Create a New Web Page Item with Eufrates

Or you can let Eufrates do most or all of the HTML formatting for you.

Once you have defined all the items for a page, you press the 'Generate and Write Page' button and Eufrates generates the complete HTML for the page and displays the resulting page to your browser. Eufrates also writes the web page to your web directory.

You can also use the 'Generate With Debug Links' button during the development cycle to generate the web page for display only. This inserts a link back to your Eufrates edit function for each item, so you can instantly see which item is generating which part of the web page, and edit it.

You define an item by filling out the Eufrates form. One thing to realize is that no matter how you type in the text, the web browser will run all your text together without line breaks or paragraph breaks unless you put them in or have Eufrates put them in for you.

The form fields are:

• Item: The name of the item, 1 to 20 alphanumeric characters. The form will read the items in alphabetic order to generate the html. We suggest you name your items '100-introduction', '110-howtoreachus', '900-goback', etc. This will keep them in the proper order and still give you an informative name for each one.

• Type of item: This tells Eufrates how to format the item. A 'Text' item has no special formatting. A 'Paragraph' item tells Eufrates to insert a <P> HTML tag at the end of the text to start a new paragraph after this item. Here are all the item types.

• Link to URL: If this item includes a link to another web page, you type the link here. For example: http://websyte.com/pub/eufrates . You don't use quotes or the html formatting, because Eufrates will insert them all for you. If this field is blank, Eufrates will not create a link for you. If this is a local link (another of your Eufrates web pages) all you need is the page name, like 'Page2'.

• Description of Link: Eufrates uses this together with the 'Link to URL' field. This is the text you enter that becomes the underlined text of the hypertext jump. This is what the web surfer clicks on on your page, to get to another page.

• ImageURL: This is the URL of the image associated with this item. If the 'Link to URL' is non-blank, this image will be part of the hypertext link. The web surfer can click on the image to do the hypertext jump. If the 'Link to URL' is blank, this image will not be a hypertext link.

• Text: This is the text of the item. If the 'Link to URL' is not blank, this field can be blank. (You can have an item that is just a hypertext jump.) This text field can contain HTML tags. The most common ones you might want to use are <p> to end a paragraph (insert a blank line), <b> and </b> to start and end bold face text, and <br> to cause a line break (end the current line.)