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The DX Domino Blog toolkit is really a very
basic content management system with a few
features added to make blogging easier. Therefore
it could also be used as a web site
manager
with the 'blogging' aspect being perhaps
the news part of your site.
Adding/Creating Web Pages
In order to add/create web pages, you
need to go to the Site Web Pages view
which can be accessed
from
the 'Content Management' group of options
on the left hand navigator.
When you have gone into that view, you can
add a web page by clicking on the 'Create
Web Page' button.
A blank web page form will then appear allowing
you to give your page a name (ie webpage.htm),
a title - which will appear at the top of the
browser and a description.
You also have two other 'tabs' you can select
- HTML and CSS. I try and make my descriptions
obvious! - So hopefully you could have worked
out that any HTML goes under that tab and any
CSS goes under the CSS tab.
You could 'hard code' your HTML if you wish,
or preferably (for me) you can use a third
party HTML editor and import the file in.
It is fairly straight forward to import a
HTML file - click Import HTML from the 'Action'
menu. The standard windows file selector dialog
will then appear - you simpy select the HTML
file you wish to import and click 'Open' to
confirm. Notice the 'Files of type' slection
- if your file ends with .html then you will
need to select this here - otherwise the default
is .htm.
You will see the following message after the
HTML has been successfully imported.
The system remembers where you imported the
web page from. Therefore there is also a 'Refresh
HTML from file' option. Should you alter your
file using your HTML editor, then you simply
click this to update your Domino blog.
Should you be at another machine etc you can
also export for editing using the 'Export to
File' option.
When further updates are done to the Domino
Blog, then I will introduce an automatic option
for this refreshing etc - so you would simply
click one button to check for updates for all
your images and web pages. Therefore creating
a powerful way of creating web sites in say
Dreamweaver - and virtually replicating up
to a Domino Website.
Another option on the web page 'form'
is 'Insert HTML page tags'. I should really
have had this as clicked 'off' for the default.
Basically when this is 'on' the system will
'wrap' your HTML in the basic start and end
tags that you would normally find in a 'W3C'
verified web page - eg at the top:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD
HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head>
So if you wanted you could just type in HTML
without this. However with it off - any CSS
you have entered will be discarded as it will
assume you have catered for that in your imported
HTML.
As with the templates etc you can refer to
images stored in the blog database as <img
src="image.jpg"> within
There are a few other options on this form,
however for know they are not important so
I will cover them in an another article.
To save and close - use the 'Save Close' button.
Questions? -
steve.castledine@projectdx.org
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