Copyright: HomeSite Copyright ©1996 by Nick Bradbury


Help Contents
Contents

Introduction

Introduction

Release Notes and Comments

Design Assumptions

Learning HTML

Uninstalling HomeSite

Windows NT

About the Author

Technical Support

Using HomeSite

Toolbars

Spell Checker

Publishing

Directory Pane

Projects

Open from the Web

Style Sheets

Right-click Tag Editing

Settings and Preferences

Editing and Browsing

Options

Menu Layout

Keyboard Shortcuts

Common Questions

How do I?

Registering HomeSite

How to Register


Introduction - Introduction
Introduction

   Welcome to HomeSite v2.0, the most powerful - and most affordable - HTML editor available for Windows 95.  Here are a few help pointers to get you started:

•	Learning HTML

•	Editing and browsing

•	Customizable tag coloring

•	Right-click tag editing

•	Drag-and-drop image and anchor tag creation

•	Settings and preferences

•	HTML spell checker

•	Project Management

•	Saved style sheets

•	Toolbars

•	Custom toolbars

•	Keyboard shortcuts

•	Common questions

•	Registering HomeSite


Release Notes and Comments

Please read the document HISTORY.RTF for information concerning changes since the last release.


Design Assumptions

HomeSite is designed for those comfortable with HTML - if you're looking for a  WYSIWYG environment that hides the HTML syntax, HomeSite is not for you.  There are a number of excellent WYSIWIG authoring tools, such as Microsoft's FrontPage and Netscape's Navigator Gold, that you may find more suitable.

HomeSite is first and foremost an HTML editor.  In looking at other HTML editors, I found that many (if not all) of them filled the screen with menus and toolbars loaded with every HTML tag available.  Instead of taking this approach, HomeSite's QuickTag toolbars contain only the most frequently used tags.  This way, you're not forced down a labyrinthine menu just to save yourself from typing <B></B>.  Even though I've dropped many tags from the toolbar, the application is customizable - you may add up to fifteen custom tag buttons for each custom toolbar.


Learning HTML

Many web authors already have a favorite HTML reference.  Rather than create yet another HTML reference - and charge more because of it - I designed HomeSite so that you can add your own reference to it.  HomeSite's 'Apps' toolbar enables you to add Windows help files as separate toolbuttons - simply add your favorite reference to this toolbar, and HTML help is just a click away.

The reference I use is Stephen Le Hunte's excellent HTML Reference Library, which you can find at http://subnet.virtual-pc.com/~le387818/.  Stephen has done a much better job with this help file than I would've done, and he has made it free to the public.  I highly recommend it.

There are also a number of great HTML references available on the web, including:

A Beginner's Guide to HTML	http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
Introduction to HTML	http://members.aol.com/htmlguru/about_html.html
HTML Quick Reference	http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/lynx_help/HTML_quick.html
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 HTML Reference	http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/newhtml/default.htm
HTML Reference Manual	http://www.sandia.gov/sci_compute/html_ref.html


Uninstalling HomeSite

Uninstalling HomeSite is a simple process - just go into Control Panel, double-click on 'Add/Remove Programs,' then double-click on 'HomeSite.'

Note: Because HomeSite stores custom button information in the registry, the uninstall does not remove all registry information.  If you're certain you want to delete this information, use REGEDIT.EXE to delete the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HomeSite.


Windows NT

HomeSite has been tested under both Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0, and a few cosmetic problems have been found.  At this time it is recommended that you run HomeSite only under Windows 95.

Once the final release of NT 4.0 is available, I will be making NT my primary operating system.  Because of this, I can assure you that I'll make certain that HomeSite runs without a hitch on NT!


About the Author

The author is a recluse who doesn't have too much to say about himself.  He is, however, also a cartoonist, and as such isn't above a little shameless self-promotion...

So, if you're a comic strip fan, or just in need of a laugh, stop by http://www.dexnet.com/dexter.html for your weekly dose of Dexter.

Note: Some cartoons may be inappropriate for small children or small-minded senators.  'Nuff said.


