frame border 2 When your cursor looks like the one to the right drag the frame border to the frame border next to it or to the edge of the page 3 AOLpress will ask if you want to destroy the frame Click Yes to remove the frame You cannot remove the last frame from a FrameSet page Resizing frames gt To resize a frame 1 Move your
24. alignment of a cell highlight the text you want to align and choose the Format Paragraph menu item You can choose Align Left Align Right Align Center Align Flush or Align Default to align the paragraphs Align Flush aligns both the left and right edges of the text Align Default removes any previous paragraph alignment If you highlight the entire table you can change the alignment of all the cells in the table To align an image with text highlight the image and choose the Element Get Attribute menu item In the Image window choose an Alignment option Top Middle Bottom Left or Right to align the image with the adjoining text Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 87 E gt Q j Q 2 D a QP Adding Tables Merging and splitting table cells Merging and splitting table cells 88 You can merge table cells to create areas that span rows and re columns For example you could create a table like this one l oe Fy ele gt To merge table cells 1 Move your cursor to the upper left cell in the set of cells you want to merge m Merging cells deletes the contents of all the cells you merge except the contents of the upper left cell To keep the contents of the other cells cut and paste them into the upper left cell of the area before you merge cells 2 Choose the Table gt Merge Cell menu item You will see the Merge Cell window Cancel Cell spans
25. as you did in the previous section The steps are basicaly the same except you save to the PrimeHost hosting service or your AOL account instead of your local disk drive and you are asked to enter your username and password If you don t have an AOL account or a PrimeHost hosting service account follow the instructions at http www primehost com or on America Online at keyword primehost to open an account Once you have an account you can publish pages as follows See page 181 for more details on publishing pages and how to publish to locations other than PrimeHost or AOL gt To publish your personal home page Make sure you are connected to the PrimeHost hosting service before you try to publish a page If you do not yet have an Internet connection or a PrimeHost hosting service account you should skip the rest of this section 1 Choose the FileSave As menu item The file selection window you saw when you saved the file locally appears For details on using such windows see page 58 Page Location ole http members aol commembers N I 4 D r D D o U A Q 5 k m D T lt U D T Files TE members f Options Drives Sites http members aol com Create Dir 2 If you are amember of AOL type http members aol com screen_name in the Page Location field For example if your screen name is snoopy type http members aol
26. click on Add Label a window appears and asks you for the name of the label Type the name in the box indicated Add Separator Adds a line across the list above the selected item Move Up Select an entry a separator or a label Click Move Up to raise the selection one notch up the list Move Down Select an entry a separator or a label Click Move Down to lower the selection one notch down the list Remove Removes the selection from the list Copy URL Copies the URL of the selection You may then Paste the URL Help Invokes the help window about the Hot List Where to browse 42 There are lots of resources both printed and online for finding interesting places to visit on the Web We won t attempt to give you a list here However if you are searching for something in particular here are some places to start your search Excite search the Web news and newsgroups http www excite com Yahoo use a catalog of Web sites http www yahoo com Infoseek search the Web and more http www infoseek com You use a Page window for browsing with AOLpress You can use the same window to create Web pages User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Part 2 Creating Pages Part 2 shows you how to use AOLpress to create the kinds of things you may want to put in your Web pages Read Chapter 4 to get a quick overview of the kinds of things you can put in your Web pages with AOLpress Read Chapter 5 to learn how to
27. lt U D T e Create a Web Page in 10 Easy Steps H Step 3 Create a Web page Step 3 Create a Web page AOLpress also includes an online tutorial that helps you learn to create and edit Web pages To start the online tutorial choose Help gt Tutorial in AOLpress 1 Choose the File gt New New Page menu item Yov ll see a blank window that says Please title this page This is just like a blank document in a word processor AOLpress Pile ES File Edit Element Format Table Tools Browse Window Help heee bez ALAIN EE B e ale be ee EM Location C AOLPRESS Page1 html A 4 Title Please title this page Page 1 ase title this page Page 1 Bigger Font Size 2 Le s start by giving the page a title In the Title field above the blank area type s Page and fill in your name For example type Chris s Page Press the Return key and you will see this title at the top of the window Step 4 Type and format text 1 At the top of the page type Welcome to s Home Page Fill in your name again For example type Welcome to Chris s Home Page Then click on the welcome message you typed to make sure the cursor is in this line 2 Choose the Format gt Heading gt Hdg 1 menu item This makes your welcome message big and bold Your welcome message will look like this Chris s Page 24 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Create a Web Page in 10 Easy Ste
28. 33 14 eask e Cho eee EA e aE 203 Comiicure toolbar ue rsrsrs esmdu rsra cionn riara aree 203 Chapter 16 AOLpress Quick Reference 205 Page WINGOW sesssredenn idari aaan 206 MiniWeb window 0 cee eee 215 Using the MOUSE amp ad 6c os 64s 5 oe 2b Sehr ees 220 Chapter 17 What s New in V2 0 221 FACS face S25 we ee ess alee bp ee eG ee tae oe Soe Grom Ge Hee 222 New window design 0 ccc cee eee eee eee 222 Cheam POCes aka a wenea enn ese E nena beer oe wus 222 Ei ea een ao See ees oS eS ue eee AeA Ree ee eaee 222 DO e oo Scene aan EEEE E E See Gomes GEE ks 223 TaD seater ea r EE E eee eee eee 223 NUDI CDS oeras rE esas eee meme S ere Er 223 Server side include editing 0 0 ccc eens 223 HIME SUDDGEE sarrerarik pE aoe Qe oa a ee Goa he Hearn 224 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Part 1 Getting Started Part 1 gives you an introduction to AOLpress You ll learn what it can do how to install it and you ll learn the basics ina quick lesson Read Welcome to learn what AOLpress can do and how to get technical support if you need it Read Chapter 1 if you need to install AOLpress It covers installation and system requirements It also covers a few essentials about preferences you may want to set before you use AOLpress Follow the example in Chapter 2 to get a quick overview of how AOLpress helps you create Web pages Read Chapter 3 to learn more about using AOLpress to browse the Web Do It Your
29. 99 Create Table menu item 84 Creating MiniWebs 163 Creating pages 54 example of 21 in MiniWebs 171 see also Editing pages Publishing pages Cursor controlling with keyboard 65 for entering text 62 Customer support 15 Cut menu item 65 D Database forms 139 Dedicated service level 12 database forms support 139 Index form handling programs 139 publishing pages with 31 Default page 54 Definition lists 78 rearranging terms and definitions 79 Definition type style 71 Definitions of terms 22 Delete Frame menu item 130 Delete key 66 Delete menu item 96 Delete vs Backspace 193 Deleted Text type style 71 Design guidelines for HTML 51 limitations 51 Desktop button 59 Dictionary adding words to 68 creating 68 editing words in 68 Directories creating SubWeb from 179 customizing list of 202 names for 188 selecting 58 specifying in URL 108 webizing 164 Directory services browsing 42 Disabled fields 149 Display Control menu item 169 DNS see Domain Name Server Domain name in URL 107 Domain Name Server 197 Domain service level 12 publishing pages with 31 DOS file names 195 Download files 116 Download site 17 Downloading see also Loading pages Drag and drop Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 227 Index forms 149 horizontal rules 99 images 94 Java class files 122 text 63 Drives Sites field 58 Drives customizing list of 202 Drives Sites field customi
30. AOLpress In case you re curious a client computer is one that sends requests to a server computer The server processes the request and the client takes care of showing you the results Pages files ___ gt Web servers Web client or browser Web pages published here URL The strings of characters like http www mycompany com you keep seeing in advertisements are locations on the Web called Uniform Resource Loca tors or URLs You can pronounce this as you are els or earls Web site All your pages images and other files make up your Web site Home page The first page you want people to see in your set of pages is called the home page Other pages are just pages MiniWeb With AOLpress you can treat all the pages images and other files in a folder as a small version of the Web called a MiniWeb A MiniWeb acts as a File Manager for your Web pages You use MiniWebs to manage your pages and see connections between files Web site Other pages User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Create a Web Page in 10 Easy Steps e Step 2 Start AOLpress HTML The language used behind the scenes to format Web pages is called HyperText Markup Language HTML In the past people had to learn this language to create Web pages Now you can use AOLpress to create pages as easily as you would write a letter using a word process
31. Contacting Us 4 When you have finished editing Cancel titles save the MiniWeb This also saves all the changes you have made to the pages in the MiniWeb Managing MiniWebs In addition to letting you visualize and edit your Web structures one of the real strengths of MiniWebs is that they help you manage and maintain your Web structures Setting the home page 176 The home page is the page where readers start in a directory If a reader uses an URL with no file name such as http www mycompany com mydir the AOLserver automatically sends the home page in that MiniWeb to be displayed User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Working with MiniWebs A ye Managing MiniWebs S O A A gt ed mw gt To set a home page for a MiniWeb 1 Click the arrow to the right of the Home Page field below the MiniWeb toolbar You will see a list of the titles of pages in your MiniWeb 2 From this list select the title of the page you want to be the home page of your MiniWeb The icon for that page in your MiniWeb will change to have a spider in the web Finding and replacing MiniWeb wide When you are in a MiniWeb window you can perform a find and replace anywhere in your MiniWeb and make global changes to the MiniWeb gt To find and replace text 1 Choose the Edit Find Replace menu item Find What Close Replace With Search Options D Whole Words l Match Case l Search HTM
32. D External ATN image You can change the icon for any file to an image you choose For example you can use the image itself as the icons for your image files This makes it easier to find the image you want It is best to use fairly small images as icons Images are scaled down to fit in the normal MiniWeb icon size so large images loose most of their detail Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 167 Working with MiniWebs Viewing MiniWebs N N Viz NE gt To change an icon in a MiniWeb 1 Select the icon you want to change 2 Choose one of the following menu items m If you want to use an image as the icon for its own file choose the Edit gt Make Icon menu item You can only choose this menu item if the MiniWeb icon you select is for an image file m If you want to use some other image as the icon for this file choose the EditSet Icon menu item You will see a window that lets you browse for the file you want The icon changes when you click OK 3 If you want to change all the icons for a particular type of file see page 201 Arrows in MiniWebs When you use the Web or Tree view arrows between the icons indicate the relationships between them Black arrow A normal one directional link Double ended cyan arrow Each page refers to the other Blue arrow Link to an in line image Green arrow Link from a page containing a form to the form handler program Gray dotted arrow A link that does not
33. FAQ FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions and is usually pronounced fack Another FAQ with information about AOLpress is provided at http www aolpress com fag html gt Get contact information for help with technical questions m Choose the menu Help Tech Support D O O Pi gt Find clip art and other resources E You can find clip art for your pages at http www aolpress com gallery index html and links to other clip art sites on the Web at http www primehost com members create index htm Typographical conventions We use a variety of fonts to identify items or processing steps bold sans serif Menus menu items and field names Menu names with options use arrows for example File gt Save italic To emphasize selected words For example We urge you to use this book italic underlined A hyperlink When browsing a Web page click on a hyperlink to display the Web page it references courier Text that you type For example http gnn com Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 15 Welcome What s new in v2 0 Variations on different types of computers AOLpress is available for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh We have compromised between making the application similar across different platforms versus making it look similar to other applications on the same platform Paragraphs in this book that apply to specific platforms are identified in the
34. For example you can add the lt P CLEAR ALL gt tag after a paragraph that wraps around an image to make sure the next paragraph or image starts below the first image gt Editing the HTML source 1 Open a page 2 Choose the Tools gt Show HTML menu item 3 You can edit the HTML by typing text directly or by using any of the commands in the Edit menu m Ifyou cut and paste from an HTML window to a Page window you will be able to see the HTML tags in the Page window You can use this technique if you want to create a Web page that explains how to use HTML tags m If you cut and paste from a Page window into an HTML window the tags will not be pasted k N D D gt Q m Q r Q L _ r7 4 To save changes you make in an HTML window choose the File gt Parse menu item AOLpress checks your HTML code for errors If any errors are found you will see a message explaining the error If no errors occur or if you choose to ignore the errors your changes will be shown in the Page window m You can also choose File gt Save As to save your HTML changes to a separate file m Use File gt Reload if you want to discard changes you made to the HTML Then you can start modifying the HTML again Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 153 Viewing and Editing HTML N Editing HTML gt Searching the HTML source 1 When you choose EditFind Replace from a MiniWeb window you can choose to i
35. H deletes the last character O Q _ D ae F Q Q E N F N 66 Creating Text and Lists Editing text m Pressing CTRL D deletes the next character m Pressing Delete normally deletes the character to the right of the cursor but you can make it delete the character to the left by choosing the Tools gt Preferences gt General menu item and checking the UNIX Style Delete field m Ona Macintosh pressing Delete does a backspace m Pressing CTRL U deletes to the beginning of the line Finding and replacing text Edit Find Replace opens a window that lets you find or replace text in the current page Type characters Find What 7 to search for Cl __ Close Type characters Replace With to replace with Search Options _ Replace All Choose method T Whole Words Match Case l Search Backward of search Help gt Find and replace text 1 Type the characters to search for in the Find What box at the top 2 Type the characters to replace these in the Replace With box underneath 3 Optionally select one or more of the following Search Options Whole Word Match Case Search Back ward Checking this box makes the match find only whole words that match the text you type When this box is not checked the program matches your text even if it is a part of a word For example if you check this box searching for cat will match cat only and not words like
36. Installing AOLpress 17 Chapter 2 Create a Web Page in 10 Easy Steps 21 Chapter 3 Browsing with AOLpress 33 Part 2 Creating Pages Chapter 4 Web Pages and What to Put in Them 45 Chapter 5 Creating and Saving Pages 53 Chapter 6 Creating Text and Lists 61 Chapter 7 Adding Tables 83 Chapter 8 Adding Images 91 Chapter 9 Adding Links and Multimedia 105 Chapter 10 Creating Frames 127 Chapter 11 Creating and Using Forms 137 Chapter 12 Viewing and Editing HTML 151 Part 3 Managing and Publishing Pages Chapter 13 Working with MiniWebs 159 Chapter 14 Publishing Pages 181 Part 4 Reference Chapter 15 Setting Preferences 191 Chapter 16 AOLpress Quick Reference 205 Chapter 17 What s New in V2 0 221 Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 3 Detailed Contents Contents Part 1 Getting Started Welcome 11 Chapter 1 Installing AOLpress 17 System TEQUITEINENIS 54 255 5524 4 b36 4H hee oho reiia asr oR EEE 18 Installing AOLpress 0 eee eens 19 Upgrading to new versions of AOLpress 2 0055 20 Preferences you should set now 0 00 e eee eee eee 20 Chapter 2 Create a Web Page in 10 Easy Steps 21 Step 1 A little background 0 0 eee 22 Step 2 Start AOLPIess ecc 6 cc bubs irinin akkas hini 23 Step 3 Create a Web Pave i cpm adetcadeaeedst neato pataa 24 Step 4 Type and format text 0 0 0 0 2c ee eee es 24 Step Cleale a IS eeren eni rg aey cecedeecaeeescs ee eee 25 Ste
37. Location OK cAimydi pagez htrl Cancel Directory mydir sts scan Drives f Sites cn Create Dir Select your local drive in the field labeled Drives Sites Sites on a Macintosh In the Directory list Windows or the list of folders and files Macintosh double click on the directory or folder where you want to save your page Move the cursor to the Page Location field the unlabeled field below the Sites field on a Macintosh and add index html to the end of the page location For example the Page Location on your local disk could be c mydir page2 htmon Windows 3 1 c mydir page2 html1 on Windows 95 and BigDrive Web Pages page2 htm1 ona Macintosh Colons separate layers of drive folder and file names on a Macintosh Home pages Use a file name of index htm or index html for your home page the first page you want people to see when they visit your pages If people don t specify a file name when they visit your pages most servers give them the index htm or index html file automatically Click OK when you have finished setting the location See page 173 for ways to customize how AOLpress saves images and modifies links when you save a page User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Create a Web Page in 10 Easy Steps e Step 10 Publishing to PrimeHost or AOL Step 10 Publishing to PrimeHost or AOL Publishing on the Internet with AOLpress is as easy as saving a file on your computer
38. Protocol If you can use FTP to move files directly to the page directories on your Web server you can use FTP from within AOLpress to save your page or MiniWeb If you do not have at least FTP access to your Web page directories you will need to transfer the files with software other than AOLpress gt To save a page or MiniWeb with FTP 1 Choose the File gt Save As menu item 2 In the Page Location field type ftp username your ftp site path filename htm m username should be the name you use to log into the FTP server m your ftp site should be the name of your ftp server such as ftp mydomain com m path should be the directory path to your file Use the full directory path from the perspective of the FTP server If you do not know the directory path browse for the location after typing the ftp username your ftp site portion m filename htm should be the name of your Web page For example suppose you want to save a page called mypage htm to the users myname public_html directory on ftp domain com You would type the following in the Page Location field ftp myname ftp domain com users myname public_html mypage htm 3 Click the OK button to save the page Saving the file may take a few seconds m You may be asked for your username and password If so type the username and password you would use to FTP files m If an older version of the page is already stored on the server you wi
39. Q m Q C n m Q TH O g a Hidden fields You can create hidden fields in a form by creating a text field and changing the TYPE attribute to hidden For example lt INPUT TYPE hidden VALUE hiddenvalue NAMF testl1 gt Slider fields You can create a field that lets readers select a value using a slider by modifying the attributes of a field as shown here lt INPUT TYPE range VALUE 10 MIN 0 MAX 100 NAMF test2 gt Disabled fields You can prevent readers from changing the value in a form field by adding the DISABLED attribute to the lt INPUT gt tag For example lt INPUT TYPE text DISABLED VALUE Sample text NAMF test3 gt Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 149 Creating and Using Forms Learning more 150 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Chapter 12 Viewing and Editing HTML What you ll find in this chapter Viewing HTML 152 Editing HTML 153 Learning more 155 The Hypertext Markup Language HTML is the language used to specify the contents and format of Web pages When the Web was created people first wrote pages by typing HTML tags by hand yjust as they would write computer programs Now AOLpress lets you create pages without worrying about the HTML tags You edit Web pages as you would edit documents with a word processor However if you do know HTML AOLpress lets you edit the HTML code directly and then look at the results of your changes This is
40. The Tree and Name views are shown in the figures that follow Web View i Hini eb c KAk Ah l o ENX rr tutorial X PASO Cia jA SS eae Tree View eS ava O wa Miniweb i be al gt A vith Miniweb c ap2 Ioj x press htm Hee l press htm Welcome to AOLpress 2 0 Bet a aolserver com 2 ap med gif a gt pream connect htm Network Connections and contents htm AOLpress Documentation 4 htto beta primehost com beta report html http www aolpress com press index html 1 http www aolpress com press search html 1 http www aolserver com serverfindex html 1 http wwe primehost com contestindex htm http wei primehost com demo sindex htm http www primehost com domainfindex htm 1 http primehost com index htm H http Aaw primehost com members index htm 8 install htm Using AOLpress over the In mailto pressbeta aol com tutorial tutorialfindex Atm refer 4 refer refer htm ra el tachemrt htrn AOL nracec Tachnical Ginnart 4 b El Name View a Lae gt To select a MiniWeb view 1 Choose the ViewName menu item The window will list files by file name Links to files are indented below each file 2 As you work you can switch the MiniWeb view between Web Tree Name Title and MIME Type which is similar to the file type 3 Notice that each type of file has a different icon and that there are se
41. There is no need to re save image files now though you can if you wish AOLpress will ask what you want to do for each pre existing file Now your page is on the Web Your friends with Web browsers can see it if they look at the address where you saved the page for example http members aol com screen_name Don t forget to add your page to your own Hot List by choosing the Browse Add to Hot List menu item so you can get to it easily If you want to change your page in the future just display your page with AOLpress Make your changes with AOLpress then choose FileSave to publish your changes See page 173 for ways to customize how AOLpress saves images and modifies links when you save a page Learning More 32 AOLpress also includes an online tutorial that helps you learn to create and edit Web pages It includes information on lots of things not covered in this short chapter like creating tables and frames To start the online tutorial choose Help gt Tutorial in AOLpress User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Chapter 3 Browsing with AOLpress What you ll find in this chapter Quick start 34 Opening pages 35 Viewing apage 36 Following links 38 Ifa link doesn t work 39 History returning to where you ve been 40 Hot list keep track of pages 41 Where to browse 42 This chapter explains how to use AOLpress to navigate and read information on the World Wide Web While AOLpress is primarily a tool fo
42. Web 83 Adding Tables Creating and formatting tables AOLpress gives you control over the look of your tables 4 You can set and modify the number of rows and columns in your table You can add headings and table captions to your table You can set the width of your table s border and the amount of space in the margins of individual table cells You can merge cells to create areas that span any number of rows and columns You can align the contents of cells both horizontally and vertically You can put almost anything inside a table cell text images headings links forms horizontal rules even other tables Creating and formatting tables 84 gt To create a table 1 Move your cursor to the place where you want to create the table If the text or images you want to put in the table are already in your page highlight them before you create the table When you create the table the table cells will be filled with the paragraphs you selected from left to right and then from top to bottom Lists forms and other tables are not split up the entire list form or table is placed in a single cell Choose the Table gt Create Table menu item You will see the Table window Dimensions Rows 2 M visible Borders ae Columns 2 Border Size E Caption po O Spacing o Above Table Below Table Padding 2 Borders Set the number of vertical columns and horizontal
43. Web site Server parsed HTML You can use this language to automatically add some information to a page For example you could put the same header and footer information on all my pages automatically Or you could insert a file that changes frequently within a page without having to update the page whenever the file changes http www aolserver com server docs 2 1 html shtml htm Perl Tcl C and other languages Many other languages can be used to process forms and update information dynamically And more New things you can do on the Web are being added all the time The next section gives you some hints for figuring out how something was done in a Web page you like User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Web Pages and What to Putin Them 2 Figuring out how a page was created C2 Figuring out how a page was created Page If you want to know how something in a Web page was created open the page with AOLpress and try any of these tricks m Choose the Format gt Show Border menu item You will see dotted lines around the cells in any hidden tables You will also see dotted lines at the beginning and end of any lists or forms m Select the item with your mouse in AOLpress If the item is linked to some other page hold down the Ctrl key so that AOLpress doesn t follow the link You can use this trick to find the edges of an image m With the item selected look at the first two commands in the Format menu They let you exi
44. a GIF JPEG or XBM then it opens a Page window containing just the image Otherwise you are asked if you want to save the file It attempts to launch an external viewer If no viewer is available you are asked if you want to save the file The Image Map window is opened for the image No useful result if double clicked produces a Not Found message or something similar It can t display this type of file You are asked if you want to save the file The source code for the Java applet is opened It can t display this type of file You are asked if you want to save the file User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Working with MiniWebs A Editing MiniWebs AA Editing MiniWebs You can use MiniWebs to help you create save and delete pages and other files MiniWebs also help you create a variety of links between files Creating new pages in MiniWebs gt To create a new page or file in a MiniWeb either m Choose the File gt New gt New Page menu item m Click the New Page icon in the MiniWeb toolbar m Double click on any ghosted icon in your MiniWeb These icons show you which files are linked to but do not exist You will see a prompt that asks if you want to create the file gt To define a page template or stationery 1 Highlight the page you want to use as a template in the MiniWeb window 2 Choose the Edit gt Set Stationery menu item When you create a new page the page you selected will
45. an extension Select an entry and click Delete MIME viewers When you follow a link to a file that AOLpress does not know how to display for example a video AOLpress looks through the list of MIME viewers for a program to run to display the file If there is no entry for the MIME type AOLpress asks if you want to save the file on your local system Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 199 h Qi 0 U D a D D 1 A Setting Preferences MIME viewers gt To add a MIME viewer 1 Choose the Tools Preferences MIME Viewer menu item You will see the MIME Viewer Preferences window Pref MIME Viewer x MIME Type ee Currently B m Dome selected i audiosx way ara MIME type P u diovx way i Cancel Add Change Delete _ Location of E external viewer for this External Viewer Browse MIME type COAWVINDOVVS SNDRECS2 EXE Help 2 Type a MIME type For example you might type application msword which is the MIME type for Microsoft Word documents 3 Type the file location of the viewer for these files in the External Viewer field Or you can click Browse to search for the file For example the location of the viewer for Microsoft Word files might be Cc MSOFFICE WINWORD WINWORD EXE 4 Click Add to save your new entry If the Add button is gray type an extra space in the External Viewer field 5 To change a viewer select the MIME
46. appear in the page when it is displayed for example a link to an image map file gt gt gt Color codes in MiniWebs MiniWebs are color coded to show the status and relationships of the files in the MiniWeb Icon color style Solid The file is physically located in the MiniWeb Dithered The file is a relative link but is not physically located in the MiniWeb See page 106 for an explanation of relative and absolute references Green text The file is an absolute link and is not physically located in the MiniWeb Broken The file is physically located in the MiniWeb but has unsaved changes 168 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Working with MiniWebs A Viewing MiniWebs EX A gt Same 7 y Focusing the view AOLpress lets you focus on specific files even if your MiniWeb contains lots of files gt To hide various file types 1 Choose View Display Control Display Control 2 Inthe Display Control window select the Select file types to hide in MinivWeb Done types of files you want to hide Hold T down the Shift key or the Ctrl key the Command key on a Macintosh to select a set of file types ab ag Show All 3 Click Apply to hide the selected file types 4 Puta check in the External files box to Anything else hide files outside the MiniWeb or the l Add Ghost files box to hide files that are linked Remove to but do not exist eee I External files I Ghost fil Hel 5 T
47. be used as the starting point for your new page Creating Java source files in MiniWebs You can create new Java source files with AOLpress You compile a Java source file using software from Sun Microsystems to create class files The file extension is normally java on UNIX and Mac OS and jav on Windows k Go O a pot gt 2 D O e gt To create a new Java source file 1 Choose the Element Java Applet menu item You will see a window that lets you type Java source code For details about the Java language and compiling Java source see http jjava sun com 2 When you finish typing the source code choose the File gt Save menu item 3 Save the file with a file extension of java on UNIX and Mac OS systems and jav on Windows If you click the Options button you will see that the Java file format is selected This format saves the file with no HTML tags Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 171 S Working with MiniWebs Za Editing MiniWebs LAS p a Copying pages and files to MiniWebs MiniWebs help you manage the files that make up your Web site You can think of a MiniWeb as being similar to the Windows File Manager or the Macintosh Finder AOLpress gives you several ways to copy files to your MiniWebs gt To copy a file from one location to another 1 Choose the FileCopy File menu item You will see this window Copy File Location Copy cAr
48. ca t ca para ho aos he E debate e be so bark wae eae 106 ADOUCHOKS 22522455 0400 44 ebb S bee p irs rerien 106 Crean KS 2 aca085 aoe dtne abana kee Gate eecwsgeeesees 108 Image maps multiple links from images 111 M ltmedia TAKS 3 24 cso oseen ed bed bee eae deoae sd AOE a 115 Toolbar navigation buttons 0 0 0 0 0c eee eee eee 117 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Detailed Contents Checking Tks 5 4 den03 og4 ob4055b8e25 48655048004 5465 118 arap eae ce4easeawats eavereeueeealeeesaagususee 121 Learin MOGs 6 405 5 6445484464 6 heed aiaa dE RE 126 Chapter 10 Creating Frames 127 Circa r TaESA E Eaa a 129 Resizing fames s di 0 Sn Su iori tanks AETERNE DAKE bees 130 Editing within frames 0 0 ccc eee ees 131 Saving aTAMeS os 4 bo8 a os ecw ed eae hen eee ees 133 Linking to frames 4 6 nn enee nee eiaweeieme oheraeharueee as 134 Learning MON eener hod edhe See etahed betdGeet sera 135 Chapter 11 Creating and Using Forms 137 QUICK Stat s 2 oak dome Hee edd Eb oh ok amp oo ae 138 Choosing a program for a form to run 0000s 138 Creatine TOMS 465 424 oeeee ee iadntddiavdeigees bean sce ds 139 Using the form palette i044 divancbhdesebiw cde deree ie 140 Changing TOMS s cressa areata batch eed end seas 149 Learin MO eea choo whee ees ee teers hese 149 Chapter 12 Viewing and Editing HTML 151 Niewits HIMEL c 2oeeaesnedosdeoceseeedteeasaad eka ee 152 Patne HIMD sssi rsrsr IE eeeue e
49. color 102 color for whole page 102 copying 62 drag and drop 63 editing 65 entering 62 entering and revising 62 finding and replacing 66 move horizontally 64 pasting 62 plain 81 selecting 65 wrapping around image 95 Text Areas 144 Text Edit Spacing 194 Text fields for Java parameters 125 in forms 143 Text for non graphical browsers 52 Tiled background 103 Title field 24 Titles 62 setting in MiniWebs 176 Toolbar customize 203 customizing 203 for page window 206 MiniWeb window 162 215 Toolbar Button Links field 117 Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 239 Index Toolbar navigation for pages 117 Tools menu Administer Page menu Lock item 182 Unlock item 182 Administer Server item 212 Check Links item 118 Preferences menu Animation item 203 Configure Toolbar item 203 Extensions MIME item 199 Font item 198 General item 192 MIME Viewer item 200 MiniWeb Icons item 201 Network item 196 Sites item 202 quick reference for MiniWeb windows 219 for Page windows 212 Show HTML item 152 Spell Check item 67 Top frame 134 Transparent gif files 93 Transparent images 103 Tree view of MiniWeb 166 Tutorial menu item 14 Type Color menu item 72 Type size 72 Type Size menu item 72 Type Style menu item 71 Type styles 70 applying and removing 71 formatted 70 logical 70 removing 81 Typographical conventions 15 240 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 U Underline type
50. com snoopy If you have problems saving to your AOL space see http www aolpress com press memberfaq html If you have Domain Commercial or Dedicated service type the Web address for your domain For example type http www mycompany com Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 31 a Create a Web Page in 10 Easy Steps Learning More 3 Move the cursor to the Page Location field and add a file name of index html to the end of the location The index htm file should be your home page the first page you want people to see when they visit your pages If people don t specify a file name when they visit your pages the server gives them the index htm file automatically 4 Click OK to save your page The first time you save to this location in each session you will see this authentication window Authentication security for http members aol com screen_name jindex htm Cancel Name Password Type your screenname or username and password if AOLpress prompts you for them AOLpress will save the page and all the image files lines bullets photos associated with it Saving the file across the network may take a few seconds m Ifa page with the file name you typed already exists a window will ask you whether to save the file don t save or rename the page m If any of your images already exist in this directory AOLpress asks you if you want to save it don t save it rename it or cancel
51. correctly m Youcan use the Rel Abs button to switch between relative and absolute links to the applet file m Youcan click the Display button to see the Java source file for the class file you have selected if they are both in the same directory 4 In the Width and Height fields type the display size in pixels of the applet 122 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Links and Multimedia Java applets 5 Give the applet a Name if applets will need to communicate with each other 6 Select how you want to align the applet with the text that follows it The choices are the same as for images Top Middle Bottom Left and Right See page 94 for examples 7 Many applets let you set parameters to control how the applet will run For example an applet that runs a slide show may let you set the speed at which the slide show will run If someone has created a parameter file for this applet or if the Java source file is in the same directory AOLpress prompts you for parameter values when you drag the applet from a MiniWeb to a page See page 123 for details on creating param eter files Otherwise you will need to enter parameters and their values by hand For each parameter m Inthe Parameter area s Text field type the name of the parameter an equal sign and the parameter s value Here are some examples speed 10 slidel myimage gif nextpage page2 html m Inthe Type field select which type of parameter this is I
52. create and save a new Web page Read Chapter 6 to learn how to add text lists and formatting to your pages Read Chapter 7 to learn how to add tables to your pages Read Chapter 8 to learn how to add images and color to your pages Read Chapter 9 to learn how to add links and multimedia to your pages Read Chapter 10 to learn how to add frames to your pages Read Chapter 11 to learn how to uses forms in your pages Read Chapter 12 to learn how to view and edit the HTML for your pages Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 43 Chapter 4 Web Pages and What to Put in Them What you ll find in this chapter Things Web pages cancontain 46 Figuring out how a page was created 51 Page design guidelines 51 You ve probably browsed the Web and seen things you d like to put in your pages How do you figure out how these things were created so that you can do the same thing This chapter will describe the kinds of things you can put in your Web pages We Il also give you hints for using AOLpress to figure out how something was created Later chapters will tell you the steps for putting these things in your pages Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 45 Web Pages and What to Put in Them Things Web pages can contain Things Web pages can contain You can t always tell how a Web page was created just by looking at it Web designers use plenty of tricks to make pages look the way they do Often there are several ways to crea
53. customizing the toolbar O Q Q amp wy O D ao amp Qy o los QR O E4 lt Q yz 7 Sx ZA p A FE ie ai e o Ye Ya a e ep Oy h gt amp Q y b o Dy Co ed L 4 P Page window menus The sections that follow give you a quick list and description of all the menu items you see when you are using a Page window 206 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 File menu AOLpress Quick Reference lt Page window You use the File menu to operate on pages either locally or remotely over the network Open Open Recent gt Close Save Save As Import Copy File Delete Print Setup Print Upgrade AOLpress Exit New Open Ctrl O Open Recent Close Save Ctrl 5 Save As Import Copy File Delete Print Setup Print Ctrl F Upgrade 40Lpress Exit Lets you create a new page a new MiniWeb or a new Frameset containing one frame Lets you browse locally or remotely for files or specify the URL directly You may also choose how to use the file for example you can open an HTML page as a Text page and see the tags Shows a list of recent pages from windows you have closed during the current session Closes the current page Prompts if you have unsaved changes Saves the current page Lets you save the page locally or on the network You can choose formats and other options Lets you import text HTML or image file into the current page Lets you c
54. files that make up your Web site It gives you a graphical view of the collection of files This view shows all the pages and any other files such as images and sounds and the connections between them One page is designated as the home page it is displayed with a special icon a spider at home in its web If a page links to another page outside the folder those pages are also shown A MiniWeb uses icons to represent files pages and arrows to represent the links between them Icons can be dragged and dropped into other MiniWeb windows and into Page windows Arrows between icons represent links between the files MiniWebs are color coded to show the status and relationships of the files within the MiniWeb ra MiniWeb c ap2 w32 help contents htm sah S pressi SS ee n T 4 MiniWeb toolbar The toolbar gives you quick access to frequently used commands such as Open Import and Save As User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Working with MiniWebs A ye Creating MiniWebs S oe A gt ed mw MiniWeb menus The File menu operates on either Pages or MinitWebs opening saving closing either locally or remotely over the net Click on any entry to access tools associated with the application The Edit menu is used to copy URLs from or to the MiniWeb The View menu controls the viewing scale and redraws the MiniWeb The Tools menu has utilities or functions to access speci
