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Sites and Web pages
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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:


Sites are folders, and Web pages are HTML files

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.

site folder

Note Note Place the top page immediately under the main folder, even if you create subfolders like the illustration on the right.


Vocabulary Vocabulary top page

The first page (home page) of a Web site.



Flow for creating Web pages

Generally create Web pages in the following order with TopPage.

  1. Create a new site. [Ref.] "Creating a site"
    Alternatively, register Web pages you created before as a site. [Ref.] "Viewing the link hierarchy of a Web site"

  2. Create several Web pages within a site and insert text and images within each Web page. At this stage, you work on the site on your computer.

  3. Upload the site to the Web server. At this stage, the site on the Web server matches the site on your computer.

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.

upload

Tip Tip 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.