Technical Support

If you have a question that isn't answered in the Common Questions, stop by the HomeSite FAQ page at http://www.dexnet.com/homesite/hs_faq.html for up-to-date information about HomeSite and solutions to common problems.   If you have a question or concern that isn't addressed here, drop me a line at nick@dexnet.com and I'll respond as soon as possible.

Note: Technical support is only available to registered users!


Toolbars

Main Toolbar

The HTML Speedbar

QuickTab Toolbar

Fonts Toolbar

Tables, Frames and Lists Toolbars

Tag List

Advanced Toolbar

Apps Toolbar

Custom Toolbars


Main Toolbar

Apart from the standard toolbuttons (cut, copy, paste, open, save, undo, etc.), the main toolbar contains the following:

	Displays the Project dialog			Checks the spelling in the current document
	Publishes the current document (requires Microsoft's Web Publishing Wizard)			Displays the Settings dialog
	Displays the find dialog			Toggles the display of the rulers
	Displays the replace dialog			Indents the selected lines
	Displays the extended replace dialog			Unindents the selected lines
	Switches to full screen display mode			Toggles the display of the Directory Pane
	Browses the current document using your external browser			Toggles the display of the tag list


The HTML Speedbar

The HTML Speedbar is a series of toolbars that provide quick access to the most common HTML tags.

These toolbars can be hidden through the SpeedBar in the Settings dialog.


QuickTab Toolbar

The QuickTab toolbar displays the most frequently used HTML tags, such as bold and center, for easy access.  In addition, the QuickTab toolbar provides the following functions:

Displays the QuickStart dialog

Displays the QuickBody dialog

Displays the QuickAnchor dialog

Displays the QuickImage dialog

Displays the QuickRule dialog

Displays the QuickComment dialog


Fonts Toolbar

The Fonts toolbar displays common font tags that aren't already on the QuickTab toolbar, such as heading styles.


Tables, Frames and Lists Toolbars

The Tables, Frames and Lists toolbars contains several buttons related (oddly enough)  to tables, frames and lists.   These toolbars also provides the following features:

Displays the Table Wizard

Displays the QuickTable sizer

Displays the QuickList dialog

Displays the Frame Wizard


Using HomeSite - Toolbars - Tag List
Tag List

The tag list displays a dropdown list of HTML tags.  Tags are inserted into the current document by clicking the toolbutton to the right of the list.


Advanced Toolbar

The advanced toolbar contains advanced items such as Forms, ActiveX controls and Style Sheets.  Many of these items are specific to either Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator and are noted so in the toolbutton tooltips.

In addition, any dialog used to create Netscape- or Microsoft-specific features will display the icon of the appropriate browser.


Apps Toolbar

The Apps toolbar lets you quickly access other applications that you may use during web page development.  To add or remove applications from this toolbar, click the configure button to display the dialog below:

Note that the Command Line allows you to pass the name of the current document.  This can be extremely useful when using applications such as the CSE 3310 HTML Validator, which accepts the filename of a document to validate.

Just to get you started, here's the URLs of a few applications that I've found useful when creating web pages:

Name	URL
CSE 3310 HTML Validator	http://www.flash.net/~wiersch/htmlvalidator.html
MapThis!	http://galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/tc/mt/
GIF Construction Set	http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html
PaintShop Pro	http://www.jasc.com/
HTML Reference Library	http://subnet.virtual-pc.com/~le387818/
WS_FTP95	http://www.csra.net/junodj/ws_ftp32.htm


Custom Toolbars

The Custom Toolbars allow you to define up to fifteen custom buttons for each toolbar.  To add or remove buttons from these toolbars, click the configure button.  This will display the dialog shown below:

Toolbar Name	The caption to display on the tab containing this toolbar
Caption	The caption to display on the button
Hint	The hint text to display for the button
Start Tag	The starting HTML tag (ex: <TITLE>)
End Tag	The ending HTML tag, if any  (ex: </TITLE>
Note:  You can type anything into the Start Tag and End Tag fields, including tabs and line returns.  In other words, you're not limited to just using HTML tags - in fact, you can place entire HTML documents or scripts here if you wish.


Spell Checker

HomeSite includes a built-in spell checker to help you find your spelling mistakes.  While this spell-checker was designed to act like the one in Microsoft Word, it does have one very powerful difference: HomeSite's spell checker can be configured to skip all text within HTML tags.  To use this feature, simply go to the General page of the Settings dialog, and place a check in the option labeled "Skip tags when spell checking."  If you've ever used an HTML editor with a spell-checker that keeps flagging HTML tags and file names, you'll really appreciate this feature!


Publishing

If you have Microsoft's Web Publishing Wizard on your system, you can easily upload your documents directly from HomeSite.

To upload the current document, just click the Publish button [image] on the main toolbar.  To upload a group of documents, select the documents in the file list, right-click, and select Publish from the popup menu.

Note: Please refer to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/software/webpost/ for technical support or information on downloading the Publishing Wizard.


Directory Pane

The directory pane gives you quick access to all your HTML documents and web graphics.  To open a document in the edit or browse windows, just double click on it.  Or to insert an <A> or <IMG> tag, just drag-and-drop a file to the desired insertion point.  You can even drag-and-drop sound and animation files into the editor.

Right-clicking on a document displays the document options menu.  This menu allows you to copy, rename or delete (via the recycle bin) an HTML document.  It also allows you to display a document's properties, including a list of all external links.  In addition, choosing 'Edit' when an image or multimedia file is selected will open that file in its associated application.

Note: The file types displayed in the document list can be modified through HomeSite's settings dialog.  If you regularly use extensions such as CGI or TXT, for example, this is where you would add them so that they appear in the document list.

More:

Document Properties


Document Properties

The document properties dialog, which is accessed by right-clicking on a document in the Directory Pane and selecting "properties," gives you easy access to a document's title, creation date and last modified date.  In addition, the properties dialog provides a list of all the external links that are contained in the selected document.  The "Dependencies" page displays a list of all images and other dependencies in a document.


Projects

HomeSite enables you to maintain groups of HTML documents through an easy-to-use project dialog.

To create a project, simply click 'New Project,' and then add HTML documents to the project by clicking the 'Add File' button.  Once you have all your HTML documents selected, click 'Save Project' and give the project a name.  The project will then appear in the project list to the left.

To open a project, simply click the 'Open Project' button or double-click on the project in the list.  Opening a project will open every document it contains.  Once you open a project, the QuickAnchor dialog will contain relative paths to each document in the project.  This makes it easy to add hyperlinks to other documents in the project.

Another powerful project-oriented feature is the ability to search-and-replace across an entire project.  HomeSite's Extended Search-and-Replace enables you to select a project and replace entire blocks of text in every document the project contains.

Note:  Each project is stored in an individual file in the \Projects subdirectory.  Whenever a project is changed, a backup is automatically created.  These project files are merely pointers to your HTML documents - the documents are not moved or modified in any way.


Open from the Web

HomeSite enables you to open HTML files directly from the World Wide Web.  Simply choose Open from Web from the File menu, type the URL of the file you wish to retrieve, and HomeSite will download it into a new document.  If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, HomeSite will display a "Favorites" button, enabling you to select the URL from your Favorites folder.  In addition, Netscape users can select the URL from their Bookmarks list.

Note: Before retrieving a remote file, you may have to first log on to the Internet.


Style Sheets

HomeSite enables you to take advantage of the Style Sheet features introduced in Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.  You can easily create and save your own styles and apply them with minimal effort.

The Styles toolbar (shown below) maintains a list of all your saved styles.  To apply a style to a block of text, simply select the text, highlight the style you want to apply, and click the down arrow button to the right of the list.

To create or modify styles, click the  button to display the Saved Styles dialog.


Right-click Tag Editing

	One of HomeSite's most useful additions is its right-click tag editing feature.  Whereas most HTML editors act as though you'll never edit your HTML after you write it, HomeSite assumes that you will make changes - probably dozens of them - before you're done working on a document.  Rather than re-enter or modify your HTML tags, just place the cursor in the tag and right-click.  HomeSite will display a popup menu which includes an Edit Tag entry for the current tag.  Select this entry, and the tag will be displayed in the appropriate dialog.  This is an enormous time-saver.

