Now it's time to create the table for your site. Select the "Web --> New Website.." command. A dialog box will appear, asking for the name of the new web site table. Enter the name you have chosen for your web site table. The name should be just letters, although you can mix upper and lower case if you want. Click OK, and a new table will be created in the websites table with the name you just entered. The table will also appear in a separate window on the screen. Here is a screen shot of a test website called "test":
As you go through the next several pages of this tutorial, you will make changes to a number of the tables and outlines in your site table (glossary, nextPrev, ftpSite, template, and tools). But first, you need to create some pages of your own.
Organizing your pages
Before you start creating wp texts for your pages, think about how you would like your pages to be organized in the web site table.
- If you have no problem with everything appearing at the same level in the table, you can skip the rest of this paragraph.
- If you want the top level page of your site to be the index or default file when someone accesses your site URL, then you need to have a wp text called index or default (depending on what name your server expects) at the site table level ("websites.yourSiteTableName").
- If you want to group your files in folders or directories when they are rendered, you will need to create a sub-table for each of those in your main site table. You can do this by making your site table the active window and selecting the "Table --> New Sub Table" command. A dialog box will ask you for the name of the new table cell. Enter the name and click OK. A new item will appear in your site table with the name you just entered. The "kind" attribute on the right side of the new table entry should be "table".
Creating your pages
To begin to create your pages, make your site table the active window and select the "Table --> New Text" command for each page. A dialog box will ask you for the name of the new wp text file. When you choose a name, you do not have to include a ".html" extension. Frontier will add this to the HTML file for this wp text file when your site is rendered. Enter the name and click OK. A new item will appear in the site table with the name you just entered. If you are organizing pages in separate sub-tables, you should be in the sub-table for the page you are creating when you select the "Table --> New Text" command.
You can create all of the wp text files for your site at one time, or create them as you go. If you are converting an existing Frontier site, you can just copy wp text cells from one table and copy them to the new site table. If you are converting a site that is not Frontier-based, you can copy the text from your old site into the new wp text files.
One last note
Make sure to include a #title directive as the first line in each wp text file. An example could be:
#title "My Home Page"
When the navigation menu is built, the contents of the title directive are used as the menu entries.
When you have some of your pages set up, you can start doing some Glossary Table Work.
Page 1: Description of A Standard Web Site
Page 2: Organize Your Material
Page 3: Create Site Table
Page 4: Glossary Table Work
Page 5: nextPrev Table Work
Page 6: ftpSite Table Work
Page 7: Template Work
Page 8: Tools Table Work
Page 9: Build and Release!
Page 10: Wrap Up
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