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About the Home Page Folder
Your Home Page Folder contains material (web pages) that you want others to view using their web browsers. FirstClass publishes the contents of your Home Page Folder on the web.
Do not move your Home Page Folder off your Desktop, or it will not work properly. If you inadvertently move this folder off your Desktop, you can move it back, and it will work again.
Creating content for your Home Page Folder
To create content for your Home Page Folder, you can:
• move FirstClass folders, documents, and messages into this folder
• upload plain text files directly to this folder
These files can contain HTML code.
• create documents directly in this folder.
These documents can contain HTML code. There is a special document form for creating web pages. Personal Web Page hides the FirstClass toolbars and just shows the page content.
Specifying a home page document
You can designate a document as your home page. FirstClass will open this document when your Home Page Folder is opened with a web browser. You can design your home page to link to the other contents of your Home Page Folder.
Caution
Consider creating all the content in your Home Page Folder before you designate a home page. After you have a designated home page, you will subsequently only be able to see all the contents of your Home Page Folder using the FirstClass client or an FTP/HTTP-enabled HTML editor.
To make a document that was created using one of the special web page document forms your home page, name it "home page".
To make a document that was created using any other document form your home page, give it one of the following names:
• index.htm or index.html
• home.htm or home.html
• default.htm or default.html.
Viewing others' web pages
You can see another user's home page by clicking that user's name in the Directory or Who's Online list. If this user does not have a designated home page, you will see the user's Home Page Folder instead.
You can also go directly to a user's web pages if you know the user name or mail alias and the domain name of the server for this user. Type the web page address in the address field of your web browser, using the following format:
http://domain name/~first name_last name
or
http://domain name/~alias
For example, to see Michael Hill's (user name Michael Hill) web pages at www.huskyplanes.com, you would type
To see Michael's web pages using his email alias (his email address is michaelh@huskyplanes.com), you would type
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