This feature currently supports the following tags:

<A>	<IMG>
<BGSOUND>	<MARQUEE>
<BODY>	<META>
<!-- -- >	<PARAMETER>
<EMBED>	<SCRIPT>
<FONT>	<TABLE>
<FRAME>	<TR>
<FRAMESET>	<TH>
<IFRAME>	<TD>
<HR>


Settings and Preferences

General Preferences

Files

Editor

Internal Browser

External Browser

SpeedBar


General Preferences

The General Preferences page contains these items:

Choose the format for tags created when multimedia files are dropped into the editor.

Auto-fill HEIGHT and WIDTH for <IMG> tags

Force filenames to lowercase for <IMG> and <A> tags

Lowercase all inserted tags

Show splash screen on startup

Always insert colors as hexadecimal values

Skip tags when spell checking

Show only file names in the file list


Files

On this page you may specify the name of an HTML file to use as a template when creating new documents.  Anytime a new document is created, the contents of the selected file will be inserted into the editor.

The File Types page also contains options allowing you to specify which file extensions denote HTML documents.  Files containing any of these extensions will appear in the directory pane's file list.

In addition, you may specify the default extension to use when saving HTML documents.


Editor

The Editor page is where you specify how you'd like tags to appear when Color Coding is turned on.   The font selected in the first frame is used for all text, but individual colors and styles (bold, italic, etc.) can be applied to different tags.  When color coding is set to minimal, all tags are colored using the 'Other Tags' settings.

You may also modify the editor's tab width on this page (the default is 20).


Internal Browser

If you would prefer to use different default fonts and colors in the internal browser, this is where you change them.


External Browser

This page is where you specify the external browser(s) to use when the browse button on the main toolbar is pressed.  If more than one browser is specified, then selecting the browse button will display a menu containing all the specified browsers.

When launching an external browser, you have the following options:

Prompt to save	If the document about to be browsed has been modified, you will be prompted to save changes.
Automatically save	If the document about to be browsed has been modified, it will automatically be saved.
Use temporary file	HomeSite will save the current document, including changes, as a temporary file.  This enables you to experiment with your changes without having to save them.  The downside to this is that any links back to the original document will load the original document rather than the temporary one.


SpeedBar

This page allows you to specify which toolbars to display with the HTML Speedbar.  If you're short on screen space, or if you find that you don't use some of the toolbars (most people, for example, will never use all five custom toolbars!), you can hide them here.


Editing and Browsing

HomeSite lets you easily edit and browse HTML documents by switching between the "Edit" and "Browse" pages in the main window.

When in edit mode, everything you type is color coded when you move off an edited line (provided color coding is turned on, off course).  This lets you easily pick out mistakes and formatting problems.  The editor contains a number of options which are easily accessed by right-clicking.  The most powerful of these options is the Edit Tag option, which enabled you to easily edit pre-existing tags with minimal typing.

When multiple documents are open, HomeSite displays a set of tabs at the bottom of the editor showing each open document.  You can move between these tabs either by clicking on them with the mouse or using the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+].  If changes have been made to the document since the last time it was saved, the tab will have a red marker on it.

If a block of text is highlighted, the Selection submenu on this popup will be enabled, which contains powerful formatting features that allow you to convert the selection to a list or table or to strip tags from the selection.

HomeSite also supports block indenting, so you can click [image] or [image] to indent or un-indent entire blocks of text.

One of the most useful features in HomeSite is its ability to let you view (or browse) your HTML document as it will appear to web visitors.   Please note, however, that the browser doesn't support more recent HTML features such as frames and style sheets. To test documents that use these extensions, you will have to use an external browser.

Note:  Because each web browser has its own display peculiarities, you shouldn't rely solely on HomeSite's built-in browser.  Instead, use the built-in browser to get a feel for how the document will look, and then test it in other popular browsers before uploading it.

