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Other functions: Advanced
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The following functions are convenient for advanced users:


Creating a channel file

You can create a channel file and set a link to it. Readers can then register your Web site as a channel.

Vocabulary Vocabulary channel

A Web site that is delivered to the readers periodically according to the schedule the Web site creator determines.


Note Note Some Web browsers do not have the channel function. Internet Explorer 4.0, Netscape Navigator 4.0, later version of these have the channel function.


  1. Select Create Channel from the Tool menu, and then select Netscape Channel. You can create a channel file for Netscape Navigator.

  2. Create a channel file.

  3. Create a button image with text such as "Register Channel," paste it into your Web page, and set a link from the button image to the channel file.

  4. Upload the channel file and your Web page that includes the button image to your provider's server. Readers can then register your Web site as a channel, just by clicking the button image.
Note Note You can reedit a channel file for Netscape Navigator.


Note Note Because Homepage Builder regards files called by your channel file as "unused files," register them as "files to be transferred" before uploading.
[Ref.] "Register a file as one to be uploaded"



Changing heading levels

If you are editing a long Web page, and if you want to change the levels of several headings at once, use the Heading Editor.

  1. Select Heading Editor from the Tool menu to display the Heading Editor.

  2. Click a heading, and click the << button to raise the level or the >> button to lower the level. Repeat this to adjust the levels of all the headings within the Web page.

    Heading Editor

  3. Click the OK button.


Creating an index

You can create an index from the headings of your Web page.

  1. Select Index from the Insert menu to display a dialog box for creating an index.

  2. Under Headings, select the heading levels you want to include in the index. Under Output, select the location to transfer the index. (If you select Another File, specify the file name, too.) Under List Type, select the list type. (An index is created in the list format.) Under Label, select how to attach labels.

    dialog box

    Tip Tip Under Label, select one of the following:
    • Add Labels and Links to the table of contents to This Document, to enable a visitor to jump from the index to the headings, and vice versa.
    • Add Labels to This Document, to enable a visitor to jump from the index to the headings.
    • Do not add Any Labels, to permit no jumps.

  3. Click the OK button to create the index as you specified.

    index


Creating a site map

You can create a site map, which contains links to all the Web pages in your site. To create it, open a site, and select Create Site Map from the Site menu. The following figure is an example of a site map.

Example of a site map