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Once you've logged on, you'll see, on the left side of the screen, a list of subwebs (folders) for which you have authoring permission. Subwebs marked with a tiny plus sign contain additional subwebs which can be viewed by clicking on the plus sign. As you go about creating your site, you should consider the advantages of carefully organizing your web materials into subwebs according to subject matter, target audience, or both (for more on this topic, see the section called Designing Your Site.) The page you are looking at right now, for instance, is in the Widget subweb which, in turn, is part of the Help Resources subweb of the Instructional Technology site.
On the right side of the screen, you'll see an indication of 1) which subweb you are presently working in; 2) a row of buttons allowing you to create new subwebs, page content, navigation objects, and pages; and 3) a listing of the materials contained in that subweb, along with buttons allowing you to modify those materials.
It is useful to become acquainted with the various pieces of Widget's right-hand pane, illustrated above.
The You are here caption identifies the active subweb. In the illustration, you can see that the active subweb is the Widget subweb.
The row of buttons (Create Subweb, Create Content, Create Navigation, and Create Page) appears both at the top and at the bottom of the listing of objects for the Widget subweb; these buttons do exactly what they say they'll do--see the menu to the left of this text for details on these functions.
Beneath the upper row of buttons is a listing of all the objects stored within the active subweb. These will be all content, navigation, page, or subweb objects that you (or another member of your department) have created. In the illustration of the Widget subweb above, you can see page content, a navigation object, a page, and a subweb.
Page content
is represented by a page-within-a-page icon (here, the item titled "Widget's Interface"). Clicking on the title of the page content object will open that object in the editor, as will clicking on the Edit
button. The Properties
button allows you to give the page content a new title and to specify whether you want this content to be shared so others can incorporate it into their own pages.
Navigation objects
are represented an icon of a page with a floating green marquee. As with page content, the navigation object's Properties
button allows you to give the navigation object a new title, although you cannot, at this time, specify whether a navigation object is shared or not.
Page objects
, the containers that hold both page content and navigation objects, are indicated with an icon of a page. A page's Properties
button allows you to give the page a new title. The title specified for a page is the text that will appear in the title-bar of the web browser when the page is viewed and also the default text for any menu entry for the page.
Subwebs
are indicated with an icon representing a folder.
Depending on the size and scope of the web you are developing, you may have a great many page content, navigation, and page objects. Giving these objects intelligible titles as you create them can save you a good deal of time in hunting for them afterwards.