New Project Wizard

The New Project Wizard, available from the Environment menu, creates new Spider Writer projects. It can create new projects from scratch or can import files from an existing directory structure. It also allows you to configure publishing locations and to set up remote servers if necessary.

All of this information you set up in this wizard can be changed at a later date in either the Project Properties or Publish Wizard dialogs.

Project Creation Method

In the Project Creation Method step, you decide whether to create the new project from scratch or from an existing directory structure. Use the existing directory option if you already have documents designed for the project and they are in the location in which you would like to store the project files.

Name and Description

In the next step, Name and Description, you define the name, root folder, and a description of the project. The root folder indicates a local folder structure where all your project files will be placed.

Publish Locations and Root URL

In the following step, Publish Locations, you specify the publishing remote server and/or local directory structure of where to publish.

If you set up a remote server, make sure you indicate a startup remote directory in the Remote Servers dialog. This is where the root of your project is uploaded.

You can also specify a root URL for this project in the Root URL combobox. This root URL is used if you have the Route all project document previews through the above URL checkbox checked. This option indicates that whenever you open a document from a project in Spider Writer and view it in the browser, it will route the preview through the specified root URL. This is useful if you are working on a project directly off of a web server and use server-side scripting (such as ASP) in your pages.

For instance, we at Actipro Software may have a default.asp
document at the root of our spiderwriter.com web site.
Since we want to see the results of the server side code when we work on the document and
we work directly off the server, we set the root URL to be http://www.spiderwriter.com/.
Then when we open the default.asp document in Spider Writer and browse to it,
it really browses to http://www.spiderwriter.com/default.asp.

File Extensions Filter

If you are creating the project from a directory structure, the next step is the File Extensions Filter setup step. Here you specify the file extensions of the files you'd like to be included in your new project.

Project Definition Complete

Press the Finish button in this final step to create the project file.