55. in this version of AOLpress Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 189 Chapter 15 Setting Preferences What you ll find in this chapter General preferences Network Fonts File extensions and MIME MIME viewers MiniWeb icons Sites Animation Configure toolbar 192 196 198 198 199 201 202 203 203 The Preferences windows let you control various aspects of the behavior of AOLpress To see a list of the Preferences windows choose the Tools Preferences Menu item Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 191 Setting Preferences General preferences General preferences Choose the Tools gt Preferences General menu item to bring up the General Preferences window You use this window to control general browsing and editing 192 behaviors of AOLpress Ea r Browsing r HTML hlinvvebs 7 f M Load Remote Images Conform to Create as z z e M Prefetch Pages Netscape 3 DOS Cancel C HTML 3 2 C Macintosh Wo Show Java Windows Pasix Multiple 5 E m Editing i as Open the Unix Style Delete 3 rene 2 Home Page I Edit Complex Lists Fee ences eae C Web Server Side Inc Bath Back up Pages Every a C Mever Load Frames Load Remote Images Prefetch Pages Show Java Windows 30 seconds Always Load M Show Frames Image Display Method C Trans GIF ART Progressive JPEG Photoshop4 JPEG m startup view C Home Page Blan
56. into 173 copying pages and files into 172 copying URLs into 173 creating 163 creating Java source files in 171 creating links with 175 creating pages in 171 default windows opened 195 234 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 definition of 22 deleting files in 175 diagram of 160 displayable files in 170 file names for 195 finding files in 169 finding replacing text in 177 focusing view of 169 hiding files in 169 hiding links in 169 home page for 161 icons for file types 201 icons for MIME types 201 icons in 167 importing files into 173 in file selection dialog 58 list of commands for 161 nested 179 opening 165 opening pages and files in 170 printing pages of 178 saving 174 setting home page for 176 setting Titles in 176 spell checking 178 uses of 160 viewing 165 views of 166 webizing 164 zooming in or out 169 see also SubWebs Monkey animation it s a lemur 203 Mouse using 220 MS Windows filename conventions 188 installation 19 selecting files 58 system requirements for 18 Multimedia links to 115 Multiple authors 182 Multiple spaces 64 Multiple windows opening 38 My Place publishing to 184 N Name server 197 Name view of MiniWeb 166 Navigating see Browsing Navigation toolbar for pages 117 Navigational aids for Web site 52 amp nbsp characters 64 Nested lists 80 Netscape tags 155 conforming to 193 Network operations 58 Network preferences 19
57. list You can add delete and rearrange list items You can also nest lists Nested lists have multiple levels of sub lists and can be mixed For example a Numbered list can be nested within a Definition or Bulleted list or another Numbered list Bulleted and numbered lists 76 Bullets are not characters that can be selected Think of them as part of the line break between paragraphs The only way to select or delete bullets is to select or delete the line break gt Apply a bulleted or numbered list structure Place the insertion point where you want the Bulleted or Numbered list to begin when you type Or select the text you want to turn into a list 2 Choose Bulleted List or Numbered List from the Format List menu You cannot select the numbers or bullets associated with a list They are part of the structure but not part of the context gt End the current list structure Place the cursor anywhere in the list 2 Choose Format Exit List Format The cursor moves to the line below the list and leaves it unstructured Exiting from a nested list takes you out one level Repeat the Exit command to continue to move out To move completely out of the list place the cursor below the list and click User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating Text and Lists Lists gt Paste or type new items Place the cursor at the end of the line before the new item you want to add 2 Press Enter or Return to provide a li
58. loca tion where you want to put it Release the cursor The text is removed from where you selected it and placed into the new location gt Importing text You can import text from another page or a text file into a page For details see page 56 New paragraphs and forced line breaks When you reach the end of a line you don t need to press the lt Enter gt key to move to the next line This happens automatically Pressing lt Enter gt starts a new para graph Browsers automatically adjust the line lengths in paragraphs if you change the size of the window gt Create a new paragraph with a space after the previous paragraph Press the Enter or E Return key to start a ee E x new paragraph Paragraph 1 This is a paragraph When you press Return a new paragraph starts In the middle of a list you Can add a Paragraph 2 Notice that there is some vertical space between new paragraph paragraphs 1 and 2 However if you choose Element gt Forced Line Break no vertical without creating space is added before the next line starts another list item by choosing the Format gt ParagraphNew menu item gt Create a Forced Line Break same paragraph one line below Press Shift Enter or Shift Return or choose Element Forced Line Break A line separated by a forced line break is still part of the same paragraph as the line above and is subject to that paragraph s formatting
59. maps Information about the map s links is stored as part of the page When a reader clicks on the map image the browser decides which hot spot the mouse clicked on and asks the server for the correct page This provides several advantages Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 111 gt Q 5 to E 5 A oO Q Q D Adding Links and Multimedia Image maps multiple links from images e Following client side image map links is faster because less communication with the server is needed e Pages that use client side image maps are portable to any server The syntax for server side image map files varies depending on the type of server so server side image maps are not portable For information on using AOLpress server side image maps on a different type of server see the image map information in the AOLpress FAQ at http www primehost com faq e Most browsers that support client side image maps show the link destination in the status bar as you move your cursor over the image AOLpress also highlights linked areas as you move your cursor over the map However the disadvantage to using only client side image maps is that some browsers don t yet support them Therefore it is best to create both types of maps for the same image Browsers that support client side image maps use the map stored in your page and browsers that don t support them will contact the server to interpret t
60. of your DNS server E E B Firewall HTTP Proxy Firewall SOCKS Server Except for these domains Proxy Host SOCKS Host 196 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Setting Preferences A Network Mail Address Type your email address in the Mail Address field The email address you provide is used as a return address for mail you send from AOLpress as a password when you download files with anonymous ftp and as an identification line on all HTTP requests SMTP Mail Host Type the name of the SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol mail host machine This is a machine that takes care of putting email from your internal mail system into an accepted Internet format Most systems do not require you to specify the SMTP Mail Host If you do not know whether your system uses SMTP or the name of the SMTP mail host ask your system administrator Name Server A name server interprets Web page addresses and finds the addresses that correspond to the addresses Most systems do not require you to specify the Name Server If you do not know whether you need to specify a name server ask your system administrator If you do need to specify a name server type the IP address of the name server in these fields Proxy AOLpress does not handle news gopher or WAIS requests directly If you are browsing these kinds of links you have to specify a Proxy server When AOLpress finds an access method it does not understand it send
61. or letters with accent marks M in your Web page you can copy them into AOLpress gt To copy special characters 64 1 2 Choose Help Contents Follow the link to access the reference information You might need to scroll the page to see this link Click on the Special characters link after the Text bullet item in the right column Again you might need to scroll the page to see this link Find the characters you want to use and highlight it Choose Edit Copy or press Ctrl C Move back to the page you are editing and put your cursor where you want to insert the special character Choose Edit Paste or press Ctrl V User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Editing text Creating Text and Lists Editing text You can edit text with the mouse and keyboard similar to most word processors Select the text you want to edit then use any of editing techniques in the following list gt To edit text To delete text select it then press Backspace or Delete on the keyboard or use the Edit Clear or Edit Cut menu Drag and drop To move text highlight it hold the mouse button down and move the cursor to the desired new location then release the mouse button You can Cut and Paste text either with the Edit menu Edit Cut then Edite Paste or the Cut and Paste buttons on the toolbar To replace text select it then type over it To move a line of text up or down place the cursor above the lin
62. pasting it yields a link Paste URL Equivalent to Paste except the selected text if there is some becomes a link to this URL If there is no selection then the text of the URL is added as a link Find Replace Invokes the Find Replace window This provides several options for finding and replacing text Find Next Repeats the last Find without presenting a window 208 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 AOLpress Quick Reference Page window 3 Element menu You use the Element menu to add special features to your page Get Attribute Shift Ctrl G Horizontal Rule Forced Line Break Shift A etur Link Chrl L Anchor E mail Lirik Image Image Map lira Java Applet Get Attribute Allows you to set various attributes for the selection for example if you select a link you see the Link window Horizontal Rule Adds a horizontal line at the insertion point Forced Line Break Forces a line break at the insertion point gt O rT aa J 1 V V O AN JJ p rn e i 1 O Link Lets you attach a link to the current selection If the selection already contains a link lets you alter or remove the link Anchor Lets you attach a name to a point in the page You can use this name in links that move to this point in a page n E mail Link Displays the Email Link window in which you can type an A email address that the link should allow readers to send em
63. select any Target Frame for a link You can use the back button in newer browsers to move back though pages you have visited in a frame _top Removes the frames from your page windows and displays the linked page For example if you link to another Web site you should use the _top target so the other Web site won t be displayed inside your frame layout _parent Puts the linked page in the frame that contains the current frame Unless you have a complex frame layout this is usually the same as the _top frame Any other name Puts the linked page in a new window Netscape and Internet Explorer will reuse the new window if the reader leaves the window open and later follows a link with the same target name For example to create a link in a left frame called toc for Table of Contents that displays a page in a right frame called main follow these steps 1 2 3 4 5 Highlight some text in the left frame Choose the Element gt Link menu item Type the file name of the page you want to display in the Link to Page field For example you could type new htm In the Target Frame field select the frame where you want to display the page For example this frame is called main Click OK to create the link You can also select a target frame when you create links in an image map when you check links and when you select a form handler The target for a form handler determines which frame will display th
64. site Relative links allow you to move the entire directory tree to a new location for example from your hard disk to the Web without breaking your links You should try to use absolute links only to referenced files outside your own Web A relative reference to a file in the same directory is simple yjust use the file name and omit any information about the Web location and the directory For example use other htm instead of http www mydomain com mydir other htm You can also use relative links to reference files in different SubWebs within your site but they are a little more complicated Suppose you have a directory tree like this fC roducts images p g ae prod_b Relative references between files in these directories would have the following syntax Reference Between Relative Link Format main to products products file htm main to prod_a products prod_a file htm products to prod_a prod_a file htm products to main f f LVS hem products to images images fig gif prod_a to main taf ef Cilee bem prod_a to images images fig gif 180 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Chapter 14 Publishing Pages What you ll find in this chapter Publishing with multiple authors Publishing a whole folder Publishing to PrimeHost Publishing to AOL Publishing to another AOLserver Publishing to non AOLservers Publishing to
65. software and install it Preferences you should set now Chapter 15 covers Preferences in detail but you might need to set the Proxy server now if your site is behind a firewall or if you connect to the Internet through a service provider who runs your connections First ask your System Administrator if you are behind a firewall Some hints that you might be are 20 You cannot ftp to a remote site You cannot log in to a remote site You can reach internal Web servers but no external Web sites gt Set preferences 1 2 3 4 Start AOLpress Choose the ToolsPreferences Network menu item Click the Always Proxy check box Ask your system administrator for the name of the Proxy server Typically it is in the form hostname port for example www mycom com 81 Do not type the leading http You may also need to set a SOCKS host name in this window if you are behind a firewall Ask your system administrator If you want to use AOLpress to send email set your Mail Address in the Network Preferences window too User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Chapter 2 Create a Web Page in 10 Easy Steps What you ll find in this chapter Step 1 A little background 22 Step 2 Start AOLpress 23 Step 3 Create a Web page 24 Step 4 Type and format text 24 Step 5 Create alist 25 Step 6 Create links to other pages 25 Step 7 Create an email link 27 Step 8 Add colors and images 28 Step 9 Saving to your local di
66. text If you are using a Macintosh the screen will look a little different from examples in this book but the fields are the same and they work the same way What s new in v2 0 s If yov ve used AOLpress or GNNpress or NaviPress before see page 221 for a list of the new features you will find in AOLpress v2 0 The icon to the left identifies features that are new in this version If you are using an earlier version these features will not be available To find out how you can upgrade to AOLpress v2 0 please visit our Web site http www aolpress com To contact us or get more information To sign up for the PrimeHost hosting service or to get technical support Call 800 879 6882 Send email to info primehost com to sign up Send email to support primehost com for technical support Visit http www primehost com Goto the primehost keyword on AOL To download AOLpress or AOLserver for free Visit http www aolpress com To find out about technical support email lists and AOL message boards about AOLpress visit http www aolpress com feedback html 16 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Chapter 1 Installing AOLpress What you ll find in this chapter System requirements 18 Installing AOLpress 19 Upgrading to new versions of AOLpress 20 Preferences you should set now 20 This chapter explains how to install AOLpress on the following operating systems Microsoft Window
67. the OK button to save the page Saving the file across the network may take a few seconds m If an older version of the page is already stored on the server you will be asked to confirm that you want to replace the file You will also be asked whether you want to replace any image files that are already stored on your Web site User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Publishing Pages Publishing to another AOLserver Publishing to another AOLserver If you don t have a PrimeHost hosting service account you can sign up by following the instructions at http www primehost com If you want to set up your own Web server you can download the AOLserver software for free from http www aolserver com The AOLserver is extendable with C and Tcl APIs that can access various types of databases Full CGI support is also provided Then you can use AOLpress to publish to that server gt Publish your Web page to another AOLserver 1 Choose the FileSave As menu item 2 In the Page Location field choose the AOLserver where you want to publish your page you must have write permission for the location where you want to publish m If you have ever visited the AOLserver you are interested in it shows up in the list you can see by clicking on arrow next to the Drives Sites field m If you have not visited this AOLserver before then you can type its URL in the Page Location field at the top of the window This AOLserver may be any server on the
68. the PrimeHost hosting service With the PrimeHost hosting service you will be able to save your pages directly to the AOLservers used by the service What is the PrimeHost hosting service AOLpress and the AOL PrimeHost hosting service give you an integrated publishing system for the World Wide Web The computer on your desk connects to Web servers where you can publish your pages AOLpress and the PrimeHost hosting service let you join the thousands who have made their presence known on the Internet For information about PrimeHost see http www primehost com Welcome What are AOLservers You can use AOLpress with several levels of service As your Internet needs grow you can move up to higher service levels Each service level gives you more disk space and supports more frequent page accesses than the previous level No service You can use AOLpress to create Web pages without having a Prime Host hosting service account If you have your own AOLserver you can use AOLpress to save pages directly to that server Otherwise you have to use some other file transfer mechanism such as FTP to move pages you create with AOLpress to the Web server you are using Personal Service With your AOL membership you can access the Internet and publish your pages on the World Wide Web Your AOL membership includes access to My Place where you can publish up to 2 MB of pages and other files per screen name up to 10 MB per account
69. the ToolsPreferences General window Tables You can convert a table to ordinary paragraphs by putting the cursor in the table and choosing the Format gt Remove Table Format menu item You can center a table by putting the cursor in the table and choosing TableCenter Table You can uncenter a table by choosing Table Uncenter Table MiniWebs MiniWebs now have a white background The links in a name or title MiniWeb view have a colored background Nl S t lt D lt na Server side include editing If you use server side includes SSI also called server parsed HTML to automatically include other files environment variables or the results of programs in your pages you can now edit your source code with AOLpress if your pages are stored on a v2 0 or later AOLserver To make AOLpress load unparsed source files choose Tools Preferences General and put a check in the Never Load box for Server Side Includes If you are viewing the HTML for a page you can choose File Reload without SSI to see the unparsed source and File Reload with SSI to see the parsed results Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 223 What s New in V2 0 HTML support HTML support When you highlight something in your page and leave your mouse cursor motionless over the selection for a second AOLpress shows the HTML code behind the selection in a pink popup area You can turn off these popups
70. the Web 81 O Q _ D ae F Q Q E N F N Creating Text and Lists Learning more Learning more 82 To practice creating text and lists in the online tutorial choose Help Tutorial Scroll to the bottom of the first page and click on the TOC icon You see a list of the lessons in the tutorial Then click on the Creating Text link or the Creating Lists link Advanced HTML for text and lists If you want to edit the HTML for your pages directly see Chapter 12 to learn how Once you are comfortable adding finishing touches to your pages by editing HTML code you can add the following features to your text and lists Change the font You can specify a different font for text For example this code displays text in the first font in the list found on the reader s computer lt FONT FACE Verdana Arial Helvetica gt text lt FONT gt Change the list bullet You can use a different list bullet for unnumbered lists by starting the list with any of the following tags lt UL TYPER disk gt lt UL TYPE circle gt lt UL TYPE square gt Change the numbered list type You can use letters or Roman numerals for numbered lists by starting the list with a tag like the following The TYPE can be 1 numbers A uppercase letters a lowercase letters I uppercase Roman numerals or 1 lowercase Roman numerals lt OL TYPE A gt Change numbere
71. the World Wide Web we make two major Web tools AOLpress and AOLserver available at no charge AOLpress is the top ranked Web page authoring software and AOLserver is the remarkable server software called awesome by New Media magazine at the core of the PrimeHost hosting service This free distribution is our gift to the Web community 12 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Welcome Our assumptions about you Our assumptions about you We realize there is probably no typical reader of this book or user of AOLpress Some of you are novices some have considerable experience How you will use this book depends on what you already know How we explain things depends on what we assume about you and your system You can use AOLpress if you can use a word processor We assume your computer connects to the Internet either directly or through a modem connected to AOL or an Internet Service Provider Otherwise e If your computer connects to a local area network LAN you should contact your system administrator to find out how to connect to the Internet e If your computer is not connected to a network or modem you must connect it We assume you know how to use your computer and its operating software e You have experience with a window based graphical user interface like Microsoft Windows or the Macintosh e You know how to run programs e You know about files and directories sometimes called documents and fo
72. the left right top or bottom edge of the window r D ez U Q Q V Q gt Q a om O U C p 5 j gt D Forms For information about putting forms in your pages see Chapter 11 Forms with various fields You can create forms with a wide variety of field types page 140 Forms for sending email and other things If you have a PrimeHost hosting service account several programs are provided to process the information sent from a form page 138 Counter that shows how many times a page is visited If you have a PrimeHost hosting service account a hit counter is provided to show how many visits your page receives page 99 Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 49 Web Pages and What to Put in Them Things Web pages can contain Advanced Tools There are many advanced languages and tools you can use on the Web Here s a sample list You can learn more about these languages and tools from other books HTML This is the language Web pages are written in When you use AOLpress you don t need to learn HTML to create Web pages However you can edit the HTML and add special features that you can t create directly with AOLpress page 153 For example by editing the HTML you can use different fonts add colored backgrounds to table cells set the width of a table change the bullet symbol or number for a list item or change the width and color of a horizontal rule
73. the table your cursor is in Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 211 gt O rT aa J 1 V V O AN JJ p rn e i 1 O AOLpress Quick Reference Page window Tools menu The Tools menu lets you show information about your page and the server it is stored on You can also use this menu to customize the behavior of AOLpress T oo show HTML Spell Check Shift Ctrl E Webize Directory Check Links Search Server Administer Server Administer Page r Bage Helpers Preferences Show HTML Lets you view and edit the HTML tags for the current page Spell Check Lets you check the spelling of your document Webize Turns existing folders into MiniWebs Check Links Checks to make sure all URLs referenced by the page exist Search Server Opens a page that lets you search for text on an AOLserver to which you have access and that is configured to allow searching For example you can type http www aolpress com as the server to search Administer Server Opens a page with links to the server administration functions Not supported unless you have the Commercial or Dedicated level of the hosting service or your own server See the server documentation Administer Page gt Lets you set various options for a page on the server Not supported unless you have the Commercial or Dedicated level of the hosting service or your own server See th
74. them download the application This guide assumes you already have audio or video files if you plan on incorporating them into your web document It does not explain how to create these types of files Links to audio or video files are just like links to other pages However an external viewer for video or player for audio is required to use these types of links See page 199 for details gt Insert an audio or video link Select the text or image you would like to be linked to your audio or video file Choose the menu Element Link In the Link window click the Browse button A U N In the List Files of Type field choose Sound or Video For example a common type of sound file is a WAV file 5 Select the file you want to link to and click OK 6 Finally click OK in the Link window The text is now linked to the file you chose If you click on this link and you have an external viewer or player configured for this file type you will see or hear the file See page 126 for ways to add background sounds to pages Links to files to download If you want people to be able to download files from your Web site you can make a link to any kind of file from a Web page Of course people will need to have the right software to use the file If that software is free you might want to include a link to a page where they can download the software To copy other types of files to your Web site you can make t
75. 19 Index Applets see Java applets Arrows in MiniWebs 168 ART files 93 Assumptions about the reader 13 Audio background 126 icon in MiniWeb 170 links to 116 playing 37 Authentication dialog 32 Authoring definition of 11 see also Editing pages Publishing pages Authors multiple 182 Automatic backups 193 autosave directory 193 B Back button 38 Background color 102 Background graphics 28 Background image 103 non scrolling 104 Backspace vs Delete 193 Backup files 54 Backup Frequency field 193 Backups automatic 193 Backward menu item 38 Bigger type size 72 Blank frame 134 Block quotes 75 Body Attributes menu item 103 Bold type style 70 Bookmark icon 117 Borders for forms 140 for linked images 96 for lists 81 for table 85 Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 225 Index Browse menu Add To Hot List item 41 Backward item 38 Forward item 38 Global History item 40 Hot List item 41 Load Images item 37 quick reference for MiniWeb windows 219 for Page windows 213 Reload Page item 36 Stop item 213 Browsers Microsoft 155 Netscape 155 Netscape conforming to 193 non graphic 52 Browsing 33 backward 38 commands for 34 definition of 22 Directory Services for 42 following links 38 forward 38 history of pages visited 40 Hot list 41 preferences for 37 stop loading 36 Bulleted lists 76 changing bullet 82 creating 25 selecting 76
76. 192 inserting into a page 122 parameter files for 121 creating 123 fields in 125 source files for 121 creating 125 creating in MiniWebs 171 displaying 170 Java files 123 Java format saving pages as 187 Java language 121 JavaScript language 121 Jpeg files 93 Justification of paragraphs 73 see also Alignment K Keyboard commands 65 Keyboard type style 71 L Last page icon 117 Learned words list 68 Lemur animation 203 Levels of service 12 Lightning bolt 36 Line breaks 63 Link menu item 108 Link popups 110 Links 105 absolute 106 AOL locations 115 appending anchor to 119 arrows in MiniWeb 168 between SubWebs 180 broken 36 browsing for URLs 120 checking 118 color of 102 copying into MiniWebs 173 creating 108 creating using MiniWebs 175 definition of 106 double clicking on 38 download files 116 email 115 following 38 from image maps 111 hiding in MiniWebs 169 in image maps 113 including anchor 108 list of commands for 106 list of in MiniWebs 169 modifying 111 parts of links 106 relative 106 relative vs absolute reference 109 removing 111 single clicking on 38 to a page 108 to audio and video 116 to frames 134 to middle of page 108 to multimedia 115 within a page 38 List bullet changing 82 List Links From menu item 169 List Links To menu item 169 List menu item 76 Lists 76 adding items in 77 adding paragraph in 77 Index borders
77. 6 New features in version 2 0 16 221 New FrameSet menu item 129 New MiniWeb menu item 163 New Page menu item 54 New Text type style 71 News groups proxy server for 197 Next icon 117 Noframes case 133 Non breaking spaces 64 Non graphic browsers 52 Non scrolling background 104 Normal Cell menu item 87 Not Found message 39 Numbered lists 76 changing type and numbers 82 nvd file 174 O Odometer page visits 99 Offensive content in pages 100 Online help see Help Open menu item 35 Index Open Recent menu item 35 P Padding in table cell 85 Page Attributes menu item 102 content rating 100 toolbar links 117 Page Location field 31 Page window 54 at startup 23 cloning 38 for browsing 42 limit on number of 38 menus for 206 opening multiple 38 toolbar for 206 Pages at startup 23 background image for 103 backups for 193 cached 36 38 color of 102 copying 55 copying into MiniWebs 172 creating 21 default 196 definition of 22 displaying 170 editing 21 emailing 187 empty 54 filenames for 188 home 22 Hot list of 41 HTML source for 152 locking 182 navigational aids for 52 new 54 opening 55 Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 235 Index preloading 192 printing 37 rating content of 100 reloading 36 saving 55 startup 196 toolbar navigation on 117 unsuccessfully opening 39 Palette for forms 140 Paragraph menu item 73 Paragraphs 73 add
78. Color item 72 Type Size item 72 Type Style item 71 Formatted type styles 70 Forms 137 borders for 140 CGI scripts in 139 check boxes in 142 creating 139 database 139 displaying 170 Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 229 Index handler location 138 handler location changing 149 hidden fields 149 image fields in 147 list of commands for 138 method for 140 Palette 140 programs for AOL members 139 radio buttons in 141 reset button in 148 selection lists in 145 submit button in 148 text areas in 144 text fields in 143 Forward button 38 Forward menu item 38 Frame Info menu item 132 Frame Size menu item 130 Frames 127 adding 129 borders 135 hiding 133 linking to 134 margins 135 removing 130 resizing 130 saving 133 FrameSet 128 creating 129 saving 133 Frequently Asked Questions see FAQ FTP File Transfer Protocol publishing pages with 186 G General preferences 192 Get Attribute menu item 97 GET method 140 gif files 93 230 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 transparent 103 types of 93 Global History menu item 40 Global search and replace 177 Glossary 22 Glossary icon 117 Gopher proxy server for 197 Graphics see Images Guidelines for HTML design 51 H Header Cell menu item 87 Header cells in tables 87 Heading menu item 74 Headings creating 24 levels of 74 removing format 74 style guidelines for 52 Height image 98 Help 14 i
79. Fee P EE Creating text As you move the mouse over the Page window the cursor is I shaped When you click the mouse in the text a flashing I shaped cursor marks the point where text will be placed when you type Once you have positioned the cursor there are several ways to get text into your page gt Type text into your page m Type on the keyboard The text appears at the cursor position You do not see any HTML tags around text you type HTML is the language used to format Web pages For example a paragraph begins with a lt P gt tag If you want to see and edit the HTML code choose the ToolsShow HTML menu item gt Copy text from another page 1 With the mouse highlight the text you want to copy and click the Copy icon You can even copy and paste text from some other application to El AOLpress For example in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint select text and then choose the Edit gt Copy menu item 62 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 2 Creating Text and Lists Creating text Return to the Web page you are editing position the cursor where you want to place the text and click on the Paste icon or choose Edit Paste or press Ctrl V gt Drag and drop from other page windows 1 2 3 In any AOLpress page window highlight the text you want to move You cannot drag and drop from other applications to AOLpress Holding the cursor down on the highlighted text drag the text to the page and
80. Find Replace on a single page of HTML including the tags Spell checking MiniWeb wide You can check the spelling of all the pages in your MiniWeb using the Tools Spell Check menu item To check a single page choose Tools Spell Check with the Page window active To check the entire MiniWeb choose Tools Spell Check with the MiniWeb window active See page 67 for details Printing pages and MiniWebs 178 To manage a MiniWeb you may need to create printed documentation about the MiniWeb gt To print all the MiniWeb pages E Move to the MiniWeb window and choose the FilePrint menu item This will send all the pages in your MiniWeb to your current printer gt To print the current MiniWeb view 1 Move to the MiniWeb window and display the MiniWeb in the format you want to print 2 Choose the FilePrint Graphs menu item This sends the view of your MiniWeb to your current printer User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Working with MiniWebs BS Managing MiniWebs Using SubWebs Larger Web sites use several related folders instead of a single folder This makes maintaining the Web site easier in some ways because you can make the folder structure match the structure of your site For example you might store customer support pages in a custsupp folder sales pages ina sales folder and images in an images folder You manage multi folder Webs in AOLpress with SubWebs Each subfolder is its own
81. For infor mation about editing HTML directly see Chapter 12 Javascript This is a language you can use to control how the Web browser behaves For example you can create scrolling status bar messages put text in fields make pages load automatically like a slide show and more Java This is a language you can use to create software that runs in your Web pages The language is similar to C but there are software tools that simplify creating Java applets AOLpress helps you add Java applets to your pages page 121 You ll need to use another browser to test your applets ActiveX This is Microsoft s language for creating software that runs in your Web pages You can add ActiveX controls to your pages by editing the HTML directly Cookies These are files you send to be stored on a reader s computer If they visit again you can read this file to learn what they did last time Selling If you want to sell products on your Web site you can use the PrimeHost hosting service Storefront Solution http www primehost com prices store htm Searching There are various tools for searching a Web site If you have a Prime Host hosting service account you can allow visitors to search your Web pages Database interaction If you have data stored in a database there are various ways to put that information into Web pages If you have a PrimeHost hosting service account you can create and use a database with your
82. Internet where you have write permission 3 Click the OK button to save the page Saving the file across the network may take a few seconds m You may be asked for your username and password If so type your username and password for this AOLserver m If an older version of the page is already stored on the server you will be asked to confirm that you want to replace the file You will also be asked whether you want to replace any image files that are already stored on your Web site a I gt U c o TI gt Q U o Q D O Publishing to non AOLservers If you want to publish to a Web server other than the PrimeHost hosting service or your own AOLserver you can save them directly if the Web server supports the HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol PUT protocol The Apache server and Cern httpd server don t support PUT initially but you can add a PUT script and configure the server to use it For information and a sample PUT script see http www w3 org pub W W W Amaya User Put html and follow the link to How to configure the CERN server Download the sample script it s a small C program After compiling it and installing in cgi bin as put cgi add this line to srm conf and restart the server Seripe PUT cgi bin pu ut cgi Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 185 w 186 Publishing Pages Publishing to non AOLservers Another way to save files to other types of servers is through FTP File Transfer
83. L 2 Type the text you want to search for in the Find What field Replace AIl Help k Go O a pot gt 2 D O e 3 Ifyou want to change that text type the new text in the Replace With field m Youcan also choose one or more of the following Search Options Whole Words Finds only whole words that match the characters you type The default is to match any characters even parts of words Match Case Makes the match case sensitive The default is to ignore case O Search HTML If you are finding and replacing in a MiniWeb you can search the HTML source directly Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 177 A TEN Nad Working with MiniWebs Managing MiniWebs gt Use the buttons on the right to control the search Find Finds and selects the next match Close Closes the window Replace Replaces the selection with the text in the Replace With field Replace All Finds and replaces all the occurrences in the entire MiniWeb Wrap amp Find Repeats the current Find operation but starts at the beginning of the first page in the MiniWeb You can search for text in a paragraph even if there are hidden HTML tags within the text For example you can find text even if a link starts within the text or if some words in the text are bold However you cannot search for HTML tags themselves in all the pages of the MiniWeb When you view the HTML see page 152 you can perform a
84. L of Page menu item or click the Copy URL button in the T toolbar This copies the URL of the current page so that you can paste it If the page you want to link to is listed as a link on another page highlight that link and choose the Edit gt Copy URL in Selection menu item or click the Copy URL button in the toolbar You can hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard while you highlight a link to prevent AOLpress from opening that page This copies the URL of the link so that you can paste it gt Pasting an URL to create a link If you want AOLpress to fill in the text for the link position the cursor where you want to create the link and choose the Edit gt Paste URL menu E item or click the Paste URL button in the toolbar This creates a link to the URL you copied If you copied the URL of a page AOLpress adds the title of that page as the text for the link If you copied the URL of a highlighted link AOLpress adds the URL of the page as the text instead If you want to turn existing text into a link highlight the text you want to link and choose the Edit Paste URL menu item or click the Paste button in the toolbar This makes the highlighted text a link to the URL you copied User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Links and Multimedia Image maps multiple links from images Changing links gt Modify an existing link or 2 CTRL select an existing link or if the link is one word CTRL double cli
85. MS Windows Page window MiniWeb window WINSOCK DLL connecting with AOL 17 standalone installation 19 World Wide Web publishing pages to 31 searching 42 Wrap text around image 95 X xbm files 93 Y Yahoo 42 Z Zooming in or out of MiniWeb 169 Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 241 Index 242 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0
