Creating a web site


	About the Web Publishing folder About your web site's structure Changing your web site's overall appearance Hiding unfinished pages How others can access your web site About the Web Publishing folder The Web Publishing folder on your Desktop is the place to put material (web pages) that you want others to view using their web browsers. FirstClass publishes the contents of Web Publishing on the web. In addition to regular web pages, you can publish lists of uploaded files, blogs, podcasts, links, and calendars. You can organize this material into folders, and you determine the order in which pages appear. The left pane lists the contents of your Web Publishing folder in a tree view. The right pane displays the web page that is selected in the left pane. Top About your web site's structure The tree view in your Web Publishing folder controls the structure your web site will have. All objects directly under Web Publishing (as opposed to inside a folder) will be displayed in a navigation bar on your home page. Their order in FirstClass is the same as their order on your web site. To change the order, simply drag the objects in the tree view. You can also drag objects into and out of folders. Defining your home page The first object in the tree view that isn't a folder or a link is automatically your home page. Top Changing your web site's overall appearance Your web site's general appearance (colors, navigation bars, and so on) is controlled by a template. To see what your web site looks like by default, click View in Browser. You can give certain objects that you create for your web site a difference appearance. To change your web site's overall appearance: 1 Click Appearance. 2 Select the template you want your web site to use. To see what your choice looks like, click View in Browser. Top Hiding unfinished pages If you are working on a web page and don't want it visible on your web site until you are finished, you can hide it from visitors to your web site. To do this, unapprove it. This page won't show up in your web site's navigation bar. When you are ready to publish this page, approve it. Top How others can access your web site When you view your web site by clicking View in Browser, your web browser's address field displays your web site's URL. This is the address to give others so they can access your web site. Top