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=ZCGDC ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" Lucida Bright HTML Grinder Intelligent Link Automation for Webmasters Helvetica To View Next Page: Choose from Page menu or type To View Previous Page: Choose Previous from Page menu or type To Print Document: Choose Print from the File menu or type Contents: pages 0Use scroll bar at right to see more of this page 8Other navigation commands are available in the Page menu 1994-95 by Michael Herrick/Matterform Media "HTML Grinder and the Grinder icons "are trademarks of Matterform Media http://www.matterform.com/ 2http://www.matterform.com/grinder/htmlgrinder.html 4http://www.matterform.com/software/registration.html matterform@interart.net Lucida Bright Table of Contents Introduction )F ................................ )] ................................ ............................. What is the HTML Grinder? ................................ )U ................................ Plug-In Tool Approach )v ................................ )U ................................ .......... Demo Mode )< ................................ )U ................................ )U ................................ How to contact Matterform Media ................................ ........................ 1Copyright Information and Distribution Permission ........................ Getting Started )R ................................ )] ................................ ......................... Grinder Package )Q ................................ )U ................................ ........................ Grinder Requirements )n ................................ )U ................................ ............. Grinder Limitations )a ................................ )U ................................ .................. Balloon Help )A ................................ )U ................................ .............................. ~'Loading your documents into the Grinder ................................ ........ Important Warning )^ ................................ )U ................................ ................... Select your documents )q ................................ )U ................................ ............ Loading your documents ){ ................................ )U ................................ ........ Documents Loaded )^ ................................ )U ................................ ................... Selecting a wheel to use )v ................................ )U ................................ .......... The Grinder Wheels )l ................................ )] ................................ ................ Find and Replace )S ................................ )U ................................ ....................... Glossary ), ................................ )U ................................ )U ................................ ...... Replace Tagged Text )f ................................ )U ................................ ................ Appender )1 ................................ )U ................................ )U ................................ Index Builder )D ................................ )U ................................ ............................. Date Stamp )9 ................................ )U ................................ )U ................................ Filename Fixer )I ................................ )U ................................ ........................... Recreator )1 ................................ )U ................................ )U ................................ Color Calculator )Q ................................ )U ................................ ........................ Sequential Linker )V ................................ )U ................................ ...................... StretchList )6 ................................ )U ................................ )U ................................ Preferences )@ ................................ )] ................................ ............................... Appendix )7 ................................ )] ................................ )^ ................................ Demo Mode and Serial Numbers ................................ ........................... t drag documents onto the Grinder icon ................................ ..... (Tricks for selecting icons in the Finder ................................ ............... Comment Tags )L ................................ )U ................................ .......................... Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Introduction What is the HTML Grinder? Lucida Bright [The HTML Grinder is not an editor. It is not a WYSIWYG tag converter or a friendly tutorial 6]for those trying to learn the Hypertext Markup Language. It s not like any other HTML utility ve ever seen, but once you try it out, you may find you can't live without it. UThe Grinder was developed to meet the needs of advanced Webmasters who need to manage 6Xsites comprising dozens or hundreds of pages. The Grinder won t write your pages for you \the way an editor will, but it will help you maintain them and keep them in order far better than any mere editor could. YSay your Web site has been up for a while, and now you ve changed your email address. Say 6Zthat email address appears on every one of your fifty pages. How is your HTML editor going ^to help? You have to open each text file in turn, make the change, and move on to the next. If re quick, this will keep you busy for about fifteen minutes. [The Grinder lets you do it all in a single stroke. You just drag all your HTML documents on 6`the Grinder icon, set up a single search-replace dialog box, and click the start button. All the Bchanges in all your HTML documents are done in less than a minute. [Or say you want to make a table of contents to your site so folks can choose a page from an 6Walphabetical list. Or have you ever wanted to put a date on the bottom of each page? Or Ymaybe make a chain of pages, with next and previous links leading the reader from page to page. YAn editor can put these kinds of elements on your pages. But you still have to do all the 6Xclicking and typing. The Grinder can put these elements on your pages automatically. You Yjust drag the files you want onto the Grinder icon, set a few parameters, and the Grinder handle starts to spin! Plug-In Tool Approach ^The Grinder doesn t do anything by itself. It requires special plug-in tools, called wheels, 6'to make changes to your HTML documents. QEach wheel is a miniature program that performs a specific task. One wheel does a 6^find/replace, another wheel creates a table of contents, another puts a date stamp on all your Zpages, and so forth. This modular approach makes it possible to expand the capabilities of Vthe Grinder by releasing new wheels. And it lets you save money by purchasing only the Zwheels you find the most useful. A discount is available if you purchase all the wheels at once. ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" QAnd what are those icons supposed to be? Why, they re the wheels, the kind that 6Vplug into those industrial-grade food grinders for grating cheese. Watch your fingers! Demo Mode VThe Grinder program and one of the wheels, the Find and Replace wheel, are free. You 66may use this software forever at absolutely no charge. YThe other Grinder wheels ship in demo mode which allows you to try them out for a short 6^time before purchasing. The wheels are fully functional, but they expire after a few weeks and Fyou need to register them with a serial number to continue using them. TYou can purchase the serial numbers directly from the Matterform Media web site (see 6[below). You can buy numbers for all the wheels, or just for the ones you use the most. Once Vyou receive your numbers and enter them into the software, you will be able to use the 5Grinder wheels indefinitely and without interruption. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Lucida Bright Important: ODo not open any of the wheels until you are ready to evaluate it. If you open a 6_wheel for a quick look, then close it and don t come back to it for a month, you will find that Zit has expired before you even had a chance to review it. Downloading a new wheel will not it will be expired too. Also Important: -When you receive your serial numbers, install 6Sthem right away. They will expire in a few days if you do not use them soon enough. RWhen a wheel is opened in Demo Mode, it prompts you to enter a serial number or to continue in Demo Mode. See the Appendix )6. for more information about serial numbers and Demo Mode. How to contact Matterform Media SInformation about the HTML Grinder, Matterform Media, and other Matterform products 6Xcan be viewed at the Matterform Web site. You can download the Grinder directly from the Xsite, and also purchase serial numbers for your favorite wheels. Use the following URLs: Matterform site: Courier http://www.matterform.com/ HTML Grinder Info: )p2http://www.matterform.com/grinder/htmlgrinder.html Purchase Serial #s: )l4http://www.matterform.com/software/registration.html Email: matterform@interart.net ?\We take orders only through the Web site. However, if you fill out the order form, but don 6[want to send your credit card number over the Internet, there is a place for you to type in Wyour phone number so we can call you for your credit card information. You can also fax Pcredit card info, or send a check or money order. Email us for more information. WRemember, the Grinder is expandable. If you have a task that you would like to automate 6[with a new Grinder wheel, please write to us. Your ideas help us make the Grinder even more Rpowerful. We would also be very interested to hear about any unusual uses you have discovered for the HTML Grinder. 1Copyright Information and Distribution Permission UThe HTML Grinder is common law copyright 1994-95 by Michael Herrick/Matterform Media. 6.Copyright protection applies to the following: $The HTML Grinder application program All the plug-in wheels The Read Me file This manual ?=Distributing this software without permission is prohibited. Permission is hereby granted to distribute the HTML Grinder 4 as long as all of the following conditions are met: SThe entire package (application, wheels, readme file, and manual) must be included. 5No portion of the package may be modified or altered. 1The wheels must be distributed in Demo Mode only. ?JAll the Grinder wheels (except the Find and Replace wheel, which is free) revert to demo U and require new serial numbers as soon as they are copied to another Macintosh. This 6\allows you to share the Grinder with your friends and let them try it out for a few weeks in UDemo Mode without committing software piracy. Thank you for respecting copyright law. [If you want to include the Grinder in a shareware software collection either online, floppy 6Rdisks, CD-ROM or other media please write for permission and for more information. TPermission will almost certainly be granted, but we just want to know ahead of time. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Getting Started Grinder Package Lucida Bright SWhen you download the HTML Grinder, you receive a compressed bin-hex document which 6:uncompresses into a folder containing the following icons: HTML Grinder Application ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" MThe HTML Grinder is the main application program. It contains the bulk of the 6Rprogramming and it coordinates the various plug-in wheels that you have installed. Grinder Tools ffffff ffff33 ff33ff ff3333 33ffff 33ff33 3333ff 333333 wwwwww UUUUUU DDDDDD """""" SThe Grinder Tools folder contains all the Grinder plug-in wheels. The Grinder needs 6Qto be able to locate this folder on your hard drive, so do not move or rename it. Other items VA ReadMe file and this manual are also included. If you wish to distribute the Grinder 6Qaccording to the terms outlined above, these are the four items you must include. Grinder Requirements Rs >D RJBE) bR E) BR JRJRE) BR ^ HIB Q HI3 <g60I AThe Grinder requires System 7.0 or later and a 68030 processor or 6Gfaster. You should allocate at least 1500K of memory to the Grinder and the more the merrier. $To set the memory allocation, click on the Grinder icon and choose Get Info... )65 from the File menu. A window appears with fields for 6Hthe memory allocation in the lower-right corner. Make sure the preferred size is at least 1500K. Grinder Limitations =The Grinder can work with pieces of text 30K or smaller. This 6^limitation applies to the text fields in the Grinder windows and to the HTML files you want to agrind. If you try to grind a document larger than 30K, you will receive an error. No fix for this -limitation is anticipated in the near future. UThis limitation also has ramifications for the number of documents you can grind at a 6Zsingle pass. Since the pathname for each document you drag onto the Grinder is stored in a [single text field, a large group of documents can max out the 30K limitation. The practical ]limit to the number of files that can be ground in a single pass is somewhere around three to [four hundred. If you need to grind more documents than that, you will need to grind them in two groups. Balloon Help YBalloon Help is supported throughout the HTML Grinder and all of the plug-in wheels. When 6_you are first learning to use the Grinder, you may find it helpful to turn on Balloon Help from X menu and point at all the buttons, text fields and other elements in the wheel windows. ?^A simple help screen is also available for the Grinder. You can see this screen at any time by clicking the )JA in the lower-left corner of any wheel window. You can also type ? or press the 6!HELP key on an extended keyboard. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page 6'Loading your documents into the Grinder Important Warning Lucida Bright SThe Grinder makes extensive and permanent alterations to large numbers of your HTML 6Vdocuments at once. There is no way to undo the modifications performed by the Grinder. VPlease exercise caution and make sure you have recent backups of the documents you are about to grind. Select your documents YSelect the documents you want to grind by highlighting their icons in the Finder. You can 6`shift-click on each icon in turn, or drag a selection rectangle to select the icons you want. Be sure to select J those documents you want to grind. In most cases, these will be only HTML 6>text documents. For advanced tips on selecting files, see the { Appendix. 