86. PS Cancel Files Directory AF MED GIF an CONNECT HT CONTENTS HTM INSTALL ATM Options PRESS HTM TECHSPRT HTM List Files of Type fan Files Drives Sites cn In addition to selecting local disk drives such as C the Drives Sites field lets you Select directories you ve published to such as your PrimeHost hosting service directory or your AOL personal publishing directory http members aol com members See page 202 to learn how to add more directories to this list The Location field uses Windows file paths such as c mydir index htm for local files For files on a server the Location field uses URLs such as http members aol com members myfile htm For pages use a file extension of htm for example mypage htm For MiniWebs use no file extension MiniWebs are stored both as directories and files so they show up in both lists Double click on a MiniWeb in the Directory list to see a list of the files in the MiniWeb Double click on a MiniWeb in the Files list to perform the window s action on the MiniWeb User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating and Saving Pages Selecting files Macintosh File selection windows on a Macintosh contain several additional fields Browse up Macintosh HD folder tr pier ne Ee Sbarwobrt gif t Pippi fa Srl git S Select a file Fal applet gif ee Desktop or folder Ea backward gif Fa bodyattr gif Ea browsemn gif
87. Recreational Software Advisory Council on the Internet and SafeSurf Note that AOLpress doesn t provide an interface to control whether pages with certain ratings can be accessed Instead you ll need another browsers that supports content blocking based on ratings gt To rate your page with RSACi RSACi is supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer v3 0 1 Goto the RSAC Web site at http www rsac org and fill out the questionnaire to rate a page a directory or your entire site You will be given a rating that reflects your answers to the questionnaire Your rating will look similar to this lt META http equiv PICS Label content PICS 1 0 http www rsac org ratingsv01 html 1 gen true comment RSACi North America Server by me myaddress com for http www myaddress com index htm on 1996 04 16T08 15 0500 exp 1997 01 01T08 15 0500 r n2s0O0v141 0 gt 2 Highlight and copy the part of the rating shown in bold above That is copy all the text between the quote marks at the beginning and end of the content argu ment in this HTML tag 3 Choose the Format Page Attributes menu item 4 Paste the text you copied into the PICS Label field in the Page Attributes window User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Images Rating your page content A gt To rate your page with SafeSurf AOLpress lets you select SafeSurf ratings rather than typing the label by hand 1 Choose the Format gt Page Attribut
88. SubWeb A folder icon for each SubWeb is shown in the MiniWeb for the folder containing the SubWeb In general you use SubWebs the same as any other MiniWeb For example you can drag and drop files from one SubWeb to another SubWeb The differences are the additional ways files in a SubWeb can interact with files in other SubWebs gt To create a SubWeb either m Use the Tools Webize menu item to create a main MiniWeb and SubWebs for all of your existing folders See page 164 for details m Display the MiniWeb that will contain the SubWeb Then choose the File gt New gt New MiniWeb menu item or click the New MiniWeb icon in the MiniWeb toolbar The new MiniWeb will be a SubWeb of the MiniWeb you were viewing E Drag and drop a SubWeb icon into another MiniWeb window m Create an empty MiniWeb Then choose the File Save As menu item to save the MiniWeb inside another MiniWeb E Import one MiniWeb into another MiniWeb k Go O a pot gt 2 D O e gt To open a SubWeb either Double click on the SubWeb s folder icon in the MiniWeb Choose the File gt Open menu item Select the Open icon in the MiniWeb view Type the SubWeb s URL in the Location field of a Page window Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 179 Working with MiniWebs Managing MiniWebs N N y References between SubWebs It s usually best to use relative links see page 106 within your own Web
89. Type modify the viewer name and click Change For a list of common MIME types choose the Tools Preferences Extensions MIME menu item The file extensions are used only when you load local files For remote files the MIME type of the file is used directly These are some additional MIME types you might want to view application commonground application macwriteii application msword application zip application x framemaker application x tcl application x wais source text tab separated values 200 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Setting Preferences MiniWeb icons MiniWeb icons If you have files with additional MIME types in your MiniWebs you can add icons for these file types These icons will be shown when you use the Web or Tree view See page 167 for instructions on how to change individual MiniWeb icons gt To select an icon for a MIME type 1 Choose the Tools Preferences MiniWeb Icons menu item You will see the MiniWeb Icon Preferences window Pref Miniweb Icons x Currently MIME Type Tae selected audiox pn realaudio ance MIME type application msweord aa Ol 0 Delete rq ka Location of icon for this lean Location Browse Y MIME type c realaudhicon gif Help o D 2 Type a MIME type For example you might type application msword which D is the MIME type for Microsoft Word documents The MIME types listed in the window you see whe
90. URL if it has no title in the status bar See page 176 if you want to change titles Clicking on an icon selects it In the Web or Tree view you can drag the selected icon around to reposition it Opening pages and files Dragging and dropping an icon from a MiniWeb view into a Page Window opens the file in that Page Window Double clicking on an icon generally opens the file in anew Page Window AOLpress performs the action that makes sense for each type of file AOLpress cannot display certain types of files such as Java applets You can provide a help file that opens when you double click on such files To do this choose the Edit gt Set Help menu item and browse to find the correct page that contains help information Such help pages are particularly helpful for Java class files you can provide information about what the applet does and the parameters it needs Page Image Video or Sound Image Map Form Java class file class Java source file java Parameter file param If the page exists in the MiniWeb or there is an absolute link to the page it is opened in a new Page Window If the page has not been created light dithered icon AOLpress asks you if you want to create it If there is a relative link to the page you should first find the SubWeb that contains the page and open the page from that SubWeb It attempts to launch an external viewer If no viewer is available and the image is either
91. a applets to your pages These applets may have been written by you or by someone else If you want to learn how to write Java applets see http java sun com Most browsers including AOLpress currently can t run or display Java applets By default AOLpress shows a box with an X in it where Java applets occur You can hide these X s to see the same thing as people with other browsers that don t support Java To do this uncheck the Show Java Windows box in the Tools gt gt Preferences General window and restart AOLpress gt Q to E x oO D Q D Q D There are at least three types of files an applet can use Class file This is an applet file that gets downloaded over the Web and run in a Java enabled browser It is a compiled version of the Java file Note that one applet can have multiple class files The file extension is normally class on UNIX and Mac OS and cla on Windows Java source file This is the source code for the applet You compile the Java source file using software from Sun Microsystems to create class files The file extension is normally java on UNIX and Mac OS and jav on Windows Parameter file This is a file that contains a list of the parameters used by the Java applet You can also specify the valid and default values for each parameter in this file If this file does not exist AOLpress scans the Java source file to find par
92. ace the cursor at the end of the item line you would like to nest below 2 Choose the desired list structure from the Format List menu 3 Type or Paste new items as many as you want gt Show and hide list borders To help show the structure a nested list you can add border lines above and below lists E Choose Format Show Border The lines you see are not part of the page They are shown only to help you edit the page and are only shown in AOLpress This also adds borders around tables with hidden borders and forms m To hide the borders choose Format Hide Border Removing formats You can remove type styles and paragraph structures leaving the text in a plain format Use Edit Undo if you want to correct a recent formatting choice gt Remove all type styles from a selection 1 Select the characters you want to change back to plain text 2 Choose Format Type Style Plain gt Change a heading into a normal paragraph Place the cursor in the heading you want to change to plain text 2 Choose Format Remove Heading Format gt Remove Block Quotes Preformatted text or Address signatures Place the cursor in the paragraph you want to affect 2 Choose FormatRemove Paragraph Format gt Remove a list structure Place the cursor anywhere in the list 2 Choose Format Remove List Format You cannot remove the format of more than one list level at a time Do It Yourself Publishing for
93. ail to Image Lets you insert an image into the page and align text with it Image Map Lets you make the selected image into a clickable image with multiple links Unlink Removes the currently selected link Java Applet Inserts a Java applet and lets you set parameters size and alignment Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 209 AOLpress Quick Reference Page window Format menu The Format menu adds structure and modifies the appearance of your page Exit Format Remove Format Est Format fet Remove Ronnnet Type Style i Type Size i Type Color H Heading j Paragraph List Form Show Border Page Attributes Frames Creates a new paragraph outside the current format item for example list form heading preformatted paragraph etc and puts the cursor there Removes current paragraph list heading or table formatting In a nested list it removes the formatting of one list level Type Style gt A submenu lets you emphasize text in various ways Type Size gt A submenu lets you make text bigger or smaller Type Color gt A submenu lets you choose a color for the selected text Heading gt A submenu lets you use one of six levels of headings Paragraph gt A submenu lets you create one of several types of paragraphs It also lets you align text and table cells horizontally List gt A submenu lets you create one of three types of lists Bulleted Numbered Definition It als
94. al services on the AOLserver Browse examines the history and the Hot List Help provides access to documentation search tools and examples See the following sections for descriptions of the menus in MiniWeb windows See page 215 in Appendix 16 for a brief list and description of all the menu items you see when you are using a MiniWeb window Creating MiniWebs O gt Setting the MiniWeb type A MiniWeb controls lengths of file names you can use You should make sure the MiniWeb will use the correct file name rules before you create a MiniWeb 1 Choose the Tools gt Preferences gt General menu item 2 Inthe MiniWebs Create As field select the file name rules you want to use m If you choose DOS you are restricted to the eight dot three file name format It is best to choose DOS if you may ever need to use your files on a PC running Windows 3 1 If you choose Macintosh you can use file names with up to 31 characters If you choose Posix most Unix systems allow you to use 256 character file names If you are using Windows 95 and will never need to transfer your files to a PC running Windows 3 1 choose Posix 3 Click OK If you have already created a MiniWeb and want to change the file naming rules delete the nvd file in this folder change your file naming preference and recreate the MiniWeb as described on page 164 gt To create a new MiniWeb either E Choose the File gt New gt New MiniWeb men
95. ame ters The file extension is param on UNIX and Mac OS and par on Windows See page 123 for details Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 121 Adding Links and Multimedia Java applets Inserting Java applets There are several ways to insert a Java applet into a page Choose Element Java Applet to open the Applet window and select an applet Copy and Paste or drag and drop a class file from a MiniWeb to a page The applet is added to the page and the Applet window opens automatically along with a list of parameters if one is available Copy and Paste or drag and drop the applet from another page The first two methods above open the Applet window In addition you will see the Applet window if you select an applet and choose Element Java Applet gt Using the Applet window Position the cursor where you want the Java applet to appear 2 Choose Element Java Applet to open the Applet window Applet Browse Abs Mame Alignment Dimensions C Top Floating Width Middle Left Height amp Bottom Right Parameter Text Type Normal C Image Link Add 7 Cancel Display Change Remove 3 Type the location of the applet s class file or click the Browse button and select a class file Note that some applets are made up of multiple Class files You need to select the main class file for the applet in order for the applet to run
96. andling programs These programs can use the AOLserver API or the CGI Common Gateway Interface See the AOLserver manual at http www aolserver com server docs 2 0 html toc htm for details Other CGI programs Other programs are available as shareware or freeware on the Web See http rimeh member lop index htm for programs developed specifically for the AOLserver Or use your favorite search engine to look for CGI programs or CGI libraries Stores on the Web If you want to use forms to sell goods and services over the Web see http www primehost com prices store htm Creating forms A page can contain more than one form but forms cannot be nested gt Create a form that will run the program 1 Choose the Format Form menu item to see this window Cancel Help 2 Type the URL of your CGI program or script in the Form Handler Location field The previous section talks about form handlers you can use i k o Q m Q Q m Q 2 m Q TI O e Type location of program or script Form Handler Location Method Target Frame amp GET C post Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 139 Creating and Using Forms Using the form palette In the Method field select the HTTP method that will be used to submit the form to the server The documentation for most programs should tell you which method to use The choices are GET and POST M
97. ange the installation as follows 1 Install Internet access connection software this should place a file called WINSOCK DLL in your Windows folder 2 Arrange for Internet access from a provider such as the PrimeHost hosting service 3 Start the Windows File Manager and search for AOLPRESS EXE Delete the WINSOCK DLL file in the same folder as AOLPRESS EXE If there is no WINSOCK DLL file in its folder AOLpress will use the WINSOCK DLL file in the Windows folder If you delete the null WINSOCK DLL without installing Internet access software and then try to use AOLpress it will not start Either install a valid WINSOCK DLL or reinstall AOLpress Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 19 Installing AOLpress Upgrading to new versions of AOLpress Macintosh gt Install AOLpress on a Macintosh 1 Click on the Web link to download AOLpress Specify the location on your drive where you want to store the compressed AOLpress software This can be a folder where you store temporary files Double click on the file you downloaded to expand and run the installation Follow the prompts in the installation procedure to install AOLpress When the installation is complete double click on the AOLpress icon to run AOLpress Upgrading to new versions of AOLpress When new versions of AOLpress are introduced you can update over the network instead of re installing Select File Upgrade AOLpress You can download a new version of the
98. annot browse you see a Cannot Browse Location message 120 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Links and Multimedia Java applets Java applets Java is a programming language you can use to create applets small applications that run inside a Web browser Applets are programs that run on the computer you are using to browse the Web In contrast most other programs you use on the Web run on the server computer the one that stores the Web pages You may have heard of both Java and JavaScript They are actually two different programming languages Java is an object oriented language created by Sun Microsystems It was designed for creating applications that can be downloaded from the Internet and run on many platforms For example you can create applets that put animation in your page that calculate some value that display different graphics AOLpress lets you create Java applets and add them to your pages However AOLpress currently can t run or display Java applets JavaScript is an object based language created by Netscape to let programmers control the browser s behavior For example you can use JavaScript to open windows to display specific Web pages and to validate field values JavaScript is more limited than Java and a bit easier to learn AOLpress currently does not run JavaScript but JavaScript code already included in your pages is not erased You can use AOLpress to add Jav
99. ative reference click the Abs button to change the reference to an absolute reference See page 106 for an explanation of relative and absolute references Cancel Close the Link window Bulletin If you want to store acomment about the link and the date and time you created the link in Universal Time click this button type your comment and click OK Bulletins can also allow you to notify users of Smart Bookmarks when you update your pages See http www firstfloor com for details You can also create a Bulletin for a page if you choose Format Page Attributes Help Provides online help on links Click OK The text you selected in your document is now colored and underlined Clicking on your new link takes you to the page you chose Creating anchors Anchors allow you to link to a position in a page The anchor is not a link and cannot be clicked on For example anchors can be used if you want to add a table of contents to a long page gt Create an anchor within a page 1 2 Select some text in your page Or you can just position your cursor where you want to place the anchor Choose the Element Anchor menu item Type an anchor name in the field For convenience use an anchor name related to the text you selected For example you can type Top if you are placing an anchor at the top of a long page so links can jump to the top of the page If you already created a link to this anchor use the same anchor name y
100. ats for 187 in frames 133 to local disk 30 see also Publishing pages Scaling images 98 Search For Help On menu item 15 Searching help 15 HTML 177 MiniWebs 177 the Web 42 Security Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 237 Index SOCKS host 197 Security dialog 32 Select All menu item 208 Select FrameSet menu item 132 Selecting text 65 Selection Lists 145 Self frame 134 Server parsed HTML 154 Servers 12 administering 212 administrator 13 definition of 22 proxy 197 publishing pages to 185 Server side image maps 111 Server side includes 154 Set Help menu item 170 Set Stationery menu item 171 Set Title menu item 176 Show Border menu item 81 Show HTML menu item 152 Show Java Windows 192 shtml files 154 Signatures address 75 Sites customizing list of 202 preferences 202 see also Web sites Sites field 59 Slider fields 149 SLIP connection 18 Smaller type size 72 SMTP mail host 197 SOCKS host 197 Sound background 126 icon in MiniWeb 170 links to 116 Source editing 153 viewing 152 238 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Spaces 64 between table cells 85 multiple 64 non breaking 64 preformatted text 75 Special characters 64 Spell Check menu item 67 Spell checking 67 MiniWebs 178 Split Cell menu item 88 Splitting table cells 88 SSI Server side includes 154 Standalone installation 19 Starting the software 23 Startup page 54 Startup page windo
101. ats you can import are HTML pages Plain Text with line breaks at the end of each line or at the end of each paragraph gt Import text from another Web page Place your cursor where you want to insert the file 2 Choose the menu FileImport You will see this window For details on using such file selection windows see page 58 Location import c ap2 wi1 B HELP f Cancel Directory HELP Cran CONNECT HTM CONTENTS HTM INSTALL ATM Options PRESS HTM TECHSPRT HTM List Files of Type fan Files Drives f Sites cn 3 When you click Import the file and any included images are inserted at your cursor This window has the following choices Import Imports whatever page is selected in the window into the document where your cursor is placed Cancel Closes the Import window Scan Browse your local files or your hosting service directory If you enter a site that you don t have permission to browse the message Cannot Browse Location appears in the box where the file names would other wise appear 56 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating and Saving Pages Importing a document 4 Within the File Import window is the Options button Click this button to see the following choices File Format save Images Frames None Relative All Cancel M Relative Links to Full URL M Relative Java Applets ta Full URL Use Base when possible Help
102. ave As In the Save As window click the Options button and choose to save the page as Text before you save the file Creating Java source files You can also write Java source files java with AOLpress To do this you must be in a MiniWeb See page 171 for details Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 125 CO gt Q ro E 5 oO Q D Q D Adding Links and Multimedia Learning more Learning more To practice working with link in the online tutorial choose Help gt Tutorial Scroll to the bottom of the first page and click on the TOC icon Yov lI see a list of the lessons in the tutorial Then click on the Creating Links link Advanced HTML for links If you want to edit the HTML for your pages directly see Chapter 12 to learn how Once you are comfortable adding finishing touches to your pages by editing HTML code you can add the following features to your links Sound background You can make a sound file play automatically when your page is opened by adding tags like the following Currently the lt EMBED gt tag plays the sound in Netscape and the lt BGSOUND gt plays it in Internet Explorer lt EMBED SRC filename wav AUTOSTART True HIDDEN True gt lt BGSOUND SRC filename wav gt If you want the sound to play continuously use these tags lt EMBED SRC filename wav LOOP True HIDDEN True gt lt BGSOUND SRC filename wav LOOP
103. ay to specify a width for a column is to set the WIDTH attribute for a cell s lt TD gt tag You can specify a width in pixels or a percentage of the entire window width For example this code makes the first cell in the row 150 pixels wide and the second cell 500 pixels wide lt TABLE BORDER gt lt TR gt lt TD WIDTH 150 gt cell 1 contents lt TD gt lt TD WIDTH 500 gt cell 2 contents lt TD gt lt TR gt lt TABLE gt Some common browsers don t always use table cell widths especially if the browser window is narrow so it s best to also insert an image such as a trans parent GIF image into the column and set its width to the minimum width you want the column to have Table widths You can also use the WIDTH attribute to specify the width of the entire table For example this code makes the table half as wide as the window The first cell is one quarter of the width of the table 1 8 the width of the window lt TABLE WIDTH 50 gt lt TR gt lt TD WIDTH 25 gt cell 1 contents lt TD gt lt TD WIDTH 75 gt cell 2 contents lt TD gt lt TR gt lt TABLE gt Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 89 E gt Q j Q 2 D a oF 90 Adding Tables Learning more Table colors You can control the background color of tables cells For readers using Internet Explorer you can also control the table and cell border colors For example this code makes the first c
104. b pages is more structure oriented than display oriented That is you create a heading and the reader s browser decides what a heading should look like This is useful because you don t know the size of your readers screens or what fonts they can use The reader also decides how big to make the browser window This limitation is changing as Netscape and Microsoft add more capabilities for specifying fonts font sizes and window sizes Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 51 r D ez U Q Q V Q gt Q a om O U C p 5 j gt D Web Pages and What to Put in Them Page design guidelines Headings Do not use header levels smaller than Hdg 3 for text you want to be read easily Typically the title of the page should also be in the text of the page as a heading Images and graphics In the Alignment box under the Element Image menu item check the Bottom Left or Right button for images so text wraps nicely for those readers who make their window narrow If you use Middle or Top there will be a large gap between lines Some readers still use browsers that don t display images You should add some text in the Text for non graphic browsers field for these readers e For non linked images this field should describe the image e For linked images this field should tell where the link goes e Use brackets to surround the text in the Text for non graphic browsers fi
105. browsers from condensing spaces into one space You can turn on this capability by selecting the Non breaking option in the Text Edit Spacing field However some browsers will show amp nbsp instead of spaces if you do this If you use server side includes SSI also called server parsed HTML to automatically include other files environment variables or the results of programs in your pages you can edit your source code with AOLpress if your pages are stored on a v2 0 or later AOLserver 1 To make AOLpress load the unparsed source files choose Tool s gt Preferences General and put a check in the Never Load box for Server Side Includes 2 If you are viewing the HTML for a page you can choose FileRe load with SSI to see the parsed source and File Reload without SSI to see the unparsed source Most pages with server side include coding have a file extension of shtml Server side include commands are stored as comments in HTML so you only see them when you edit the HTML For example the command to include a file called include txt would look like lt include file include txt gt For details about server side includes see the AOLserver manual at http www aolserver com server docs 2 1 html shtml htm User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Setting Preferences A General preferences MiniWeb _ In the MiniWebs Create As field select the file name rules you want to Create As Use m Ifyo
106. by choosing Help gt Show Page Popups Windows only When you choose Edit gt Find Replace from a MiniWeb window you can choose to search the HTML behind your pages by putting a check mark in the Search HTML box Normally AOLpress searches only the text that is visible in your pages The following HTML features are supported if you add them to your pages by editing the HTML directly The WRAP Physical attribute fora TEXTAREA in a form is supported Pp However WRAP Virtual is not supported Netscape s lt SPACER gt tag is supported There is minimal support for the STYLE attribute and cascading style sheets on the lt SPAN gt and lt DIV gt tags 224 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Index A Abs button 106 Absolute links 106 Accented characters 64 Access method of an URL 107 Add To Hot List menu item 41 Address signatures 75 Administer Page menu Lock item 182 Unlock item 182 Administer Server menu 212 Alignment of images 95 of paragraphs 73 of table 87 of table cells 87 Alter Table menu item 85 Altering tables 85 Always Proxy check box 20 America Online connecting with 17 Anchor menu item 109 Anchors appending to link 119 checking anchor names 110 color of 109 creating 109 definition of 107 removing 110 using in links 108 Animation icon 36 customizing 203 Animation preferences 203 AOL connecting with 17 AOL location links 115 Append Anchor Name field 1
107. ck on the link You don t have to select the exact boundaries of an existing link AOLpress will automatically retain the boundaries the link had before Choose the menu Element Get Attribute or Element Link You can now make any changes to your link just as you would if you were creating a new link from plain text gt Remove a link 1 2 CTRL select an existing link or if the link is one word CTRL double click on the link Choose the menu Element Unlink The selected text now appears in the state it was before it was a link Image maps multiple links from images Image maps let you send readers to different places depending on where they click on an image For example you can create an image map with symbols for parts of your business support sales products or parts of your Web site When a reader clicks on a symbol in the image the browser moves to the page for that subject For example this image map from America Online s home page contains buttons that link to different pages Server side and client side image maps AOLpress can create both server side image maps and client side image maps Server side image maps When a reader clicks on a map image the browser sends the coordinates of the click to the server which runs a program to process the coor dinates and decide which hot spot the mouse clicked on The server then returns the page for that location in the map Client side image
108. click Options The Webize Options window lets you choose whether you want to Webize subfolders that are not already MiniWebs and whether you want to Webize subfolders that are already MiniWebs If you check both boxes all subfolders are Webized If you uncheck both boxes no subfolders are Webized 3 Browse to find the folder you want to convert to a MiniWeb To Webize a folder and its subfolders find the highest level folder you want to Webize 4 Double click on the folder name in the list of Files Or select the folder in the Direc tory list and click Webize 5 If a MiniWeb already exists for a folder you will be asked whether you want to regenerate the MiniWeb Click Regenerate to update the MiniWeb 164 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Working with MiniWebs A Viewing MiniWebs S Viewing MiniWebs MiniWebs provide a visual structure for organizing and manipulating your Web pages You can view MiniWebs in many ways as a web as a tree and as a list of files sorted by name title or type These views make it easy to find broken links pages not linked to other pages pages you have links to but have not yet created and more You can also show or hide both links fo files and links from files and you can hide groups of files so that you can focus on other files Opening existing MiniWebs You can store MiniWebs on your local disk drives on any disks you can connect to through your local network or on your hosting service Th
109. collections of related pages Page windows and MiniWeb windows have different menus and commands However the basic commands such as drag and drop and copy and paste work the same in both windows See page 159 to learn more about MiniWebs Recovering lost pages AOLpress stores backup copies of pages you have edited but have not saved If you restart AOLpress after a crash it opens these copies and tells you it is recovering old files You can continue editing these files and save them without losing much work If AOLpress is trying to recover files that don t exist each time you start AOLpress you can delete the files in the autosave folder inside the AOLpress folder 54 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating and Saving Pages Editing and saving an existing page Editing and saving an existing page One of the most useful features of AOLpress is that it lets you browse and author at the same time You can save pages you visit on the Web to your local files for editing Saving a page to your local folder provides a quick way to format the page and then publish it on your PrimeHost hosting service directory But remember that copyright law also applies to the Web so you shouldn t use someone else s text or images without permission You can also copy an existing page to a new location with the File gt Copy File menu item You can edit that new file without making changes to the existing page See page 172 for deta
110. colors User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Installing AOLpress Installing AOLpress Installing AOLpress MS Windows gt Install AOLpress on Windows 3 1 NT Workgroups or Windows95 1 Click on the Web link to download AOLpress For Windows 95 or later versions of Windows download the 32 bit version For Windows 3 1 download the 16 bit version Specify the location on your hard drive where you want to store the compressed AOLpress software This can be a folder where you store temporary files Use the File Manager or File Explorer to find the file you downloaded Double click on the file you downloaded to expand and run the setup procedure Follow the prompts in the setup procedure to install AOLpress nN amp U N When the installation is complete you can double click on the AOLpress icon in your Program Manager to run AOLpress Installing with no Internet connection If you do not have a WINSOCK DLL file TCP IP connection software you will see a message that says Couldn t find TCP IP network WINSOCK DLL Would you like a stand alone installation If you proceed with a stand alone installation a null WINSOCK DLL is placed in the AOLpress folder AOLpress tells you that you are not connected to a network when you first try to access an Internet location V k gt O r7 V e If you install AOLpress stand alone and later decide you want to use it over the Internet you must ch
111. com you keep seeing in advertisements are addresses on the Web These addresses are called Uniform Resource Locators or URLs You can pronounce this as you are els or earls Browsers use these addresses to find Web pages and other files on the Internet You can think of an URL as being a little like a file location on your disk drive However the URL also tells the location of the file on the Web and how to read the file URLs contain three types of information Well if you start writing programs for the Web they can contain more than that But we won t get into that now http www mydomain com directory index htm Access method Computer location File location Access method Most URLs you see have an access method of http which stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol This is the standard protocol used to send Web pages across the Internet That s really all you need to know about it unless you want to write programs for the Web If you see a Web address starting with some thing like www mycompany com you need to put http before that address to read that page with AOLpress gt Q to E x oO D Q D Q D Other common access methods are file ftp and mailto Other access methods such as gopher news and wais need a proxy server which you can set in the Tools Preferences Network window See page 197 for details Read the http www ncsa uiuc e
112. contains to be transferred over the network again even if the page is cached When you reload a page AOLpress shows changes to the page since you last visited it If you are editing the page with AOLpress you should save any changes to your pages before you reload It you attempt to reload a page that you have edited you will see a window that asks whether you want to save your changes or reload and lose changes If you want to reload only the images in the page you can use the Browse gt Load Images menu item For example you may have clicked the Stop button while images were loading Or you may have unchecked the Load Remote Images field in the Tools gt Preferences gt General window to make pages load faster If you want to stop loading a Web page or image press this button To resume loading after you have stopped it use Browse Reload Page This causes the m page and images to be transferred again User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Browsing with AOLpress Viewing a page Scrolling Most Web pages are longer than a screen You can use the scroll bars on the right and bottom sides of the windows to scroll up and down or left and right Printing a page Choose the menu File gt Print to print the current page The menu FilePrint Setup lets you specify various printing options size of page orientation scale and color External viewers for special file types Some links in Web pages point to files that AOLpress ca
113. creating a directory for 183 definition of 23 file formats for 187 to another server 185 to Hosting service 31 to other servers 185 to WWW 31 with FTP 186 with images 188 with multiple authors 182 see also Saving pages PUT protocol 186 Q Question mark icon 36 adding to toolbar 117 R Radio buttons in forms 141 Radio fields for Java parameters 125 Range fields 149 Rating page content 100 Reader assumptions about 13 Recovering pages 54 References see Links Rel button 106 Relative Java Applets to Full URL check box 188 Relative links 106 using within a Web site 180 Relative Links to Full URL check box 106 Reload button 36 Reload menu item 153 Reload Page menu item 36 Reloading images 36 Reloading pages 36 Remote files 58 Remove Form Format menu item 140 Remove Format menu item 73 Remove Heading Format menu item 74 Remove List Format menu item 77 Remove Paragraph Format menu item 75 Index Remove Table Format menu item 86 Removing formats 81 Replaced words list 69 Replacing HTML 177 Reset buttons 148 Resizing frames 130 images 98 Retrieve Failed message 39 RGB color values 102 Rows in table 84 rpl files 69 RSACi standard 100 RTF Rich Text Format saving pages as 187 Rules custom 104 S SafeSurf standard 100 Sample type style 71 Save As menu item 183 Save menu item 55 Saving MiniWebs 174 Saving pages 55 backups for 193 file form
114. d list numbering You can start a numbered lists at a number other than or change the number of a particular list item tags like the following lt OL START 5 gt lt LI VALUE 10 gt Prevent a paragraph from wrapping Use the following tag to prevent browsers from breaking a paragraph into multiple lines This is similar to using preformatted paragraphs but does not use the fixed width font lt P NOWRAP gt Style sheets You can also use style sheets to define how your text looks For more information on the style sheet features supports by AOLpress choose Help gt Con tents Follow the New features link and scroll to the bottom of the New Features page Then follow the link to information about style sheets Include files You can use server side includes to automatically include standard headers and footers in your pages See page 153 for more information User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Chapter 7 Adding Tables What you ll find in this chapter Creating and formatting tables 84 Adding or deleting table cells 85 Putting text and images into tables 86 Formatting table cells 87 Merging and splitting table cells 88 Learning more 89 Tables like the one below let you align text and images into columns and rows Courses include hands on experience and emphasize real world EJ examples w eea SS 201 WYSIWYG Web Authoring 203 _Prosramming for the W ate ae Do It Yourself Publishing for the
115. dle of a page type an anchor name in the Append Anchor Name field You will also need to create an anchor with the same name in the page you referenced in the Location field See page 109 for details If the anchor you want to link to is in the same page as the link that is if you want the link to scroll the page you don t need to type anything in the Location field If you are using frames select or type the Target Frame you want to display the page you are linking to See page 134 for details Press Enter or Return Then select the arrow tool from the tool bar 8 Move your cursor around the image When your mouse moves over a shape Al you will see a label that shows the location of the link Where two shapes overlap you see the location for the shape that is on top You can use the Ordering tool in the toolbar to change which shape is on top The toolbar to the left of the Image Map window lets you create and manipulate the shapes of areas that will be links Arrow Use this tool to select an existing shape so that you can set a location k move resize delete or change the stacking order of the shape Rectangle Use this tool to create rectangular areas in your map Then type a T location for that area If you want to set a default location for all the parts of the image that don t have shapes draw a rectangle around the entire image Set the default location for this shape Then select the shape and use the
116. document in some other format and import it into a Web page Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 53 ne Creating and Saving Pages Creating a blank page Creating a blank page If you do not have documents in another format that you can import you can create pages from scratch There are several ways to open a blank page Creating a new blank page gt Open a new empty page m Choose File gt New New Page from the menus m If you want to use an existing page as a template for new pages you can create a MiniWeb and make your template the stationery for that MiniWeb by choosing Edit Set Stationery Then when you create a new page it will start with the contents of your stationery page See page 171 for details Setting the start up page default When you run AOLpress you see the Welcome to AOLpress page To change the startup page change the Startup View in the ToolsPreferences General window gt Set the start up page 1 Choose Menu item ToolsPreferences General 2 Select one of three choices for the Startup View m Home Page opens with the page you specify m Blank Page opens with a new empty page m MiniWeb opens with anew MiniWeb and a new empty page in the MiniWeb m Nothing doesn t open any page or MiniWeb initially AOLpress uses two kinds of windows Page windows and MiniWeb windows You use Page windows to browse and author individual Web pages and you use MiniWeb windows to work on a
