Creating a HomePage

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Once you have created a new Web, go to the Navigation view. If you used a Web template, you should have an index file in your Folder List. This is your Home Page. On our Unix system, the index file is extremely important; it is the default start page for any Web directory. Users can, in most cases, access your Web site simply by knowing the server on which you publish and your username. For example, I have an account on YSU's Computer Center server, for which the address is cc.ysu.edu. My username is hmwells. Therefore, anyone wishing to find my home page could enter the url, or uniform resource locator, address as follows: http://cc.ysu.edu/~hmwells and come directly to my index page.

Note: The tilde, or ~, appearing before the username generally indicates the folder is a personal one; however, the English Department's folder on the Arts and Sciences server is listed as ~english. Not all systems use the ~, so if you're trying to hunt down someone's personal page, try typing in the username both with and without the tilde.

If you do not have an index page in the Folder List, you need to create one.

Click on File > New > Page or on the toolbar below the text menu, click on the rectangular white box, which represents a new page.

To use a FP template, such as a two-column format, click on File > New > Page, which gives you a window with template options.

To start with a blank page and format it from scratch, simply click on the New Page button on the toolbar.

The first page you create in your Web should be labeled Home Page in Navigation view, and it'll have a little house icon on it. If you wish to change the name of it (say, to "Amy's Home Page"), right click on the page and click Rename. However, when you go to File > Save As, the file name should always be "index.htm." Note that the page can say "Home Page" or something else in the Navigation view, but the file name still needs to be index.htm.

The page's title will appear in the browser window when the page is viewed on the Internet. To change the name that appears in the browser, go to Page view, then to File > Save As. Go to Page Title and click Change. Then type in the wording you want to appear on the Web in the browser window. Click Save to accept or Cancel to discard your change.

Now, you can add pages to your Web under the Home page.

	Go to Navigation view.
	Right click on the graphic that represents your home page. In the popup menu, select New Page.
	To change the default file label (e.g., "New page 2"), right click on it and click Rename.
	To add pages under the new page, right click on it and, in the popup menu, click New Page. Follow the same procedure for adding new pages under any page in the Web.

Why am I doing this?

When you create your Web in Navigation view, you gain the ability to apply such elements as themes, navigation buttons, and shared borders to the entire Web, instead of having to apply elements individually to each page within the Web. Creating a Web hierarchy in this view means that when you add, for example, a set of navigation buttons to the top border of all pages, the buttons will automatically be inserted bearing the name of the page to which they link and with hyperlinks already in place.

Note: If at any time you wish to rename files in your Web, do so by right clicking on the file name under the Folder List. FP automatically updates links to and from this page if you rename it using this method.