CRAFTCAVE FREE WEB PAGES TUTORIAL

Site Building

This tutorial will quickly show you how to quickly build a complete web site.

Please complete the Adding A Page Tutorial, File Manager Tutorial, and Editor Tutorial first, as this tutorial builds on those.

Plan your site. It is a major time saver to plan all the needed pages ahead of time. Here are some page ideas, use any that apply as well as any others you might want.

• Home Page - this will be index.html
• About - a page about you or your business.
• Products - if a business.
• Hobbies - a page about your hobbies.
• Photo gallery.
• Contact - a page containing an email form.
• Links page - links to your favorite sites.

Add a page and rename it to one of the pages planned in step one.

Repeat this for each planned page.

Remember - You must have one page named index.html which will be your home page.

Open your index.html page with the editor you prefer.

Use the editor to change the site title, page title, and add whatever content you want to appear on your home page.

Create a navigation bar by placing links to all the site pages.

Save the page.

Once back in the File Manager, copy index.html

Paste it and rename it to one of the file names created in step 3. Notice that this overwrites the original file with that name.

You now have an exact copy of index.html with a new name.

Repeat this for each file created in step 3.

At this point every page on your site is identical except in name. This saves time because you will not have to add links, change the site title, etc...

Open one of the renamed files with the editor of your choice. Make the changes needed for that page such as the page title and any content (information and / or images) relevant to that page. Save the page.

Repeat this for each page created in step 3.

You should now have a fully functional web site. Every page is different and links to the other pages on your site.

Click on the site URL in the file manager and test the site, making sure all the links work properly.

Once completed and tested, contact Administration to have your page listed in the neighborhood directory. Be sure to include the URL of your site for fastest inclusion.