117. dow If you only want to hide frames occasionally use the Format gt Frames Hide Frames menu item Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 195 Go Setting Preferences Network Image l Display Method Startup View Network AOLpress has two settings for image viewing The default setting allows you to view transparent GIFs progressive JPEGs and ART files used in AOL If you notice that AOLpress crashes when loading images change the Image Display Method to Photoshop4 JPEG This field controls which page is displayed first when you start AOLpress with no command line arguments You can choose any of the following d Home Page Starts with the page specified in the Home Page field Use an absolute complete reference to the page you want If you specify only a file name AOLpress looks for the file in its help folder on your local disk Blank Page Starts with a new blank page open MiniWeb Starts with a new MiniWeb and a blank page Nothing Starts with no page open Click the menu Tools gt Preferences gt Network to bring up the Network Preferences window You use this window to control how AOLpress interacts with your network If AOLpress does not allow you to browse the Web you may need to ask your system administrator how to set some of these fields Network Preferences x Mail Return Address FO Cancel SMTP MailHost Name Server For smoother browsing enter the IP address
118. dow with these fields at the top which let you select colors for the background and text in your page Background f Color Pick Ca Image Browse Abs F Import Image Bulletin Text Colors Content Rating Normal Pick PICS Label Link Pick Visited Link Pick Safe Surf Click the Pick button to the right of the Background Color field You ll see a color window Click on a light background color like white or yellow Then click the OK button in the color picker The code for the color you selected will be shown in the Background Color field Color Basic colors Eo See Eee eee EEEE E Custom colors I FETELE E EEEL BE EB Define Custom Colors gt gt Cerca 4 Click the OK button in the Page Attributes window The background of your window will change to the color you selected 28 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Create a Web Page in 10 Easy Steps e Step 8 Add colors and images Adding images 5 It s also easy to add images to pages with AOLpress To find a sample image choose Help gt Tutorial Scroll down the page until you see the pencil image 6 Use your mouse to highlight the pencil image Press Ctrl C to copy the image 7 Move back to the window that contains your page 8 Place the cursor in your page and press Ctrl V to paste the image you selected You will see an Options window t
119. down the mouse button on a link and drag the pointer into another AOLpress page window and then release then that window follows the link If you depress the mouse on a link and drag the pointer into a MiniWeb window that page being linked to is inserted into the MiniWeb If you depress the mouse on a link and drag the pointer out of any AOLpress window then a new window is created to follow the link If you hold down the right mouse button on the Macintosh hold the command key down and press the button on a link and drag the cursor to another window a link is made to the URL of the original link The link is inserted where you release the mouse If you release the mouse on top of a selection the selection is bound to the link otherwise the title of the page is inserted and used as the link If you click on the icon of an image that has not been loaded either because you clicked the Stop icon or because image loading is turned off then it is loaded User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Chapter 17 What s New in V2 0 What you ll find in this chapter Frames New window design Creating pages Links Images Tables MiniWebs Server side include editing HTML support 222 222 222 222 223 223 223 223 224 This version of AOLpress allows you to create frames within Web pages has a cleaner look and gives you faster responses an earlier version these features will not be available To find out how you can upgrade
120. dth M Disable Resize Height Type the name of the file in the URL field or click the Browse button to find the file In the Name field give the frame a name You will use this name when linking to pages that you want to appear in a particular frame For example left and right If you check the Disable Scrolling box there won t be any scroll bars around the frame Make sure that the pages you display in a frame that can t scroll are small enough to fit even if the reader s browser window is small And don t forget to test your frame sizes on both Macintoshes and PCs with several different browsers If you check the Disable Resize box readers won t be able to drag the frame borders to resize the frames Since AOLpress is primarily for creating pages you can resize the frames in AOLpress even if you check this box You can set the Width and Height to the number of pixels around the frame contents gt To work with the entire FrameSet 1 2 3 Move your mouse cursor to the frame border until your cursor looks like the one to the right or the same cursor rotated by a quarter turn ae Click your mouse button The border of the entire page window will be outlined in magenta Or you can choose Format gt Frames gt Select Frameset You can use the following menu items on the FrameSet e Edit Undo Removes the last change you made to the frame layout e File gt Save or FileSave As Saves th
121. du demoweb url primer html page if you want to learn more about URLs for other access methods Computer location The next part of the URL tells which computer holds the file The location is usually www plus the domain name you see in email addresses from this location such as aol com or www aolpress com Some URLs contains a different prefix or no prefix before the domain name You may occasion ally see a number after the domain name This is called a port number Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 107 Adding Links and Multimedia Creating links File location The last part of the URL tells where to find the file on the computer The file location can contain a directory path and or a file name If you omit the directory the top level directory on the Web server is used If you omit the file name the default home page file name on the Web server is used On most Web servers the default home page is index htm or index html For example Location in URL Directory File subdir file htm Use the subdir directory Use the file htm file below top level directory file htm Use the top level directory Use the file htm file subdir Use the subdir directory Use the default home page below top level directory name for this Web server Use the top level directory Use the default home page name for this Web server Creating links gt Make a link 1 Select the
122. e Format Heading list gt Remove a heading format 1 Position the cursor anywhere in the heading text 2 Choose the Format gt Remove Heading Format menu item Or you can use Edit Undo to undo a recent formatting choice User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating Text and Lists Paragraph formats Blockquotes preformatied text and addresses Block Quotations are used for Special Paragraph Types long passages of quoted RTA material to be indented from The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the fee ular paragrap hs unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself P refo rmatted textis used when Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man you want tabs spaces and line George Bernard Shaw breaks in the text preserved for Pref tted Text example for code samples that tree a include stdio h gt must appear as they are typed ee Most browsers display i printf I Hello world n Preformatted text in a monospaced font like Courier Address Signature Addresses are typically used at Jane Smith 4567 Technology Dr the top or the bottom of a page Westwood MI 12345 to indicate the owner of the document when it was last changed any copyright information or any other administrative information for the page Address signatures are usually in italics and indented by default gt Apply paragraph formats Place the insertion point where you
123. e also that the underline for the hyperlink you followed is a new color and the underline is now dashed This means the page this link points to is cached stored in local memory Hence it is much faster to use the link again because AOLpress no longer has to download the page across the Internet Change locations within a page Some pages have links to internal anchors which look like hyperlinks that have been already been used They simply point to a location within the same page You can read the page by scrolling up and down but these anchors let you move to specific positions in the page Cloning a page Double click on the Page icon to the left of the Location field to open another ra TE window showing the same page EEES 38 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Browsing with AOLpress If a link doesn t work If a link doesn t work Sometimes the pages you request do not open successfully When AOLpress cannot open a page the server usually gives a helpful message Some of the reasons for the lack of success are beyond your control A common cause of problems is that the link you tried to follow was incorrect Sometimes an URL connected to link has moved yet the link is still there You can sometimes figure out bad links Look for the following possibilities if you typed the URL correctly Some URLs require the trailing slash be at the end of the URL Sometimes the file name requires the html file ending and the a
124. e and publi lt BLOCEKQUOTE gt lt P gt lt HR gt ESS The HTML tags such as lt P gt for paragraph are blue the HTML tag attributes such as ALIGN to align items are purple hidden comments are green and your text is black AOLpress automatically indents the HTML code for headings lists and other structures to make the code easier for you to read 3 You can open multiple HTML windows for different Page windows gt To close the HTML window either E With focus in the HTML window choose the File Close menu item m Edit the page in the Page window The HTML window closes when you edit the Page window so that changes you make in the two windows will not conflict 152 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Viewing and Editing HTML Editing HTML N gt Viewing HTML popups 1 When you highlight something in your page and leave your mouse cursor motion less over the selection for a second AOLpress shows the HTML code behind the selection in a pink popup 2 Youcan turn off these popups by choosing Help Hide Page Popups This also turns off blue link popups Windows only Editing HTML You can edit the HTML source and display the changes you have made in the Page window For example you might want to edit the HTML source to add tags and attributes for which AOLpress does not provide direct authoring support The sections at the end of Chapter 6 through Chapter 11 list such tags and attributes
125. e file that contains a definition of the frame layout If you use Save As to save to another folder AOLpress normally saves pages and images inside frames unless you made absolute links to them You can control whether frame contents are saved by clicking the Options button e ToolsShow HTML Shows you the HTML tags that define your frame layout Browse Reload Page Reloads the file that defines the frame layout User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating Frames Saving frames gt To edit what people without frame support see Some older and less common Web browsers do not support frames AOLpress lets you see and edit what people using these browsers will see by hiding frames 1 2 Select any individual frame in your window Choose the Format gt FramesHide Frames menu item This shows you what the FrameSet page looks like to people who use browsers that do not support frames Initially this page will be blank Edit the page as you would edit a normal page For example you might want to cut and paste the contents of your main frame with frames shown into the window you see when you hide frames Also don t forget to provide important links that are shown in your other frames You may also want to provide a link that lets people download a browser such as AOLpress that supports frames You can also hide all frames by default by unchecking the Show Frames field in the Tools Preferences General window Saving frames
126. e instead your page is replaced by a blank page containing the image You must save this page before you can edit it gt To insert an image 1 Position your cursor where you want the image to be 2 Choose Element Image to open the Image window Type file location or browse for file Locair 4 Align image TNrnport Image with text Toggle relative or absolute link Cancel Check to import Alignment a 3 file into folder Dimensions Width Height Floating Middle Left Bottom Right Type text for browsers that don t show Type image size i Display ees l e or leave blank to Check if linked ad set automatically images should W Show Link Border have a border 3 Enter the Location of the image Either m Type an URL or the local file name in the Location field or m Click the Browse button to browse for the file on your local disks or your Web directory For details on using such file selection windows see page 58 Click the OK button when you have selected the file you want 94 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Images Inserting images a a ph ia DO Em URL or file s men cAapZ w1B HE PS to import FA Directory Files List of files in AP MED GIF HELP Scan CONNECT HTM the selected CONTERITS HTM j Directories folder METALL HTM Options in the selected PRESS HThM TECHSPRT
127. e karai eee a ANORA 58 Chapter 6 Creating Text and Lists 61 PACOS re i EE E E Chee eee A e E 62 Cea eara E ESE 62 ATLI A o EEE EEEREN E EEE TO 65 Formatting EXC 2 soc 6555 5 48455 285066 005562654 84054 45044088 70 Paragraph formats s2 202 o002 des0a deer ede be dees adiwaee 73 Ce ee Se ee re ee ee ee ee ee eee ee ee ere 76 Removing 1OMWalsS o c eecae seu ge e pinas Enen S eerde Eea 81 eatin MOGs 64 655 64 556 8464 6 badd ganda debe EAR 82 Chapter 7 Adding Tables 83 Creating and formatting tables 0 0 0 0 0 ee eee eee 84 Adding or deleting table cells 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 85 Putting text and images into tables 00000085 86 Formatting table cells i424 4ivi658e4 bb4 64 b6560 48500084 d0bae 87 Merging and splitting table cells 0 0 00 000 88 Canine MOI 44 ob orneoesnees tetesee4oees be cece redeem 89 Chapter 8 Adding Images 91 COUIGISSIAN 5 5 6 eos E AE eed eee ae ee eae 92 Finding and creating images 0 ccc eee ee eee 92 Inserting images 0 0 eee eee 94 POSINOMING MACS 22050522 ee eens ad es heeds Men upin ra heeds 97 Horizontal rules ses nisasie Rhode Ree aan Re ORE ERS EARS 99 Using built in hit counters 2 0 0 0 ee ee ee 99 Rating your page content 0 0 eee 100 Setting colors and background images 000005 102 Learning MOC pees tre ge tes Hb Oe ke I fk ie Be Dd el ae ana Ba 104 Chapter 9 Adding Links and Multimedia 105 OUICK Staite
128. e or at the left margin then press the lt Delete gt key to raise the line or the lt Enter gt key or lt Return gt on some keyboards to lower the line gt Use the keyboard to control the cursor The arrow keys move the insertion point one character or line in each direction Holding down the control key makes the left and right arrows move left and right by a word rather than a character If your keyboard has word left right keys they should work as well The Home and End keys move to the start and end of the current paragraph respec tively With the control key down they move to the start and end of the current line The Next Page PgDown key and the Prev Page PgUp keys move the inser tion point to the next or previous page respectively Holding down the Shift key while you move the cursor with the keyboard selects text instead of just moving the cursor gt Edit text with the keyboard Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 65 If your keyboard has Cut Copy and Paste keys then these perform as labeled Holding down the CTRL key when depressing the Copy key copies the URL Pressing Enter or Return starts a new paragraph in whatever way seems appro priate For example in a list it creates a new list item Pressing CTRL 4J at the end of a list header or form exits the current format list header or form and starts a new paragraph in whatever way seems appropriate Pressing Backspace or CTRL
129. e prompted and there is no way to undo this action E Ina MiniWeb view highlight an icon and choose the Edit gt Cut menu item You can choose the Edit gt Paste menu item to restore the file E Ina MiniWeb view choose the FileDelete menu item to open the Delete window Select the file you want to delete and click Delete A prompt window will ask if you are sure you want to delete the file Creating links using MiniWebs MiniWebs give you many ways to control links between pages and files If you rename a file within a MiniWeb the links to that file within the current MiniWeb but not the SubWebs are automatically fixed From a MiniWeb window you can also use the Check Links feature see page 118 to check the links in all the pages in your MiniWeb and in all of its SubWebs at once k Go O a pot gt 2 D O e gt To create links m Use the right mouse button to drag a page icon from a MiniWeb to a page m Use the right mouse button to drag an icon for an image from a MiniWeb to a page The image is added to the page If you use the left mouse button to drag the image instead your page is replaced by a blank page containing the image m Paste a link into a page by pasting the URL 1 Move to a Page Window highlight a link inside a Page Window or highlight an icon in a MiniWeb 2 Click the Copy URL button in the toolbar or choose the Edit gt Copy URL menu item Double clicking
130. e results of the program the form runs User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating Frames Learning more Learning more To practice working with frames in the online tutorial choose Help gt Tutorial Scroll to the bottom of the first page and click on the TOC icon You see a list of the lessons in the tutorial Then click on the Creating Frames link Advanced HTML for frames If you want to edit the HTML for your pages directly see Chapter 12 to learn how Once you are comfortable adding finishing touches to your pages by editing HTML code you can add the following features to your links Borderless frames You can create frames without borders by using the FRAME BORDER and FRAMESPACING attributes in the lt FRAMESET gt tag For example lt FRAMESET FRAMEBBORDER 0 FRAME SPACING 0 ROWS 120 gt lt FRAME SRC filel htm NAME left NORESIZE SCROLLING no gt lt FRAME SRC file2 htm NAME text NORESIZE gt lt FRAMESET gt Frame margins You can set the margin of empty space around the contents of a frame with the MARGINWIDTH and MARGINHEIGHT attributes in the lt FRAME gt tag For example lt FRAME MARGINWIDTH 15 MARGINHEIGHT 0 SRC 2 htm NAME text gt Alternatives to frames Frames have certain limitations For example if a reader tries to bookmark a page displayed within a frame the bookmark actually points to the Frameset that contains the frame layout It will displa
131. e server documentation Preferences gt Lets you set preferences for a variety of behaviors 212 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 AOLpress Quick Reference Page window 3 Browse menu The Browse menu lets you find and display new or old pages Browse Fo rvard Ctrl F stop ShitttCtrl S Reload Page Shitt Ctrl R Load Images Global History Hot List Add To Hot List h Backward As you follow hyperlinks in the Web a history of pages is O stored This item lets you backtrack through the history lt Forward Moves forward through the page history after you backtrack Stop Aborts any outstanding requests from this window to read files Oo Reload Page Reloads the current page and all images in it from the Web Fa Load Images Reloads all the images in the current page vii Global History Lists all pages you have viewed in this session in any window You can view one by double clicking on it z Hot List Shows the list of pages you have added to this list You can mo view one by double clicking on it or pressing Fetch D Add to Hot List Adds the current page s URL to the Hot List x Window menu The Window menu appears under Microsoft Windows only It lets you arrange the Page and MiniWeb windows in your workspace Window Tile Cascade Arrange Icons 1 Please title this page Page 1 Tile Arranges your windows side by side or bottom to top Cascade Arranges your wi
132. e to AOLpress you cannot view MiniWebs with other browsers In addition you cannot use MiniWebs to view the directory structures of other servers User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Quick start Working with MiniWebs A r ves Things to know about MiniWebs S lt Here is a quick summary of commands you can use with MiniWebs Open a MiniWeb Open a new MiniWeb Open a file Convert a folder into a MiniWeb Add Pages Set the Home Page Copy URLs Delete Pages Save Change an icon Change a file s title Set a help file for a file File gt Open or select the open icon in the MiniWeb view File gt NewNew MiniWeb or select the MiniWeb icon in the MiniWeb view File gt Open or select the Open icon in the MiniWeb view Tools Webize File New New Page or choose the Page icon in the toolbar Click the down arrow to the right of the Home Page field Edit gt Copy URL or choose the Copy URL icon in the toolbar Highlight an icon and press the delete or backspace key or choose the Edit Cut or FileDelete menu item File gt Save or File gt Save As Edit Set Icon or Edit Make Icon Edit Set Title Edit gt Set Help Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 161 k Go O a pot gt 2 D O e Working with MiniWebs Things to Know about MiniWebs MiniWeb window The MiniWeb is like a File Manager for your Web pages It helps you organize and manage the
133. e with hidden borders page 84 Columns of text You can create columns of text by creating a table page 84 Spacing between paragraphs Normally there is space after each paragraph You can remove the space by using a line break instead of a new paragraph page 63 Centered or right justified text Normally text is left justified You can center or right justify text by aligning the paragraph page 73 If the text is in a table you can align the contents of the table cell horizontally and vertically page 87 and you can center the table itself page 87 Text overlapping images You can t overlap text and images or two images in a page You can use some other graphics program to create an image that includes text overlaping the image Or you can use a background picture for your page Then text in your page will appear to overlap the background picture page 102 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Web Pages and What to Putin Them 2 Things Web pages can contain x2 Lists For information about putting lists in your pages see Chapter 6 Bulleted lists If you want a dot to appear to the left of each item in a list you can create a bulleted list page 76 Other symbols appear if you have a list within a list If you want to use some other image as a bullet you can insert your own image page 94 If any bulleted item is longer than one line you may want to use a table with hidden borders to make the text line up correctl
134. eb pages viewed by any Page Window since you started AOLpress is available if you choose the Browse Global History menu item A list of Web pages appears If the list is too long to fit in the small window use the scrolling arrows on the right side of the window Global History x History List http Awww aol comi F ramet html jhttp Awww aol camimain html elcome to AOL http awww aol comiindex html vYvelcome to AGL http primehost com index htm Welcome to PrimeHost Cony URL jhttp Awww aolpress com index html V elcome to AOL Web Tools s Chronological cchap2 w32 pagel html Please title this page Page 1 list of all pages visited in the current session To view a page from this history double click on it to select it from the list then click the Fetch button You can open a Global History or Hot List item without opening a new page by using the Copy URL button to copy the URL of an item to the clipboard Then in a Page Window paste the URL into the Location field Closing the AOLpress application automatically clears your global history Each launch of AOLpress begins a new global history User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Browsing with AOLpress Hot list keep track of pages ay Hot list keep track of pages AOLpress also allows you to keep a Hot List from session to session This is a list of Web sites URLs that you think you might visit frequently or that you want to remember and acces
135. eb puts a separate copy of the file in your MiniWeb m Paste a page into a MiniWeb by pasting its URL You can use this method to copy a file anywhere on the World Wide Web to your MiniWeb 1 Move to a Page Window highlight a link inside a Page Window or highlight an icon in a MiniWeb 2 Click the Copy URL button in the toolbar or choose the Edit gt Copy URL menu item Double clicking on a MiniWeb icon while holding down the Control key also copies the URL so you can paste it 3 Move to a MiniWeb window and choose the Edit Paste URL menu item Options for copying links and images If you use any of the previous methods except File gt Copy File to copy a page to a MiniWeb you can choose whether to copy images and whether to convert relative links to absolute links You will either see the following Options window automatically or you can click the Options button in a file selection window k Go O a pot gt 2 D O e File Format Save Images Frames None i Relative C All Cancel M Relative Links to Full URL W Relative Java Applets ta Full URL Use Base when possible Help Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 173 N 1 174 ad Working with MiniWebs Editing MiniWebs This window allows you to set the following options m File Format Normally pages are imported or copied as HTML pages If you chose the FileSave As menu item yo
136. eld for example Lightning bolt image Keep image files smaller than about 30 Kbytes Organize a set of Web pages Put important information or links near the top of the page so that readers don t need to scroll down to see it When including textual or pictorial navigation aids place cues on the left side to go back or to the previous page Use the right side to go forward or to the next page To keep the reader from getting lost organize the information in a hierarchical format with 2 5 layers e Let readers move down the hierarchy quickly by providing a table or contents index or menus e Provide header and or footer navigation bars text or graphics for moving up and down throughout the hierarchy 52 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Chapter 5 Creating and Saving Pages What you ll find in this chapter Creating a blank page 54 Editing and saving an existing page 55 Importing adocument 56 Selecting files 58 AOLpress is an easy to use word processor for creating and editing Web pages As you create a page it looks like does when you view it with a browser Behind the scenes AOLpress creates the page in Hypertext Markup Language HTML You never have to look at the HTML although you may edit the HTML with AOLpress if you want to You can create anew Web page in any of these ways Start editing a new blank page Start editing any other Web page and save it to a new location Start with a
137. ell background yellow and the second cell background gray in most browsers With Internet Explorer the highlighted part of the second cell s border is also yellow and the shadowed part of the border is red lt TABLE BGCOLOR gray gt lt TR gt lt TD BGCOLOR yellow gt cell 1 contents lt TD gt lt TD BORDERCOLORLIGHT yellow BORDERCOLORDARK red gt cell 2 contents lt TD gt lt TR gt lt TABLE gt You can set the BORDER BORDERCOLOR BORDERCOLORLIGHT and BORDERCOL ORDARK attributes in the lt TABLE gt lt TR gt lt TD gt and lt TH gt tags User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Chapter 8 Adding Images What you ll find in this chapter Quick start 92 Finding and creating images 92 Inserting images 94 Positioning images 97 Horizontal rules 99 Using built in hit counters 99 Rating your page content 100 Setting colors and background images 102 Learning more 104 Images give the Web its lively look and exploit the capabilities of electronic media Though many pages use hypertext effectively without them pictures can make information clearer and the page more appealing This section covers inserting positioning and sizing images and changing the colors used by a page Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 91 Adding Images Quick start a cf 44 p r tgr LA Quick start Here is a quick summary of commands you can use with images Insert Images In line In
138. ens EEEa Eep RIE eae 153 Learning MOE senere corteta a ee ee ee ee 155 Part 3 Managing and Publishing Pages Chapter 13 Working with MiniWebs 159 Things to know about MiniWebs 000000 eee 160 Creating MiniWebs 0 0 0 ccc ee 163 Viewing MiniWebs 0 cee eee 165 Editna MiniWeDS 6522445545548 000 6e5dehe desks ahneeed 171 Managing MiniWebs 0 c ee eee eee eee eee 176 Chapter 14 Publishing Pages 181 Publishing with multiple authors 0 0 0 0 0 eee eee 182 Publishing a whole folder 0 0 0 eee eee 182 Publishing to PrimeHOst si00521646o 0406 9444456645405 55 183 Publishing to AOL 4 220 6 5456455545 65454500644450 6 6 004 184 Publishing to another AOLserver 0 000 eee eee 185 Publishing to non AOLservers 0000s 185 Publishing to other formats 0 0 0 0 0 eee eee 187 File names and URLS 6244 s06ciererseseeesdedhscedeeass 188 Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web Detailed Contents Part 4 Reference Chapter 15 Setting Preferences 191 General PrercrenCes s 3 Gis Fh ea dbs bade es eae odadeedee ors 192 INCI WORK 5 04 ooo Arka Hae ae eee eee Soe ay he od ee ed oak 196 ONS eg boc Ate Go ne eae areas chee see a eal 198 File extensions and MIME 0 0c eee eee ees 198 MIME MIEWCIS seitens briter ir egaa aa RS 199 MimWebicons ser cede deka dhaeeed oe Eii bee i i 201 ee EEE TELE TT ETEN ETETETT EENET ETEEN 202 ANDANO 6
139. ere are several ways to open existing MiniWebs gt To open an existing MiniWeb do one of the following m Choose the File Open menu item Select MiniWeb in the List Files of Type field Select the MiniWeb you want to open Then click Open If the MiniWeb is not listed as a separate file select its folder and erase the file name of new htm at the end of the Location field m Select the Open icon in the MiniWeb view E Type the MiniWeb URL you want to open in the Location field of a Page window For a MiniWeb stored on your hard drive on a PC you might type C users me myweb For a MiniWeb stored on your AOL personal publishing directory you might type http members aol com members myweb m Click on the MiniWeb icon to the left of the Title field in a Page window You can click this button any time you are viewing a page that is part of a MiniWeb The button is grayed out if the page is not part of a MiniWeb See page 164 for information on converting folders into MiniWebs Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 165 k Go O a pot gt 2 D O e Working with MiniWebs Viewing MiniWebs Selecting a MiniWeb view The default way to view a MiniWeb is with the Web view The MiniWeb is shown with icons for all the files in as a series of concentric circles The icons are connected by arrows that show the connections between files You can view MiniWebs in several other formats
140. es menu item You will see the following window Background Color pooo Fick Image Browse Abo Cancel C Import Image Bulletin Content Fating PICS Label a Link Page rating Visited Link Fick Safe Surt 2 Click the Safe Surf button You will see a window like this age Range Unrated O ge Range Unrated sa pIE i 3 Add a rating by selecting Profanity Unrated Cancel different levels for any set of lHeterosexuaity Unrated Das Heterosexuality Unrated bd categories Initially all cate H lity U d sed gories are unrated Homosexuality Unrate Nudity Unrated z For example the levels for Nudity Unrate y Nudity are subtle innuendo Violence Unrated explicit innuendo technical Sex Violence amp Profanity Unrated reference non graphic intolerance Unrated artistic graphic artistic graphic detailed graphic Glorifying Drug Use Unrated explicit vulgarity and explicit Other Adult Themes Unrated and crude Gambling Unrated 4 After you rate your page in all categories that apply click OK The SafeSurf rating for the levels you selected will appear in the PICS Label field For example if your page contains non graphic artistic nudity the rating label will look similar to this PICS 1 0 http www classify org safesurf 1 on 1996 05 14T15 36 0800 r SS 004 4 Youcan cut and paste this label to the Page Attributes wi
141. eset the image to its original size If you want to make the image bigger or smaller you can type the size you want in pixels in these fields Linking images and image maps 98 You can create a link from an image to any other page See page 108 for details Image Maps are a special kind of link based on an image An image is divided or mapped into regions Each region functions as a separate link A single image like a diagram of a truck can be clicked in different places to link to information about that part of the image Clicking on the truck s hood could link to an engine specification page or clicking on a wheel could link to a tire wear comparison Image maps work well for geographic maps diagrams or large images that function as indexes to more information For details about creating Image Maps see page 111 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Images Horizontal rules Horizontal rules You can create horizontal rules which span the full width of the page to divide areas of the page You don t need to create an image to add a simple horizontal rule gt Insert a Horizontal Rule 1 Position the cursor where you want the rule to start 2 Choose Element Horizontal Rule gt Reposition or duplicate a Horizontal Rule Either m Use the basic editing conventions select cut copy paste and drag and drop m Use the Cut Copy and Paste buttons in the toolbar Using built in hit counters If y
142. et and for each page you want to display in the frames If you already have pages you want to put inside a frame first create anew FrameSet Then you can follow the instructions for putting a page in a frame and linking to frames User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating Frames Creating frames Creating frames A page that contains frames is called a Frameset Separate files store the Frameset information and each page displayed in a frame gt To create a page to which you can add frames a FrameSet 1 Choose the File gt New gt New FrameSet menu item You will see a new page with one frame outlined gt To add frames to a FrameSet page You can t add frames to a regular page first you have to create a FrameSet page Then follow these steps to add frames to the FrameSet 1 Move your mouse cursor to one of the page or frame margins 2 When your cursor looks like the one to the right pointing in any direction hold down your mouse and drag across the window to create a frame You now have two frames within a FrameSet You can more frames if you like If your page has a complicated set of frames there may be several levels at which AOLpress could create a new frame AOLpress normally creates frames within the smallest possible area However if you press the lt Ctrl gt key it creates the new frame in the largest possible area These pictures show an example s 1 Q m Q
143. even align text that wraps next to an image Note that some browsers such as Netscape do not support Align Flush gt Align a paragraph Place the cursor in the paragraph heading or list you want to align or justify O Q _ D ae F Q Q E N F N 2 With the Format gt Paragraph menu item choose Align Left Align Right Align Center Flush or Align Default Align Flush aligns both the left and right edges of the text Align Default removes any previous paragraph alignment Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 73 74 Creating Text and Lists Paragraph formats Headings AOLpress gives you six heading levels from Hdg 1 the largest to Hdg 6 the smallest Headings Heading 1 You use headings to Henane i title sections and to Heading 3 show the structure of your page They are set off from the text with a a aE larger font bold text or Heading 6 other form of emphasis l Heading 4 gt Apply a heading to text Place the cursor where you want the heading to start 2 Choose a heading type from the Format Heading menu 3 Type your heading text gt Apply a heading to existing text Position the cursor in the line of text you want to affect 2 Choose a Heading type from the Format Heading menu gt Change a heading format 1 Select all of the text in the heading 2 Choose the new heading level you want to use from th
144. f the value is the name of an image file select Image If the value is the name of a page or some other type of URL select Link For all other types of parameter values such as text numbers and dates select Normal m Click the Add button to add the parameter to the list m You can Change or Remove parameters after you add them to the list 8 When you are finished click OK to place the applet in your page Creating applet parameter files You can create parameter files to make it easier for you and other AOLpress users to include your applets in their pages When you drag an applet from a MiniWeb to a page AOLpress searches the MiniWeb for a file with the same name as the class file but with a file extension of param This file can contain a list of parameters the applet accepts valid and default values for parameters and formatting information for windows that prompt for parameter values Ifa param file does not exist AOLpress looks for a java source file and scans it to find parameters Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 123 CO gt Q ro m 5 oO Q D Q D Adding Links and Multimedia Java applets If AOLpress finds parameters for the applet it displays a window with fields for each parameter For example the following windows prompt for several values You can click Next in the first window to see the second window Parameters for Satellite Applet
145. fonts for regular text and fixed width text so you should test your pages with a variety of fonts If you want to change the font your readers see see page 82 gt To change the fonts 1 Choose the Tools Preferences Font menu item You will see the Font Prefer ences window Font Preferences E Face and Point Size Fixed Width Courier New fo Times New Roman E OK Proportional 2 You can choose a different font or font size for the Proportional font which is the font used for most text and headings in your page 3 You can also choose a different font or font size for the Fixed Width font which is used for preformatted paragraphs and text in the HTML editing window Note that the Fixed Width font controls the font but not the font size of text formatted as fixed pitch code keyboard sample or variable within a non prefor matted paragraph 4 Click OK to apply the changes to your font preferences File extensions and MIME When AOLpress loads a local file it attempts to handle it by looking at the extension on the file name from which it can generate a MIME type Then it uses the MIME type and the external viewer you specify in the MIME Viewers preferences window to find out how to display the file MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions This standard identifies files sent across the Internet so the program that receives it can deal
146. for 81 bulleted 76 creating 25 definition 78 deleting items in 77 editing complex 193 nested 80 nesting an existing list 80 numbered 76 pasting paragraphs in 193 rearranging items in 77 rearranging terms and definitions in 79 removing structure 81 Load Images menu item 37 Load Remote Images field 37 Loading pages animation during 36 prefetching 37 stopping 36 Local files 58 Location field 58 Macintosh 59 Lock menu item 182 Locking pages 182 Logical type styles 70 Long file names 195 Macintosh file names 195 filename conventions 188 installation 20 selecting files 59 system requirements 18 Mail Address field 197 Mail host 197 mailto link 115 Maps see Image maps Memory requirements Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 233 Index Macintosh 18 MS Windows 18 Menu bar MiniWeb window 163 Menus quick reference of 206 Merge Cell menu item 88 Merging tables cells 88 Messages error 39 Method for a form 140 Microsoft HTML tags 155 MIME types 198 icons in MiniWebs for 201 sort MiniWeb by 166 viewers for 199 MIME viewers 199 MIME Viewer preferences 200 MiniWeb File Type 195 MiniWeb Icons preferences 201 MiniWeb Open field 195 MiniWeb window 54 diagram of 162 menus for 215 toolbar 162 215 MiniWebs 159 arrows in 168 as startup page 54 color of arrows in 168 color of files in 168 colors in 168 copying images into 173 copying links
147. g Pages Selecting files 60 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Chapter 6 Creating Text and Lists What you ll find in this chapter Page titles Creating text Editing text Formatting text Paragraph formats Lists Removing formats Learning more 62 62 65 70 73 76 81 82 Editing and formatting text and lists in AOLpress is similar to editing and formatting text with an ordinary word processor You don t need to know the technical details about the HTML code AOLpress is creating behind the scenes Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 61 Creating Text and Lists Page titles Page titles Every page has a title The title is different from the file name it is the text that will be shown in the title bar at the top of a window displaying the page Changing the title will not change the file name or Web address of a page nor will changing the file name change the title For your titles choose about half a dozen words that describe the document s contents Search engines often use page titles first when assigning keywords for finding a page gt Title a page 1 Move your cursor to the Title field near the top of the AOLpress window and type a new title for the page 2 The web in the icon next to the Location field breaks to show that you have unsaved changes Saving the page changes this icon back Icon for a new unsaved Icon for pages with Icon for saved pages pages unsaved changes gn prei
148. gh the text Text that has been added to a document By default the text is dark gray and change bars are added to the page A reference to a book article or other work for example For more information see Taylor The Life of Birds Words or phrases that are part of code examples or commands for example ls doc A defined word or phrase for example The second to last item is the penultimate item An emphasized word or phrase Some other browsers show this style in italics Text intended to be typed in by the reader on a command line or other text entry environment Example text similar to code Strongly emphasized text stronger than the emphasis style By default AOLpress shows this style in red Some other browsers show this style in bold A place holder for some other value in a command line or sample text for example To print a file use the print file name command where file name is the file you want to print Applying and removing type styles Both formatted and logical styles are cumulative that is you can apply several styles to a selection When a style has been applied to a selection that style name has a check next to it in the Format Type Style menu gt Apply a type style 1 Select the text you want to apply a style to 2 Choose a type style from the Format Type Style menu m Youcan apply more than one style at a time to text To do this repeat step 2 w
149. h file selection windows see page 58 Deleting an image from a page does not delete the actual image file In addition deleting a page file does not delete image files associated with it If you want to delete files that are associated with another file delete them separately using FileDelete or by selecting and deleting the file icon in the MiniWeb view User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Images Positioning images s gt ph ia I eO a DENE gt gt Positioning images Once images are in a page you can replace them realign text to them reposition them or delete them gt Replace an image 1 Select an image by double clicking on it or dragging across it It is OK to select both an image and some of the associated text Choose Element Get Attribute to open the Image window Type a new file name in the Location field or click Browse to find the new image Put a check mark in the Import Image box if you want to copy the image to the folder you are working in Click OK gt Change alignment of an image 1 Select an image by double clicking on it or dragging across it It is OK to select both an image and some of the associated text Choose Element Get Attribute to open the Image window Change the Alignment setting to adjust the way the image aligns with adjoining text Click OK gt To reposition an image either Cut and Paste You can use the commands in the Edit menu
150. hat looks like this Options File Format save Images Frames None i Relative C All Cancel M Relative Links to Full URL W Relative Java Applets ta Full URL l Use Base when possible Help 9 To copy the image to the folder where this page is stored choose either Relative or All in the Save Images Frames field For more information about the choice in this window see page 57 10 Another way to insert an image when you know where the file is located is to choose the Element Image menu item You can copy and paste graphics from any Web page to your page Remember that using someone else s images without permission violates their copyright Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 29 NO I 4 D r D D o U A Q 5 k m D T lt U D T Xe Create a Web Page in 10 Easy Steps Step 9 Saving to your local disk Step 9 Saving to your local disk As you create Web pages you should save copies of them to your local disk drive as described in this section In fact you can use AOLpress to create and save Web pages even when your modem is not connected Then when you connect to the Web you can publish your pages as described in the next section 30 gt To save your home page to your local disk 1 5 Choose FileSave As A file selection window appears For details on selecting files on various platforms see page 58 Page
151. he map Creating image maps AOLpress makes it quick and easy to create both types of maps for an image First create the image and include it in your page Then you define the links in the image If you are unfamiliar with how to import and use images in documents see page 94 gt Creating an image map 1 Select an image in your page that you want to turn into an image map 2 Choose the ElementImage Map menu item to see the Image Map window You can resize the Image Map window to see more of your image Bin etal locations on the image Type location for the selected TUS Location shape HP Anchor Target 3 Select a shape tool for example the circle tool and draw a shape on your image 112 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Links and Multimedia Image maps multiple links from images 4 In the Location field type the link you want this shape to use The link can be any link you could normally use for linked text or images For example mypage htm http gnn com ormailto myaddress me com You can click the Browse button to search for a page you want to link to See page 106 for details on links If you type in the Location field when no shape is selected you will be asked if you want to create a default rectangle The default rectangle specifies a link to follow when someone clicks on the image but not inside any other shapes you have drawn 5 If you want to link to some place in the mid
152. he status bar when you place the mouse cursor over a file in the MiniWeb Set Icon Lets you change the MiniWeb icon for the currently selected Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web clipboard Otherwise it copies the URL of the selected page Equivalent to Paste Lets you find text in any page in the MiniWeb file 217 gt O rT aa J 1 V V O AN JJ p rn e i 1 O D y AOLpress Quick Reference MiniWeb window Make Icon Set Help Set Stationery View menu The View menu helps you manage the appearance of the MiniWeb 218 Clean Up Display Control Web Tree Name Title MIME Type Zoom In Zoom Out Normal List Links To List Links From Uses the actual image as the MiniWeb icon for the currently selected image Lets you specify a file that provides help when you double click on a file in the MiniWeb Sets the currently selected Page as a stationery file for this MiniWeb When a new page is created the stationery page is used to initialize it Clean Up Ctrl V Display Control MIME Type oom In oom Out Normal Size Realigns all items in the MiniWeb view Lets you hide various types of files in the MiniWeb view Displays the MiniWeb as a graphical web Displays the MiniWeb as a graphical tree Displays the MiniWeb as list sorted by file name Displays the MiniWeb as list sorted by page title Displays the MiniWeb a
153. heck Links you would have to click on each link in the document to verify it gt To check the links in any Web page 1 Open any Web page either in your local folder or on a Web server 2 Choose menu Tools Check Links to see the Check Links window 3 Watch the window Check Links Link To Page http www aolpress com Browse bs Could not find http www aolpress com Append Anchor Name Next Target Frame AOLpress scans links in the page and verifies that they work A message in the window shows AOLpress activity If it finds a bad link the status message changes to indicate the problem If no bad links are found you get no bad links found message If you get a Could not find http message you can edit the link User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Links and Multimedia Checking links al Changing a broken link gt Edit the URL Edit the URL as necessary in the Link to Page field 2 Select the Change button This corrects the link and starts checking the next link Adding an anchor name gt Add an anchor to the URL 1 Type in an anchor name in the Append Anchor Name field 2 Select the Change button This changes the link adds the anchor and moves on to check the next link Closing the Check Links window While the Check Links window is open your page is locked You cannot browse any links until you close the Check Links window If you try you get a
154. hem part of a MiniWeb that you publish as described in the section on page 182 Or you can choose the FileCopy File menu item and copy individual files If you are using an uncommon file type you may need to ask your system administrator to update your Web server s list of MIME types to include this file type MIME types are sent to Web browsers to tell the software the file type Using this infomation the Web browser can choose which application to open to read the file User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Links and Multimedia Toolbar navigation buttons Toolbar navigation buttons You can add toolbar icons like the ones to the right to the toolbar above a page Such buttons can link to pages like your Home lt a gt and Next pages Many browsers do not display these additional toolbar icons but for browsers that do display them you can make navigation much easier gt Adding toolbar navigation buttons 1 Choose the FormatPage Attributes menu item These fields at the bottom of the Page Attributes window allow you to add toolbar icons Toolbar Links Link Type Home Link To Browse Rel Button Help 2 Inthe Link Type field select the type of toolbar icon you want to add You can add the following types of icons Link to the next page in a series of related pages Link to the home page Bl Link to the table of contents Link to the previous page in a Serie
155. hile the selected text is still highlighted Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 71 O Q _ D ae F Q Q E N F N Creating Text and Lists Formatting text gt Remove a single type style from a selection Select the text that has the style you want to remove 2 Choose the type style checked you want to remove using the Format Type Style menu gt Remove all type styles from a selection 1 Select the text you want to revert to plain text 2 Choose Format Type Style Plain m Use Edit Undo if you want to correct a recent formatting choice The text you selected reverts to the default style of the surrounding text Type sizes You can make text bigger or smaller by changing the type size Bi gger To make the text larger than the surrounding text choose Format gt Type Size Bigger Font size changes are cumulative You can apply this style multiple times to text to increase the font size further The actual font size varies on different browsers Smaller To make the text smaller than the surrounding text choose Format Type SizeSmaller You can apply this style multiple times to text to decrease the font size further In AOLpress you can make text or 2 sizes smaller depending on the paragraph format and up to 4 sizes bigger Other browsers may support even bigger or smaller sizes Even if you don t see the font size change in AOLpress when you apply an even b
156. iWeb Prints the current MiniWeb view to the selected printer User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 AOLpress Quick Reference lt MiniWeb window Edit menu The Edit menu lets you modify your MiniWeb It is similar to the Edit menu in the Page window except it does not have the Undo Redo and Select All items It contains additional items to Find Page Set Title Set Icon Make Icon Set Help and Set Stationery Cut Chr Copy Ctrl C Paste etre Clear Copy URL of Page Shitt Ctrl C Paste WALL SHEHE ES Eind Replace Shift Ctrl F Eira Hegt Etri Find Page Set Title Set Icon Mieke lcan Set Help Set Stationery Cut Saves the selected page or other file to the clipboard and deletes it from the MiniWeb Copy Saves the selected page or file to the clipboard Paste Transfers the contents of the clipboard to the current MiniWeb You can paste from a MiniWeb to a Page window but you can t paste from a Page window to a MiniWeb Clear Removes the selected page from the MiniWeb If there are still links to that page it is shown in faint gray The icon cannot be removed until all links have been broken Copy URL of If nothing is selected copies the URL of the MiniWeb into the MiniWeb Page Paste URL Find Replace Find Next Finds the next occurrence of the text in the MiniWeb Find Page Lets you select a page in the MiniWeb by typing its file name Set Title Lets you set a title to be shown in t
157. igger or smaller size other Web browsers may show a size difference Type colors gt To add color to selected text 1 Highlight the text you want to change to a different color 2 Choose the Format Type Color menu 3 Choose from the list of colors or select Custom to choose a color from a color picking window Selecting Default sets the type back to the default color for the page The sixteen colors listed are the standard color for 16 color PCs If you want to change the color of all the text in a page see page 102 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating Text and Lists 5 Paragraph formats Paragraph formats You can give paragraphs a format like Heading Numbered List or Blockquote to format your page You use the Format menu to assign paragraph formats In most word processors to include the paragraph format when you copy text you copy the entire line at the end of the paragraph In AOLpress you need to copy the blank line before the paragraph instead The information about the paragraph format is stored before the paragraph Normal paragraphs Normal paragraphs start at the left margin with no indenting or special type styles gt Change a paragraph back to a normal paragraph 1 Select the text you want to change back 2 Choose the Format Remove Format menu item Aligning paragraphs You can make any paragraph heading or list centered right aligned or aligned on both the left and right You can
158. ile names are not case sensitive URLs are case sensitive only letters numbers and underscores are allowed It is best to choose DOS if you may ever need to use your files on a PC running Windows 3 1 m If you choose Macintosh you can use file names with up to 31 characters File names are not case sensitive but case is retained Extensions are not required but you should use htmor htm1 to make it easy to move the files to the server If you choose Posix most Unix systems allow you to use 256 character file names including file names with an extension of htm1 If you have installed the 32 bit version of AOLpress on a Windows 95 system and will never need to transfer your files to a PC running Windows 3 1 choose Posix If you have already created a MiniWeb for this folder and want to change the file naming rules delete the nvd file in this folder which stored the MiniWeb information change your file naming preference and recreate the MiniWeb see page 164 In general to make files portable to all types of computers it s best to use the 8 3 file names required on Windows 3 1 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Part 4 Reference Part 4 provides reference information about AOLpress Read Chapter 15 to learn how to customize AOLpress by changing your Preferences See Chapter 16 for a quick list of the menu commands and toolbar icons you can use in AOLpress See Chapter 17 for a list of the new features
159. ils about copying files with AOLpress gt Saving an existing page to a new location 1 Browse to find the page you want to start editing 2 Save the page with a new name Choose the menu item FileSave As and save the page to a folder on your local disk For details on using file selection windows see page 58 For details on saving files to your PrimeHost hosting service directory and to other locations see page 181 m Because you are creating a new page you will see the Save As window If you ve already saved this page choosing FileSave will save your page without displaying this window Page Location OK cAimydi pagez html l l Cancel Directory mydir Scan O1 P D to D Q Y D lt to U o Q T Drives Sites E Create Dir m Ifyou want to be able to use file names longer than 8 characters and you are not using Windows 3 1 choose Tools gt Preferences General Make sure the MiniWebs create as field is set to Macintosh if you are using a Macintosh and Posix if you are using UNIX or a version of Windows that supports long file names If you are using Windows 3 1 set the field to DOS Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 55 Creating and Saving Pages Importing a document Importing a document If you have a document that is stored in another format you can import it into a Web page with AOLpress The form
160. infinite gt Other multimedia See page 50 for a list of some of the other types of multimedia content you can include in your pages 126 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Chapter 0 Creating Frames What you ll find in this chapter Creating frames Resizing frames Editing within frames Saving frames Linking to frames Learning more frame separately Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 129 130 131 133 134 135 g Frames let you divide the page window into sections Usually you can scroll each 127 128 Creating Frames For example here is a Web page that uses frames you can see this page by choosing HelpContents and choosing to View the Reference Guide Then follow the link to the page on frames W Using Frames Using Frames Adding Removing Resizing Namme Editing frames paving frames Putting pages in frames Editing Frames ets Editing what people without frame support see Linking to frames HIML syntax for FAQ Clip Ar Feedbz Suppo AOLpress UserG AOLpress Help Using Frames See the tutorial lesson on frames for a hands on example Frames let you divide the page window into sections For example if you are reading this page with a browser that supports frames this page has a frame on the left that lets you jump to the main headines of the pag A page that contains frames is called a FrameSet There are separate files for the FrameS
161. ing the form palette Reset buttons A form can have a Reset button When pressed by the user it sets the other field elements to their initial state Ea gt Add a Reset Button 1 2 3 4 Position the cursor where you want the Reset button to be Click the Reset button on the form palette to see this window which allows you to insert a Reset button a box labeled by default Reset into a form Reset Button x Button Label TEEI JK OK _ Cancel a Help Type optionally a Button Label The default is Reset Click OK and the Reset button appears in the form at the cursor position Submit buttons A form can have a Submit button When clicked it submits the current form to the form handler that was specified when the form was created sj gt Add a Submit Button 1 2 Position the cursor where you want the Submit button to be Click the Submit button on the form palette to see this window which allows you to insert a Submit button a box labeled by default Submit into a form Submit Button x Button Label Subri ok OK _ Cancel a Help Type optionally a Button Label The default is Submit Click OK and the Submit button appears in the form at the cursor position Image fields act as submit buttons and if a form contains only a single text field no other form elements pressing Enter or Return within the text field submits the form to the form handler User
162. inks within your own Web site Relative links allow you to move the entire directory tree to a new location without breaking your links You should try to use absolute links only to references files outside your own Web AOLpress can automatically change references from absolute to relative references and back for you If you see a Rel button in a window for creating links or setting image attributes the link is currently an absolute link and you can click this button to make it a relative link If you see an Abs button you can change the relative link to an absolute link Also when you choose the File gt Save As menu item the Options button provides a window that allows you to convert all relative references to absolute references by checking the Relative Links to Full URL box 106 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Links and Multimedia About links Anchors An anchor is a target location in a page Links can point to anchors in the same page or another page Anchors are often used to help readers find parts of a page The anchor marks the place you want to move to Links point to these anchors Anchors don t do anything when you click on them they are only bookmarks to be linked to Target Frames If you are using frames your links can point to a variety of frame locations See page 134 for details on choosing a target frame for a link Web addresses URLs The cryptic strings of characters like http www mycompany
163. ion io b a is aligned HI Ed CE folder with text ment a and create C Top C Midde Bottom Help relative link Resulting field Siw TE help 3 Type a Form Tag to give this field a name The Form Tag is required and must be unique in the form 4 Enter the Location of the image Either m Type an URL or the local file name in the Location field m Click the Browse button to search for and select the file 5 Choose by clicking an Alignment option Top Middle or Bottom to choose how the image is aligned with the adjoining text 6 You can check the Import Image box if you want the image file copied to this page s folder m If imported the image file is saved to the page s folder and has a relative link he o Q m Q Q m Q C n m Q TH O g a m Otherwise the image remains outside the page s folder Its location is a full URL 7 Click OK and the image appears where the cursor was positioned Every element in a form must have a Form Tag to name the field or button This name identifies the fields that contained each value when the results are sent to the form handler When a form is submitted then the information sent to the form handler for an image field will contain lt Form Tag gt x lt horizontal position of click in pixels gt and lt Form Tag gt y lt vertical pos gt Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 147 148 Creating and Using Forms Us
164. ion the cursor where you want the Radio Button to be 2 Click the Radio button on the form palette to see this window eon ee same form tag follows button are bound ee Sanana identifying it on together Button Label Fruit Cancel your page If selected Value Banana Value of field radio button is 2r Default Help if this item is on initially selected 3 Specify values for Form Tag Button Label and Value m The Form Tag is the name of the field All Radio Buttons with the same Form Tag are part of the same field Only one button may be selected at a time The Button Label is the text that follows the button and therefore identifies it in your page It is not submitted with the form he o Q m Q Q m Q C n m Q TH O g a m The Value is the field value Each Value must be unique within a group of Radio Buttons with the same Form Tag When a form is submitted a string like Form_Tag Value is included where Value is the Value of the selected item m If Default is selected this Radio Button is on when the Form is reset There can be no more than one default radio button with the same Form Tag 4 Click OK to insert the Radio Button at the cursor position within the form Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 141 Creating and Using Forms Using the form palette For example creating three Radio Buttons with values like these m Form Tag 8 2 Button Label
165. is book after you have used AOLpress for a while You will discover useful features that you breezed over the first time Online tutorial AOLpress comes with an online tutorial that teaches you how to use AOLpress It s really an online workbook because you edit the Web pages that make up the tutorial to learn how to use AOLpress To start the tutorial choose Help gt Tutorial Online help There are many online help pages available throughout AOLpress Most windows have a help button that you can click to get assistance with a specific task AOLpress provides several other ways you can find answers to your questions 14 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Welcome About this book gt Use the online help and online documentation E Choose the HelpContents menu item You will see a page that contains links to various types of online help and online documentation For example you can click on the link to the online User Guide to search the online version of this book gt Search for help by looking up a word 1 Choose the Help gt Search For Help On menu item You will see a page that lets you search the AOLpress User s Guide 2 Type a word or words in the field and click the Search button You will see a list of sections that contain those words You can click on a link to move to a section The word you searched for will be highlighted gt Search the list of Frequently Asked Questions m Choose the menu Help gt
166. it doesn t recognize a word you will see the Spell Check window The unrecognized word is shown in the field at the top and suggested corrections Guess are listed below You can do these things Learn to unrecognized words j Skip eel O Q _ D ae F Q Q N F N m Correct Select one of the suggested corrections or edit the word yourself 1 Aways Replace _Options _ Then click Replace If you want to fix all occurrences of the misspelled word automatically even when you use the spell checker in future AOLpress sessions check the Always Replace box before you click the Replace button m Guess Again If one of the suggested corrections is close to the word you want select that word and click Guess You will see a new list of suggested words You can pick one of these words and use it to Replace the word or Guess again Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 67 68 Creating Text and Lists Editing text If you want AOLpress to suggest words that contain characters with accent marks click the Options button and type the accented characters into the field provided Type all the digits 1234567890 in this field if you want AOLpress to suggest words you have added to the dictionary that contain numbers m Add to Dictionary If the unrecognized word is one that you want AOLpress to recognize in the future click Learn to add the word to the dictionary m Ignore If you wa
167. ition List Art Styles E Terms PE A popular style in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries characterized by extravagant decoration Bauhaus Developed by the Bauhaus School in Germany Bauhaus emphasizes simplicity and functionality Georgian Definitions A popular style in England during the reigns of CTBOrge I I and II 1714 1820 based on the designs of Andrea Palladio an Italian reasissance architect Definition Lists follow the same basic rules as Bulleted and Numbered lists The differences are described below gt Apply a definition list structure 1 Place the insertion cursor where you Paragraph p Perean want the Definition list to begin Paragraph2 Select text Paragraph 2 and use the Paragraph 3 m Or you can select text you want TE Definition Paragraph 4 to turn into an Definition list list styleto Terms and Definitions must be Paragraph 4 pe Ae a lefi of terms i and indented definitions on separate lines The Term item must be first then the Definition line 2 Choose Definition List from the Format gt List menu If you selected text before choosing this menu item the first paragraph becomes a Term the second a Defini tion and so on until the last paragraph in the selection 3 Type text for the first Term Press Enter or Return at the end of a Term to create a Definition line 4 Press Enter or Return at the end of a Definition to create a new Term line 78 U
168. ive to the current page or absolute You can have links to other locations in the same page and links to specific places in other documents Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 105 Adding Links and Multimedia Quick start Quick start Here is a quick summary of commands you can use with links Create link Select text or position cursor Choose Element Link Create anchor Select text or position cursor Choose Element Anchor Change links and Control Option select link or anchor Choose Element Link anchors Element Anchor or Element Get Attribute Create email link Select text or position cursor Choose Element gt E mail Link Remove a link Select link Choose Element Unlink About links Relative and absolute links A link is a cross reference to another file or target location in a file Other files and anchors are the targets of links A link can be either an absolute link or a relative link Absolute links specify the full location of a file You can only use absolute links to link to a file on a different server or disk Relative links omit part of the file specification and use the current location as the default For example http www mydomain com customer index htmis an absolute reference Relative references to this file depend on where your current directory is For example index htmor customer index htm See page 180 for more about the syntax of relative references It s usually best to use relative l
169. ize see page 72 and type color see page 72 of any text Formatted type styles Formatted type styles are styles that have a specific meaning for example bold or italic Regardless of the browser used to view your page text with formatted styles always appear in that style AOLpress has these formatted styles Plain Plain text Bold Bold text Italic Italicized text Underline Underlined text Fixed Pitch a monospaced font such as Courier _ Superscript _ a smaller point size of the current font elevated above the baseline Subscript a smaller point size of the current font moved slightly below the baseline Logical type styles Logical text styles describe how a particular word or phrase is used In contrast formatted type styles describe how a word or phrase should be displayed Logical type styles have no standard appearance Different browsers may display these styles in different ways For example the emphasis style may be italicized on some browsers and shown in bold on others The deleted text and new text styles are HTML 3 2 styles that are not yet supported by all browsers User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 The logical styles are Deleted Text New Text Citation Code Definition Emphasis Keyboard Sample Strong Variable Creating Text and Lists Formatting text Text has been deleted for example in a legal document or a software specification By default a line strikes throu
170. k Page C Blank Miniveb C Nothing Help If you turn off Load Remote Images images that are not stored on your local file system are not loaded unless you click on them This speeds up page loading especially if you are browsing pages with lots of large images or if you are using a fairly slow modem If you find a page with images you want to see use the Browse Load Images menu item to load all the images in that page If you turn on Prefetch Pages AOLpress preloads pages to which the current page has links so that when you click on one of these links it will already be loaded into your computer s memory cache Java applets By default AOLpress shows a box with an X in it where Java applets occur You can hide these X s to see the same page layout as people with other browsers that don t support Java To do this uncheck the Show Java Windows box and restart AOLpress Some browsers including AOLpress can t run or display User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Setting Preferences A General preferences Unix Style Under Microsoft Windows the Delete key normally deletes the next Delete character and the Backspace key deletes the previous character On most Unix and Macintosh systems both keys delete the previous character Setting Unix Style Delete causes both the Delete and Backspace keys to delete the previous character Not setting this field causes the Delete key to delete the next character P
171. l key to make disjoint selections Default Revert Ol 0 U D a D D 1 e 2 Hold down the Ctrl key which lets you select multiple items that are not sequential 3 While you hold down the Ctrl key click on unselected items you want to add to the toolbar Also click on selected items you want to remove from the toolbar Select the items in places where you want a wider space between buttons 4 If you forget to hold down the Ctrl key you can click the Revert button to return to the selections shown when you opened the Configure Toolbar window Or you can click the Default button to return to the default toolbar settings 5 Click OK when you have selected the toolbar buttons you want Another way to configure the toolbar is to add toolbar navigation buttons to your pages See page 117 for details Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 203 Ea Setting Preferences A Configure toolbar 204 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Chapter 16 AOLpress Quick Reference What you ll find in this chapter Page window 206 MiniWeb window 215 Using the mouse 220 Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 205 AOLpress Quick Reference Page window Page window Page window toolbar The Toolbar gives you quick access to frequently used commands such as Cut Copy Paste and Copy URL There is also a MiniWeb icon and a Page icon See page 203 for information about
172. lders how to create them rename them move them and delete them e You know how to use your computer s mouse We assume you have used one of the popular word processing software packages such as Microsoft Word e The editing conventions in AOLpress are similar D O O Pi e The file saving operations in AOLpress look similar but they also allow you to save files over the Internet We do not assume that you are familiar with the World Wide Web and with the concept of navigating through information with hypertext but we recognize that many of you are familiar with these services and concepts e If you are familiar with Web navigation scan Chapter 2 to see how AOLpress lets you browse the Web Then work through its examples to create a Web page AOLserver administrators Administering AOLservers requires expertise typical of a system administrator Extending or customizing the server requires programming expertise The AOLserver manages permissions for access to information user accounts and modification of files Hence the AOLserver administrator has the responsibilities of a system administrator Separate documentation for the AOLserver software is available for those who use the PrimeHost hosting service at the Commercial or Dedicated level and those who download the free AOLserver software and manage their own server Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 13 Welcome About this book About this b
173. ll be asked to confirm that you want to replace the file You will also be asked whether you want to replace any image files that are already stored on your Web site 4 To make this process easier you can add your FTP location to the list of sites you commonly save to by following these steps Choose the Tools Preferences Sites menu item m Inthe Site Location field type the ftp location you used above without the file name for your page For the example in step 2 above you would type ftp myname ftp domain com users myname public_htm1 m Click the Add button then click the Done button Your FTP site will now be listed in the Drives Sites list in the Save As window User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Publishing Pages Publishing to other formats gt To email pages 1 Choose the FileSave As menu item 2 Click the Options button In the Options window select the file format you want to email For example you can send only the text the HTML code or an RTF file that can be imported into Microsoft Word For details on file formats see page 187 3 In the Page Location field type the following where username address org is the email address of the person to whom you want to send the contents of the page mailto username address org 4 Click the OK button to email the page Publishing to other formats When you save a page by default AOLpress saves the HTML code that will be used to display the page o
174. loaded into local memory While this option causes the initial loading to go more slowly browsing is much faster after the pages are loaded See page 192 for details Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 37 Browsing with AOLpress Following links Following links gt To jump to another page To jump to a page that is linked to text or an image in the current page click the mouse on the appropriate text Linked text is usually a different color and underlined m Single clicking replaces the page in the current Page window with the new page m Double clicking creates a new Page window showing the new Web page AOLpress lets you open and browse in multiple windows The number of windows you can open is limited by how much memory RAM your computer lets AOLpress use You will see a message if there is not enough memory to open another window Backward and forward gt Backward m After you follow a hyperlink notice that the Back button is no longer fuzzy a m Click this button to take you back a page The backward function is also available in the Browse menu Browse Backward gt Forward m After you back up notice that the Forward button is no longer fuzzy gt m This button takes you to a Web page you have just backed up from The forward function is also available in the Browse menu Browse Forward With these two buttons you can move through the Web pages you have visited in this Page window Notic
175. m so that it can lock the page While the page is locked edit and then save the page The page will still be locked even if you exit from AOLpress Other people get a warning if they try to edit a page you have locked The warning gives your username so they know who has locked the page They can t save changes to a page you have locked unless they first unlock the page using their username and password When you have changed and saved the page use Tools Administer Page Unlock If this is anew session AOLpress will ask for your username and password Publishing a whole folder If you want to publish all the files in a folder on your computer to the Web you can create a MiniWeb and save it to the Web to publish all the files quickly 182 gt Publishing a folder 1 2 From any Page or MiniWeb window choose the Tools Webize Directory menu item Or Tools gt Webize Folder on a Macintosh See page 164 for details Select the folder you want to publish to the Web and click OK AOLpress will create a MiniWeb view of your folder From the MiniWeb window choose the FileSave As menu item Select the Web location where you want to publish these files see the sections that follow for details Click OK and AOLpress begins saving the files to the Web User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Publishing Pages Publishing to PrimeHost Publishing to PrimeHost Once you create a Web page you can publish it to your personal publishing s
176. mages into rectangular pieces to make it look like the images overlap Instead of this Do this User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Web Pages and What to Putin Them 2 Things Web pages can contain x2 Links For information about putting links in your pages see Chapter 9 Links to another page Links help people move from place to place page 108 Links to a specific position in a page If you create an anchor somewhere in a page a link can jump to that position page 109 Links to send email You can create a link that opens a page that lets the reader send an email message page 115 Links to download a file You can create a link to download a file page 116 Extra buttons in the toolbar You can add buttons to the toolbar for readers using AOLpress page 117 Sound AOLpress doesn t create sound files it lets you put links to sound files you ve created with other software into your Web pages For information about putting multimedia in your pages see Chapter 9 Click to play a sound You can create a link to play a sound file page 116 Background sound You can make sound play when someone loads your page page 126 Frames For information about putting frames in your pages see Chapter 10 Tm e Divide a page into sections You can create frames to divide a page into sections The sections can be scrollable or not scrollable For example you can use frames to display a navigation menu on
177. mat Download the AOLpress 2 0 User Guide in Adobe Acrobat format Search the Documentation Use the Tool Bar Use the Menu Bar Browse Et z TEE Forwar Ctrl F stop ShifttCtrl S Reload Page ShifttCtrl R Load Images Global History Hot List Add To Hot List gt Opening pages with AOLpress You can follow a link in an open page to a new page a new URL If you know the URL address you can type it directly in the Location field or in the window you see after choosing FileOpen If you closed a window containing the page you now want to open during this session or a previous session check the File gt Open Recent list Each AOLpress Page window keeps a history of the current session Using the Back and Forward buttons at the top of the window you can move to any page AOLpress has displayed in a Page window in this session The AOLpress Hot List keeps track of addresses that you have placed there You can use the Hot List to remember names of interesting Web pages and consult your Hot List when you want to return to an URL you previously found AOLpress keeps a Global History of the current session You can jump back to any page in the list of pages that AOLpress has displayed in any Page window There are many Web pages that provide information services for the World Wide Web You can use these to search for information Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 35 oO w n re
178. mat Exit List Format menu item This adds a regular text line below your list Type Send me email Highlight the word email and choose the Element E mail Link menu item In the Send email to field type your email address Then click the OK button For example Email Link x eara o o O chrisi myaddress com Cancel Click on the link you just created to try sending mail to yourself You will see a page that looks like this Go ahead and send yourself an email message using AOLpress E mail Message From someone somewhere com To joe aol com Subject Howdy Joe Send Don t forget to pick up some pizza and beer on the way home Sincerely Joe SS ee aw Notice that the return address for your email is someone somewhere com unless you already changed it This is because AOLpress doesn t yet know what your email address is and you don t have to tell it if you want to keep your email address private Choose the ToolsPreferences Network menu item to open a window where you can set your return email address NO I 4 D r D D o U A Q 5 k m D T lt U D T Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 2 7 Xe Step 8 Add colors and images Create a Web Page in 10 Easy Steps Step 8 Add colors and images 1 Move back to the page you have been creating 2 Choose the Format Page Attributes menu item You will see a win