More:

Document Color Coding

Searching and Replacing


Document Color Coding

HomeSite supports color coding of HTML tags, which makes editing documents much easier than with simple text editors. Color coding may be changed by selecting 'Color Coding' from the 'Options' menu.

There are three levels of color coding:

None	Display all text in black, as in standard text editors such as Notepad.
Minimal	Apply color coding to all tags (i.e.: text between '<' and '>'), using the font defined for 'All Other  Tags.'
Full	Apply color coding to all tags, using different font styles and colors for specific tags.
Note: On slower machines, or when editing larger documents, it is recommended that you set color coding to 'None.'

The font styles used when color coding are completely customizable.  For example, if you prefer to show table-related tags in bold, or you want comments displayed in italics, you can easily change HomeSite's font settings.  Just go to the options dialog and change the font settings to suit your tastes.


Searching and Replacing

HomeSite contains powerful search and replace features that ease the maintenance headaches associated with web authoring.  Besides the simple find and replace functions (which are self-explanatory), HomeSite contains an extended replace feature that allows you to find and replace text in entire directories or projects.

Unlike most replace operations, extended replace isn't limited to simple words or phrases - you can replace entire blocks of text, if desired.

When performing a replace involving multiple files, it is recommended that you check the "Make Backups" option so that backups of all the files being searched will be made.  The backups will have the same name as the original files plus the extension '.bak.'

IMPORTANT:  The extended replace function does not confirm each replacement - once you click 'Replace All' and confirm your action, you will not be warned before each replace operation!


Options

Full Screen

Rulers

Tag List

Special Characters


Full Screen

Full Screen mode expands the HTML editor and browser to fill the entire screen.  To switch back to normal size, hit the <Esc> key, or right-click in the editing window and uncheck the "Full Screen" menu option.


Rulers

HomeSite contains a set of rulers marked with the standard screen sizes (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768).  These rulers can be useful in determining whether your layout will fit a certain screen resolution.

Note: The rulers serve only as a rough estimate of actual display size.  Since different browsers have their own display peculiarities, and since users can often customize a browser's fonts, it is advisable to test your pages in different browsers rather than rely solely on the rulers.


Using HomeSite - Options - Tag List
Tag List

The Tag List button displays a floating dialog containing a list of HTML tags and attributes.  To insert an item from the list into the current document, simply double-click on it.


Special Characters

In addition to the floating tag list, HomeSite also has a floating dialog containing the most common Special Characters (also known as Extended Characters).  To display this dialog, simply select "Special Characters" from the "Options" menu.


Menu Layout

File menu

Edit menu

Search menu

Tools menu

Tags menu

Options menu


File menu

New	Displays the New HTML Document dialog
Open	Opens an existing document
Open from the Web	Opens a document directly from the World Wide Web
Reopen	Re-opens a previously opened document (last 5)
Insert	Inserts the contents of another document into the current document
Save	Saves the current document
Save As	Saves the current document under a different name
Save All	Saves all open documents
Export as Unix	Saves a document in Unix format (changes all CR/LF combinations to LF only)
Close	Closes the current document
Close All	Closes all open documents
Projects	Displays the project dialog
Print	Prints the current document
Exit	Exits HomeSite


Edit menu

Undo	Undoes the last change
Cut	Cuts the selection to the clipboard
Copy	Copies the selection to the clipboard
Paste	Pastes from the clipboard
Select All	Selects all text
Indent	Indents the current selection
Unindent	Unindents the current selection
Go to Line	Goes to a specified line in the editor


Search menu

Find	Standard Find function
Replace	Standard Replace function
Extended Replace	See Searching and Replacing
Replace Slashes	Replaces all instances of \ with /
Replace Extended Characters	Replaces extended characters with their HTML equivalents (or vice-versa)


Tools menu

Spell Check	Looks for spelling mistakes in the current document
Quick Anchor	Displays the QuickAnchor dialog, which lets you easily include links to other documents within your page
Quick Image	Displays the QuickImage dialog, which lets you easily include images in your document
Quick Font	Display the QuickFont dialog
Table Wizard	Displays the Table Editor, which helps speed table creation
Frame Wizard	Displays the Frame Wizard, which steps you through the process of creating frames
List Editor	Displays the List Editor, which helps speed list creation
Comment Editor	Displays the Comment Editor
Horizontal Rule Editor	Displays the Horizontal Rule Editor


