Basic Instructions

All pages on this site are composed of re-usable components.
They use a common header: header.html,
a common side menu: side.html,
a common footer: footer.html,
and a page specific -content.html as the content filler.

Whenever you edit, save and upload any of the common files
like header.html, side.html or footer.html, ALL pages that use
that component will show the changes. There is no need to
edit all pages individually.




For example index.html uses index-content.html as the content filler.
The content fillers are PRE-formatted.
Wherever you have a line break, they will show a line break,
without the nead for any HTML commands.

To make something bold, enclose it with <B>bold</b>
To change text colors, use <font color=red>red</font>

There are of course many other HTML commands like that available.
A good source is the HTML Clinic at http://htmlclinic.com

Before editing a file, ALWAYS download that file from the server.
Maybe somebody fixed a typo or did some updating since you
last worked on it. If you don't download the freshest copy, you will
loose that!

You can edit the files with any text editor or any HTML editor, 
but NOT with a word processor. It is quite OK to compose a
page in your email program, to take advantage of the spell checker, 
and then paste it into the file.

You can add pictures like this:
<img src="i/pageframe.jpg" width="400" height="500" >

On the server, all of your files go into the www folder.
If they are not in the www folder, they are not visible to browsers.
You can make sub-folders inside the www, for example "i" for the images.

As you get comfortable with the basics, you can get as fancy as you want.

If  you have any questions, skype me: dearwebby

Have FUN!
Helmut