179. menu in the Page window Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 219 gt O rT aa J 1 V V O AN JJ p rn e i 1 O AOLpress Quick Reference Using the mouse Using the mouse 220 gt Using the mouse on a Macintosh If the instructions in this manual say to right click with the mouse hold down the command apple or cloverleaf key and click the mouse gt Select text with the mouse To set the insertion point click the mouse To set the insertion point in a link use CTRL click to avoid following the link hold the CTRL button down and click the mouse To select a block of text hold the mouse button down and sweep over the letters or words you want to select To extend any selection to the current mouse position SHIFT click hold the SHIFT button down and click the mouse To select a single word double click anywhere on the word To select a whole paragraph triple click anywhere in the paragraph To select the whole page quadruple click anywhere in the page Click in the margin to select parts of a page m single click selects a line m double click selects a paragraph gt Use the mouse for other miscellaneous tasks As you move the mouse the status bar shows the link destinations you move over If you click on a link the link is loaded into the current window If you double click on a link it is loaded into a new window If you hold
180. mouse cursor to a frame border 2 When your cursor looks like the one to the right drag the border gt To set an exact size for your frames 1 Select the frame to which you want to assign a size 2 Choose the Format gt Frames gt Frame Size menu item You will see this window Width oka BE Pixels areal BF Percent 410 Relative Height 410 Pixels 100 Percent t Relative If the frame you selected spans the full width or height of the FrameSet the fields for the Width or Height will be grayed out because the frame is always as wide or tall as the window 130 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating Frames Editing within frames e Percent Initially frame sizes are set to percentages of the entire page window size For example if the window is divided into a left and right frame the percentages might be 30 and 70 e Pixels Selecting this option and typing a number of pixels sets a specific width or height for a frame However you should use a Relative size for at least one frame in each direction This allows one frame to adjust to different page window sizes while the other frames stay the same size e Relative Selecting this option lets you give frames sizes that are relative to each other If you want one frame to use all the remaining space after you specify pixel sizes for other frames select Relative and use a relative width or height of 1 For example if you
181. myadir i Cancel Files Directory mydir Scan List Files of Type MiniWweb or HTML Page Drives Sites cn 2 Choose the file you want to copy The file can be any file on your local or networked disks Or it can be a file on your PrimeHost hosting service directory 3 Click Copy when you have selected the file You will see this window Location To http members aol comnetnamepagel htm l Cancel Files Directory mydir Scan List Files of Type MiniWweb or HTML Page Drives f Sites cn Create Dir 172 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Working with MiniWebs N Editing MiniWebs KA 4 Select the folder where you want to save the file and add a file name You can copy the file to a local disk or to your PrimeHost hosting service directory This method copies a single file It doesn t copy images within pages or other linked files to the new location If you want to copy the images too use the FileSave As menu item and click the Options button to choose whether to save images gt Other ways to copy files to your MiniWeb m Edit a page and choose the File Save As menu item to save the page to your MiniWeb with a new file name or location E Drag and drop a file icon from one MiniWeb to another This copies the file to the second MiniWeb m Import an existing file into the MiniWeb by choosing the FileImport menu item Importing a page into a MiniW
182. n dialogs 14 searching 15 table of contents 15 Help button 14 Help icon 117 Help menu Contents item 15 FAQ item 15 quick reference 214 Search For Help On item 15 Tech Support item 15 Tutorial item 14 Hidden fields 149 Hide Border menu item 81 Hide Frames menu item 133 Hiding files in MiniWeb 169 History of all windows 40 of current window 40 Hit counter 99 Home page as startup page 54 definition of 22 file name of 32 setting in MiniWebs 176 Home Page field arrow to the right of 177 Home page icon 117 Horizontal Rule menu item 99 Horizontal rules 99 custom 104 Hosting service levels of 12 publishing pages to 31 signing up for 16 Hot list 41 copy and paste URL from 110 customizing 42 Hot List menu item 41 Hour glass icon 36 How to use this book 14 htm extension 188 HTML definition of 23 design guidelines for 51 design limitations of 51 editing 153 errors in 154 find and replace 177 further references on 155 links 105 Microsoft tags 155 multiple spaces 64 Netscape tags 155 overview of 151 popups 153 version 3 2 support 155 version 3 2 support conforming to 193 Index viewing source for pages 152 html extension 188 HTTP 202 PUT protocol 186 Hyperlinks see Links HyperText Markup Language see HTML HyperText Transfer Protocol see HTTP Icons animation 203 customizing on MiniWeb 201 customizing on toolbar 203 for file types in MiniWeb
183. n the Web There are several other ways you can save your pages Clicking the Options button on the Save As window gives you this list of options File Format save Images Frames None i Relative C All Cancel Text without linebreaks Relative Links to Full URL l W Relative Java Applets ta Full URL C Use Base when possible Help You can choose any of the following file formats oh a U nn 3 Q U D Q D 7 HTML Saves tagged text for use on the Web This is the default format for pages Text without line breaks Saves only the text from your page No formatting is included Each paragraph is a single line in the text file Text Saves only the text from your page Includes line breaks within paragraphs Java Removes all the formatting and saves only the text which should be Java source code See page 121 for details Rich Text Format RTF Creates a file that you can import into Microsoft Word to retain most of the formatting you used in the page You can also use this file as input to other software programs that create Microsoft Windows online help files Note that when you save a page as text or RTF the Web icon below the toolbar is still shown as a broken Web This is to remind you that you will lose some of the formatting in your page if you do not also save it as HTML Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 187 w Publishing Pages File names and URLs
184. n you choose the Tools gt Preferences Extensions MIME menu V item affect only MiniWeb icons for files inside your MiniWeb To change the icon for files stored outside your MiniWeb add a preface of external to the MIME type You can use different icons for files inside and outside your MiniWeb 3 Type icon file location in the Icon Location field Or click Browse to search for the file You can use gif jpeg or xbm file containing a 32x32 pixel image 4 Click Add to save your new entry If the Add button is gray type an extra space in the Icon Location field 5 To change an icon select a MIME Type change its icon location and click Change Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 201 E Sites 202 Setting Preferences Sites This window lets you store a list of folders on your local drives and server sites on which you can save pages AOLpress uses this list in various places For example the list in this window appears in the Drives Sites field in the File gt Open window The list can contain more than AOLserver locations You can add any folder on your local drives any directory on a server on which you publish pages or any MiniWeb to this list gt To add a new server or folder location 1 Choose the Tools gt Preferences gt Sites menu item You will see the following pref erences window Site Preferences x Site Location http daww aolpress com http daww primehost com http daw
185. ndow for your other pages if you like It is important to rate all your pages that can be found by searching the Web 5 Click OK in the Page Attributes window when you have finished rating your page For information on the other fields in this window see page 102 and page 117 Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 101 Co gt Q D Q Oo a Adding Images P Setting colors and background images Setting colors and background images The section on page 72 showed how to change the color of text in your page In addition you can change the color of all the text the linked text or the background color of a page You can also use an image file for the background of a page You use Format Page Attributes to set colors and select a background image Education and Training Company This is a list of our training classes Follow the class Lo E 4 links for course descriptions locations and He ns schedules To register for a course or seminar go to the desk Our instructors are trained educators with a minimum of three years experience Courses include hands on experience and emphasize real world examples l Any browser that allows background color changes will display the colors you set gt To set background and text colors for the whole page 1 Choose Format gt Page Attributes You will see the following window This window allows you to select colors for the page background the normal
186. ndows so they overlap and titles are visible Arrange Icons Arranges icons of minimized Page and MiniWeb windows Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 213 214 AOLpress Quick Reference Page window Help menu The Help menu provides a variety of ways to get more information on AOLpress Contents Search for Help Online Resources FAQ Tutorial Tech Support Show Tool Tips Show Page Popups About AOLpress Contents Search For Help On Online Resources FAG Tutorial Tech Support 7 Show Tool Tips w Show Page Popups Shout AOL mess Shows a page with links to various types of AOLpress documentation Follow the link to the reference information for online help Lets you search for keywords in the documentation Provides access to clip art and other resources Answers Frequently Asked Questions Teaches you how to use the software Shows email addresses and telephone numbers for technical support The mail link lets you send us an email message Lets you turn on and off the labels that appear for toolbar items when you place the mouse over them Turns on and off popups of the HTML for selected text and links that appear when you place the mouse over them Shows the version number of your copy of the software User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 AOLpress Quick Reference MiniWeb window MiniWeb window MiniWeb window toolbar The toolbar gives you quick acces
187. ne for the new item 3 Type text or Paste previously typed list items Several list items can be pasted in at once The items below the new items shift downward to accommodate the new list items gt Delete or move items within the list m Use basic editing conventions cut copy paste and backspace If you add or delete an item in the middle of a Numbered list all the items below it are automatically renumbered to reflect the change If the numbers look odd scroll up and down to refresh the screen gt Add a normal paragraph within a list E Normally when you press the Enter or Return key within a list the bullet or number for the next item is added automatically However sometimes you want to add a second paragraph to a single list item To add a second paragraph within a list choose Format gt Paragraph gt New gt Remove a list structure that is make it unstructured Place the cursor in the list and choose Format Remove List Format m Individual items in a list cannot be unstructured You must unstructure the whole list at once m Use Edit Undo if you want to correct a recent formatting choice Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 77 O Q _ D ae F Q Q E N F N en Pt Creating Text and Lists Lists Definition Lists Definition lists contain indented Terms followed by their Definitions indented further Example of a Defin
188. ng with MiniWebs What you ll find in this chapter Things to know about MiniWebs Creating MiniWebs Viewing MiniWebs Editing MiniWebs Managing MiniWebs 160 163 165 171 176 MiniWebs help you manage the files that make up your Web site You can think of a MiniWeb as being similar to the Windows File Manager or the Macintosh Finder MiniWebs provide a visual structure for organizing and manipulating your Web pages In addition to letting you visualize and edit your Web structures one of the real strengths of MiniWebs is that they help you manage and maintain your Web structures Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 159 A X y Working with MiniWebs Things to know about MiniWebs These are just some of the benefits provided by MiniWebs MiniWebs help you visualize the organization of your pages and other files You can view MiniWebs in many ways as a web as a tree and as a list of files sorted by name title or type These views make it easy to find broken links pages not linked to other pages pages you have links to but have not yet created and more You can show or hide both links fo files and links from files and you can hide groups of files so that you can focus on other files MiniWebs help you edit groups of files You can Webize an existing set of folders making MiniWebs and SubWebs nested MiniWebs automatically You can perform a Find and Replace on all the pages in a Mi
189. niWeb at once You can create a stationery page to be used as a template for all new pages If you rename a file in a MiniWeb links to that file in the current MiniWeb are automatically corrected You can drag and drop files from your MiniWeb to your pages to create links MiniWebs help manage your pages and other files You can publish the contents of an entire folder and it s sub folders if you like to your Web site by saving a MiniWeb to the Web You can check all the links in your MiniWeb and fix any broken links You can find files that are not linked to and therefore are not needed You can spell check the entire MiniWeb at once You can print all the pages in a MiniWeb or print any view of a MiniWeb You can use a hierarchical folder structure with relative links between files in different folders This makes it easy to move files to a different location Things to know about MiniWebs Each MiniWeb shows the contents of a folder on your local machine or on your hosting service directory When you create files in a MiniWeb you are also creating files in that folder You can put one MiniWeb inside another MiniWeb to reflect the structure of your entire site Such nested webs are called SubWebs See page 179 for details 160 MiniWebs are excellent tools for creating Web sites with multiple pages even if you expect your readers will be using browsers other than AOLpress Because MiniWebs are uniqu
190. nnot display Included in this category are such objects as images video clips audio clips and PostScript files When you click on the link to one of these types of files AOLpress can launch an external viewer and the contents of the file appears on your screen or plays through your audio device If you have not specified an external viewer for a particular type of file AOLpress copies the file to your local hard drive and asks you for a file name To set external viewers for AOLpress see page 199 Browsing preferences You can choose the Tools gt Preferences General menu item to bring up the General Preferences window This window lets you make some choices about what happens when you browse with AOLpress Load images If the Load Remote Images field in the General Preferences window is not check marked then when AOLpress opens a page it does not load the images in that page Instead an hour glass icon or question mark icon is shown where the image would appear This can save time if your modem is not very fast See page 192 for details oO w n gt O g U 7 Clicking on the question mark causes the image to be loaded Or you can choose the BrowseLoad Images menu item when you find a page with images you want to see Prefetch pages If the Prefetch Pages field in the General Preferences window is check marked then whenever a web page is opened all pages to which that page links to are
191. not open save delete or browse on network locations If you have additional questions about using AOLpress with various types of Internet connections see the Frequently Asked Questions FAQ lists at http www aolpress com fag html and at http www primehost com faq fag htm MS Windows Microsoft Windows 3 1 NT Workgroups or Windows 95 Intel x86 microprocessor 386 minimum 486 or above recommended 4 Mbytes RAM minimum 8 Mbytes recommended 5 Mbytes free disk space required for installation Internet TCP IP software e Windows NT and Windows95 have support for TCP IP built in Windows NT and Windows95 users do not need to install third party software gt gt oe gt e Windows 3 1 and Windows for Workgroups do not have built in support for TCP IP You need TCP IP stack software if you want to use the Web Sources of TCP IP stacks include FTP Inc Microsoft NetManage Novell and Spry A modem or direct network connection Color monitor set to display at least 256 colors Macintosh System 7 or above CPU 68030 or higher or Power PC 16 megabytes of RAM 24 megabytes required to use AOL and AOLpress together 5 Mbytes disk space required for installation MacTCP or Open Transport software check your system disks if it 1s not installed gt gt gt A modem or direct network connection If you use a modem you also need PPP or SLIP software Color monitor set to display at least 256
192. nt to allow a word without adding it to the dictionary click Skip The word will be ignored until you exit from AOLpress 3 AOLpress continues moving forward through your page to check the spelling If you started the spell check in the middle of the page it goes back to check the first part of your page too When you finish checking your page click Done to close the Spell Check window You can control the lists of words that have been added to your AOLpress dictionary and words that will be automatically replaced by the spell checker gt To edit the list of learned words 1 Click the Options button in the Spell Check window You will see a window that looks like this one 2 If you want to select a different Personal Dictionary or create a new one with no extra words click the Select button You will see a standard file selection window You can select any dictionary you have created with AOLpress To create a new dictionary specify a file name with an extension of hsh and click OK 3 If you want to see or edit the list of learned words click the Edit button for Spell Options x Personal Dictionary F Select Edit Replacement List Select Edit Character Set Mormally the spelling checker guesses the 26 letters used in modern English If you need it to guess accented letters please enter them here the Personal Dictionary You will see a page like the follo
193. o add file types to the list in this Ai ailes Help _ window type a MIME type in the field and click Add The new type will be added above Anything else For a list of MIME types choose Tools gt Preferences Extensions MIME gt To hide or display links in the Name Title or MIME type view m If the Name Title or MIME Type view does not show links to other files you can display them by choosing the View List Links To menu item m If the same view does not show links from other files you can display them by choosing the ViewList Links From menu item k Go O a pot gt 2 D O e m Ifa type of link is shown you can hide those links by reselecting the menu item gt To find a file 1 If you want to find a particular file in a large MiniWeb choose Edit gt Find Page 2 Inthe Find Page window type the full name of the file you want to find The file can be a page or any other file in the MiniWeb 3 Click OK The file you named will be highlighted in the MiniWeb gt To zoom in or out in the Web or Tree view m You can view part of the MiniWeb at a larger size by choosing ViewZoom In m You can view more of a MiniWeb by choosing the View Zoom Out menu item Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 169 N VA N 170 lt Working with MiniWebs Viewing MiniWebs Using the MiniWeb view Pointing the mouse at an icon displays the file s title or
194. o create both types of map files See page 111 for details about server side and client side image maps aaz Close Click this button to close the Image Map window You will be prompted to save any changes you have made HELF Help Click this button for online help on making image maps You can see the nvm file you create for server side image maps in the MiniWeb view If you delete an image map from a page by highlighting it and pressing the Delete key the image and image map files are not deleted To delete the files you can use File Delete or select and delete the files icons in the MiniWeb view User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Links and Multimedia Multimedia links Multimedia links You can also use AOLpress to create links to email addresses AOL keywords and sound and video files Email links If you want people who visit your pages to be able to send you email by clicking on a link you can create an email link gt Creating an email link 1 Select the text you want to link For example you might select your email address or text that says Send me email If you don t select anything first the e mail address will automatically be added to the page and linked O 2 Choose the Element gt E mail Link menu item to bring up the E mail Link window 3 Inthe Link field type yourname youraddress com 4 Click OK When your readers click on this link most browsers will let them send email t
195. o lets you reverse terms and defi nitions in a Definition list Form Inserts a form and prompts you for the URL of a script on your Show Borders Page Attributes Frames server that runs when the form is submitted Draws a border around forms and lists so you can see where they start and end When the borders are shown this command changes to Hide Borders Lets you change the background and text colors of your page A submenu lets you edit frames in a Frameset page User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Table menu AOLpress Quick Reference 9p poocoe Page window The Table menu lets you create and format tables in your pages Create Table Alter gt Split Cell Merge Cell Normal Cell Header Cell V Align Row V Align Cell gt Center Table 4 Uncenter Table Create T able Alter i Split Eel Merge Cell Normal Cell Header Cell V Align Row i Align Cell b Center Table Lets you create a table and specify the number of rows set the spacing and border width and create table captions Lets you modify the number of rows and columns and the spacing and border width Lets you split a cell that has been merged Lets you merge several cells into a single cell Turns a header cell into a normal cell Turns a normal cell into a header cell Aligns contents of an entire row to the top middle or bottom Aligns the contents of one cell to the top middle or bottom Centers or uncenters
196. o the address you typed 5 Ifyou test an email link with AOLpress the return email address will be someonelsomewhere com if AOLpress doesn t yet know your email address Choose the Tools gt Preferences gt Network menu item to open a window where you can set your return email address Links to AOL keywords L You can also create links to AOL keywords However you cannot follow these links with AOLpress In fact the only people who can follow these links are people who are accessing the Web with AOL s Web browser NEW S gt Creating a link to AOL 1 Find the keyword for the AOL location you want to link to 2 Choose the Element Link menu item 3 Type aol 1722 keyword in the Link To Page field where keyword is the keyword for the AOL window you want to link to For example aol 1722 WEBMASTER links to the Web Developers Resource Center Even if the AOL keyword contains spaces don t include any spaces in the keyword you use in the link Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 115 CO gt Q ro E 5 oO Q D Q D 116 Adding Links and Multimedia Multimedia links Links to sound and video One of the great things about the Web is that your pages can contain links to all kinds of things In addition to other pages you can link to sounds video and more If your readers will need a special application to view your files you can also provide a link that lets
197. on a MiniWeb icon while holding down the Control key also copies the URL so you can paste it Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 175 FX DTA Working with MiniWebs Managing MiniWebs 3 Move to a Page window and position the cursor wherever you want to place the link If the text or image you want to act as a link is already in the page high light it If you don t highlight any text the title of the page you are linking to 1s automatically added to your page as a link 4 Choose the Edit Paste URL menu item Setting titles for files in a MiniWeb Page titles are the text that appears at the top of a Page window You should use titles that describe the contents of individual pages but provide consistency within your Web site To help you create consistent page titles AOLpress lets you change titles from within a MiniWeb In addition you may want to provide text to describe other types of files This text will appear in the status bar at the bottom of the window when your mouse points to the file in the MiniWeb gt To change a page title 1 Select the icon for a file While your mouse points to this file you will see the current title of the file in the status bar at the bottom of the window If there is no title you see the filename 2 Choose the Edit gt Set Title menu item You will see a window like this Please supply a brief descriptive line for this page 3 Edit the title and click OK Our Company Name
198. ook This book is both a tutorial and a reference manual for the AOLpress software We intend this book for the novice and the experienced user If you are a new user you should start with Part I use the software for a while and then read through the rest of the book Experienced users can search through the chapters table of contents and index to find special topics explained This book also covers the way AOLpress and the PrimeHost hosting service interact The AOLserver documentation describes how to administer and program the server How to use this book We urge you to use this book not just read it To learn about the software use the book as a tutorial We show how to accomplish a variety of tasks Work through the instructions to learn The book usually introduces a set of steps to accomplish a particular task with a distinctive heading gt Doa task Following the heading that introduces a task are either sequential steps or optional steps each with its distinctive style 1 Numbered paragraphs like this one designate step by step instructions Follow them to learn how the tools work 2 Menu commands are shown with arrows for example File gt Save means you should pull down the File menu and choose the Save option m Paragraphs with a square bullet like this one are optional steps Usually there is a sequence Do one or more of the steps to cause the designated action or actions We recommend that you review th
199. opy a file from anywhere locally or on the network to anywhere else Lets you browse for files and delete them Lets you choose a printer and its settings Lets you send the current page to a printer Opens information about downloading the latest version Exits Prompts if you have unsaved changes Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 207 gt O rT aa J 1 V V O AN JJ p rn e i 1 O AOLpress Quick Reference Page window Edit menu You use the Edit menu to modify your pages Edit Cut Ctrl Copy Ctrl C Paste Cirl y Clear Select All Ctri t Copy URL of Page Shift Ctrl C Paste URL Shift Ctrl Find Replace Shiftt Ctri F Find Next Ctrl G Undo Undoes the last edit some operations like Insert File may not be undone There is no limit to the number of Undos Redo Reverses the last Undo Cut Saves selection to the clipboard and deletes it from the page Copy Saves the selection to the clipboard Paste Transfers the contents of the clipboard to the current page either at the current insertion point or in place of the selection If the clipboard contains an URL from a Copy URL command acts like the Paste URL command Clear Deletes the selection without saving it Select All Selects the entire page Copy URL of Page Saves the URL of the current page or if the selection contains a link then the URL in the link into the clipboard in such a way that
200. or Publish When you make your pages public to other people browsing the Web you are publishing those pages With AOLpress publishing is about as easy as saving a file with a word processor Step 2 Start AOLpress gt To start AOLpress m Double click the AOLpress icon in the AOLpress program group or folder AOLpress automatically opens a Page Window with helpful pointers to documentation support and authoring assistance You can set the Preferences see page 196 to have AOLpress open a different page when you start AOLpress AOLpress Pile Es File Edit Element Format Table Tools Browse Window Help er begia AAEE Ek E e ale e ee me Location C AOLPRESSithelp press htm A Title Welcome to AOLpress 2 0 A Welcome to AOLpress 2 0 Welcome to AOLpress enter address to opena ee o AOL Members AOLpress Tutorial Only Publish to AOL Web page Local Help amp Readme P PrimeHost Web Online Documentation Hosting Service amp Tempiates Get Information at Bug Feedback Form inf Support Customers Only support aolpress com If you haven t browsed the Web before see page 33 to learn how If you have already browsed the Web you can browse the Web with AOLpress the same way you would with other browser software programs Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 23 Location field NO I 4 D p D D D o U 9 Q D 5 k mMm 9 T
201. ors a reader with a default background of black and light text may not be able to read your page because the text may appear light on a light background The default colors are Background Gray cOcOcO Text Black 000000 Link Blue 0000ff Visited Link Deep Purple 400080 gt To select a background image 1 Choose the Format Page Attributes menu item 2 Type an URL in the Location field or click the Browse button to find the new image If the image you select is smaller than the browser window the image will be tiled to fill the whole space You should use an image with edges that match up when the image is tiled Tiling allows you to specify a small image that will load quickly Co gt Q D Q Oo 3 You can click the Rel button to change the reference to the background image to a relative URL If the reference is already a relative reference you can click the Abs button to change the reference to an absolute reference See page 106 for an expla nation of relative and absolute references 4 If you want to copy the background image you selected to the same folder as your page check the Import Image box 5 Click OK to see the effects of your changes AOLpress displays the page s background color or image behind transparent GIF 1 images AOLpress lets you use a GIF or JPG file as a background image For information on the other fields in this window see page 100 and page 117 If yo
202. osave subfolder Conform This field lets you choose whether you want AOLpress to create and To display HTML code using the Netscape conventions or HTML 3 2 If most of your readers will be using Netscape to browse your pages you should conform to Netscape conventions Otherwise HTML 3 2 may be a better choice Changing the Conform To field doesn t affect how other browsers display your page You may want to explicitly set features where the default varies to make all browsers use the same setting Changing this setting affects the following areas Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 193 GE 194 Setting Preferences General preferences Multiple Spaces Server Side Includes Feature Netscape HTML 3 2 Tags for font size changes lt FONT SIZE gt lt BIG gt lt SMALL gt Does gt end quoted attributes Yes No within tags Can pages have multiple lt TITLE gt s Yes No and lt BoDy gt s Must lt SCRIPT gt be within No Yes lt HEAD gt block By default HTML displays multiple white space characters spaces tabs etc as a single space except in Preformatted paragraphs If One is selected in the Text Edit Spacing field you can only type one space in a row AOLpress provides a way for you to type multiple spaces by using special non breaking space characters When you type multiple spaces spaces other than the first one are actually non breaking spaces Non breaking spaces keep
203. ose the File Save As menu item You can use this window to move the MiniWeb to a different location on your local disk or on the Web The files in your MiniWeb are copied to the new location you choose The File gt Save As menu item provides a quick way to publish all the files in a folder to the Web See page 182 for details The Options button opens a window that lets you choose whether or not to save all the SubWebs under this MiniWeb You can also choose whether or not to convert relative references to absolute references By default relative links to files in the same MiniWeb are still relative in the new location and SubWebs under the MiniWeb are also copied to the new location User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Working with MiniWebs A Editing MiniWebs Z Deleting files in MiniWebs When you delete a file from a MiniWeb you are also deleting the file from your disk or from the server s disk If other files in your MiniWeb link to the file you delete you will still see a ghost image of the file icon Deleting an image or image map from a page does not delete the actual file Likewise deleting a page file does not delete files associated with it such as images and image maps If you want to delete files associated with another file you must delete them separately using one of the following techniques gt To delete a file either E Ina MiniWeb view highlight an icon and press the Delete or Backspace key You will not b
204. ost servers all AOLservers support both GET and POST older servers may only support GET You should use POST if you can because it can transfer more information The form data gets sent to the server in a different way depending on whether you choose GET or POST e GET causes the filled out form contents to be added to the URL as if they were a normal query The program gets the data from an environment variable e POST causes the filled out form contents to be sent to the server in the hidden header information rather than as part of the URL The program gets the data from the standard input location If you are using frames select or type the Target Frame you want to display the page you are linking to See page 134 for details Click OK to create the form The Form Palette appears containing 8 buttons for field elements You can move the Form Palette anywhere on your screen Dotted lines appear around the form Click the cursor inside the form between the dotted lines to make the Form Palette visible Click the cursor outside the form to hide the Form Palette You can display or hide the dotted boundary of the form with Format Hide Borders Show Borders This also displays hides dashed borders around lists gt Moving out of a form or removing a form Click Format Exit Form Format when the form is at the bottom of the page and there is nothing beneath the form to click into and you want to exit the form Use the op
205. other formats File names and URLs 182 182 183 184 185 185 187 188 One of the most popular features of the AOLpress is the integrated ability to browse edit and publish pages You can update pages and publish them at any time If you have questions about publishing with AOLpress see the Frequently Asked Questions FAQ lists at http www aolpress com fag html and http www primehost com faq Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 181 a Publishing Pages Publishing with multiple authors Publishing with multiple authors AOLpress helps you avoid conflicts when several people edit the same Web pages When you publish a page AOLservers v2 1 or higher make sure no one has changed the page since the last time you loaded it If anyone has changed the page the server sends you a message Other servers may check versions and give similar messages If you want to warn other people in your group that you are making changes to a page you can lock the page gt To lock a page 1 Choose the Tools Administer Page Lock menu item If the Lock item is dimmed and the Unlock item is not dimmed this page is already locked If both items are dimmed the server that stores this page does not support page locking There may be a delay before the menu item is undimmed while AOLpress asks the server whether it supports file locking If you haven t already provided your username and password AOLpress will prompt you for the
206. ou are a PrimeHost hosting service customer or an AOL member you can use a built in counter image program to show how many times a page has been visited For example This page has been visited times Co gt Q D Q Oo gt To find out how to add a counter to your page m Ifyou area PrimeHost hosting service member see the PrimeHost Getting Started Guide at http www primehost com members create tutorial index htm and the PrimeHost FAQ at http www primehost com faq fag htm If you are an AOL member see that Web Administrator s page 4 http members aol min index htm Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 99 HO 44 amp 4 e ee Adding Images Rating your page content Rating your page content 100 If your pages contain text images or other content that might be offensive to children or to their parents or teachers you should add a rating to your pages The rating you add is supported by several browsers to allow parents and teachers to control the level of potentially offensive material children can access By rating your pages honestly and encouraging others to do so you can help reduce the call for government sponsored censorship of the World Wide Web AOLpress supports the Platform for Internet Content Selection PICS standard You can type a label for any PICS implementation Two popular implementations of the PICS standard are RSACi
207. ou used in the link window Click OK Any text you selected in your page turns magenta pink This reminds you where the anchors are located Other browsers show anchors as normal text Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 109 gt Q to E x oO D Q D Q D Adding Links and Multimedia Creating links gt To check anchor names or remove anchors ole g I Copying and pasting URLs In addition to selecting text to link to you can copy and paste URLs from almost any source including Hot Lists and web pages 110 If you forget an anchor name and want to create a link to that anchor select the anchor text and choose Element Anchor You will see the anchor name in a window If you erase the anchor name from this window and click OK the anchor will be removed from the page If you leave your mouse cursor motionless over a link for a second AOLpress shows the link location in a blue popup area You can turn off these popups by choosing Help gt Hide Page Popups This also turns off pink HTML popups Windows only gt Copying an URL If the page you want to link to is stored in your Hot List open your Hot List with the Browse Hot List menu item select the page you want to link to and click the Copy URL button This copies the URL of the page so that you can paste it If you ve already opened the page whose address you want to copy choose the Edit gt Copy UR
208. p 6 Create links to other pages 0 0 0 0 cee eee 25 Step 7 Create an email link 0 0 0 cee eee 2 Step 8 Add colors and images 0 00 cece eee eens 28 Step 9 Saving to your local disk 0 0 0 0 ce eee eee 30 Step 10 Publishing to PrimeHost or AOL 31 Leanni Moles lt o64k ch04 karnap Uuese wees te obese adtes os 32 Chapter 3 Browsing with AOLpress 33 OWCK Stas vce doa Gowen eb wa eee a boee heed eae ce ees 34 Opening pages eee edene waned a end see ae ares Bowe 35 Viewing a pafe be ba SS Oe ace EASE A RRO EAEn 36 Following linkses resene 026 CFF EE eK Shee E a 38 Ita link doesn t WOrK 430002400062 e0 eden cadeatecvetee cs 39 History treturning to where you ve been 4 40 Hot list keep track of pages 0 0 0 cee 4 Where 10 DrOWSC e trese roriepered nee taned eee bone Seawens 42 Part 2 Creating Pages Chapter 4 Web Pages and What to Put in Them 45 Things Web pages can contain 0 0 0 eee eee 46 Figuring out how a page was created 0 00 eee eee 51 Page design guidelines ccc ee eee ees 51 Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web Detailed Contents Chapter 5 Creating and Saving Pages 53 Creating a Dlank pate sx bs aecdsevebsvenisveinseodeawads 54 Editing and saving an existing page 000 eee eee 55 Importing adocument s esisrsrisrirestiri stiki rarer ds 56 DClCCHGS MICS erar
209. pace on the PrimeHost hosting service Until you publish it your page exists only on your disk You can see your page but no one else can gt Publish your Web page to the PrimeHost hosting service 1 Choose the FileSave As menu item This window appears For details on using such windows on PCs and Macintoshes see page 58 Location OK http members aol com members iimembers aol com members Cancel Files T ail members sts z f i Options Drives Sites http members aol com Create Dir 2 Inthe Page Location field type URL for your publishing directory or select it from the Sites field if you ve published to this location before 3 If you want to add a directory click the Create Dir button and use the window that opens to create a subdirectory under the directory for your username Create Directory x Location Create cmydiritesting l Cancel Files Directory mydir Scan Enter new directory name List Files of Type MiniWweb or HTML Page Drives Sites cn Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 183 a i gt U c o TI gt Q U o Q D O w Publishing Pages Publishing to AOL 4 Move the cursor to the Page Location field and add a file name for the Web page to the end of the page location A common convention is a name followed by htm for example you might ty
