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The MiniWeb is NaviSoft's concept for how to keep a collection of pages together. GNNpress provides you with a graphical view of the collection (a MiniWeb) showing all the pages and any other files (such as images, sounds, etc.) and the connections between them. The MiniWeb displays your entire set of pages and their links in a set of concentric circles. One page is designated as the home page (it is displayed with a special icon-a spider at home in its web), and anything reachable from it will be in the web. Some pages may have absolute instead of relative URLs; they will be displayed either to the right or below the main graph.
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, and are color coded to show the status and relationships of the files in the MiniWeb. A normal, one directional link shows up as a black arrow. If each page refers to the other then the arrow is double ended and drawn in cyan. An in-line image link is drawn in blue. A form link is drawn in gray. A link to a style sheet is dotted.
Example of a MiniWeb window
Pages that are referenced but have not yet been created show up as grayed entities. References to the external world show up as another type of grayed icon, and their names are drawn in green. Data that are not pages (images, sounds, etc.) but are associated with the document show up in the graph, each with its own icon. Normal HTML pages are little webs, image files show a landscape picture, sound files show a speaker, video files a projector, style files an italic f, image maps a map of the U.S., and files of unknown type show up as a random document icon. HTML pages come in three states: new, modified and normal. The normal icon is a full web, the modified icon is a busted web (until the file is saved), the new icon is a very small web. (If a page is both new and modified it is displayed as new). Home pages come in the same three states with similar icons.
Moving the mouse over an icon displays the page's title (or URL if it has no title) in the status bar. Clicking on an icon selects it. You may drag it around to reposition it. Double clicking on an icon brings up a window displaying it; if the page does not exist GNNpress will ask if you want to create it. Double clicking on an icon with the control key down copies the URL, as will selecting an icon and holding the control key down while pressing the Copy key (if your keyboard has one). Pressing Backspace or Delete should remove the page from the MiniWeb.
The File menu operates on either Pages or MiniWebs-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 special services on the NaviServer. Browse examines the history and the Hot List. Help provides access to documentation, search tools, examples, etc.
A later section in this chapter describes operations with the menus of the MiniWeb window.
Menu Bar in the MiniWeb window, for
Windows. 
The toolbar gives you quick access to frequently used commands such as Open, Import, and Save As.
MiniWeb tool bar
At the bottom of the window, the Status Bar lets you know what the application is doing. For example, if you click on a hyperlink and thereby cause a page to be transferred over the network, the Status Bar will continually update information about the transfer.