You can use a Claris Home Page library to store Web page elements and copy them onto new pages. For example, you can store logos, navigation buttons, boilerplate text, clip art, tables, form elements, and pieces of HTML code. A library lets you organize the elements in groups by entry name so they're easy to find and copy onto your pages.

The library window is like a card catalog: The left section of the window lists the entries and the right section displays the contents (the Web page elements) of each entry. You can copy individual elements from the right section or you can copy a whole group of elements by dragging the entry name from the left section of the library window onto your page. When you add an element to the library, you can either add it to an existing entry or make a new entry for it.

To get you started, Claris Home Page provides library files that contain clip art, animations, images, applets, movies, and styles ready for you to use. You can use these libraries or your Web pages to create your own custom libraries.

When you copy Web page elements that reference other files (such as GIF image files, movie files, or applets) from one of these libraries onto your page, you need to save a copy of the referenced files for your site as well. When you create a new library and add these kinds of elements to it, you also need to add a copy of the referenced files to the folder that the library file is in. You can use Claris Home Page to do this. See Consolidating media files.