4: Working with Sites, Pages, and Elements in Java

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To create a new blank page 1 Click the New Page without Template button on the toolbar Or you can choose File New Page Without Template from the main menu or just press Ctrl+N SiteBuilder adds an empty Web page to your site To create a new template page 1 Click the New Page with Template button on the toolbar Or you can choose File New Page With Template from the main menu or just press Ctrl+Shift+N The Add New Page dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 4-13

2 Select the template you want to use for the new page from the Template list box Be careful This is one of those places where Yahoo! gives you too many choices for your own good Mixing and matching templates in a single Web site is always a bad idea Therefore, avoid the glamour and allure of all of those pretty templates, and plunk down the same template you already picked for the rest of your Web site If you find yourself so enamored of one of these templates, then consider making that template the look for your entire site 3 Select the type of page you wish to add: Blank Template Page: Provides the basic page design of the template but without any canned text About Us, Contact Us, Home Page, and Services Page: All provide template-specific versions of these SiteBuilder basic page types

Store Products Wizard: Creates an e-commerce products page for your Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Web site See 15 for more details 4 Click the Add Page button A new page named Untitled is added to the SiteBuilder Design pane, and a new tab is added to the top of the page editor display When you create a new Web page, it isn t officially part of the site itself until you save it with a real name After you save it (see the Saving a Web page section, later in this chapter), then it s added to the Site Contents pane

As you design and edit your Web page, you should save it periodically inside of SiteBuilder just like any file-based Windows application

The first time you save an untitled page, you re prompted to both enter a filename in the Save As dialog box and specify the location of the file Normally, you want to give the file a descriptive name, such as directionshtml (for a Directions page) or newshtml (for a Latest News or What s New page) The name you choose is the one used on the Web site For example, if I have a page called booklisthtml on my domain, the URL for accessing that file would be wwwmenwithoutchestscom/booklisthtml

If you ve already titled and saved the file before, simply click the Save Page button on the toolbar to save your latest changes You can also choose File Save Page or press Ctrl+S

If you wish to save the Web page with a new name, then choose File Save Page As from the main menu In the Save As dialog box, enter a new name and click OK When you save a file with a new name, SiteBuilder adds the new page to your Web site but keeps the original file and all its link associations intact In this way, you can think of the Save As process as duplicating your original Web page instead of renaming it

When you wish to edit a Web page already in your site, you can open it in various ways To open the page immediately, double-click the name of the Web page in the Site Contents pane (Refer to Figure 4-6) To open up a page through the Open dialog box: Click the Open Page button on the toolbar Choose File Open Page from the main menu Press Ctrl+O In SiteBuilder, you can open an HTML file on your computer that is not part of your Web site However, when you do so, SiteBuilder treats it essentially as a file import process: SiteBuilder copies the file into your Web site and renames it untitled As a result, you are working off a copy, not the original file