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Page Tab Overview
Summary: The first tab in the RWD Form is the Page tab. This is where you set the defining attributes and the general look of the web page. While the Lite version of RWD only permits users to build pages using the preset skins that are included with the product, the full version RWD gives you the option of creating custom pages that can look any way you choose.
Note: If you do not know what version of RWD you are currently using, the version number is displayed at the top of the RWD form, to the right of the Page Name and Subject fields ( see yellow arrow head in image above).
Command Buttons
Summary: The buttons that appear at the top of the RWD Page Builder form (all versions) are meant to simplify the most common tasks that users carry out when working with the form.
A) Help This button will open a website that contains the help documentation for the form being worked on.
B) Spell check Clicking the spell check feature will perform spell checking on all fields in the form, as well as the document (page) body itself. Some RWD syntax features will cause the spell check to find spelling errors so make sure to skip the suggested corrections and move on to the next items. If you wish to check only the document / page body of the form, use the FirstClass spell check command instead.
C) Save and Close Clicking this button will save any changes you have made to the form since you opened it and then close the form
D) Close This button will close the form. If you have made any changes at all, you will be prompted to either save the changes or discard them before the form closes
Page Information
Summary: This section of the Page Tab is used to set the name, page title, and meta-tags (searchable content) of your page.
1) Page Name
Function: This field is used to set the name of the page, which is the final component of the internet Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the page.
2) Subject
Function: This field is used to define the web page and will appear in the title bar of the browser window when the page is viewed on the web. The subject is also returned by internet search engines as the title of the page.
3) Abstract
Function: This field is used as the summary of the web page that will be returned by an internet search engine. When a web search engine finds your page (by matching the keywords you supply, the abstract is returned to the search engine as a summary of what the page is about. The abstract field only works with browsers that support meta-tags (most current, mainstream browsers).
4) Keywords
Function: Keywords are the words that internet search engines use to match your page to the search criteria entered by the web user.
*Tips and Tricks: Almost any page name can be given to a web page, and as long as the page you are creating is an RWD page, you do NOT need to give the page name any file extension (like .htm or .html), nor should you.
The special page name "Home Page" (including the space but not the quotation marks) must be given to a page if you wish to have the browser open it automatically in any folder or conference you are sharing on the web.
Just as traditional web sites that are built in HTML have one page, INDEX.HTM, INDEX.HTML, DEFAULT.HTM or DEFAULT.HTML that automatically opens when the browser hits the site folder, "Home Page" is interpreted by FirstClass as the root page of the site. In fact, if there is no page named "Home Page" in a folder or conference shared on the web, the browser will not open any pages but will instead display a list of the pages, documents, and files in the folder, just as it would any other folder in FirstClass. The only exception to this is when the site has mixed types of pages - FirstClass/RWD and traditional HTML, in which case either "Home Page" or "Index.html" will do.
If your site contains folders or conferences that contain more pages, each folder or conference can also contain a page called "Home Page". If a folder does not contain a "Home Page" document, then all paths (URLs) to that folder must also contain the specific page name you want the browser to open.
For example:
www.domainname/sitefoldername/newsitems will ONLY open a document if there is one called "Home Page" or "Index.html", otherwise, the browser will display a list of the objects in the newsitems folder.
The subject field will be the text that will be displayed to the internet user as the title of your page in the Browser Window title bar. Keep your page name short - preferably with no spaces, and use the subject field to give the web user more information about your page. For example, you might have a page named 'Library' while the subject field might have a more descriptive entry such as: 'Happy Valley School Library Information'
Since the abstract field acts as be a summary of your page, a short but clear description will be more effective than a vague one as it could be the only reference a user has to your page and the more, succinct and clear your abstract, the more likely a user will visit your page. Make sure to keep the abstract up to date as the page changes over time.
Fill the keyword field with words that describe your page in broad terms, separating each word with a comma and a space like the following: 'RWD, Rapid Web Designer, web page, FirstClass, builder'
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