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Adding and Changing Your Content Part 2

Creating Web pages takes a lot out of a person so we better make a list of essential foods needed to complete this task.

Type these items into your PageMill document:

Now make a bullet list of the items.

1. Select the list items
2. Go to the "Change Format" box on the toolbar
3. Click on the box to get a drop down menu of choices
4. Choose "Bullet List" from the choices available

If all went well your document should look similar to the one on the right.

You can go back and insert a name for this list. Let's call it "Food Stuff of the Web gods."

1. Click in front of the list
2. Type "Food Stuff of the Web gods"
3. Hit "enter" (Windows) or "return" (Mac OS)

Remember you can change the format of this text by selecting it and using the "Change Format" menu on the toolbar. Try some of the options to see what they look like.

If you have a question about PageMill, don't forget to try PageMill's help option. Look for the help choices under the menu "Help"

Now is probably a good time to save the document locally (locally means "on your computer").

1. Go to the "File" menu
2. Choose the option "Save Page"
3. Call this page "index.html" - all lower case
4. Create a new folder on your hard drive
5. Name the folder "~youruserid"
6. Open the folder (Mac OS will open automatically)
7. Click "Save"

Huh?

When you go to the UMD homepage with the url:

http://www.d.umn.edu/

you're actually going to the page at that directory location called "index.html." Web servers are set up to do this as part of the Web protocol (hypertext transfer protocol or http). Each directory can have one index page for its default page.

If you go to the url:

http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/

you'll get the "index.html" page for the ITSS directory by default. Pretty neat!

So what does this mean for you? We're going to put your Web page in your directory. Your directory is:

http://www.d.umn.edu/~youruserid/

and when people type in this url they should get your homepage without having to type anything else. In order for this to happen your homepage must be saved as "index.html." If you'd like to see what a directory looks like when it has no "index.html" page just follow this link to a picture of a directory without an "index.html" page (if you printed this out, type the link below into your browser).

http://www.d.umn.edu/Training/PageMill3x/pics/NoIndex.GIF

What if you have other pages in your directory you want people to see? Link to them from your "index.html" page.

1. Select the text that will be the link
2. Click on the "Browse" button (Windows) or "Link To" button (Mac OS) in the lower right hand corner of your edit window
3. Find the file you want to link to
4. Double-click the file name to create the link

Let's move on to "Viewing Your Web Page in a Browser" and see the truth.

PageMill 3.x Workshop Navigation

1. PageMill 3.x Workshop
2. Opening PageMill and Setting Defaults
3. Adding and Changing Your Content Part 1
4. Adding and Changing Your Content Part 2
5. Viewing Your Web Page in a Browser
6. Creating a Site
7. Letting the World See Your Page
8. Web Design References

• ITSS Training Homepage