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A thermometer window will appear &as the Grinder loads the documents you dragged onto the Grinder icon. Documents Loaded @c038 )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH 0332d* 0330p 3 03?303308* 03030330 3 0313 332L* 6When this is finished, a soft chime will sound and the 64complete pathnames of every document you loaded will appear in the HTML documents to grind field. You can 69now use one of the plug-in wheels to make changes to this group of documents. 0If you want to work on a different group of HTML 68documents, just drag a different group of documents onto the Grinder icon. 5More information about this window is available under Preferences )A' section, below. If you have difficulty 6-dragging documents onto the Grinder, see the Appendix for assistance. Selecting a wheel to use SOnce you have a group of documents loaded into the Grinder, you can open a wheel to 6 make changes to those documents. ;To use any wheel, just select its name from the Tools menu. The wheel window will open on 6Qyour screen. You can return to the HTML Grinder window and see the list of loaded documents by choosing Preferences )A6 from the Tools menu. If you drag a group of documents 6Xonto the Grinder icon in the Finder when a wheel window is open, the Grinder window will :not appear, but the documents will load in the background. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page The Grinder Wheels Lucida Bright VThis section describes and gives instructions for each of the wheels included with the 6YGrinder. This is where the real work gets done! To use the wheels, you should know how to Kdrag documents onto the Grinder icon, as described in the previous section. Demo Mode WWhen any wheel besides the Find and Replace wheel opens, it displays the registration 6 dialog box. For now, just click Demo Mode )C1 to continue. Later on, if you decide to purchase 6.serial numbers for any of the wheels, see the Appendix for more information. Find and Replace 330#33 `|<|>< <f>f>< ?The Find and Replace wheel is free. Even if you do not purchase 6<serial numbers for any of the other wheels, you can use this wheel at no charge. 5The Find and Replace wheel works the way any Find and 62Replace command works in most word processors. The Ddifference is that this wheel will search at a single stroke all the ?documents you drag onto the Grinder icon. You only need to type 2the phrases into the fields once and then hit the Find & Replace button. Glossary s38p| c00f1 c0<f1 33 f1 32`f1 8The Glossary wheel is an enhanced Find and Replace wheel 68that lets you make multiple changes in your documents at once. Creating glossary entries ;You use the Glossary wheel by setting up glossary entries 64or find/replace settings. To create an entry, click G New Entry or type 5N. A blank line will be highlighted in the scrollable 6?list of glossary entries and two new fields will appear beneath the list. In the field Replace this glossary text, type in the text you 68wish to search for in your HTML documents. In the field this HTML code, )\, type in the text you want to insert in your 6-HTML documents in place of the glossary text. UThe glossary text will now be listed as an entry in the scrolling list. If you click Replace Glossary Text )MQ at this point, this wheel will function exactly like the Find and Replace wheel. ?ZBut the real point is that now you can set up a second, third, and fourth entry as many as you like. Just click the New Entry )<9 button and fill out the fields to add new entries to the 6 scrollable list. When you click Replace Glossary Text, & the Grinder will go through each HTML 60document in turn and perform a find and replace for each one of your glossary entries. Removing and changing entries ZYou can remove glossary entries just by clicking on them in the list and then clicking the Delete Entry )EP button. You will be asked to confirm your decision. And you can edit entries by 6]clicking on them in the list, and then changing the text that appears in the find and replace fields. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Replace Tagged Text "DC$H "DB$H "DC$H "DB$H @dC2 @DB" "|B$@ @DB" @DB" @DB" "|B$@ 2D2" Lucida Bright 9Replace Tagged Text is a specialized Search/Replace tool. It lets you search for % strings of text (called tags), throw 6<out all the text that lies between them, and replace it with new text. Tagging text in your pages 9In order to use this wheel, you need to design your pages 6;with this strategy in mind. There will be certain chunks of 6text in your pages that you will want to change fairly 9frequently. You can these chunks so that the Tagged Text wheel can find them easily. <To tag a chunk of text, place one non-displaying comment tag before it and another 6_(different) comment after it. For a chunk of text you want to identify as a footer , you would tag it as follows: Courier  Your text and HTML code here...  Replacing the tagged text 0In the Tagged Text wheel, you would now specify  as the beginning tag and  )~B as the end tag. Then type or paste into the large scrolling field 6Qwhatever text you want you want to insert between those two tags. When you click Replace Tagged Text, )IL the wheel will go through each one of your documents, find the text between  and  )y1 tags and replace it with the text you typed into the large scrolling field. Appender c03#2f c0?30f c0030f c0132f f||<|> f||<f> 4The Appender wheel lets you insert text at specified 6%locations in all your HTML documents. :The first field is the large scrolling field where you can 68type or paste the text you want to insert in each one of your HTML documents. 4Under the large field is a popup menu which controls 66where the text will be appended in the HTML documents. There are four choices: At beginning of document. Appends the text at the U4beginning of the document, before all the other text in the document. At end of document. )tA Appends the text at the end of the document, after all the other text in the document. Before text. )@L Appends the text before the first instance in each document of the text you U7type in the small field to the right of the popup menu. After text. ):K Appends the text after the first instance in each document of the text you U7type in the small field to the right of the popup menu. ?\The Before Text and After Text options are especially powerful. If you want to place text at 6Lthe beginning of each page, you will probably want to append text after the </title> 6+* See Appendix for more about comment tags. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Courier <body> Lucida Bright )(T) tag. If you want to append some text at the end of each page, you should not place 60the text at the end of the entire document, but before the </body> tag (if you use that tag). ?/When you make all the settings, just click the Append Text button. Index Builder P(30 00fbf` 00f<f` GIndex Builder is a quick and painless way to create those long lists of 6@links and tables of contents that are so common in Web sites. It Hautomatically puts a list on one page with automatically generated links to a group of destination pages. GTo use this wheel, select your destination pages (that is, the group of 6Hpages for which you want to create a linked list) and drag them onto the Grinder icon. Then choose Index Builder from the Tools menu. Click Select Index File... )f. This will display a standard Open dialog box. 6HSelect the HTML document on which you want the list to appear with links Kto all your destination documents. The name of the file appears in the text field underneath. .There are two other options to set. Check the Alphabetize box if you want the links 6-arranged in alphabetical order. And from the Format )'" popup menu, you can choose among: Plain. . Puts each link on its own line, separated by tags. Ordered list. )E# Creates a numbered list using the tag. Unordered list. )S# Creates a bulleted list using the tag. When you click Build Index, )B? the wheel will create a link for each one of the documents you 6/dragged onto the Grinder icon. It will use the <title> ).) of each page for the link text, and will build the M tags and an appropriate link pathname. Then the wheel will arrange the links 6Ufor each document, alphabetize them if you specified, and list them in the format you ^specified. Finally, the wheel will automatically insert the HTML code for the linked list onto )the page you specified as the index file. >Example of the HTML code created for an unordered linked index  -<li><a href="../folder/file1.html">Page 1</a> -<li><a href="../folder/file2.html">Page 2</a> -<li><a href="../folder/file3.html">Page 3</a> </ul>  ?ZThe first time you add an index to a file, it will be appended to the end of the document, 6[after all the other text in the document. However, the index will be wrapped inside two non displaying comment tags  and  ?YThe next time you add an index to this file, the wheel will search for these comment tags 6Y(even if you have moved them), throw out the index that lies between them, and insert the $new index in its place. Pretty cool! * See Appendix for more about comment tags. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Date Stamp Lucida Bright WThe Date Stamp wheel does something you ve always wanted. Sticks the last modified date on all your documents. DA@JP DA@JR @PA%)$R Ng8;y 7It pulls this date directly from the last modified date 69recorded by the System for each of your documents. And it 7gives you a number of options for how that date will be .formatted. In the middle of the window is the Date Format 66popup menu. There are three choices. When you select a 2new format, a preview appears just below the popup menu: Long. Monday, September 18, 1995 Short. 9/18/95 Abbreviated. Mon, Sep 18, 1995 ?6(These formats may appear slightly different depending on the settings of your Date and Time control panel.) ?4You can also wrap the date in text of your choosing. 67There are fields which let you specify what text should come Before )#$ the date and what text should come After % the date. The example illustrated on 6%this page would produce HTML text of: Courier !<font size="-2">Last modified on: )<b>Monday, September 18, 1995.</b></font> ?'which would appear in a Web browser as: Last modified on Monday, September 18, 1995. You can modify the Before and After 5 text to add any HTML code, text or images along with the date of each document. Finally, the Insert ) F popup menu controls where in the documents the date will be inserted. 6*This popup menu operates exactly like the Append ),! popup menu in the Appender tool. ?TWhen you insert a date stamp for the first time, the HTML code is wrapped in the non displaying comment tags  and  ?VThe next time you insert a date stamp on a page, the wheel ignores the setting of the Insert 6\popup menu. Instead, it finds these comment tags, throws out the old date stamp, and inserts the new one in its place. YKeep in mind that when you add the last modified date to each of your documents, you will modify and thereby change )&@ the last modified dates of each document. It s best to run this wheel as rarely as possible. * See Appendix for more about comment tags. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Filename Fixer 0f<|< Fff`` >ff`x 0f<f>fc IBHBB RBHIJP )IBH NB&q9 "`)09 A, `R )/I?' A( BR 23&`ff1 & fF1 Lucida Bright 5Filename Fixer is a handy tool for many purposes (not 66just HTML!). Rather than changing the contents of your documents, it changes their titles with a simple Search/Replace interface. 8Just fill out the search field and the replace field and then click Change Filenames. The wheel can change the 6:title of any kind of document: HTML files, GIF files, MPEG 6files, Microsoft Word files whatever you drag onto the 4Grinder icon. However, it cannot change the names of folders. Watch your fingers You should always )$F have backups of the files you are about to grind. Backups are all the 6Xmore important with this wheel, as some people have reported corrupted files immediately 0after running Filename Fixer. Please be careful. *= Recreator ]The Recreator doesn t affect the contents of your files. It is designed to quickly change the Creator Codes )K0 of your files before you begin working on them. About creator codes YEvery Macintosh file has a creator code. It is a four character code embedded in the file 6Nwhich tells your Macintosh what program to use when you double-click the file. ^Since so many different kinds of programs can create text files, a text file could have any of 6\a number of different creator codes. One text file could have a Microsoft Word creator code, Pwhich gives it a Microsoft Word document icon and which opens the Microsoft Word Yapplication when you double-click it. Another might have a SimpleText creator code, which Wgives it a SimpleText document icon and which opens the SimpleText application when you double-click it. [Of course, you can open a text file in any program that supports text files by dragging the 6Yfile onto the program icon or by opening the document from within the program itself. But `when you double-click on the file, it will open in whatever program created it and gave the file $its creator code in the first place. When to use this wheel _This wheel lets you change those creator codes so that your text files will open in a different 6#program when you double-click them. XThis is useful when you have a number of documents that were created in one program (say 6ZSimpleText) which you want to edit in another program (say BBEdit). Of course you can load Ythem into BBEdit by dragging them onto the BBEdit program icon. But every time you simply Xdouble-click the file which is the most natural way to open it it stubbornly opens up in SimpleText. Annoying! Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Lucida Bright How to use this wheel YJust drag all the files whose creator codes you want to change onto the Grinder icon. You 6Ycan drag any kind of file text, graphics, whatever. Then open the Recreator wheel window. )IBH!