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Thank you for your recent purchase of these
unique, professional and high-quality web templates. We sincerely hope
that your experience with these amazing templates is satisfying and very
helpful in building your online presence.
TEMPLATE START-UP INSTRUCTIONS
When you receive your web template package, extract the entire zip file
into a folder you create. It doesn’t matter where you extract it to or
what name you call the folder, just as long as you remember where you
extracted all the files to. As always, we recommend that you use a good
zip / unzip utility such as WinZip. If you prefer otherwise, it’s up to
you.
**note-(one common question is "why aren't the images showing up"? ---
The reason is that you probably have not unzipped the zip file into a
regular folder on your PC. You cannot view the templates properly if
they are still in the zip folders.)
Here are the 8 initial steps to take in order to set up your web
template successfully:
1. Open your favorite web editing software in order to view your
template. We highly recommend using a WYSIWYG editor such as Microsoft
FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver. (see
resources)
2. When the template is open, begin by typing in your text in any top
and side bars, copyright notice on the footer of the page, and begin to
write the main text of your page. These templates come with pre-inputted
text so you get an idea of where to start typing.
3. Now when the text is all complete, begin by inserting your desired
images into the template by using your favorite graphics program
(recommended but not mandatory - you can insert pictures using your HTML
editor). We highly recommend using Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks
or Ulead Photoimpact. Again, it’s up to you however, make sure your
graphics program is easy to use and creates good quality images. On the
actual template, your images would usually fall into the top logo bar or
the main text space where your visitors would adhere to them more.
Again, it’s up to you, but make sure your images are not too large and
are in line with the pages layout.
4. Don’t forget to save your page into a folder you have allocated. It
is recommended to not save it into the templates directory because it’s
best to keep your directory of templates clean. Just save it into
another folder. For example it could be c:\myweb and so you would save
all your newly created pages into this folder.
Also! It is recommended that you create this folder as a ‘Web Folder’ by
either creating it into your ‘My Documents My Webs’ folder in Windows 98
or XP or obtaining a web editor that creates it for you. The best one is
Microsoft Frontpage. Now you don’t have to but just make sure that all
your files are in the ONE FOLDER!
5. Once your first page is complete, it would be time to create other
pages to link up to the main page; I.E. contact, about, products etc.
Well, the ‘short-cut’ to doing this (and is what most web-designers do),
is firstly by saving the first page (as index.htm). Next, you erase your
text from the first page (from the regions you would like to change),
and add the new information-treating it as a different page, however you
keep the titles, navigation bars and footer all intact. *It’s advisable
to link up all your navigation bars FIRST even if you haven’t created
the page for it yet so that when you do duplicate more pages, you don’t
have to sit and edit every one (only applies to single, unlinked
templates; if you are going to work with one of the complete sites, they
are already linked for you).
So once you have created the new page, remember to change the title of
the page in the HTML. i.e. change the words between the <title></title>
tags or in Frontpage go to page properties>title. Finally, you save the
newly edited page as a new name. Repeat this process with all your pages
until you have your entire web page set up.
NOTE: If your website has 10+ web pages to edit, it’s best to use a web
editor that has a function that shares specific objects in the page.
Again Microsoft Frontpage is highly recognized for it's ease of use in
this matter. Frontpage also has a ‘page insert’ device that allows you
to insert the ‘page insert’ into the space you’d like. For instance, the
navigation bar ‘page insert’ from the page with the actual navigation
toolbar you created earlier is placed inside. Frontpage will know to
open the page in that very spot so even if you had 200 pages with that
page insert tag, you only would have to edit just the one ‘original’
page and that would edit all of it’s inserted tags on every other page.
(You can ‘insert’ as much as you want on the same page to make your
editing a breeze).
6. Once your web page is added with your text, color, images and other
devices, you then should take a final look at the folder you created to
make sure ALL the files are in there. Also make sure that you save your
images in a sub-directory called ‘images’ so that you keep it all neat.
7. Then using your web host (Yes, you need a web host in order to
publish your web site on the net, but don't worry, they are cheap
nowadays-a good starter plan gives you business email (ie-you@
yourdomain.com) and the full resources that the host provides you. If
you don’t have a host yet, you can view some of the best hosts on the
net Best webhosting web
hosts on the Net. Another alternative to view how your website looks
is by opening it up in your browser or with the "preview in
800x600/640x480" Microsoft Frontpage browser view option.
8. And that’s about it. Congratulations! You now should have created
your very own web site and the entire process shouldn’t have taken you
more than an hour or two. (Unless you changed around a great number of
items).
We wish you all the greatest of success in the years to come! See
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