DavPage Reference
This reference has been designed to assist you in your web page development needs. It will go over the features of DavPage 1.00 so that you can develop web pages quickly and easily. You should own a browser to view these pages.
When you enter DavPage Standard Edition 1.00, it is recommended that you immediately set the properties for your page. You can do this by clicking File-Set Properties. If the fields are not filled in, the default settings are assumed. The title is what appears at the top of the browser. This usually looks like (your title) - (browser name). The next settings are pretty clear. To locate the background sound or picture, click find sound or find image. After you finish, click set properties located at the bottom.
The Things To Insert Into Your Page menu option allows you to insert elements into your HTML document. The first option, Add Text, allows you to insert text into your page. The options here require little explaining. The four options that may need explaining are the Add a line in between option, the Do not create the ending tag option, and the Size option. The Add a line in between option will allow you to insert a line in between the text. Every single page has something called tags in it. They define to the browser how a HTML (HyperText Markup Language) page should look. They are defined as <(Tag)>...<(front slash)(Tag)>. The paragraph (p) tag paragraphs the text. If you want a word bolded in the middle of the text you click Do not create ending tag then type in the text until the word. The go back to the Add text option and click bold, then type in the word. This will make it look like this: This is really cool! The size option allows you to set the size of the text. H1 is the biggest font and H6 is the smallest. This document was written in the Normal (Default) size. Blockquotes really indent text. Use a blockquote just like you would use the paragraph option.
The second option, Implement Meta Tag, is used for search engines. Some search engines support meta tags, some do not. Meta tags are used to define the keywords that this page will come up with. In other words, when you tell the search engine to search for "+DavPage", if your page has the meta tag "DavPage", your page will come up. Out of the best known search engines only a few do actually support meta tags. However, if you are planning to submit your page to a search engine, it is recommended that you do create a meta tag. When you do click this button, you will be prompted with a dialog asking for the description that will appear on the search engine. For example: My Home Page - An elegant spectacular page! My Home Page - An elegant spectacular page is actually what you would enter here. Only, you would think of your own description. The next dialog that will come up is the keywords dialog. This will allow you to define what words your page comes up with. For example: If I entered "the, cat" then if a user went to that search engine and typed in "the" and/or "cat", my page would appear. Tip: Only type in keywords that relate to your page. If your page is about computers and you type in "computer, homes" as the keywords, more likely than not the person searching for homes is not too interested in computers now. Another tip: Use suffixes to your advantage. If your web page is a search engine, use search, searching, searched for meta tags.
The next feature is the horizontal line feature. A horizontal line has no actual properties so you just click it and you have one. Below is an example of what a horizontal line looks like.
The Insert A Break option inserts the code (br) into your page. A break forces the text to go on the next line.
The next choice is called Add Image. This option allows you to implement images in your page. First it is recommended that you click Find Image Location to find your image. Or, you can enter in the location of the images yourself. Clicking Find Default Height And Width will find the original height and width for your image. You can specify it yourself by typing in the height and width into the text boxes. HTML recognizes pixels only. Next, you should choose the alignment for your picture. Click the radio box that best suits the alignment you would like and click Add Image.
Add Text From File takes the text from a file and implements it on your web page. The alignment is automatically set to left. To add the text you have to specify the file and then click OK. Tip: Do not like the alignment? Replace the (p) tag before the text with (p alignment = 'left or center or right'). Only, when you type it in, replace the ( and )s with < and >s
Insert Numerical List allow you to insert a numbered list. These are nice to list items. To implement one, type in the item you wish to be displayed. HTML code can be used here. Click the alignment option and then click Add To List. After clicking the alignment option once, you do not need to click it again. The item number label allows you to see what item you are on now. Press Done when finished.
Please refer to the previous paragraph on how to use the bulleted list.
Please refer to paragraph 7 on how to use implement an image. To link this image to another web page, locate the text box under the Please define the link that this image shall link to sentence, and type in the page. For example, http://www.geocities.com/shallongel/index.html. The Do not paragraph it option button means that it will continue on a sentence. If you clicked Do not create the ending tag in the Add Text dialog, then if you click Do not paragraph it, it will continue on the sentence. Click Submit to make the changes or Exit This Screen to leave.