$ ,HI, JR $,HK I (BI( JP 3006xx y33008 C13 10 8There is only one setting to make. Type the creator code you want into the New Creator Code field. When you click Change Creator Codes, all the documents you dragged 69onto the Grinder will be transformed to the code you type in this box. 7Since it isn t always easy to remember the creator code 6<for particular applications, there is a special shortcut. If you click Same As... ):$ you will get a standard Open dialog 6[box. Just select a document that was created by the application whose creator code you want Gto switch your documents to. It s creator code will then appear in the New Creator Code field. NOTE: )!V After you run this wheel, you will need to close and reopen the folder which contains 6Pthe transformed documents before your Macintosh will associate them with the new application. Watch your fingers You should always )$F have backups of the files you are about to grind. Backups are all the 6Xmore important with this wheel, as some people have reported corrupted files immediately +after running Recreator. Please be careful. Color Calculator HHJRBI )JP , J )!!J HJJRRH ( HI)!)J I!!JC BJP`I &I:@ I !IJ@ bc801 ) BA%!$%) I@ %%) I@ n&pg8 H)/ t @AH$ :Most browser programs display Web pages as black text on a 66light gray background. The Netscape browser recognizes <special tags which let the Web designer customize the colors =of the background and the text. Writing these tags are fairly 4easy. Figuring out the arcane hexadecimal codes that 5represent the colors is not. If you want a light blue background, should you use Courier 9CEF93 B4DF0F ?:The Color Calculator shields you from these codes and lets 64you choose your colors more intuitively. Just click Color... )'T to display the standard color wheel. Click the color you want on the wheel. You can 6\lighten or darken the color by using the scroll bar on the right side of the window. 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Now you can just copy this code into 6-the appropriate place in your HTML documents. Note: 0The Color Calculator wheel is unusual in that it 65does not modify your HTML documents automatically. It 2completely ignores any documents that you may have 7dragged onto the Grinder icon. All the Color Calculator <does is compute the code for the color you pick. After that, s up to you to insert that code in the proper place of your HTML document. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Lucida Bright Where to put the color codes .The color codes are used as parameters to the Courier <body> tag. The <body> tag is somewhat 6Voptional, and many people do not use it until they want to use one of the custom color parameters. The <body> )'B tag surrounds the contents of your HTML document in the following fashion: Anatomy of an HTML Document <html><head> +<title>Title of the Document</title></head> <body bgcolor="#9CEF93"> Contents of the document here... </body></html> ?>You can insert any or all of five different parameters in the <body> tag: bgcolor="#XXXXXX" Sets the background color text="#XXXXXX" Sets the color of the text link="#XXXXXX" %Sets the color of the hypertext links vlink="#XXXXXX" -Sets the color of the visited hypertext links alink="#XXXXXX" %Sets the flash color you see when you click on hypertext links ?QYou may want to visit the Netscape Web site at http://home.netscape.com/ for more 61information about the usage of custom color tags. Cool Tip [The real challenge in colorizing pages is picking text and background colors that work well 6\together. And it s a pain to have to figure out a new hexadecimal code and type it into your \HTML documents just because you want to see what the page looks like if you lighten the text up a bit. m!Netscape Color Preferences Window ?[Netscape lets you set the colors of your background, text and hypertext links from a single 6ZPreferences window. You can use the Netscape preferences to experiment with colors and see Dyour changes immediately, without having to code them in HTML first. [The Netscape color picker is identical to the one used by the Color Calculator. So once you 6Yget the colors the way you want in Netscape, you can just write down the HSB or RGB color ]values from the Netscape color picker and transfer them to Color Calculator color picker. The colors will match exactly. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Sequential Linker Lucida Bright WMany Web designers often find themselves facing the task of connecting a group of pages 6]into a sequential chain, with links on each page that point to the next and previous pages in Xthe chain. These chains require a great deal of work, especially when they have to be re organized. [The Sequential Linker makes this a task of one minute. It automatically connects pages in a 6]sequential chain with links that lead from page to page, forward and backward. It even allows 3you to add a link up to a Table of Contents page. +Loading your documents in the correct order ]To use this wheel, the first step is to select all the HTML documents in the chain. The order 6Zin which you select the documents determines the order in which they will be linked in the ]chain. The best method is to click on the first document in the chain, and then hold down the Sshift key and click on the next document, the next document and so on until all the Mdocuments are selected. Then let go of the shift key, point the mouse at the first document 6>selected, and then drag the whole group onto the Grinder icon. Settings ZAfter you have loaded the documents, open the Sequential Linker if it is not already open, 6 and make the following settings: c#00ff c300fg c300fg c300ff 8x||x 0>ffc c fFff b``ffb AII% H%$RH JB A%$ "A HI Choose a Table of Contents Page The first item is the checkbox Use Table of Contents Page. )S$ If you leave this button unchecked, 61the wheel will add only two links to each of your 3pages, one to the previous page and one to the next 4page. If you check this button, the wheel will add a 6third link to your pages, a link to a page outside the 3chain which can serve as a linked table of contents 1to all the documents in the chain (you can easily 6create the contents page with the Index Builder tool). 3If you are using a table of contents page, you need 6)to specify which page to use by clicking Choose Contents Page... )XJ A standard open dialog box will appear with which you can select the HTML 6]document which will serve as the table of contents to the chain. The filename of the page you 7select appears in the field to the right of the button. Setting the link text s skip down now to the three lower text fields, labeled Return to TOC Text, Previous Page Text, Next Page Text. > The text you type in these fields will be used as the colored 6^underlined text which links to the table of contents page, the previous page in the chain, and the next page in the chain. The Courier 9 and tags with a URL link reference will automatically be 61wrapped around the text you type in these fields. 6Separating the links and selecting where to place them Just above these fields is the Delimiter )35 field. The text you type into this field is inserted 6Vbetween the links to separate them from one another when they are placed on your page. &Finally, there is a popup menu titled Append +which controls where on each page the links 6Qare placed. See the description of the identical popup menu in the Appender wheel "instructions for more information. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Lucida Bright The Results ]How does this all come together? If you keep the default settings, as they are illustrated in 6*the screen shot above, and then click the Link Pages );* button, the following text will be placed 6/at the end of every one of your HTML documents: Previous Page Contents Next Page Previous Page will be linked to the previous page in the chain, Contents will be linked to the page you selected with the Choose Contents Page... ' button, and Next Page will be linked 6Zto the next page in the chain. All three links are separated by as specified in the Delimiter )4T field. Each page will contain these links and you will be able to move from page to 6Opage forward or backward or up to the contents page just by clicking the links. If you don t use a Contents page ^If you do not use a Contents page, the links will be identical except that the Contents link will be missing. The Choose Contents Page... button and the Return to TOC Page text field will both be disabled. You can use pictures too YThe easiest way to use this wheel is to use hypertext for your links, as described above. 6]However, there is nothing to prevent you from using inlined images for the previous, contents and next page links. [Create your image files of a left-pointing arrow, a right-pointing arrow and an up-pointing 6Yarrow for the contents page. Place these images in the same folder that contains the HTML ^documents in the chain you are creating. Then in the link text fields, instead of typing )Page (or whatever), type something like Courier <img src="next.gif"> (or whatever). ?XYou may have to play with the pathnames a bit and you ll probably want to delete all the text from the )S Delimiter )4? field. But experiment a little and you can easily add handsome 68buttons to your pages as easily as boring old hypertext. Updating the links \The first time you add sequential links to a page, the links are placed at whatever location you specify with the Append ),8 popup menu. The links are wrapped in the non-displaying comment tags  and  ?RThe next time you run the Sequential Linker on the same pages, something very cool happens. The wheel ignores the Append ),* popup menu and looks for the comment tags 6`instead. The wheel then throws out the old links, and inserts the new links in their place. This Zmakes it very easy for you to maintain your pages and re-order them without worrying about "deleting the obsolete links first. * See Appendix for more about comment tags. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page StretchList Lucida Bright What are StretchLists FStretchLists are a Web interface element designed by Matterform Media . The StretchList 6Lwheel is a tool designed to help you create StretchLists quickly and easily. WA StretchList is a way of condensing a long page of information into a simple, overview 6Wwhich can be taken in at a glance, and expanded at will. An illustration will make this clearer YFollowing is page of information. It contains some introductory information at the 6Xbeginning, and some closing information at the end. In between, it contains some natural Zsections, which we shall call elements, and which are named and formatted on the page as 8large bold text. A Web designer might tag them with the Courier " tag. Each of these Element titles 60precedes a paragraph or two of descriptive text. +l)CGeneral introductory information. General introductory information. CGeneral introductory information. General introductory information. Element 1 FText about element 1. Text about element 1. Text about element 1. Text Gabout element 1. Text about element 1. Text about element 1. Text about Aelement 1. Text about element 1. Text about element 1. Text about 6element 1. Text about element 1. Text about element 1. Element 2 FText about element 2. Text about element 2. Text about element 2. Text Gabout element 2. Text about element 2. Text about element 2. Text about Aelement 2. Text about element 2. Text about element 2. Text about element 2. Element 3 FText about element 3. Text about element 3. Text about element 3. Text Gabout element 3. Text about element 3. Text about element 3. Text about Aelement 3. Text about element 3. Text about element 3. Text about Aelement 3. Text about element 3. Text about element 3. Text about 6element 3. Text about element 3. Text about element 3. IGeneral closing information. General closing information. General closing Finformation. General closing information. General closing information. General closing information. ?ZThe goal is to reduce this page to an overview. The overview should not require scrolling, 6:and should be easily expandable into the complete version. UWhen we run the StretchList wheel on the source page, we receive a new condensed page which looks like this: I StretchLists and their name are inspired by Ted Nelson s description of StretchText. ): For more 6(information see Nelson s excellent book Dream Machines. )T- This is perhaps the first book of hypermedia theory, published in the 1970s. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Lucida Bright CGeneral introductory information. General introductory information. CGeneral introductory information. General introductory information. Element 1 Element 2 Element 3 IGeneral closing information. General closing information. General closing Finformation. General closing information. General closing information. General closing information. ?ZThe introductory and closing information as well as the three element titles are retained, 6_but all the descriptive text is gone. Additionally, each element title is now a hypertext link, and the small )W'graphics have been automatically added. ?]This overview is a StretchList and functions in a fashion similar to the expanding folders of 6WSystem 7 on the Macintosh. By clicking on Element 1, we can change the display to the following: +l)CGeneral introductory information. General introductory information. CGeneral introductory information. General introductory information. Element 1 >Text about element 1. Text about element 1. Text about element 91. Text about element 1. Text about element 1. Text about ;element 1. Text about element 1. Text about element 1. Text <about element 1. Text about element 1. Text about element 1. Text about element 1. Element 2 Element 3 IGeneral closing information. General closing information. General closing Finformation. General closing information. General closing information. General closing information. ?>The triangle to the left of Element 1 turns and points down Element 1 becomes bold 6Wfaced. And the descriptive text appears below the title and indented about a half-inch. \Notice the continuity which this StretchList affords and which is unusual for hypertext. The 6aother two element titles are still on the page. Our place in the order of the information is very Hclear. Even the introductory and closing information is still before us. 3If we click Element 2, the display changes again: Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Lucida Bright CGeneral introductory information. General introductory information. CGeneral introductory information. General introductory information. Element 1 Element 2 >Text about element 2. Text about element 2. Text about element 92. Text about element 2. Text about element 2. Text about ;element 2. Text about element 2. Text about element 2. Text &about element 2. Text about element 2. Element 3 IGeneral closing information. General closing information. General closing Finformation. General closing information. General closing information. General closing information. Element 1 automatically re-closes and Element 2 expands. The