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- <heitmlpage title="Quick Tutorial">
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- This tutorial should be viewed as an interactive companion piece to the
- documentation provided in the <mheitml> <at "Language Guide">Language
- Guide</at>. <p>
-
- We start with some <sa href="tutor1.hei">Basics</sa> that show how to define
- your own Tags, your own Page Layout, add Counters to your pages, and show
- <mheitml> variables that can be used to retrieve information from the Web
- Server. Although these pages discuss each topic in isolation, the <at
- "Web+Page+Templates" target="doku">Web Page Templates</at> page of the
- Language Guide shows how to create Web Pages using all of these elements in
- concert with one another. <bp>
-
- After the Basics, we introduce you to the concepts of <sa
- "tutor1a.hei">Database Applications</sa> using <mheitml>. The pages in this
- section contain a very simple but practical example of a Guestbook Application
- that allows you to insert, update or delete entries at any time. A study of
- the Source Code for these pages will help you learn how to create similar
- Database Applications of your own.
-
- <p> Keep in mind, however, that the methods used in this section are still
- quite introductory in nature, as they demonstrate only one of the many ways in
- which <mheitml> can be used to simplify your programming. <bp>
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- The <sa "tutor2.hei">Advanced</sa> section is where you'll really begin to see
- the power of <mheitml>. As with any programming language, the real power lies
- in your ability to design a set of high-level tools that are tailored to meet
- the needs of specific situations. <mheitml> comes with a large number of such
- tools in the form of Component Libraries, and we introduce you to just a few
- of them here. <p>
-
-
- As you work through the pages in this Tutorial, you may want to go to over to
- the <sa href="heitry.hei" target="tryout">Tryout Form</sa>
- to occasionally create and test a few Tags on your own.
- <bp>
-
- We think this "Learn by Doing" method is a success-oriented approach that will
- enable you to quickly get the point where you have the knowledge required to
- strike out on your own. To begin, we suggest that you start with the
- <sa href="tutor1.hei">Basics</sa> and proceed in an orderly fashion.
- <p>
- <sa href="index.hei">home</sa>,
- <sa href="tutor1.hei">next</sa>
- </heitmlpage>
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