Tags menu

Menu Pick	Start Tag	End Tag
Bold	<B>	</B>
Italic	<I>	</I>
Underline	<U>	</I>
Font Size +1	<FONT SIZE=+1>	</FONT>
Font Size -1	<FONT SIZE=-1>	</FONT>
Paragraph	<P>
Break	<BR>
Non-breaking space	&nbsp;
H1	<H1>	</H1>
H2	<H2>	</H2>
H3	<H3>	</H3>
Insert Datetime	Inserts the current date and/or time
Strip All Tags	Strips all tags from the current document


Options menu

Toolbar Layout	Changes the toolbar layout - horizontal is the best layout for 640x480 users
Main Toolbar	Toggles the display of the main toolbar - useful for 640x480 displays
Speedbar	Toggles the display of the speedbar
Color Bar	Toggles the display of the color bar
Status Bar	Toggles the display of the status bar
Rulers	Toggles the display of the Rulers
Full Screen	Toggles Full Screen mode
Tag Selection	Displays the Tag Selection dialog, which contains a list of tags and common attributes
Special Characters	Displays the Special Characters dialog
Toggle Edit/Browse	Toggles between edit and browse mode
Word-Wrap	Toggles word-wrap
Color Coding	Allows you to switch between the three levels of color coding
View in External Browser	Opens the current page in an external browser (i.e.: Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer)
Toggle Edit/Browse	Toggles between Edit and Browse in the main window
Document List	Toggles the display of the document list
Include Image Files in Document List	Toggles the display of image files in the document list (also available as option on document list popup menu)
Include Multimedia Files in Document List	Toggles the display of multimedia files in the document list (also available as option on document list popup menu)
Settings	Displays the Settings dialog


Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
ALT+X	Close HomeSite
CTRL+ B	Bold
CTRL+ I	Italic
CTRL+ U	Underline
CTRL+A	Select All
CTRL+C	Copy
CTRL+E	Tag selection
CTRL+SHIFT+E	Special characters
CTRL+F	Find
CTRL+G	Go to line
CTRL+L	Toggle color bar
CTRL+N	Export as Unix
CTRL+O	Open an HTML document
CTRL+R	Replace
CTRL+S	Save changes to the current document
CTRL+T	Show/hide main toolbar
CTRL+V	Paste
CTRL+X	Cut
CTRL+Z	Undo the last edit
CTRL+ >	Indent block
CTRL+ <	Un-indent block
CTRL+[	Switches to the previous document tab (open document)
CTRL+]	Switches to the next document tab
F1	Help
F7	Spell check
F10	Full Screen
F11	View in external browser
F12	Toggle between edit/browse mode
SHIFT+CTRL+Space	Non-breaking space (&nbsp;)
SHIFT+ CTRL+ -	Font Size - 1
SHIFT+ CTRL+ =	Font Size + 1
SHIFT+ CTRL+ 1..3	Heading 1..3
SHIFT+ CTRL+ A	Quick Anchor
SHIFT+ CTRL+ B	Break
SHIFT+ CTRL+ C	Comment Editor
SHIFT+ CTRL+ F	Quick Font
SHIFT+ CTRL+ H	Horizontal Rule Editor
SHIFT+ CTRL+ I	Quick Image
SHIFT+ CTRL+ L	List Editor
SHIFT+ CTRL+ P	Paragraph
SHIFT+ CTRL+ Q	Quick Start
SHIFT+ CTRL+ T	Table Editor
SHIFT+ CTRL+ W	Frame Wizard


How do I?

If you don't find the answer to your question here, make sure to stop by the HomeSite FAQ page at http://www.dexnet.com/homesite/hs_faq.html.   This page will be updated regularly with answers to the most common questions.

•	I'm running at 640x480 and I can't see all the toolbuttons.  How do I change this?

