Copyright: PVAX SW, 1996


About author.

Alexey A. Popoff, Moscow, Russia

Temporary Internet e-mail address: posp@ccas.ru

Personal home page: http://www.ccas.ru/~posp/pvax.html

FIDO Net address: 2:5020/487.26@fidonet.org


Contents

General information

About author

What is Home Page Wizard?

What is "home page"?

What is Internet?

What is World Wide Web?

What is HTML?

Home Page Wizard screens

Welcome to the Home Page Wizard!

Title and headers of the page

Picture for the page

Text of the page

Items on the page

Link to other pages

Your e-mail adress

File name for the page


Welcome to the Home Page Wizard!

This screen of the Home Page Wizard is a start point of home page creation process.

About - shows "About Home Page Wizard" dialog box.


Title and headers of the page

This screen allow You to make a title for the Home Page.

Title of the Home Page - input the title of Your Home Page here. Title is a window caption of Your WWW browser.

Header of the Home Page - input the header of the Home Page. Header is a full name of Your page.

Center header on the page - check this box if You want to center the header on the page. It’s better to center the header for good look of the page.

Sub-header of the Home Page - input the sub-header of the Home Page. Sub-header is a text which make main header more concrete. It can be Your motto or something else.

Center sub-headr on the page - check this box if You want to center the sub-header on the page.

Mark Home Page as HTML 3+ file - it’s a good idea to check this box if You want to use Your Home Page with Netscape Navigator.


Picture for the page

Most home pages in WWW contains pictures - logos, photos, special context-sencitive maps. You may include picture to the Home Page also. It can be centered and framed by border.

There are two main graphic file formats has been using in the WWW - CompuServe '*.GIF' and JPEG '*.JPG'.

Include picture to the Home Page - check this box to include picture to Your Home Page.

Center picture on the Home Page - check this box if You want to center picture on page.

Frame picture on the Home Page - check this box if You want to frame picture.

Locate picture file - type here path to the picture. Warning! Some browsers such as Netscape Navigator cannot resolve full local path to the picture. Although You can enter full path here, but it is possible that You couldn’t see the picture on the page.

Browse - press this button to locate picture file on hard disk.


Text of the page

This text is a main part of Your home page. It can be Your short presentation, ciriculum vitae etc.

Import - You may import any text file into the Home Page by pressing this button.


Items on the page

This screen allows You to input list of some data to You Home Page. You may use this list as template for further modifications of the Home Page.

Optional title for You data list - here You can input title for Your list

Add - adds one item to the end of list.

Insert - inserts one item to the current position of list.

Delete - deletes selected item from the list.

Up - shift selected item up on one line.

Down - shift selected item down on one line.

Edit - edits selected item of the list.

"Add", "Insert" and "Edit" brings up the Edit item dialog.


Links to other pages

Here You can place hyperlinks to other WWW cites.

Add - adds one item to the end of list.

Insert - inserts one item to the current position of list.

Delete - deletes selected item from the list.

Up - shift selected item up on one line.

Down - shift selected item down on one line.

Edit - edits selected item of the list.

Include HPWizard favorite links - if You check this box, Home Page Wizard will insert authors favorite links to the Home Page.

"Add", "Insert" and "Edit" buttons brings up the Edit link dialog.


Your e-mail adress

This screen consist of two parts - parameters of the 'Last updated' field and e-mail address setup.

The 'Last updated' field contains time and date of last Home Page modification. You ought to modify this field each time then You modifying Home Page contents.

'Last updated' field uses smallest possible font and can be marked as 'Blinking text' (for Netscape Navigator) or as scrolling marquee (for MS Internet Explorer)

Include 'Last updated' field - check this box if You want to include ‘Last updated’ field to the page.

Center 'Last updated' field - check this box if You want to center ‘Last updated’ field on the page.

‘Last updated’ styles:

None - normal text (centered or left aligned).

Marquee (MS Internet Explorer style) - scrolling text.

Blinking (Netscape Navigator style) - blinking text.

If Your want to receive e-mails from other people, You should enter Your address. Note that Home Page Wizard does not checking valid of such address!

Enter Your e-mail adress here - input You e-mail address here. Valid addresses:

posp@ccas.ru - author’s address (note - it is a temporary address!).


File name for the page

Please enter the name of Your Home Page (HTML) file.

If You want to use Home Page on PC, select '*.HTM' or '*.HT3' (for HTML 3 files) extension.

If You want to use Home Page on UNIX-compatible systems, please select "*.HTML" extension for the Home Page file name.

Browse - You bring up "Open file" dialog box by pressing this button.

File name - You can edit full name of the HTML file here.


Input the value of item

This simple dialog box is for the entering one text value.

OK - press this button to confirm input.

Cancel - press this button to deny input.


Edit link

This is a simple dialog box for editing hyperlink. Each hyperlink consists of title and reference. Title is a name of the FTP, WWW or another server which You want to be able to connect. Reference is FTP, URL or another type of address.

Title of the link - input the link's title here.

Reference - input the address here.

OK - press this button to confirm input.

Cancel - press this button to deny input.


What is Home Page Wizard
What is Home Page Wizard?

The Home Page Wizard is a kind of assistant application (which called by Microsoft "wizards"). It consist of set of forms ("screens"). You should fill in these forms than Home Page Wizard will create simple home page (HTML file) for You.

You may use such HTML file directly or as template for further development.


What is "home page"
What is "home page"?

"Home page" is term of World Wide Web. It is a text, graphics, multimedia and other data divided into screens (pages). All pages (except local) united into the World Wide Web. Each page has its own unique address (such as 'http://www.borland.com' or 'http://www.ccas.ru'). To access to a home page You should use special program (URL browser as Netscape Navigator).


What is Internet
What is Internet?

Internet is a global computer network. It unites grerat number of computers in all countries of the world.


What is World Wide Web
What is World Wide Web?

World Wide Web (WWW) is a giant ('world-wide') hypertext. WWW uses Internet as basic media for information transfer. WWW based on special 'hypertext transfer protocol' and address sheme called 'Universal Resource Locator (URL)'.


What is HTML
What is HTML?

HTML -- The Hypertext Markup Language -- is a simple markup language used to create hypertext documents that are platform independent.

HTML documents are text documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of domains. HTML markup can represent hypertext news, mail, documentation, and hypermedia; menus of options; database query results; simple structured documents with in-lined graphics; and hypertext views of existing bodies of information.


HTML
HTML - HyperText Markup Langvage (see also "What is HTML?").