210. pe joespage htm 5 Click the OK button to save the page Saving the file across the network may take a few seconds m You may be asked for your username and password If so type your PrimeHost hosting service username and password Authentication security for http members aol com screen_name jindex htm Name Ce Password PO Cancel m Ifan older version of the page is already stored on the server you will be asked to confirm that you want to replace the file You will also be asked whether you want to replace any image files that are already stored on your Web site Now your page is on the Web If you have questions about publishing with AOLpress see the Frequently Asked Questions FAQ list at http www primehost com faq Publishing to AOL 184 Your AOL membership includes publishing space for up to 2 MB of pages and images Go to keyword My Place on AOL to set up your directory and learn more In addition you read http www aolpress com press membertfaq html for details about the version of the AOL software you need to be using to publish with AOLpress and troubleshooting hints gt Publish your Web page to your AOL account 1 Choose the File gt Save As menu item 2 Type http members aol com screenname pagename htm in the Page Location field where screenname is the name you used to log into AOL If you this is your default page give it a page name of index htm or index html 3 Click
211. ps e Step 5 Create a list H Step 5 Create a list 1 After your welcome message type this text W Chris s Page Welcome to Chris s Home Page j These are my tavorite links AOLoress Excite 2 Use your mouse to highlight the lines that say AOLpress and Excite High light all of both lines 3 Choose the Format List Bulleted List menu item to make these two lines a list These are my favorite links AOLpress Excite Step 6 Create links to other pages 1 Use your mouse to highlight the word AOLpress in your window Then choose the Element Link menu item 2 Type the URL for the AOLpress home page http www aolpress com in the Link to Page field like this Then click the OK button The text that says AOLpress is now a link to the AOLpress home page Link To Page o http daww aolpress com Browse Abs T ance Append Anchor Name Bulletin Target Frame PO Help 3 Double click on the link you just created Double clicking opens a second window Don t worry if you accidentally single click on the link You can use the Back button later to move back to the page you are editing Your changes to the page will still be there unless you close the window you were editing in without saving or click the Reload Page icon NO I 4 D r D D o U A Q 5 k m D T lt U r Oo T Do It Yourself Publi
212. put text graphics and other elements into table cells just as you would add them elsewhere on a page Just position your cursor and type You can also add text formatting images headings links forms horizontal rules even other tables If the items you want to place in a table are already in your page highlight them before you create the table Then when you create the table table cells will be filled with the paragraphs you selected from left to right and then from top to bottom Lists forms and other tables are not split up the entire list form or table is placed in a single cell You can use the arrow keys to move the cursor from the end or beginning of one cell to another You can start new paragraphs by pressing Enter or Return on some keyboards You can force text to wrap to the next line by choosing the Element Forced Line Break menu item Cells automatically expand as you add elements Once the table is as wide as your page window text wraps to the next line in the cell When your readers view this page wide tables are adjusted to fit in the width of their browser windows We recommend that you test the formatting of your tables with various page window widths See page 89 for advanced ways to control the width of your tables and table cells User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Tables Formatting table cells J Formatting table cells A special way of formatting table cells is to make them header cells B
213. r creating and publishing Web pages it is also a browser Familiarity with AOLpress and its differences from other Web browsers is also important when you create pages In general browsing the Web with AOLpress is much like browsing the Web with an ordinary Web browser Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 33 Browsing with AOLpress Quick start Quick start Here is a quick summary of commands you can use while browsing the Web Opening Pages When you know the URL Location field at top of page or File gt Open menu Location field Hyperlinks Single click on the hyperlink double click to get the page in anew window Window history Click drop down arrow of Location field in page window Global history Browse Global History Click Fetch button Hot List Browse Hot List Viewing Back Back button at top of page Forward Forward button at top of page No images Tools Preferences General Stop loading Stop button Reload Browse Reload Page or press Browse button in Tool Bar Load or reload images BrowseLoad Images Hot List Add URL to Hot List Browse Add To Hot List Edit Hot List Browse Hot List 34 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Browsing with AOLpress Opening pages ay Opening pages As the following figures show there are several ways to open Web pages in AOLpress Open Locations Location Open http Awww aolpress carn Cancel Follow hyperlinks Read the AOLpress 2 0 User Guide in Hypertext for
214. r does not change it 5 Optionally specify the Rows number of rows and Cols number of columns to set the size of the Text Area in the page A user may enter more characters than the number of rows and columns can display but the horizontal and vertical scroll bars allow the user to read everything in the text area 6 Click OK and the text area appears where the cursor was positioned Every element in a form must have a Form Tag to name the field or button This name identifies the fields that contained each value when the results are sent to the form handler When a form is submitted then the information sent to the form handler for a text area will contain lt Form Tag gt lt Contents of the Text Area gt User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating and Using Forms Using the form palette Selection Lists You can insert a Selection List either a scrollable list from which the user may select one or many items or a pull down list from which the user may ar select one item into a form SList gt Add a Selection List Position the cursor where you want the Selection List to be 2 Click the SList button on the form palette to see this window Form Tag continent OK Number of lines Elements Cancel displayed In North Amertsa Select list Antarctica s Add Australia Africa Change Asia Click to make Europe frelete i items worth America P selection zi Down Attributes Selection lis
215. replace combinat The first word on the following lines will be re You may add as many pairs as you wish Any lir parsed will be ignored Your additions need ne order and case is ignored You must save the page before your changes take E G print print 4 You can add words to this list or remove words Put exactly two words on each line The first word should be the one you want to replace The second word should be the one you want to replace it with When you finish editing the list of replaced words save this page The next time you spell check a page the words you listed will be replaced automatically Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 69 O Q _ D ae F Q Q N mp N Creating Text and Lists Formatting text Formatting text 70 Text can be given distinctive styles like bold italic fixed width and more To format the text you have selected use the Format gt Type Style menu Type styles are applied to individual characters and strings of characters like words and sentences as opposed to whole paragraphs or other page elements Some paragraph styles also affect how text looks for example Headings and Quotations You can use the type styles described in this section to further modify the type style of a Heading or other paragraph style AOLpress provides two categories of type styles formatted physical styles and logical styles You can also change the type s
216. ress signatures 75 alignment of 73 block quotes 75 in a list 77 new 63 normal 73 preformatted 75 removing format of 75 removing structure 81 selecting 73 structure of 73 _param files 123 Parameter files for Java applets displaying 170 Parent frame 134 Parental control of content 100 Parse menu item 153 Parsed files 154 Password verification dialog 32 Paste icon 62 63 Paste menu item 63 Paste URL icon 110 Pasting text 62 Path name specifying in URL 108 Personal service level 12 publishing pages with 31 Phone numbers 16 PICS Platform for Internet Content Selection 100 Pictures see Images 236 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Plain text 81 Plain type style 70 Platform for Internet Content Selection see PICS Platforms filename conventions on 188 supported 16 Popups HTML 153 links 110 Port number in URL 107 Posix file names 195 POST method 140 PostScript files viewing 37 PPP connection 18 Preferences menu Animation item 203 Configure Toolbar item 203 Extensions MIME item 199 Font item 198 General item 192 MIME Viewer item 200 MiniWeb Icons item 201 Network item 196 Sites item 202 Prefetch Pages field 37 Preformatted paragraphs 64 Preformatted text 75 Preloading pages 192 Previous icon 117 Print Graphs menu item 178 Print menu item 178 Print Setup menu item 37 Printing pages and MiniWebs 178 progressive JPEG 93 Proxy server 197 Publishing pages 181
217. ressing CTRL D always deletes the next character Edit The Edit Complex Lists check box controls what happens when you Complex paste paragraphs into a list or create a nested list by adding list Lists formatting to existing list items If this field is unchecked Pasting paragraphs into a list adds new list items to the list If you create a nested list the nested list is added within the current list item If this field is checked Pasting paragraphs into a list adds more paragraphs to the current list item If you create a nested list a new list item is added to the outer list to contain the nested list Backup AOLpress stores backup copies of the pages you have edited but have Frequency not saved When you restart AOLpress after a crash it opens these copies and tells you that it is recovering old files You can continue editing these files without losing much of your work Use the Backup Frequency field to control how often AOLpress saves copies of your work If you set this field to zero 0 AOLpress does not save any backup copies The copies of your pages are stored with names like autol htm in the autosave subfolder below the folder where you installed AOLpress h Qi 0 U D a D D 1 A AOLpress does not make backup files for changes to MiniWebs If AOLpress gets stuck or crashes and then gets stuck when you try to run it again try deleting the files in the aut
218. rn off these popups by choosing Help gt Hide Page Popups Windows only You can create bulletins for links and for pages Bulletins can also allow you to notify users of Smart Bookmarks when you update your pages See http www firstfloor com for details To create a bulletin for a link choose the Element Link menu item and click the Bulletin button To create a bulletin for a page choose the FormatPage Attributes menu item and click the Bulletin button Creating a bulletin also stores a bulletin with the date the bulletin was created in Universal Time GMT User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 What s New in V2 0 Images Images AOLpress displays transparent GIF images correctly even if your images are on top of a background image AOLpress can also display progressive JPEG images You can set the width and height of an image in the window you see when you choose the Element Image menu item You can still resize images by dragging the border with the mouse To reset the width and height to the actual size of the image open the Image window and remove the values from the Width and Height fields When you click OK the image returns to its actual size AOLpress has two settings for image viewing The default setting allows you to view transparent GIFs progressive JPEGs and ART files used in AOL If you notice that AOLpress crashes when loading images change the Image Display Method to Photoshop4 JPEG in
219. rogram for a form to run 138 When you submit a form on the Web a program on the server runs to send email get information from a database or whatever the particular form does Normally you would have to write programs to do these things However some built in programs are provided with the PrimeHost hosting service These programs let you use forms without being a programmer Note You can t test your forms when they are stored on your local computer s disk You ll need to save pages to your server before you test forms PrimeHost hosting service customers Several programs are provided with your account including programs for sending form replies as email See the PrimeHost features list at http www primehost com members features htm for details User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating and Using Forms Creating forms AOL members Several programs are provided with your membership including O programs for sending form replies as email and providing a guestbook where visitors can sign in See the AOL Web Administrator s page at http members aol com wwwadmin index htm for details Commercial or Dedicated PrimeHost hosting service or an AOLserver There are a number of built in programs for searching and adding information to database tables See the AOLserver documentation for more information Commercial or Dedicated PrimeHost hosting service or an AOLserver You can write your own form h
220. rograms to create animated GIFs You won t see the anima tion in AOLpress but you will when you use browsers that support animated GIFs Other ways to create animation are to use other software programs that create Java ActiveX or a video format such as MPEG or QuickTime Your readers may need to download special viewers to see these kinds of videos Pictures that do something when you click on them If you see an image that does something when you click on it the image is either a Java applet or an ActiveX control AOLpress lets you put Java applets into your pages page 121 but you can t see or use either Java applets or ActiveX controls within AOLpress A background color or image You can change the background color of the page or use a background image by setting the page attributes page 102 Since the background image repeats to fill the page you can use a small image to fill all the space You can also use wide or tall background images to create interesting borders on the left side or top of the page Fancy font styles Sometimes the text you see in a page is really an image page 94 For example if you want special effects like text with a shadow behind it you might create an image of that text Try to select the text by dragging your mouse in AOLpress If you can t select it like normal text it s probably an image Overlapping images You can t overlap two images in a page However you can cut the i
221. rows you want in your table It s easy to change these numbers later If you want the table to have a caption type the text for in the Caption field The caption will be centered from left to right either Above or Below the table User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Tables Adding or deleting table cells J 5 The fields at the bottom of the window control the borders and spacing of the table Tabl Depag Course Description 7 Header cells Rene on the Web Padding m If you want to hide the borders of the table uncheck the Visible Borders box It s actually easier to edit a table with borders so you Il probably want to leave this box checked while you are creating the table When you are finished editing the table you can hide the borders if you like m The Border Size field lets you set the width in pixels of the outside border of the table If you make the Border Size a larger number for example 10 the table will look like it has a picture frame m The Spacing field lets you set the width in pixels of the borders between the individual cells in the table m The Padding field lets you set the amount of blank space in pixels between the text or other contents of a cell and the borders of that cell You can think of this field as setting the margin widths of the cell 6 Click OK when you are ready to create the table E gt Q j Q 2 D a 7 Ifyou want to change any of
222. rs Compresses files without loss of information Compression is best for images with areas of a single color JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group File names normally have jpg or jpeg suffix Can use many colors Best for photographic or painted images You can specify amount of file compression Some of the information is lost during compression XBM X bitmap format Files normally have xbm suffix Uses only 2 colors There are several types of GIF files Interlaced GIF images use a window shade effect you see a low resolution image quickly and the details are filled in as the rest of the image is loaded JPEG files can also have this effect if you save them as a progressive JPEG Transparent GIF files have one color that is designated as the background color In most browsers the background color or background image of the page shows through in areas of the image with this color Transparent images are used when you want an image that doesn t have a rectangular border Animated GIF files contain a series of images that get shown to create move ment You can insert an animated GIF in AOLpress but you will only see the first frame of the animation However the GIF will be animated when you view your pages with browsers that support animated GIFs Co gt Q D Q Oo Most images are shown in line the image is shown as a part of the page itself A common techniq
223. s 201 hour glass 36 in MiniWebs 167 lightning bolt 36 question mark 36 Image display method 196 Image fields for Java parameters 125 in forms 147 Image Map menu item 112 Image maps I11 creating 112 displaying 170 links for 113 portability of 112 shapes in 113 toolbar for creating 113 Image menu item 94 Images 91 alignment of 95 background 103 clip art 92 copying 96 copying from another page 96 copying into MiniWebs 173 deleting 96 Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 231 Index displaying 170 file formats supported 93 in forms 147 inserting in line 94 list of commands for 92 loading remote 37 mappedClickable images see Image maps relative vs absolute reference 95 reloading 36 replacing and modifying 97 repositioning 97 resizing 98 saving with pages 188 space after 104 space around 104 transparent 103 unable to display 93 viewing 37 viewing with external viewer 93 Import menu item 56 Including files 154 Index icon 117 index htm file 32 Infoseek 42 In line images 93 Inserted text 71 Inserting columns in tables 85 Inserting rows in tables 85 Installation Macintosh 20 MS Windows 19 requirements for 18 Interlaced gif files 93 Internal anchors 38 Internet connection 18 Italic type style 70 J Java Applet menu item 122 171 232 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Java applets 121 class files for 121 displaying 170 displaying windows for
224. s 3 1 3 5 NT Workgroups and Windows95 32 bit and 16 bit Mac OS System 7 and later You can download the AOLpress software from http www aolpress com AOLpress may also be available for Solaris SunOS Irix and HP UNIX platforms Check the AOLpress Web site for availability Using AOLpress with an AOL account Your AOL membership includes Web space where you can publish up to 2 MB of pages and other files per screen name for a total of 10 MB per account Your Web address is http members aol com screen_name 3 If you are an AOL member and you want to publish to this location read the instructions at http www aolpress com press memberfaq html This page contains the latest information about using AOLpress with a connection to AOL Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 17 Installing AOLpress system requirements System requirements 18 If you want to use AOLpress over the Internet you need to have a SLIP or PPP connection from an Internet service provider modem and the appropriate connection software for example Trumpet winsock or Chameleon You can still use AOLpress to author and access local files when your computer is not connected to the Internet For example while you create pages you may want to leave your modem off and then connect your modem to the Internet when you are ready to publish your pages When your modem is off you have access to all the features of AOLpress but can
225. s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating and Using Forms Changing forms Changing forms Text images links etc can be inserted and modified in the form just as in the rest of the page Form elements can be dragged and dropped and cut and pasted but must always be placed within a form Form elements can be modified by selecting the element in the form and clicking the form palette button which corresponds to the type of form element selected This produces the window for the selected form element with the current attributes displayed Making changes in the window and clicking OK effects the changes in the form element gt Change the form handler location or method Place the cursor within the form to be changed 2 Choose Format Form This opens the Form Handler window with the current Form Handler Location and Method displayed 3 Make changes in the window and press OK to change in the form Learning more To practice working with forms in the online tutorial choose Help gt Tutorial Scroll to the bottom of the first page and click on the TOC icon You see a list of the lessons in the tutorial Then click on the Creating Forms link Advanced HTML for forms If you want to edit the HTML for your pages directly see Chapter 12 to learn how Once you are comfortable adding finishing touches to your pages by editing HTML code you can add the following features to your forms he o Q m Q
226. s easily Unlike the history list the Hot List is maintained after you finish your session and exit AOLpress This list is stored in your AOLpress preferences file which AOLpress creates internally when you use any Tools gt Preferences item Deleting this file erases your list Adding or opening a page gt To add or open a page 1 Goto that page in the Page Window enter the URL in the Location field or if you have visited it already choose it either from the Browse Global History menu or by scrolling the arrow to the right of the Location field 2 Choose the Browse Add To Hot List menu item to add the page to the list To see the list choose the menu item Browse Hot List yal Hot List ojx D e Search engines Altavista Main Page http www altavista digital com WebCrawler searching http daww webcrawler corm Yahoo htto Awww yahoo com The Lycos Home Page Hunting WAAAY Information http Aww lyoos cr Infoseek Net Search http Awww Infoseek coms surf reports Interactive Marine Observations Southwestern U S http Awww met fsu Interactive Marine Observations http wwaw met fsu edu nws public_htrr Coastal Data Information Program Homepage http splash ucsd edu Weather Report for SFO httethe tech mit edu vVeather cgi bin tech_ Yahoo Society and Culture Environment and Mature Disasters Hurricane Copy URL oO w n gt
227. s is Definition 1 Format List gt Term Be eee p This is Definition 2 This is Term 2 This is Term 3 This is Definition 2 This is Definition 3 This is Term 3 This is Definition 3 m If you highlight the entire term or definition line that line slides left or right to become a Term or Definition depending on which you choose without moving down a line or affecting any other lines Highlight a Term and choose This is Term 1 This is Term 1 Format List Definition This is Definition 1 This is Definition 1 us is Term 2 D Ths is Term 2 This is Defintion 2 This is Definition 2 This is Term 3 This is Term 3 This is Defintion 3 This is Definition 3 Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 79 80 Creating Text and Lists Lists Nested Lists At any point in a list you can create a sub list which is indented from the current item The Ubiquitous Egg a Nested List Bulleted list n Esg Nutrition Making Scrambled Eggs a recipe Numbered list 1 Heat the pan with butter and garlic Bulleted list _ For lower fat recipe use clarified butter Definition list J Maed Butter f Butter that has had the fat sedment removed Itis i lower in fat and can be stored longer than plain butter To Clanfy butter Numbered list 1 Heat butter until sediment appears l 2 Skim sediment from the surface Repeat Bulleted list This does not remove all fat 3 Store in refrigerator 2 Crack t
228. s it to the specified proxy server which handles the request For example you may use a CERN httpd server with a name in the form hostname port for example www mycompany com 81 Do not type the leading http 7 If your site is behind a firewall then you even need to proxy http Web page requests through that machine so click the Always Proxy check box However you will not want to proxy domains inside your firewall so list them in the except these domains field If you use another server to proxy all http requests you may not be able to browse directories on an AOLserver or publish your pages to an AOLserver depending on the configuration of the proxy server you use If you are not behind a firewall do not check the Always Proxy box You only want to proxy non http requests SOCKS Host If your system uses the SOCKS protocol for firewall security you should type the name of the SOCKS host in this field You can allow pages stored on trusted domains such as the domains on your side of the firewall to skip the SOCKS checking by typing those domain names in the field provided Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 197 h Qi 0 U D a D D 1 A Setting Preferences Fonts You can decide what fonts you want AOLpress to use in the pages you look at This decision does not affect the fonts that other people see when they read your pages Many browsers let people choose
229. s list sorted by type of file Makes the MiniWeb icons larger and shows a smaller area Makes the icons smaller and shows a larger area Goes back to the default icon size Shows links to each file if checked Shows links from each file to other files if checked User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 AOLpress Quick Reference lt MiniWeb window Tools menu The Tools menu in the MiniWeb window does not contain the Show HTML and Administer Page items from the Page window In addition the MiniWeb version of this menu contains the Administer MiniWeb item Yrebize Directory Check Links spell Check Search Server Administer Server Administer Minivfeb Preferences gt Webize Lets you turn existing folders into MiniWebs Check Links Runs through the links in all the pages in the MiniWeb and checks to make sure the URLs they reference exist Administer MiniWeb Lets you set the Permissions options for a MiniWeb stored on a server Not supported unless you have the Commercial or Dedicated level of the hosting service or your own server See the server documentation Browse menu The Browse menu in the MiniWeb window is a subset of the Browse menu in the Page window It has only the Stop Global History and Hot List menu items Window menu The Window menu in the MiniWeb window is the same as the Window menu in the Page window Help Menu The Help menu in the MiniWeb window is the same as the Help
230. s of related pages Cy Link to the index Link to help information for CO gt Q ro m 5 oO Q D Q D Link to the next higher Link to the last page in a level in a hierarchy of pages ma series of related pages B e uH il this site Link to the glossary Link to a bookmark you want to provide Link to the copyright Link to the first page in a information series of related pages 3 Inthe Link To field type the location of the page you want this icon to link to You can click the Browse button to search for the file you want You can change the link from absolute to relative and back with the Abs Rel button 4 If you want to change the text shown when the mouse cursor hovers over this icon type your text in the Button Help field For example if you create a bookmark icon you should provide information about what type of page the bookmark links to Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 117 Adding Links and Multimedia Checking links 5 Click OK to see the effects of your changes For details on other fields in this window see page 100 and page 102 Checking links 118 You use this AOLpress function to make your web information as accurate as possible Check Links gives you the ability to select a page and check most of the links it contains AOLpress finds links that are not working for whatever reason You can then edit your document and links as needed Without C
231. s to frequently used commands edee EE zdela pol e L MiniWeb window menus The sections that follow list the menu items you see in a MiniWeb window gt O rT aa J 1 V V O AN JJ p rn e i 1 O Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 215 H ao0000 ao 2 M 216 File menu AOLpress Quick Reference MiniWeb window The File pull down menu lets you operate on MiniWebs and pages locally or remotely over the network It is identical to the File menu in the Page window except it also contains the New Java and Print Graph items Hew Open Chrl 0 Open Recent i Close Save Chrl 5 Save Ag Import Copy File Delete Print Setup Britit Etri FE Print Graph Upgrade 40 Lpress Exit Most of the items in this menu do the same thing when you are in a MiniWeb window as they do when you are in a Page window These are the few differences New gt New Java Close Save Save As Import Print Print Graph Opens a window in which you can type the code for a Java applet Closes the MiniWeb window Prompts you to save any unsaved pages Saves the MiniWeb Lets you save the MiniWeb either locally or on the network Lets you choose formats and various options Lets you import a file into the current MiniWeb You can also import the images in the page along with the page Prints all the pages in the current Min
232. search the HTML behind your pages by putting a check mark in the Search HTML box Normally AOLpress searches only the text that is visible in your pages 2 Note that you must have created a MiniWeb for this folder in order to search the HTML To create a MiniWeb for an existing folder choose Tools gt Webize gt Editing pages with server side includes If you use server side includes SSI also called server parsed HTML to automatically include other files environment variables or the results of programs in your pages you can edit your source code with AOLpress if your pages are stored on a v2 0 or later AOLserver 1 To make AOLpress load the unparsed source files choose ToolsPreferences gt General and put a check in the Never Load box for Server Side Includes 2 If you are viewing the HTML for a page you can choose FileReload with SSI to see the parsed source and FileReload without SSI to see the unparsed source Server side include commands are stored as comments in the HTML code so you only see them when you edit the HTML For example the command to include a file called include txt would look like lt include file include txt gt Most pages with server side include coding have a file extension of shtm1 For details about server side includes see the AOLserver documentation at http www aolserver com server docs 2 1 html shtml htm AOLpress corrects HTML errors When
233. self Publishing for the Web 9 d Welcome The World Wide Web has fueled the explosive growth of the Internet and the emerging software and services industries that surround it The Web lets individuals companies and institutions anyone with an Internet connection publish electronically The fundamental unit of the Web is the page you see when you browse for information Pages are hypertext documents When you click on a link your computer retrieves the page referenced by the link and displays it on your screen Web pages can also contain images sounds videos forms and other features What is AOLpress AOLpress helps you create and publish Web pages The important difference between AOLpress and other Web browsers is that AOLpress is both an editor and a browser The editing features are not available in normal Web browsers Because AOLpress integrates authoring and browsing you can integrate reading and editing If you are browsing reading a page on your PrimeHost hosting service directory or any AOLserver where you have permission to change pages you can make changes and republish the page immediately Behind the scenes Web pages are stored in a format called HTML HyperText Markup Language If you use AOLpress you won t have to learn this language Instead you can create Web pages just as you would create paper documents with a word processor like Microsoft Word You can use AOLpress with or without access to
234. ser s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating Text and Lists Lists gt Change the relative positions of term and definition lines 1 Place the cursor within or highlight the Term or Definition you want to change 2 Choose Term or Definition from the Format List menu m If you placed the insertion cursor within a line or at the beginning of a line all the text to the right of the cursor moves down one line and changes to a Term or Definition depending on which you choose There is still a line for the term or definition where your cursor started even if your cursor was at the beginning of the line Placing the cursor in a line and pressing the Enter or Return key has the same effect as placing the cursor in a line and selecting the opposite line type from the Format List menu Put your cursor here ssten l piss This is Definition 1 Term 1 and choose This is Term 2 This is Definition 1 ee S This is Definition 2 This is Term 2 p Teen This s DeAnna This is Definition 3 This is Term 3 This is Definition 3 m You can choose Format List Term when the cursor is in a Term line to create two Terms in a row Likewise you can choose Format List gt Definition when the cursor is in a Definition line to create two Definitions in a row O Q _ D ae F Q Q N F N Put your cursor here 28tenm 1 gt a This is Definition 1 Term 1 and choose This is T 2 Thi
235. sert an image Element Image Copy image from page to page Copy and Paste or drag and drop View clip art library Help Online Resources and follow link to Create your Web and then to Clip Art Replace and Modify Images Replace in line image Element Get Attribute then Image window Change alignment with text Element Get Attribute then Image window Re position image Cut and Paste or drag and drop Copy image Copy and Paste or drag and drop Delete image Delete Backspace or Tools Cut Change page colors Format Page Attributes Finding and creating images You cannot create images with AOLpress Instead you create images with other software programs and add them to your Web pages with AOLpress There are many software programs you can use to create and modify images Search the Web for shareware to find Web sites that provide inexpensive or free software Clip art gallery AOLpress also provides clip art you can use in your pages at http www aolpress com gallery index html And the PrimeHost hosting service provides links to other clip art collections if you choose Help gt Online Resources and follow the links 92 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Images Finding and creating images pe me x ka gt Image formats AOLpress and the common Web browsers support several image formats GIF Graphical Interchange Format File names normally have gif suffix Can use up to 256 colo
236. shing for the Web 25 Create a Web Page in 10 Easy Steps H Step 6 Create links to other pages 4 With the AOLpress home page window active type http www excite com into the Location field near the top of the AOLpress window You will see the Web page for the Excite search engine Excite Home Iof xi w 4 rs W a s SN 4 e earch reviews city net livel talk newstracker eXcite y i people finder email lookup yellow pages tours Excite Search Twice the power of the competition kf Search the entire Web Search Excite Web Reviews e ta aan Search NewsTracker search Tips C Search Usenet newsgroups Advanced Search Ais search Got something to say al 4 6 Now move back to the window you were editing and use your mouse to highlight the word Excite Then choose the Element gt Link menu item 7 With the cursor in the Link to Page field press Ctrl V to paste the URL you copied from the Excite page into this field Then click the OK button The text that says Excite is now a link too 5 Click the Copy URL button in the toolbar Link EI Link To Page 7 hitp iwwwexcitecom Browse Abs i Append Anchor Name Bulletin Target Frame El Help 26 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Create a Web Page in 10 Easy Steps e Step 7 Create an email link Step 7 Create an email link 1 Put your cursor after the word Excite and choose the For
237. sk 30 Step 10 Publishing to PrimeHost or AOL 31 Learning More 32 The steps in this chapter show you how to quickly create a Web page for yourself Your page will have text links and a way for people to send you email And you ll be surprised how quickly you can create all of this This chapter also shows you how to publish your page to the PrimeHost hosting service if you have an account Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 21 Xe Create a Web Page in 10 Easy Steps Step 1 A little background Step 1 A little background 22 Before we start our tour of the World Wide Web and AOLpress we d like to explain a few of the terms you ll see They are a lot less mysterious than they sound Web Pages The documents you see on the Web are called pages They contain text images and links that let you jump to other pages Browse When you look at a Web page you are browsing that page and the soft ware you are using is called a browser Another term for browsing Web pages is surfing AOLpress is both a browser and an authoring tool because it lets you look at pages and create or change them Web server The computer that stores the pages you see is called a Web server It runs software that knows how to send pages and images to browsers Web client On the Web the client is your own computer You don t need to understand client server computing to use
238. style 70 Uniform Resource Locators see URLs Unix delete vs backspace 193 file names 195 UNIX platform support 17 UNIX Style Delete field 66 Unix Style Delete field 193 Unlink menu item 111 Unlinking 111 Unlock menu item 182 Unparsed files 154 Up icon 117 URL fieldfor Java parameters 125 URLs coying into MiniWebs 173 customizing list of 202 definition of 107 domain name in 107 filename conventions for 188 filenames for 188 parts of 107 port number in 107 Use Base if Possible check box 188 Usenet newsgroups proxy server for 197 Users assumptions about 13 V V Align Cell menu item 87 V Align Row menu item 87 Variable type style 71 Version 2 0 16 list of new features in 221 Vertical alignment image 95 Video displaying 37 icon in MiniWeb 170 links to 116 View display control 169 zoom in out 169 View menu Display Control item 169 List Links From item 169 List Links To item 169 Name item 166 quick reference for MiniWeb windows 218 Viewers external 37 W WAIS proxy server for 197 Web client definition of 22 Web hosting see Hosting service Web pages see Pages Web servers 12 administrator 13 definition of 22 Web site definition of 22 navigational aids for 52 Web view 166 Webizing directories 164 Width Index horizontal rule 104 image 98 table and table columns 89 Window menu quick reference 213 Windows 95 file names 195 Windows see
239. t Display 5 lines field F Allow Multiple Selections Help Resulting field Antarctica o Q m Q Q m Q C n m Q TH O g a 3 Type a Form Tag to give this field a name The Form Tag is required and must be unique in the form 4 Insert items to select from into the Elements list m Type an item in the Elements field m Youcan click the Select box to make this item a default selection Unless the Allow Multiple Selections box is checked there can be only one item selected as the default m Click Add to add the item to the list Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 145 146 Creating and Using Forms Using the form palette 5 To change the text or default status of an item in the list highlight that item in the list so that it is displayed in the Elements field make the changes and press Change 6 Todelete an item from the selection list highlight the item in the text area and click the Delete button 7 To change the order of items in the selection list highlight the item and click the Up or Down buttons 8 In the Selection List Attributes box type the number of lines to be displayed in the Display Lines field m The default is to display one line When only one selection is allowed see the next step it is common to display one line since clicking on the Selection List provides a pull down list from which the one selection can easily be chosen m When mul
240. t from or remove the item s format The command names tell you whether the item has a paragraph heading list or table format For example if you are in a table the commands will be Exit Table Format and Remove Table Format m Click your right mouse button on an item you have selected or you can choose the Element Get Attribute menu item If there is a window that lets you control this type of item you will see that window m Highlight the item and choose the ToolsShow HTML menu item You will see the actual code that defines this item highlighted Even if you don t know much HTML you can probably guess what kind of item this is by looking at the tags design guidelines Creating Web pages is easy with AOLpress But creating well designed Web pages requires a little thought The following hints will help you plan and create better pages Entire books are devoted to good page design so remember this is just an overview Browsers Display Pages Differently Different Web browsers display pages in slightly different ways The best strategy is to test your pages with common Web browsers such as Netscape and Internet Explorer If you can see what your pages look like on both a Macintosh and a PC Get your friends to tell you if your pages look right on their computers HTML vs Word Processors Creating Web pages with AOLpress is almost but not quite like using a word processor The difference is that the language used to create We