•	I associated HomeSite with HTML files, but when I double-click on a file in Explorer, HomeSite opens with a blank document.  How do I fix this?

•	I edit a number of large documents, and it takes several seconds to open each one in HomeSite.  How do I speed this up?

•	I like to save my HTML documents with a non-standard file extension, but when I do this they no longer show up in HomeSite's file list.  How do I change this?

•	I sometimes work with a directory that contain hundreds of files, such as Netscape's "Cache" directory.  When I switch to this directory, it takes several seconds for HomeSite to populate the file list.  How do I make this faster?

•	I've already used up all 15 of HomeSite's custom toolbuttons.  How do I create more?

•	I use an HTML syntax checker on my documents, and it generates a list of line numbers where errors occur.  How do I quickly move to these line numbers in HomeSite?


How to Register

IMPORTANT:  At the time of this writing, I am still waiting to hear from Unisys concerning royalty payments.  Unisys owns the patent for the LZW compression used in GIF images, and expects a royalty for any software that displays GIFs.  Since HomeSite displays GIFs in its internal browser, I owe Unisys royalty payments.  HomeSite will be available for registration as soon as Unisys contacts me and lets me know exactly how much these payments will be.  Make sure to stop by http://www.dexnet.com/homesite.html for updates on this - obviously, I would like to start charging for HomeSite as soon as possible!


configure button.


configure button.


By default, HomeSite will insert a <BGSOUND> tag for sound files, and an <IMG DYNSRC> tag for animation files. These tags are, however, specific to Microsoft Internet Explorer.  You can change this behavior so that HomeSite uses Netscape's <EMBED> tag instead.


By default, when images are selected during the creation of an <IMG> tag, HomeSite will automatically fill in the HEIGHT and WIDTH of the image.


By default, HomeSite adds the names of selected files exactly as they appear.  Since many pages are hosted on case-sensitive UNIX systems, however, you may wish to always insert the filenames as lower case.


By default, HomeSite inserts tags in uppercase.  Check this option to change this.


By default, HomeSite displays a "splash screen" on startup.  Check this option to stop the splash screen from displaying.


By default, HomeSite will insert color names whenever a named color is selected.  However, many older browsers don't recognize these named colors, and only use hexadecimal values.  Check this item to force HomeSite to always insert colors as hex values.


By default, HomeSite will check the spelling of all HTML tags along with normal text.  Set this option if you would prefer that HomeSite skips HTML tags and only checks normal text.


By default, HomeSite includes detail information (such as a document's title or an image's dimensions) in the file list.  If you regularly work with large or remote directories, check this option to list only the name of the file.  This will boost performance.


The easiest way to free up screen space is to select "Toolbar Layout" from the "Options" menu, and choose a Horizontal toolbar layout.  In addition, you can hide the main toolbar, speedbar, color bar and status bar to free up even more space.  And to really make the most of space, switch to full screen mode.


For the association to work in Explorer, select "Options" from Explorer's  "View" menu, and switch to the "File Types" page.  Double-click on the HTML file type in the "List of Registered Files," and then double-click on the "Action" associated with HomeSite. All you need to do is add "%1" (including the quotes) to the end of this entry, i.e.: C:\HTML\HomeSite.exe "%1" And also make sure that "Use DDE" is unchecked.


To speed up loading of large documents, turn off HomeSite's color coding.


You can customize which files appear in the document list by going into settings and switching to the 'Files' page.  Just click the 'Add' button at the bottom of the page to add a new extension.


By default, HomeSite extract the title from HTML documents and the dimensions from image files and displays them alongside the filename.  If you're working with a large directory - or a remote directory - you can significantly speed this up by going into settings and selecting "Show only file names in the file list" on the General settings page.


Actually, HomeSite has 75 custom toolbuttons, but by default only the first 15 are visible.  To show the other 60, right-click on any toolbar and select "show/hide toolbars."  Then just choose which sets of custom toolbuttons you'd like to show.


Just click CTRL+G and enter the line number - HomeSite will position the cursor at the start of the line.  Make sure to turn word-wrap off before doing this, or else the line numbers won't match up with your syntax checker!