Hello World
- Click the 'Websites' tab, enter a user name and password and click 'Create website'
- Double click the website you have just created
- Click the template tab, this will open a new window.
- Then Click 'New Page Template'
- Click edit, this will open the template editor in a new window
- Now drag the HTML code below to the top part of the template editor
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<table width=100% border=1>
<tr>
<td colspan=2><h1><si5 type=text scope=all id=header></h1></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><si5 type=user></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
- Now click anywhere on the lower frame of the template editor. You will see the result of your HTML code. You can copy/paste from design packages such as Dreamweaver, or you can hand code, or make minor amends in-situ.
- Click 'Save', then switch back to the main 'Website editor' window on your taskbar.
- Your top menu should look like this:
- Click the '+' button to add a page
- Double click the thing that looks like this:
. The text editor will now open.
- Paste this text: Hello world
- Click 'Save', You will now see the result on the main editor screen
- Click 'Publish'
- Click the blue link in the top right corner (this is the site name you chose earlier).
- This is your live website!
Well done. How long did that take? You may have noticed that the text editor had only a minimal set of controls. You can set the controls that your customer can use with the page template. Click the 'Templates' tab. Next to your new page template click 'Controls' to set which editing functions your customer will have available to them. Enable them all on for now.
Note that you, as a partner, always see the 'HTML' check box in the bottom left corner of the text editor. You customer will only see it if you enable 'HTML' in the page template controls.
Click the big
button to add sections to the page. You can start adding content at this point of you wish.
Next we will add a menu