Like a Web site, a CuteSITE Builder file is made up of individual pages. Each page should consist of a “chunk” or unit of information that fits together logically. To help your visitors, make each page just as long as its content requires, and then use the CuteSITE Builder automated linking features to help visitors skim and navigate among pages when you publish the file.

 

After you create a new page, you should provide a title. You can title a page by double-clicking the title field in the page area, if a title field is available; if not, you can right-click the page in the map and choose Properties. The title you provide appears when you hover over the page in the map.

 

(The outline lets you quickly add titles to a series of pages. See Page Tips and Techniques for more information.)

 

You can use typical word-processing functions when adding text to pages. For example, you can set fonts, change color or attributes, and change paragraph characteristics like alignment and spacing. You can also easily create bulleted lists and tables.

 

You can add images, such as bitmaps, to a page. To help you make your pages look professional, CuteSITE Builder includes tools to perform common functions on images such as cropping and resizing. You can also embed objects, previously separate files that will be stored within your CuteSITE Builder file, although when you publish to a Web site these objects appear as bitmaps, not active links.

 

Each page can also contain up to four borders. Borders are areas around the actual page body to which you can add sidebar text, lists of links, or visual elements in order to give your pages a consistent look and make them easy to read and use. For example, you might display a right border on each page that includes a “table of contents” style list of links to other pages in the file.

 

A container page is a special type of CuteSITE Builder page that can include in its page body a variety of resources, including another CuteSITE Builder page, HTML pages captured and brought into CuteSITE Builder, or external Web pages or other files. As with any CuteSITE Builder page, you can customize the borders of container pages.

 

Web designs help you create professional-looking Web sites. A design is a collection of page layouts and named styles that share a consistent look. This look includes the color of various screen areas, the display of borders, and visual accents such as graphic images. Examples of page layouts include Home Page and Detail Page. Examples of named styles are Heading 1 or Text. You must select a Web design each time you create a new file, but you can change the design later after you have started creating pages and adding content. You can also save the changes you make to a Web design and create your own.

The following are some common page tasks: