The Humor Index Web Page Builder 2.32 ============================================ The Humor Index Webpage Builder 2.32 makes adding HTML tags easy. It also allows you to create cascading style sheets and automatically generate links for your page. New In Version 2: Meta Tag Builders Frame Generator Table Previews JavaScript Embeds Logical Tags Marquee Generation The Affliate Builder Status Bar Messages Better Help Menus & Much More Some NN problems have been fixed with this version. Including form & generation problems. Placing it on your site may even result in links for you. This is because you can tell the automatic link builder that you want people to use it to build links to your site: ============================================== 0.) RUNNING PAGE BUILDER To run Page Builder simply open the file called build.htm with your internet browser. After you type in your information & format it for the web, click on generate source. After you click on view, if it's what you want: copy the text in the very last field into a simple text editor. Save that file with a name of your choice and the extension HTM or HTML. ============================================== 1.) HOW TO USE PAGE BUILDER TO MAKE OTHER PEOPLE LINK TO YOUR SITE: Open: [builder.htm] in a text-editor like this. Change where it says: ************************************************** var myTitle = "Shayne Michael/'s: Humor Index"; to var myTitle = "[Put the title of your page here]"; ************************************************* var myURL = "http://shayne-michael.com/"; to var myURL = "[Put the URL of your homepage here]"; ************************************************* var myDisc = "Daily humor, email jokes, real audio comedy, etc."; to var myDisc = "[Put a description of your site here.] ==================================================== 1B.) GETTING PEOPLE TO CREATE LINKS TO YOU PART TWO: After doing that. Everyone who uses the link builder on your site will automatically see your link first, if they choose to leave it in. next open [build2.htm] in your text editor. At the top of the page you'll see: var myPageTitle = "Shayne Michael\'s: Humor Index"; var myPageURL = "http://shayne-michael.com"; var myAmazonCode = "thehumorindexsco"; var thisPageURL = "build2.htm"; // If you rename this page... This must be changed Change the information in the quotes to reflect your home page, URL, and Amazon affiliate code if you have one. That will cause the links it builds to always include one link to your site. =================================================== 2.) USING PAGE BUILDER IN GENERAL Page Builder 2.32 is meant for people who have experience in HTML, want to work in a notepad, but don't know all the tags... And would like to have the computer generate them for them. First enter a title & some links. Your email address if you want... The computer will handle formatting all that stuff for you. When you start working on the body of your page... The computer will be as intuitive as possible. When you click a tag, the tag will appear in a body field, with any requested text. To view the page with the new text & tag: Click Generate Then View: This will open another window. If you don't want the computer constantly opening a new window. Click: WYSIWYG ON: This will activate an inline frame where you can view the page you're working on. Be forewarned: Clicking on this button will reload the page and loose the form's data: So if you're using this display window. Turn the WYSIWYG window on before you start typing. This viewing feature is not available on Netscape as Netscape does not support inline frames. The AUTO ON/ OFF This fuction will force the browser to automatically generate the webpage each time a new tag is added. For instance pressing [H1] button, will cause the broswer to generate the document without you asking. By default the AUTO mode is set to off. After turning it on, you can press the AUTO ON/ OFF button one more time to turn it off. ===================================================== 3.) SPECIAL FUNCTIONS: ## Typing this in the field right below where it says [DIV][SPAN][Remark] will cause the computer to insert new tags where you typed ##. If you don't type this the computer will automatically append new tags to the end of the document. When you add the new tag. The ## marking will disappear. $$ Typing this is the same field does something very similar. The computer will place the new tags where you typed $$. However, it will not delete the $$ symbol so the computer will keep adding the tags in that general area. You can also click on Undo to remove the last tag. This version page builder is limited to a one-tag memory. After you undo the last tag, pressing undo again will not reinsert it. 3.b) SAVING YOUR DOCUMENT You can press save to save the body of your page and the specially created links. This feature currently only saves these two portions of your page. Future versions may save more. ===================================================== 4.) USING THE COLOR PALETTE The color palette allows you to specify between 64 different colors. You select a color then apply it. If you are using the color palette to choose the color for text or heading, you must first activate the palette, choose the color and then select use palette when entering your text. Just remember... Choose the color first. ===================================================== 5.) THE CSS STYLE SHEET CREATOR Style Sheets allow you to choose the actual font type and font size that your headings and paragraphs will be. This page builder will create style sheets and generate the correct syntax for you. It even allows for one custom heading. If you don't know what all the fonts look like, or think that you might make the site look worse, you can select from several ready made style sheets. Once you create a style sheet, it will appear after you generate the text. Style sheets can be erased by punching the delete button next to the [Create CSS] button. This gives you tremendous power over what your site will look like. ==================================================== 6.) THE AUTOMATIC LINK GENERATOR The automatic link generator allows you to choose a category and will generate the links for you. You can delete any link from the preselected links & customize the categories as you see fit. You can even add your own webpage to the preselected links and encourage people to link to you. You can choose to add or replace your links. You can also format the link titles to be bold, italic, or normal text style. Program Author: ShayneM contact: shaynem@gte.net httP://shayne-michael.com/ This program will probably not work in AOL 5.0 Or earlier versions of IE & NN.