241. te a similar look 46 The sections that follow list formats you may see in Web pages They briefly describe ways to create each format and refer you to the section of this book that gives the appropriate step by step instructions Text For information about putting text in your pages see Chapter 6 Different fonts You can easily make text bold or italic Or you can switch to a typewriter font like this one page 70 Normally you don t control the fonts used by your reader s browser However when you are an advanced user you can change the font if you edit the HTML directly page 82 Sometimes the text you see in a page is really an image page 91 For example 1f you want special effects like text with a shadow behind it you might create an image of that text Try to select the text by dragging your mouse in AOLpress If you can t select it like normal text it s probably an image Bigger or smaller text You make text larger or smaller by changing the type size page 72 You can also change the size of text by changing a paragraph to a heading page 74 Colored text You can change the color of all the text and links in a page by changing the page attributes page 102 You can change the color of some indi vidual text by changing the type color page 72 Indented paragraphs You can indent a paragraph by making it a blockquote page 75 by using definition lists page 78 or by creating a tabl
242. text text with an unused link and text with a link that you have already followed Page Attributes Background Color pooo Pick Image Browse A 5 Cancel T Import Image Bulletin Content Rating PICS Label Safe Surf Link Visited Link Pick 2 Click Pick next to the item for which you want to choose a color You will see the standard Color window 3 Select a color from this window You may want to choose a standard color so that the background will not be dithered on screens that can only display 256 colors Another way to set a color is to type the RGB value for the color you want in hexa decimal numbers into the field directly The first two characters are the red value the next two green and the final two blue Therefore ff0000 is red 00ff00 is green 0000ff is blue ffff00 is yellow 000000 is black and ffffff is white 102 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Adding Images Setting colors and background images a5 ph ia DO gt a 5 Inthe Page Attributes window you can set another color or click OK to see the effects of your changes 4 Click OK in the Color window For information on the other fields in this window see page 100 and page 117 If you set any color we recommend that you set all four colors to prevent conflicts with settings your readers may have For example if you set a light background color and use the default text col
243. text or image you want to make into a link either to another web site or another page within your MiniWeb 2 Choose the Element Link menu item to bring up the Link window Link Link To Page FO Browse Abs Append Anchor Name Bulletin Target Frame E Help 3 Type the URL in the Link To Page field for example http gnn com 4 If you want to link to some place in the middle of a page type an anchor name in the Append Anchor Name field You will also need to create an anchor with the same name in the page you referenced in the Link To Page field See page 109 for details If the anchor you want to link to is in the same page as the link that is if you want the link to scroll the page you don t need to type anything in the Link To Page field If you are using frames select or type the Target Frame you want to display the page you are linking to See page 134 for details 108 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 6 Adding Links and Multimedia Creating links The Link window also contains the following buttons Browse Allows you to browse your local files or your hosting service direc tory for files to choose as links If you enter a site that you cannot browse you get a message Cannot Browse Location For details on using such file selection windows see page 58 Rel or Abs Click the Rel button to change the link reference to a relative URL If the reference is already a rel
244. th edges of the window are clear of images lt P CLEAR left gt Custom horizontal rules You can change the color thickness and width of a horizontal rule For example this code makes a red horizontal rule with no 3D shading The rule is 10 pixels high and half the width of the window lt HR COLOR red NOSHADE SIZE 10 WIDTH 50 gt Background images to tables You can add background images to tables and table cells by using the BACKGROUND attribute in a lt TABLE gt or lt TD gt tag Visible with Internet Explorer only For example lt TABLE BORDER BACKGROUND tbkgd gif gt Non scrolling background images To prevent your background image from scrolling when the page scrolls add the following attribute to the page s lt BODY gt tag Internet Explorer only lt BODY BACKGROUND bkgd gif BGPROPERTIES fixed gt User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Chapter 9 Adding Links and Multimedia What you ll find in this chapter Quick start About links Creating links Image maps multiple links from images Multimedia links Toolbar navigation buttons Checking links Java applets Learning more One of HTML s distinctive features is the hyperlink which is a link to another 106 106 108 111 115 117 118 121 126 document Hyperlinks are usually underlined and shown in a a different color than the rest of the text Clicking on one will take you to the page it references Links can be relat
245. the buttons in the toolbar or the keyboard equivalents Drag and drop Change the vertical position by placing the cursor above the image and adding or deleting lines to move the image Press Shift Enter or Shift Return to move an image down a single line This adds a forced line break gt Indent the image 1 2 Use Format Paragraph Preformatted to preformat the image s paragraph This changes the font of the text in the paragraph as well Put the cursor to the left of the image and press the spacebar to indent the image Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 97 Co gt Q D Q Oo a cf 44 amp 4 a Ve ee Adding Images Positioning images Resizing images ew Most browsers can display images at different sizes than the actual size of the image in its file When you import an image the actual width and height of the image in pixels are specified in the page You can change these values by resizing the image gt To resize an image 1 Double click on the image you want to resize You will see a dotted line around the image with drag arrows on the right and bottom edges 2 Drag an arrow to change the image to the size you want Aae A Drag in any direction Drag up or down g 3 Or you can highlight the image and choose Element gt Get Attribute to open the Image window Then remove the numbers from the Width and Height fields if you want AOLpress to r
246. these settings later just put your cursor inside the table and choose the Table Alter Layout menu item Adding or deleting table cells You can add or delete rows and columns using the options you see when you choose Table Alter gt To add rows and columns 1 Place your cursor in the row or column after the row or column you want to create 2 Choose the Table Alter Insert Row or Table Alter Insert Column menu item An empty row or column is added before the row or column containing your cursor 3 If you want to add rows to the bottom of your table or columns to the right edge of your table choose the Table Alter Layout menu item In the window increase the number of rows or columns in the table Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 85 QP Adding Tables Putting text and images into tables gt To delete rows and columns 1 Place your cursor in the row or column you want to delete 2 Choose the Table Alter Delete Row or Table Alter Delete Column menu item The row or column containing your cursor will be deleted gt Removing a table gt gt Z If you want to remove a table but keep the contents of the cells put your cursor in the table and choose the Format gt Remove Table Format menu item m If you want to remove an entire table and all of its contents use your mouse to high light the entire table Then press the Backspace or Delete key Putting text and images into tables 86 You can
247. tion Format Remove Form Format to remove the form You must remove all form elements first but AOLpress reminds you to do this Using the form palette 140 Now that you have created a form you need to add Fields such as Text Fields Radio Buttons Check Boxes Text Areas Selection Lists Image Fields Reset buttons and Submit buttons Each field element needs to have a Form Tag to identify the field when the results are sent to the form handler You can also put text images links and tables in a form just as you do in the rest of the page Form fields can be dragged and dropped or cut and pasted but must always be placed within a form User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating and Using Forms Using the form palette Radio Buttons A Radio Button is a diamond shaped or circular button you can click on or off Several Radio Buttons can be grouped by giving all the buttons in the group the same Form Tag The group then acts like a single field in which Radio only one button can be switched on at a time The value of the button that is switched on becomes the value of the Radio Button field when you submit the form For example you might have a group of Radio Buttons with a Form Tag of fruit The buttons in the group could have Button Labels and Values of Banana Apple and Kiwi When you submit the form the value of the fruit field is the selected fruit gt Adda Radio Button Posit
248. tiple selections are allowed it is probably better to display at least two lines for clarity and ease of use 9 In the Selection List Attributes box choose by clicking whether to Allow Multiple Selections The default is to not allow multiple selections m If when using a Selection List that allows multiple selection you wish to make multiple non consecutive selections depress the CTRL key Command key on Macintosh when making these selections Otherwise the subsequent mouse clicks deselect the previous selection s 10 Click OK and the selection list appears where the cursor was positioned Every element in a form must have a Form Tag to name the field or button This name identifies the fields that contained each value when the results are sent to the form handler When a form is submitted then the information sent to the form handler for a Selection List will contain lt Form Tag gt lt Selected Item s gt 146 UsersGuidetoAOLpress2 000 Creating and Using Forms Using the form palette Image Fields You can insert a clickable image into a form Clicking on the image immediately submits the form sending the x and y position of the click gt Add an image field 1 Position the cursor where you want the image to be 2 Click the Image button on the form palette to see this window Image Field Ea Enter URL of desired Form Tag f i image Choose a Cancel Save image how image Locat
249. u can change the format of the file that is saved to Text without line breaks or Text Save Images When you copy a page you can choose what you want to do with any images inside the page None Choose None if you do not want to copy any of the images If the images are not already part of your MiniWeb also check the Relative Links to Full URL box so that the links to the images will still work Relative Choose Relative if you want to copy images with relative links to your MiniWeb You should also uncheck the Relative Links to Full URL box All Choose All if you want to copy all the images in the page to your MiniWeb You should also uncheck the Relative Links to Full URL box Control Links If you want to convert relative links in the page to absolute links check the Relative Links to Full URL box For example check this box if you copy a page from some other server and want the links in that page to continue working The Use Base when possible box is ignored when you are copying a file into a MiniWeb Saving and publishing MiniWebs When you save a MiniWeb AOLpress also saves all files in the MiniWeb that are open and have unsaved changes The information about a MiniWeb is stored in a file with an extension of nvd gt To save a MiniWeb either From the MiniWeb window choose the File gt Save menu item This saves the MiniWeb in its current location along with any unsaved pages From the MiniWeb window cho
250. u choose DOS you are restricted to the eight dot three file name format It is best to choose DOS if you may ever need to use your files on a PC running Windows 3 1 m If you choose Macintosh you can use file names with up to 31 characters i m If you choose Posix most Unix systems allow you to use 256 Gi character file names If you are using Windows 95 and will never need to transfer your files to a PC running Windows 3 1 choose Posix If you have already created a MiniWeb and want to change the file naming rules delete the nvd file in this folder change your file naming preference and recreate the MiniWeb as described see page 164 MiniWeb This field lets you decide which windows you want to open when you Open open a MiniWeb with the File Open menu item or by moving to a MiniWeb URL that does not include the name of the page file to open You can choose any of the following Home Page Opens only the page that has been selected as the home page initial page for this MiniWeb Web Opens the MiniWeb view for this MiniWeb Both Opens both the home page and the MiniWeb view for this MiniWeb Note that other browsers do not support MiniWebs and always open the home page if the file name is not included in an URL h Qi 0 U D a D D 1 A Frames You can hide all frames by unchecking the Show Frames field in the Tools gt Preferences General win
251. u item E Click the New MiniWeb icon in the MiniWeb toolbar If you have a MiniWeb open the new MiniWeb you create will be a SubWeb of that MiniWeb See page 179 for details about SubWebs Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 163 k Go O a pot gt 2 D O e V A A A Working with MiniWebs Za Creating MiniWebs ae Webizing existing folders You may already have a set of files you want to publish on the Web AOLpress makes it quick and easy to convert directories or folders containing pages and other files into a MiniWeb We call this Webizing the folder You can Webize a folder on your hard drive or in your PrimeHost hosting service directories You cannot Webize someone else s Web site You can re Webize a folder at any time If you have a problem with a MiniWeb try re Webizing it This makes the MiniWeb match the files in the folder You should re Webize a folder if you add pages or other files to the folder with software other than AOLpress gt To convert existing folders to MiniWebs 1 From any Page or MiniWeb window choose the Tools gt Webize Directory menu item Or ToolsWebize Folder on a Macintosh Webize Directory x Location Wehize cAmyeir l Cancel Files Directory mydir sti Scan Options Drives f Sites cn Help 2 Ifthe folder you want to Webize has subfolders that you want to turn into SubWebs
252. u use a background image we recommend that you also set the colors to avoid conflicts with your readers settings In most cases the colors in your background image should contrast strongly with the text colors you choose and the background image should be simple enough that it doesn t distract from the text Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 103 a cf 44 a o e tet Adding Images Learning more Learning more To practice working with images in the online tutorial choose Help Tutorial Scroll to the bottom of the first page and click on the TOC icon You see a list of the lessons in the tutorial Then click on the Adding Images link Advanced HTML for images If you want to edit the HTML for your pages directly see Chapter 12 to learn how Once you are comfortable adding finishing touches to your pages by editing HTML code you can add the following features to your images 104 Space around images You can add space around images by using the HSPACE attribute to add space to the left and right of an image and the VSPACE attribute to add space above and below an image The number you provide is measured in pixels For example lt IMG SRC filename gif HSPACE 5 VSPACE 10 gt Provide space after image To move text following an image aligned to the left or right down you can use a tag like the following You can choose to move text down until the left right or bo
253. ue for displaying large images is to create a small version of the image called a thumbnail Make the thumbnail an in line image and link the thumbnail to either a page containing the full size image or to the full size image itself If a browser cannot display a particular image type the images are represented by an undisplayed image icon or text on the page Double clicking on the undisplayed image icon can spawn an external viewer to display the image On Windows and Macintosh for example you can use Microsoft Imager or Paintbrush as an external viewer To set the viewers for specific types of images see page 199 AOLpress has two settings for image viewing The default setting allows you to view transparent GIFs progressive JPEGs and ART files used in AOL If you notice that AOLpress crashes when loading images choose Tools gt Preferences General and change the Image Display Method to Photoshop4 JPEG Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 93 a Adding Images P Inserting images Inserting images There are several ways to insert an image into a page Choosing the Element Image menu item or toolbar button Using Copy and Paste or drag and drop from another page You will see the Options window which is described on page 57 Using the right mouse button to drag an icon for an image from a MiniWeb to a page The image is added to the page If you use the left mouse button to drag the imag
254. useful when you want to add features that are too new or too browser specific to be supported by AOLpress Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 151 Viewing and Editing HTML N Viewing HTML Viewing HTML If you know the source language for Web pages HTML or if you want to learn about it by example use the ToolsShow HTML menu item You will see the HTML tags that define the document For example you might also want to view the HTML source to find out how a particular page was created so that you can create similar pages gt Open a window showing the HTML tags 1 Open a Web page The page does not need to be part of a MiniWeb 2 Choose the Tools Show HTML menu item to open a window containing the HTML for your page The HTML window automatically scrolls to the position of your cursor in the page y3 press_htm lt HTML gt lt HEAD gt lt Created with AQLpress 2 0 gt lt TITLE gt Welcome to amp AOLpress 2 0 lt TITLE gt lt HEAD gt lt BODY BGCOLOR 8ffffff LINE 0000b4 VLINE 18698c gt lt P ALIGN Center gt lt IMG BORDER 0 amp ALIGN Middle ALT a0Lpress logo SRC ar lt Ha ALIGN Center gt Welcome to amp A0Lpress 2 0 lt HR width 755 noshade gt lt He gt lt P gt lt Bol nbspsGetting Started with AOLpress lt B gt lt BLOCEQUOTE gt lt P ALIGN Justifty gt The lt i HREF tutorial index htm gt kOoLpress Tutorials i gt workbook shows you Step by step how to creat
255. ut value to set the maximum number of characters users are allowed to type in this field 8 Click OK and the text field appears where the cursor was positioned Every element in a form must have a Form Tag to name the field or button This name identifies the fields that contained each value when the results are sent to the form handler When a form is submitted then the information sent to the form handler for a text field will contain lt Form Tag gt lt Contents of the Text Field gt Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 143 he o Q m Q Q m Q C n m Q TH O g a 144 Creating and Using Forms Using the form palette Text Areas If you want to input more than one line of text you should use a Text Area rather than a Text Field gt Adda Text Area Position the cursor where you want the Text Area to be 2 Click the TArea button on the form palette to see this window which allows you to insert a text area a scrollable area in which the user can type more than one line of text into a form Resulting field Form Tag comments OK Initial Text Cancel pe you comments here Size of text area in page 3 Type a Form Tag to give this field a name The Form Tag is required and must be unique in the form 4 You can provide Initial Text to be displayed within the text area by default and to be submitted with the form data if the use
256. uthor forgot to use it Try htm as well Other messages you might see are Retrieve Failed Usually the result of a server error which may be out of your control Browse Reload Page may produce the correct result Couldn t Find The program couldn t find the URL that contains the page Either Server the URL is wrong or the server that contains the page is down Not Found The filename is wrong even though the server may be correct Sometimes this occurs because a link points to a file that no longer exists Couldn t find File The file is not available Sometimes this is because there are too Page MiniWeb may people trying to access the server that contains the page you want to see Forbidden You do not have permission to access a particular page oO w a a ro gt O m E D O T Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 39 ii Browsing with AOLpress History returning to where you ve been History returning to where you ve been 40 You can reopen pages you have viewed during this session using AOLpress history Window history Click the down arrow to the right of the Location field to see a list of all Web pages you have visited since you opened that Page Window You can re open any page in this list by selecting it This menu only lists pages opened from this window it does not list pages visited from other windows you may have opened Global history A similar list of all W
257. uttons Horizontal dividers For a simple line create a horizontal rule page 99 For rules of other colors and sizes use an image or advanced HTML page 104 Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 47 r D ez U Q Q V Q gt Q m om O U C p 5 j gt D Web Pages and What to Put in Them Things Web pages can contain Pictures linked to another place You can link an image just as you would link text page 98 If you don t want a border shown around a linked image turn off the link border for the image page 94 Pictures with links to several other places Pictures that link to several other places are called image maps page 98 because a common use is to create links within a map Sometimes images that look like image maps are really several images with no space between them Hold down the Ctrl key and double click on an image to find the edges of the image Pictures you can see through You can create transparent GIF files so that the background color or image shows through in transparent areas This lets you create images that look like other shapes even though they are all really rectangles Pictures next to paragraphs You can make text wrap to the left or right of an image page 94 You can also use tables to put images next to text page 86 Animated pictures and video The easiest way to create animated pictures is to use other software p
258. v buttons The rest of the lines in this parameter file define parameter fields e Normal text field To create a field in which users can type text numbers or dates just type the parameter name followed by an equal sign If you want to provide a default value type that value after the equal sign For example speed 10 e Radio field To create a field in which users can select one of the values you provide type the parameter name an equal sign and the list of valid values within curly braces If you want to provide a default value type that value after the last curly brace For example scale atom planet solarsys galaxy megacluster planet e URL field To create a field in which users can either type or browse for an URL type the parameter name followed by ur1 If you want to provide a default URL type that value after the last curly brace For example helplink url satell help html e Image field To create a field in which users can either type or browse to find the URL of an image file type the parameter name followed by imageurl If you want to provide a default URL type that value after the last curly brace For example centerimage imageurl satell jupiter gif The differences between this type of field and an URL field are that the image you select is copied to your directory unless you uncheck the Copy box in the window and the default file type for browsing is image files 4 Choose File S
259. veral colors for arrows and text The next sections explain these icons arrows and colors 166 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 X ye Working with MiniWebs A Viewing MiniWebs YS A 2 gt ed mw Icons in MiniWebs The icons for files in a MiniWeb are connected by lines that indicate links Some files may not be connected to any other files they are displayed either to the right or below the main graph One page is designated the home page it is displayed with a special icon a spider in its web Files that are referenced but have not yet been created are grayed out References to other locations on the Web have another type of grayed icon and their names are green Different types of files images sounds etc have different icons Here are some examples HomePage html Imagel gif Sound2 au Animation ani JavaSource java Acrobat pdf a SubyVeb Image2jpq Sound way Movielmoy avaClass class Program exe Bo 7 Page html Images bmp Movie2mpg JavaParams param Compressed zip 2a Page shtml Image art HTML pages can have three icons new modified and normal The normal icon is a full web the modified icon is a broken web until the file is saved the new icon is a very small web Images also have several variations on the standard icon Home page New page EN Unsaved a Ghost image file not yet created i S l E i Go O g A gt 2 D O e Image
260. w 23 Startup View field 196 Stationery for page template 171 Stop button 36 Stop menu item 213 Strikeout type style 71 Strong type style 71 Style sheets 82 Subdirectories creating SubWeb from 179 Submit button 148 Subscript type style 70 SubWebs 179 creating 179 links between 180 opening 179 saving 174 using 179 webizing 164 Superscript type style 70 Support 15 Symbols 64 System requirements 18 Macintosh 18 MS Windows 18 T Table menu Alter Table item 85 Create Table item 84 Header Cell item 87 Merge Cell item 88 Normal Cell item 87 quick reference for Page windows 211 Split Cell item 88 V Align Cell item 87 V Align Row item 87 Table of Contents icon 117 Tables 83 adding or removing cells 85 aligning 87 aligning cells 87 altering 85 background images 104 caption for 84 centering 87 colors 89 column widths 89 columns in 84 converting to paragraphs 86 creating 84 formatting 84 formatting cells 87 header cells 87 inserting other elements in 86 merging and splitting cells 88 normal cell 87 removing 86 rows in 84 widths 89 Tabs in preformatted text 75 Tags editing 153 find and replace 177 Index HTML 3 2 155 supported outside of WYSIWYG environment 155 viewing 152 Target frame 134 TCP IP 18 Tech Support menu item 15 Technical support 15 Templates for pages 171 Term definitions 22 Text
261. w aol com 2 Type the URL or location you want to add in the Site Location field You can add your AOL personal publishing directory your PrimeHost hosting service directory other AOLserver directories local drives and folders MiniWeb locations FTP paths and email addresses to this list See page 185 for details on FTP and email URLs You can also add directory URLs on any server that supports and enables the HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol PUT protocol as AOLserver does 3 Click Add The location you added will now be listed when you are prompted for a drive MiniWeb or site location User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Setting Preferences A Animation Animation You can change the animation in the upper right corner of a window when a page is being loaded In the future the http www aolpress com Web site may contain additional animation files for you to download AOLpress will prompt you to save the file and then ask if you want to use the file as the default animation You can press Ctrl Shift L to shift back and forth from the normal animation to the hidden walking lemur animation Configure toolbar You can add or remove icons from the AOLpress toolbar so that the commands you use most often are easy to select gt To change the set of toolbar icons 1 Choose Tools Preferences Configure Toolbar You will see this window Configure Toolbar xi Select buttons for the toolbar OK Use the contro
262. want frame2 to be three times the width of framel use a relative width of 3 for frame2 and 1 for frame For example if you want narrow frames across the top and left edge of the window the frames could have the sizes shown here Width grayed out full window width Height 150 pixels Width Width 1 relative 150 pixels Height 1 relative Height 1 relative Editing within frames s 1 Q m Q TI Q 3 1 V gt To edit the contents of a frame Click inside a frame The border of the frame will be outlined in red If the page is outlined in magenta the entire FrameSet is selected 2 Edit the page within the frame as you would normally Commands you select apply to the contents of the selected frame For example if you use Spell Check it checks the text in the frame you have selected gt To put a page inside a frame 1 Select the frame in which you want to put a page 2 Use FileOpen to open the page you want inside that frame 3 Use your mouse to drag the web icon to the left of the Location field into the frame you selected Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 131 132 Creating Frames Editing within frames Or you can put a page inside a frame this way 1 Choose the Format Frames Frame Info menu item You will see this window Frame Info URL En htm pj pes A 3 Name main Ee r Margins I Disable Scrolling Wi
263. want the structure to begin or position the cursor in the paragraph you want to affect 2 Choose one of these three structures from the FormatParagraph menu gt Change paragraph formats O Q _ D ae F Q Q E N F N Position the cursor in the paragraph you want to affect 2 Choose BlockQuote Preformatted or Address from the FormatParagraph menu gt Remove paragraph formats Position the cursor in the paragraph you want to affect 2 Choose the menu Format Remove Paragraph Format Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 75 Creating Text and Lists Lists Lists are useful for organizing related text They combine a group of lines all separated by line breaks into a single structure There are three types of lists Bulleted lists are indented Sample List Formats with bullets marking each Bulleted Item 1 1 Numbered Item 1 cn ae j item Bulleted lists are Bulleted Item 2 2 Numbered Item 2 es j Term 2 useful for listing items that Bulleted Item 3 3 Numbered Iter 3 Definition 2 can appear in any order This structure indents and indicates items by bullets or squares Numbered lists have sequential numbers Numbered lists are best for items that are ordered in a specific sequence as with procedures Definition lists have a term line followed by a further indented definition para graph The term and definition structure 1s repeated throughout the
264. wing which lists any words you have added to the dictionary W C AP2 W32 Leamed hsh This is a list of all the words AOLpress has lee Boome words which are built in to AOLpress and You may add as many words one per line as yo be parsed will be ignored Your additions neec order and case is ignored You must save the page before your changes take A te A absolutize E blockquote User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating Text and Lists Editing text You can add words to this list or remove words You must put exactly one word on each line When you are finished editing the list of words save this page The next time you spell check a page the words you added will be recognized gt To edit the list of automatically replaced words 1 2 Click the Options button in the Spell Check window to open the Spell Options window If you want to select a different list of replaced words or create an empty list click the Select button You will see a standard file selection window You can select any replaced words list you have created with AOLpress To create a new list specify a file name with an extension of rp1 and click OK If you want to see or edit the list of automatically replaced words click the Edit button for the Replacement List You will see a page that lists any words you have replaced while the Always Replace box was checked C AAP2 W32 Replaces rpl This is a list of all automatic
265. with it correctly Note that for files on your computer AOLpress uses the MIME types you set in the window you see when you choose the ToolsPreferencesExtensions MIME menu item For files on the Web AOLpress uses a hidden MIME types that is sent to your computer by the Web server that stores the page 198 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Setting Preferences A MIME viewers gt To modify the list of file extensions 1 Choose the ToolsPreferences Extensions MIME menu item You will see the Extensions MIME Preferences window Pref Extensions 7 HIME Extension Currently fowar selected file extension Delete LAE type MIME Type for this file extension audio x waty Help 2 Select a file extension from the scrolling list m To add an extension Type a new file extension and a new MIME type Then click Add The new entry will be added before the selected entry For example you can add a file extension of doc with a MIME type of applica tion msword to indicate that the files are Microsoft Word files You will also need to select winword exe as the external viewer for this MIME type in order to have AOLpress open Microsoft Word automatically See page 199 for details Or you may want to add an entry with an additional file extension for a MIME type that is already listed m To change an extension Change the file extension or the MIME type and click Change To delete
266. wo eggs into the pan and keep stirring at med to high heat 3 When desired consistency is reached serve to a warmed plate Ege Ranching There is no limit to the number of nested list layers and the kinds of primary and nested lists that can be mixed Nested lists can carry markers that are different from the primary lists that contain them These markers may not look the same to all browsers As with all Lists the nested sub list is itself a distinct list that adheres to basic list rules See the list rules above to understand how nested lists work gt To nest an existing list item s 1 Select the item s you want to nest 2 Choose the list structure you want to use from the Format List menu 3 Continue the nested list by pressing Enter or Return at the end of the nested list There are two results depending on how you select the item in step 1 Placing the Placing the cursor in the item line shifts everything to its right cursor in the toa new indented line Everything to the left of the cursor item line remains in the original item position in the primary list This is true even if the cursor rests to the left of all text in the line Selecting the Selecting the entire line moves the entire item line to a nested entire line position and erases the original item position User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Creating Text and Lists Removing formats gt Nest a new list with typed or pasted items Pl
267. y page 84 Numbered lists To number list items create a numbered list page 76 Indented lists If you want a list that contains terms with indented definitions you can create a definition list page 78 Tables For information about putting tables in your pages see Chapter 7 Tables with wide You can make the borders around a table or the spacing borders between table cells as wide or narrow as you like when you change the table layout page 84 Columns of text If you see text columns that are narrower than the window the designer probably used a table with no borders page 89 The empty space may be an extra column that contains spaces or an invisible image P Centered tables Normally a table is shown on the left side of a page wens J You can also center a table page 87 Images and Animation AOLpress doesn t create images it lets you put images you create with other software into your Web pages Here are some hints about the kinds of images you can create and use For information about putting images in your pages see Chapter 8 programs for creating images You ll want to find one or more that can create GIF or JPEG files Another way to get Creating or finding images There are lots of software i images is to look for free clip art on the Web page 92 Buttons The gray buttons you see in forms are part of the form page 148 Other buttons you see in Web pages are images of b
268. y default the text in header cells is shown in bold You might want to change the cells in the top row or the left column of a table into header cells Another way you may want to format cells is to align the contents vertically or horizontally gt To create a header cell 1 2 3 Place the cursor in the cell that you want to be a header cell Choose the Table gt Header Cell menu item The cell becomes a header cell the text changes to bold and the text is centered vertically and horizontally in the cell If you want to change a header cell back to a normal cell choose the TableNormal Cell menu item gt To align the table itself E If you want to center the entire table on the page put your cursor in the table and choose the Table Center Table menu item m To align a centered table to the left of the page put your cursor in the table and choose the Table Uncenter Table menu item gt To align the contents of cells m To change the vertical top to bottom alignment of the contents of a cell place your cursor in the cell and choose the TableV Align Cell menu item You can choose to align the contents to the Top Middle Bottom or Baseline of the cell You can choose the TableV Align Row menu item to vertically align the contents of all the cells in a table row If you align the contents of a cell that setting over rides the alignment of the row To change the horizontal left to right
269. y the initial page in that frame not the page the reader was viewing when the bookmark was created 1 Q m Q TI g Q 3 1 e Instead of using frames you might consider using tables with hidden borders if your readers may want to create bookmarks to pages within your site Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 135 Creating Frames Learning more 136 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Chapter 1 Creating and Using Forms What you ll find in this chapter Quick start Choosing a program for a form to run Creating forms Using the form palette Changing forms 138 138 139 140 149 Forms give your readers a way to send you information or get customized information For example one of the forms in an electronic mail order company would allow the customer to specify their name address credit card number and telephone number This section explains how you create forms Do It Yourself Publishing for the Web 137 Creating and Using Forms Quick start Quick start Here is a quick summary of commands you can use to create forms Create a form within a page FormatForm Insert a form element into a form Click appropriate button on form palette Radio button Radio a Radio Check box Check x Check Text field Text Text Text area field TArea Selection List Slist SList i I Image field mage Image Reset Reset Submit Submit E Choosing a p
270. you start to edit an existing page AOLpress checks the page for any HTML errors If AOLpress finds invalid HTML it provides a message that says AOLpress has modified this page for HTML conformance to let you know it has changed the HTML You can click the View Problems button to open the HTML editor for this page AOLpress will highlight and describe each problem You can choose to ignore problems or you can fix them by editing the HTML code When you use the HTML editor AOLpress also checks the HTML code you wrote for problems 154 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Viewing and Editing HTML Learning more N Here are some common HTML flaws lt HEAD gt tags like lt TITLE gt inside the lt BODY gt section AOLpress will move these tags up to the lt HEAD gt section where they belong lt LI gt tags not contained in any list AOLpress will turn these into lt P gt tags Character formatting around paragraphs For example if AOLpress finds lt B gt lt H2 gt text lt H2 gt lt B gt it will convert it to lt B gt lt B gt lt H2 gt text lt H2 gt because the lt B gt tag cannot contain the lt H2 gt tag Learning more The HTML 3 2 specification contains many of the HTML extensions introduced by Netscape and Microsoft In fact the differences between HTML 3 2 and Netscape s HTML are minor AOLpress supports HTML 3 2 You can choose to conform to Netscape or HTML 3 2 in the ToolsPreferences
271. zing 202 E Edit Complex Lists 193 Edit menu Clear item 65 Copy item 62 Cut item 65 Find Next item 67 Find Page item 169 Find Replace item in MiniWeb 177 in page 66 Paste item 63 quick reference for MiniWeb windows 217 for Page windows 208 Select All item 208 Set Help item 170 Set Stationery item 171 Set Title item 176 Editing pages 53 conflicts between multiple authors 182 example of 21 Editing text 65 with keyboard 65 Eight character file names 195 Element menu Anchor item 109 Email Link item 115 Forced Line Break item 63 228 User s Guide to AOLpress 2 0 Get Attribute item 97 Horizontal Rule item 99 Image item 94 Image Map item 112 Java Applet item 122 171 Link item 108 quick reference for Page windows 209 Unlink item 111 Email address 197 Email Link menu item 115 Email links 115 Emailing pages 187 Emphasis type style 71 Error messages 39 Errors in HTML 154 Excite 42 Exit Form Format menu item 140 Exit List Format menu item 76 Extensions MIME preferences 199 External viewers 37 F FAQ Frequently Asked Questions 18 Figures see Images File menu Close item 207 Copy File item 172 Delete item 96 Import item 56 New FrameSet item 129 New Miniweb item 163 New Page item 54 Open item 35 Open Recent item 35 Parse item 153 Print Graphs item 178 Print item 178 Print Setup item 37 quick reference for MiniWeb windows 216 for Page windows 207

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