Basically site refers to the place on a Web server where
Web pages are. TopPage also uses the term
site for the place on your computer where your
Web pages are.
This section contains the following topics:
TopPage frequently uses the terms site and Web page. A site means a group of Web pages combined
with links, whereas a Web page means an individual
Web page.
One site has multiple pages. The relationship
between a site and a Web page is similar
to the relationship between a folder and
a file in the Windows world. In fact, on
the Web server, sites are managed as folders
and Web pages as files. Conceptually, a TopPage
site performs the same operation on your
computer as the site on the server. Under
this concept, you can assume any folder on
your computer to be a site folder, and you
can place multiple Web pages in it.
A Web page is an HTML file. Because an HTML
file is a text file, you can open it with
a word processor or text editor. Images and
sounds embedded within the Web page are other
files. See the following illustration. Normally
you collect all files that organize a Web
site within a single folder, as shown in
the illustration on the left. For a big Web
site, however, you can create subfolders
according to file types, as shown in the
illustration on the right.
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Place the top page immediately under the main folder, even if you create subfolders like the illustration on the right. |
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top page The first page (home page) of a Web site. |
Generally create Web pages in the following
order with TopPage.
The creation of Web pages thus begins by
creating a virtual site in your computer
and ends with the upload of the site.
The site is also useful for updating your
Web site or Web pages. The structure and
update information of the site is always
saved in your computer, so beginning with
your second upload, just the updated files
are transferred to the server.
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You can edit Web pages without creating a site. The purpose of creating a site is to view the link hierarchy and to make it easy to transfer all the files that organize your Web site to the Web server. |