How to use HTML editors to build/maintain your SBI! website

Using html editors give you great flexibility in building/maintaining your SBI! website. And, SBI!'s new HTML page uploader capability means that your have nearly unlimited capability to customize the look and feel of your site.

I started using my favorite HTML editor (FrontPage) with my first SBI! site -- long before Site Sell added the HTML page upload functionality to SBI!. I built my pages using my editor, then copied all the HTML between the <body> </body> tags into an Insert Text block just below the heading in the One Page At A Time page builder.

I do recommend to my clients that they use HTML editors. They often ask which one they should use. I have one client who tried to start with Dreamweaver -- and that was a mistake. I use it, and especially its Fireworks graphic editor companion. However, it is not for the newbie. FrontPage is much easier for getting started. BBEDIT and Contribute, were highly praised in the November Issue of MacWorld.

But, for those who invested in SBI! because it did not require technical knowledge, using any of these editors demands an investment of your valuable time and resources to become, in part, a techie.

Theresa Coffey, TNT (Tips and Techniques) SBI! Editor presents an excellent summary of HTML tags you can use to customize your pages (see http://build.sitesell.com/tips/tags.html). However, if you do not want to become a techie -- but want to have a customized look and feel (developed for you by one of SBI!'s Certified Webmasters) AND maintain your own site, here is how to do it.

Think of your SBI! One Page at a Time Add a SiteBuilder Page function as a HTML editor (it builds your HTML from a non technical interface). You can use it to build new/maintain current pages as I explain here.* It's very easy to do (I had a complete newbie modifying html pages using this method in just 10 minutes).

Best regards,

Richard Dowell, President, Best Managers on the Net, www.BestManagers.Net, home of My Journal� (a web-based tool designed to help you develop and track progress toward your goals)

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*Click here to see the template I use for this site. Also see the "Content Rules" tab.

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