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Mandatory Fields
Fields marked with a * MUST be filled in because they are needed
to generate your web address and for people to find your site through
the Search page. Your email address is required so we can mail you confirmation
of your owner's password.
If
you change your mind about creating or editing a web site, click the
gold coloured Cancel button. Your new web site will only go online
for real if you click the Publish button.
Title
The title of your web site could be the name of your business (eg. J.
Smith Limited) or it could reflect what you do (eg. Vintage Cars or
Georgian Stamps).
Web address
Your web address is automatically generated after you Publish your site
(or will be the same as last time if you are editing your site). It
takes the form www.easisites.co.uk/yourtitle where the 'yourtitle'
part is whatever you fill in as the title of your web site, but with
spaces and non-Internet characters removed.
Category
Select the category you are in. If there is no suitable category, choose
{None of the Above}...
we will email you to ask what category you would like. When you hear
from us that the new category is available, you can update your page
to suit.
Short Snappy Description
Enter a short snappy description about who you are or what you do -
something that will attract visitors to your web site (eg 'restoring
vintage cars'. Combined with your main web site Title this description
is what Search Engines will consider most important about your site.
For best results use a phrase or statement you think people might type
when searching for your kind of product or service.
Contact, Phone, Fax, Mobile, Email, Postal Address, Other web site
Just fill in the ones that apply and leave the others blank
Contact: the person that callers should ask for if they contact you.
Email: This is a Required field because we need it to send you a reminder
of your owner's password.
Web: if you have another web site people could visit... for example,
www.mywebsite.co.uk.
Page Titles
Each page should have a title to introduce the subject of the following
text on the page.
Freestyle text areas
Type whatever you like to describe your products or services. If you
want to type more than seems to fit in the box, that's OK. The text
will begin to scroll and the system will let you carry on for ages and
ages - and it will all be displayed on your web site. HOWEVER, it's
best to keep your messages brief if you expect people to read them right
through. If you have a lot to say, spread it out across several pages.
Preview
This button opens an extra window to give you an idea of how your published
site will look. The Preview window closes automatically when you click
away from it so that you don't inadvertantly look at out-of-date Previews.
Style
This button lets you change the page layout style without having to
re-type everything you've entered so far.
Password
Once your web site is online you can update it (edit it) as often as
you like. You just visit your own pages and click the link for updating.
You'll be asked for a password (we can't allow just anybody to change
your page). You get that password when you first Publish a new site...
when that happens, write it down and don't lose it!
Pictures
Click a picture to access the pages where you make the choices or upload
your own.
In
order to cope with different page layout styles, pictures are always
displayed as a square shape. If you are going to upload your own pictures
you'll get best results with square ones (height the same as the width).
Changing pages
Click the gold buttons for Next or Previous page.
Deleting pages
You cannot delete Page 1 of your site. But your published site only
displays further pages where you have entered a Title or some Freestyle
text. If you want to remove a page, delete the text on it.. If you delete
the text on a page it also stops any higher number pages being displayed.
Page background
Click the gold button to access the page where you make a choice. There
are lots to choose from. If you want to go back to plain white, choose
it as the background.
If
there's no gold button labelled Background it's because you're using
one of the page layout styles that doesn't have changeable background
colours.
Bold and Italic
At present we have no easy-click way to make text bold and italic -
web sites just don't work that way unfortunately.
To make certain WORDS stand out, the easy way is to use capitals.
But,
if you are confident with regular web-style tags you can use them for
bold and italic (not for beginners).
<B>makes
text bolder</B> as long as it has the angle brackets
either side like here.
<I>makes
text italic looking</I> as long has it has the angle
brackets as shown.
Remember
you can Preview your site to see if you've got the tags right.
Size and Colour
You can also use special tags to alter the size and colour of the text
<font size="+2">makes</font>
it 2 sizes bigger - use a minus to make it smaller.
<font color="red">makes
it red</font>
This works with red, green, blue and other basic colour names. Use the
American spelling of color !
Font
And you can also use special tags to alter the typeface or font.
Type <font
face="......" in front of the text you want to change ("......"
could be, for example "Arial"
), and </font>
after the text you want to change.
<font
face="Arial">makes
it arial</font>
Remember,
though, that not all type faces or fonts are available on all pc's and
not all are easy to read on the web. Best stick with the standards -
like "Times New Roman" and "Arial" (or "Sans Serif" is you are using
an AppleMac).
Indent
The special tags can be used to indent text. Type
<Blockquote>
in front of the text you want to indent and </Blockquote>
after
the text you want to indent.
Bullets
Bullets
are refered to as an Un-ordered List (not numbered) and each line in
the list is called a List Item, so to create a bullet list you go...
<ul><li>item
1
<li>item 2
<li>item 3
<li>item 4</ul>
which, will appear on your web page as:
-
item 1
- item
2
-
item 3
- item
4
These
notes will appear if you click the Help button on the gold bar at the
top of the page when you are creating or editing your web site |
