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About the Home Page folder
A 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.
You can only have one Home Page folder on your Desktop. You can rename this folder.
You can only create a Home Page folder using the FirstClass client; however, you can create documents within an existing Home Page folder when you are using a web browser. These documents can contain HTML code.
Creating content for your Home Page folder
You can create content for your Home Page folder using a PUT-capable browser such as Netscape Communicator. If you are using Netscape, you must have the Netscape Composer component installed.
Editing web page documents
To edit a web page document:
1 Open your Home Page folder.
2 Open the document.
3 Click Edit.
4 Make your changes.
5 Click Save.
6 Click Close.
Specifying a default HTML document
You can designate an HTML document as your default document. This document will be the first one opened when users access your home page over the web, and you can design it to link to the other contents of your Home Page folder.
If you do not designate a default HTML document, anyone opening your home page over the web will see the entire contents of your Home Page folder, just as you see them in FirstClass.
To make an HTML document the default, you must give it one of the following names:
• index.htm or index.html
• home.htm or home.html
• default.htm or default.html
Use one of these names for a document created using the standard document form.
• home page.
Use this name for a document created using one of the special document forms.
Viewing others' web pages
You can see another user's web pages using the Directory.
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.avalon.com, you would type
To see Michael's web pages using his email alias (his email address is michaelh@avalon.com), you would type