Instructions

Adding Pages

It's easy to create new pages and add them to your web. Open a sample page or another page you have created and select "save as" and rename it. The new page should have the layout intact. Change the content or graphics inside the new page.

Changing Graphics

A blank company name graphic is included so you can add your own company or site name. It is found in the images folder. Import the needed blank graphic into your graphics program (Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Image Composer, etc.).

OR use the Fireworks editable .png files found in the PNGs folder. If you do not have Fireworks, a free trial copy is available from Macromedia. With the .png files the color of the graphics can be easily changed. The button file is already in layers.

Tip: Give the new graphics the same file names as the original graphics in the template, letting them override the original graphics in the images folder. This way they will automatically fall into place in the template. After the new graphics are in the images folder, rename the files to make more sense for your site.

The font used on the company name image was BernhardFashion BT.

We are also available to modify the company name graphic for a nominal fee. Please contact us for details.

Include Files

Note that some elements elements that occur on all pages of this site exist as include pages. You can find these include pages in the "includes" folder of this web. Here are the include pages currently in use on this web.

header.htm 
nav_top.htm 
nav_right.htm
nav_bottom.htm
footer_info.htm

The include pages are inserted into the main pages in order to allow you to make global changes to your site or change many pages at the same time. To do this you must right click on the area you would like to edit. If it is indeed an include page you will see something like this in the pop up menu:

Open file: c:\ location and name of include page

Or - you can open the include pages via folders view. Once the file is open - make the necessary changes and save them. All pages utilizing the include page should update upon saving.

Cascading Style Sheets

In folders view, double-click on confetti.css. This will open the CSS page. The code governing the links in the header and in the body will be found there.

a.top:link controls all the navigation bars. 
a:link controls the body links.

To change the color of the links - simply make changes to the html color coding such as #ffffff or #336699. Find the HTML color code for the color of your choice and insert the number in place of the existing one.

If you wish to remove the Cascading Style Sheet properties...simply remove the code calling the sheet in the head section of the include pages as well as any code associated with it in the body of the include pages such as <LINK REL=STYLESHEET TYPE="text/css" HREF="confetti.css"> </head> and class="top"

For more information on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) consult the following online resources:

Webmonkey: Stylesheet Guide

Webreference: CSS