other element titles are condensed but still available. XAt this point we could click Element 3 to expand it. Or we could click Element 2 6 completely re-condense the page: +l)CGeneral introductory information. General introductory information. CGeneral introductory information. General introductory information. Element 1 Element 2 Element 3 IGeneral closing information. General closing information. General closing Finformation. General closing information. General closing information. General closing information. ?4That is the basic operation of a StretchList. It is continuous hypertext as opposed to discrete hypertext. Discrete )*I hypertext is the kind that jumps the reader around from page to page and 6Wshows no obvious connection with other pages other than the underlined hypertext links. Continuous )<S hypertext maintains the continuity of a single view, but alters it slightly. It is 6@much easier to keep from getting lost with continuous hypertext. How StretchLists work on the Web SThe Web has no provision for continuous hypertext. Therefore, we must trick it into 6Asimulating continuous hypertext by using only discrete hypertext. WWe do this by taking the single source page, and breaking it into a number of different 6\StretchList pages. There is a page for the completely condensed version, and a page for each ^of the expanded elements. The element titles link cleverly from page to page. In this way, the Wappearance of continuity is maintained, even though we are actually moving from page to discrete page. aIf this sounds like a lot of work, it is. But the beauty of the StretchList wheel is that it does all the work for you. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Lucida Bright Sample StretchLists ,You can try out some sample StretchLists at: Courier 5http://www.matterform.com/legend/stretchexamples.html Formatting the source file _To create a StretchList, you start from a single source file and insert tags that will instruct 6Jthe StretchList wheel how to break your source file up into a StretchList. [The element titles are the most important items to identify in the source file. You need to 6`wrap the element titles in a distinctive tag. The best thing to do is to wrap the element titles in a and </h3> tag. However, if you use the # tag elsewhere in the document, you 6!will need to use a different tag. ZIf you want to include introductory and closing information (text, graphics or buttons) at 6]the top and bottom of every page of your StretchList, you will need to identify that as well. WYou should mark this information with a non-displaying comment tag at the beginning and 4end of the information. You could use the following:  0at the beginning of the introductory information  *at the end of the introductory information  +at the beginning of the closing information  %at the end of the closing information ?XYou can use whatever tags you wish to mark the elements, header and footer but they must 6\be unique tags. You will enter these same tags into the StretchList wheel before you run it. +h 7Sample HTML code of a formatted StretchList source file  6General introductory information. General introductory 6information. General introductory information. General introductory information.  <h3>Element 1</h3> 6Text about element 1. Text about element 1. Text about ;element 1. Text about element 1. Text about element 1. Text &about element 1. Text about element 1. <h3>Element 2</h3> 6Text about element 2. Text about element 2. Text about ;element 2. Text about element 2. Text about element 2. Text <about element 2. Text about element 2. Text about element 2. Text about element 2. <h3>Element 3</h3> 6Text about element 3. Text about element 3. Text about ;element 3. Text about element 3. Text about element 3. Text &about element 3. Text about element 3.  9General closing information. General closing information. 9General closing information. General closing information.  Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Lucida Bright Loading the source file [The StretchList wheel is somewhat unusual in that it works on only one file at a time. Drag your source file, and ; your single source file, onto the Grinder icon to load it. Watch your fingers ^Of course you have a backup of this source file, right? Of course you realize that even if all 6Zgoes well, the file is going to be unrecognizably altered and permanently changed? And you Xrealize that if you make one little slip-up, your file will possibly even be irrevocably #annihilated? Please work on a copy. Setting the icon locations JJP JR @% JJB JR JJP )!JR @% JJB !The Grinder comes with the small icons. They 6;are located in a folder called StretchList icons which in ;turn is located inside the Grinder Tools folder. Copy these 2icons into an appropriate folder in your Web site. 9Then use the buttons at the top of the screen to show the 62Grinder where the condensed and expanded icons are :located. You will be given a standard open dialog box with 3which you can select the location of each icon. The =locations will appear in the text fields to the right of each ;button. Don t worry if the address appears cut off s all there. Element tag In the field )A%Format for the title of each element, ) type in the tag you used to identify the 6<element titles when you set up the source file (for example Courier ). You only need to type in 6Wthe starting tag. The wheel will automatically generate the appropriate ending tag (for example </h3> Header and Footer In the Header Tags )HB fields, type the non-displaying comment tags you used to mark the 6Xbeginning and end of the header information when you set up the source file (for example  and  In the Footer Tags )DB fields, type the non-displaying comment tags you used to mark the 6Ybeginning and end of the footer information when you set up the source file (for example -footer--> and  Run the wheel ZThat s all the settings you need to make. Have you got a backup of the source document? If so, go ahead and run the wheel. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Lucida Bright The new files 2The StretchList wheel makes the following changes: WCondenses the source file completely (this is why it is so important to make a backup). Installs the icons. PCreates a new file for each element. The new files are named the same as the now U3altered source file with the addition of a numeral. 4Installs all the appropriate links in all the files. ?^So if you start with a source file called list.html containing three elements, you will now have the following files: Courier +p list.html )M3now condensed and the first page of the StretchList list.html copy )n&the backup you made of the source file list1.html list2.html )T3the three expanded element pages in the StretchList list3.html Changing the StretchList ZThe best way to change a StretchList is to go back to your untouched source file, make the changes there, K and then make another copy and run it through the StretchList wheel again. About those triangle icons ^Notice that the triangle icons are not themselves linked. Clicking on them has no effect. This 6]is because most Web browsers put a blue frame around linked graphics. Since this is ugly, the <StretchList wheel does not link the triangle icons. Oh well. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Preferences Lucida Bright UGrinder preferences are available in the main Grinder window. This is the window that 6Yappears when you double-click on the Grinder icon. You can open the Grinder window at any time by choosing Preferences from the Tools menu. @c038 )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH )JBH 0332d* 0330p 3 03?303308* 03030330 3 0313 332L* ?7The window is dominated by a large scrolling field that 6:holds the list of documents that were last loaded into the 4Grinder. You can change the contents of this list by 6dragging a different set of documents onto the Grinder 7icon. You can also change it by hand. This is sometimes 7useful when using the Sequential Linker wheel, when the 5order in which the documents are listed is essential. :There are two checkboxes below the scrolling field. If you check )$$Clear field before loading new docs, the Grinder will completely replace the contents of the documents 67field with the names of the new documents you drag onto 3the Grinder icon. If you uncheck this box, dragging documents onto the Grinder will the old documents * the new documents to the end of the list. If you check Chime when done grinding, 2 the Grinder will let you know when it is finished 6Floading or grinding documents. Uncheck this box if you hate the chime. [At the very bottom of the window is a text field which contains the pathname to the Grinder 6YTools folder. If you keep the Grinder Tools folder in the same folder as the HTML Grinder `application, and do not rename it, the Grinder will always be able to keep this field up-to-date \automatically. If you must move or rename the folder, the Grinder will ask you to locate the ]folder the next time it is opened and will store the new pathname in this field. You can also 'set a new pathname by hand by clicking Choose Tool Folder... Click About )"O to see the Grinder splash screen along with contact information for Matterform 64Media. Clicking this button is the same as choosing About the HTML Grinder... from the menu. Click L to see a brief help document for using the Grinder. Clicking this button is the same as clicking the 5 button in the lower-left corner of any wheel window. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Appendix Demo Mode and Serial Numbers Lucida Bright WAll the Grinder wheels except the Find and Replace wheel ship in Demo Mode. This allows 6[you to try the wheels out for a few weeks. After that time, the wheels expire and require a &serial number to continue functioning. YWhen you open a wheel in Demo Mode, it displays a dialog box that gives you the following three options: f`ff0 f`ff0 &`fb1 3132c >`f>fg 33#0&ba 3132c Register. )0& Click this button if you already have U-received your serial number. You will then be 4prompted to enter your number. Be sure to type it in exactly )%- as you received it. Once you type in a valid U7serial number, you will not be bothered with the serial number dialog box again. Demo Mode. )FI Click this if you don t have a serial number yet and you want to try the UWwheel out in Demo Mode. If you receive a serial number later on, you can type it in the next time you open this wheel. Serial # ? )7I Click this for a little more information about serial numbers and how to purchase them. ?>When Demo Mode expires on any wheel, your only option will be Register. If you do not 6Wtype in a valid serial number, the wheel will close and you will not be able to use it. YEach wheel requires its own serial number. This allows you to purchase serial numbers for 6^only the wheels you want to keep. There is a discount for purchasing all the serial numbers at once. See How to Contact Us )g> on page 2 for more information about ordering serial numbers. ?[Do not open any of the wheels until you are ready to evaluate it. If you open a wheel for a 6Zquick look, then close it and don t come back to it for a month, you will find that it has [expired before you even had a chance to review it. Downloading a new wheel will not help will be expired too. XWhen you receive your serial numbers, install them right away. They will expire in a few 6(days if you do not use them soon enough. YBe sure to keep a copy of the serial numbers you receive. You will need them again if you 6_have to reinstall the Grinder, or if you move the Grinder application to a different Macintosh. t drag documents onto the Grinder icon TSome people have problems dragging documents onto the Grinder icon. The Grinder just 6Zwon t highlight when a document is dragged onto it. This usually happens immediately after 3downloading and installing the Grinder application. <If this happens to you, you can solve the problem easily by rebuilding your desktop file. 6PSimply restart your Macintosh, and hold down the command and option keys on your Zkeyboard. Keep holding these keys down as your Macintosh restarts until you see the dialog [box asking if you want to rebuild your desktop file. Now you can release the keys and click S For the next minute or so, the computer will rebuild the desktop file, and when it 6Nfinishes, you should have no trouble dragging documents onto the Grinder icon. (Tricks for selecting icons in the Finder ^The Grinder requires that you all the files that you want to grind onto the Grinder icon. This 6`is easy enough when you re just grinding five or ten files at a time. You can click on the first =file, then shift-click on the remaining files to select them. Helvetica )HTML Grinder http://www.matterform.com/ Page Lucida Bright ?WHowever, when you start grinding dozens, or even hundreds of files at a time, there are 6Hsome tricks you ll want to know about for selecting icons in the Finder. 3Selecting files from more than one folder at a time ZQuite often you need to grind documents from different folders. Fortunately, the Macintosh 6Callows you to select files from different folders at the same time. RII)JA$I RIy'K RIA)J RII)JA$I 9 $I$ )1$IH$ )!$IH$ &1$I$ r "I @To do this, you must open the window that contains the different folders, and switch to a list view. Just choose By Name, By Date, or some 6Hother non-icon view from the View menu. The window will switch to a list view. %All the folder have little triangles to the left of them. Click on a triangle to turn it down 1 and display in outline view the contents of that folder. HBy expanding folders, you can select files from different folders at the 6Isame time. Then you can drag all the files at once onto the Grinder icon. CYou can also expand folders by clicking once on the folder icon and 6 pressing Symbol 8 . You can also collapse folders by clicking once on the folder icon and pressing Filtering your selections E>F ' JPicking just the HTML documents out of all your files can be very tedious. You can use the Finder Find... )"/ command to filter your selections and get just the documents you want. GSay you have a folder full of HTML documents you want to grind. But the 6LHTML documents are mixed in with a bunch of GIF files that you don t want to (grind. You can open the folder and type A for Select All. Then choose from the File menu or type (: If you are using System 7.5, hold down the shift key while choosing . in order to get the older version of the Find dialog box.) EThe Find dialog box appears. 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