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Create and Edit a Web Page

Create and edit your personal Web page:

1. Fire up GNNpress. When the Page Window appears, move the cursor to the Help menu at the top right of the window and single-click it.
2. When the pull-down menu appears, click on the Examples... menu item.
3. A new Page Window appears. Click on the Personal Home Page link. The following Web page appears:

Template for your personal home page

4. In the Title field, it says <Your Name>'s Home Page. Move the cursor into the Title field, hold the button down, and sweep across <Your Name> (including the brackets). Release the cursor button. The area swept is now presented in reverse video or some other distinctive coloring, depending on the platform.
5. Type your own name. The dialogue box below appears. Click Edit.
   
   GNNpress does not know whether you have permission to modify a page on this particular NaviServer. You can edit the page with or without permission, but you need permission to save the page on the server.
   
   Protected page dialogue
   
   
6. Just below the Title field, at the top of the page itself, appears the same text, <Your Name>'s Home Page. Repeat the same action: sweep across <Your Name> with the cursor and type in your own name.
7. Create text on the page as you would with a word processor.
   • Below the heading "Welcome to My Page on the World-Wide Web," with the cursor sweep over whatever text is there and type your personal statement.
   • Similarly, below the heading "My Thoughts on the Web," type something about your view of the Web.
8. Experiment with the Format menu.
   • Select the entire heading at the top of the page. Then click the cursor on the Format menu. The menu expands.
   • Click the cursor on the Heading menu. The small square to the left of the Hdg 1 label is indented, showing that the heading is a level 1 heading. Click on Hdg 2 to change it to a level 2 heading.
9. Create a link to an interesting page somewhere.
   • At the bottom you see a heading "Some of My Favorite Places on the Web." There is a bulleted list that is 3 items long, but only the first two items have hyperlinks.
   • You can click on either of the links in the bulleted list to view other Web pages.
   • Open an interesting page, perhaps one that you found while searching the hyperlinks in the Global Network Navigator.
   • In that Page window, click Copy URL of Page on the Tool Bar. You can then click on Close if you wish to close the file, but you do not have to.
   • Now move the cursor to your personal home page. Type in your proposed "hyperlink"-a distinctive, descriptive phrase-next to the third (empty) bullet in the bullet list and select it by sweeping over it with the mouse button depressed.
   • Click on Paste URL button in the Tool Bar. A link to the new Web page appears in your personal home page, and your hyperlink is now identified.
10. Don't go away!

Publish to a NaviServer

Publish your personal home page to NaviSoft's computers:

1. Select the File menu item at the top of the page.
2. When the options appear, select Save As... A dialogue box appears.
3. Select the drop-down arrow to the right of the box labeled Drives/Servers /MiniWebs.
4. Select the item http://public.navisoft.com/.
5. Now select the scrolling arrow for the bottom box, which lists files and directories.
6. Scroll down and select pub. Click on it. The name pub appears after http://public.navisoft.com/ in the top box.
7. Click the cursor in the top box and type a file name for the Web page you wish to save. A common convention is a name followed by .htm, e.g. joe.htm.
8. Click the Save button.
   • If the file already exists, the dialogue will ask you to confirm the Save operation.

Now your Web page is saved on our server! You can save your page to your own hard drive, as well. Just repeat steps 1-8 above, but select your own drive in the Drives/Servers/MiniWebs box.

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