When you leave your mouse pointer for too long on the Add Form Elements option, it will prompt you with an input box asking for a CGI program. A CGI or Common Gateway Interface is used to perform tasks such as e-mailing form results, counting the number of people that hav visited your page, etc.. If you do not enter a CGI program location the computer will just add the tag (form) to your page. (The brackets stand for < and >. I can't use them with a web page because it will assume that this is the start of a form.) If you do not want the form, delete that tag. Some scripts may require a form name, type in (form name = '(your name)'). The outer parenthesis should be considered < and >. After that, the menu items here are pretty self-explanatory. In HTML or form programming, a value is considered the characters that the CGI script will e-mail to you. The name is the control's name or what it is called by. The size is the control's size in characters. The value for the submit and reset buttons is the caption or what is displayed on them. For example: You create a text box with a name that equals TextboxName and a submit button with a name that equals MySubmitButton. The submit button's value is equal to Submit.
Name
When a user clicks on that, they might receive an e-mail that looks like this:
From: The CGI Program
To: The CGI Host
(TextboxName) Hello World! I am the value of the text box!
(MySubmitButton) Submit
IP address: Alert! Alert! Could not figure out the IP address (No, just kidding)
Insert Script allows you to implement a script directly into your web page. The supported ones are JavaScript and VBScript. However, if you know of another language you may define that too by clicking Another type of script and defining in the text box below. Please type in your script into the large text box at the bottom. When you have completed click Add Script To Web Page or click Exit to return to the main screen.
The Implement Java Applet allows you to insert a Java applet into your page. There is no Find Location Graphically button because generally Java applets are run from the web server. In the first text box, you should enter the code location. This is stored in the *.class file. The next text box allows you to define the page it is in. The third text box defines the message for the browsers that do not support Java. The last two boxes are used to define the height and width of the applet as it will appear on your page. Next choose an alignment option and click Add Applet to add it, or click Exit This Screen to return to the DavPage main screen.
Add Hyperlink allows you to insert a link. Here is an example of a link. My Home Page When you choose this option, you shall see two text boxes. The top text box is the web page that this link will link to. In the previous example, this text box was filled with http://www.geocities.com/shallongel/index.html. The next text box defines what the user sees. Again, in the previous example, My Home Page was placed here. Next, the alignment should be chosen. Choose between left, center, right, and Do not paragraph it. Please refer to paragraph 11 for details on how to use the Do not paragraph it function.
The Add Marquee option allows you to add a marquee. The first and only dialog that comes up asks you to enter in the text you wish to be displayed. Click OK to add the marquee. Here is an example of a marquee.
Create A Table allows you to insert a table into your web page. The first thing you must do is set the properties. You must select the border size, cell padding, and cell spacing. Use the arrows to select the appropriate choice. **Important** - You must click on the selected choice. If it is not blue, it will not register. Click Set Properties to make the basis for the table. Then you enter in the text you would like in the text box. The text placed in there will turn out normal (like the text here). If you want it fancy, click More Options to be prompted with the Add Text dialog. If you would like to add an image, click Add Image and refer to paragraph 7 on how to use this dialog. When you have added in the text/code into the box, click Add Text. The Columns label will go up by one. It tells you the number of columns you added in the first row. When you would like to add another row, click Add Row. The Rows label will increase by one. This label allows you to see how many rows you have in total. When you have completed, click Done. If you do not want it, click Exit and delete any extra code. Tip: Make sure you memorize what code was before. Then when something un-wanted is added, you can delete it by taking out the code after the place you memorized.
The Create E-mail Link option allows you to insert an e-mail link into your web page. Refer to paragraph 15 on how to use this interface. Click Submit Link when you are completed.
Add Fraction allows you to add a fraction. The options here are pretty self-explanatory.
The Close Paragraph Tag menu item adds the code (p) to the HTML code. The ( and ) are replaced with < and >.
Click the Close Form Tag option after you hav finished a form. This option inserts the code (/form) into your page. Sorry, I cannot use < and > because the browser will think it is real and will not display it anyway.
Click the Close HTML Tag option when you have completed your web page. This option inserts (/html) into the page. I cannot use < and > as the browser assumes that it is real.
The About menu is easy to comprehend. The About This Program menu displays an About dialog. The Agreement option brings up the DSCA (DavSoft Consumer Agreement). **Read that over. Make sure you abide by the terms given.** The Tip Of Day option brings up the "tips" screen. Finally, Reference brings up the reference screen.
Use the Create A Home Page option located in the Wizard menu to create a home page as painlessly as possible.
Contact Information
Questions and/or comments? E-mail me at: jrg@pathcom.com. You must be a registered user and you must have the DP Number somewhere in your message. To register, use the registration form located in this software's path. It is called register.html. The DP Number is located in Help-About This Program. Or, you can use the Questions or Comments form located in the path you installed this software in.
Thank you for using DavPage Standard Edition 1.00. Please feel free to distribute any web pages you create with this software providing that they do not conflict with the DSCA.