1AFM.com Online Editor Tutorial

This is a brief Tutorial for using the 1AFM.com online editor

If you need a simple site template you can get one Here (includes this tutorial in the readMe.txt file).

Creating files using the online editor is easy. Logon to your account. In the management area scroll down to "File Manager" and click on "html." This takes you to the html editor. There at the top of the page it says create page. Type in the name of the page you want to create (index.html, contact.html, about.html or links.html) and click create. The file will be created. Scroll down to the file you created and click on "edit." This causes the editor to open. Copy and paste the page there. Then click "Save Changes." This brings you back to the editor manager. To view the page click on the page name, and it will open in a new window. To make changes, close the new window. Click on "edit" for the file you want to alter. Make changes, click on "save." Then click on the link and hit refresh when the page comes up to see the changes. This allows you to experiment with colors and design online.

You can edit online up to about 32k. After that you have to use your notepad on your computer and upload via FTP. So don't put too much on one page if you want to use the online editor to make changes.

You can use the templates to make any page you want. Simply create a new file named whatever you want then copy and paste in the editor.

To make hyperlinks (to link to other pages you create) all you have to do is use the following and change name-of-page.html to the name of page:

<a href="name-of-page.html">Name of Page (this can say whatever you want)</a>

To make hyperlinks to other web sites all you have to do is use the following and change name-of-web-site.html to the name of the web site (this has to be its URL, ie: yahoo.com, at57.com, etc. and it usually works with ot without the "www" prefix):

<a href="http://www.name-of-web-site.html">Name of Web Site (this can say whatever you want)</a>

Explanation of html terms: "a href" sets up the link. If the page being linked to is on the same site and in the same directory no "http://" is required, but it is required if you link to another site.

For more content you can go to http://www.1afm.com/free_content/ where you can easily copy content and paste it into your pages wherever you want it to appear.

Good luck and have fun.

Ken J Wagner, 1AFM.com webmaster

Other Helpful Notes:

Creating Directories and Pages: First of all go to 1AFM, G3Z OR OWNS1 and login to your account. This brings you to the "User Tools" area. Scroll down to "File Manager" and click on "HTML." At the very top of the page you'll see "Create New," which is set on "Blank html file" as a default. All you have to do to create a page is type a page name in the slot after "--named:" then click on create. It's that easy. To create a directory it's the same process except that you need to click on the radio button that says "Folder." Then you can open that folder and put any files you want inside. Uploading/Downloading Images: Downloading images to your hard drive is a snap. You can download any image on the web by placing your cursor over the image. If you use windows, right click and select download. If you use Mac click on the image and hold the mouse button down. A menu will appear; select "download image to disk." Uploading the images to the server is just as easy. Once you have created a folder on the other server named mysite (for web site builder) or "mypage" (for web page builder) as per the instructions above for "Creating Directories and Pages," all you need to do is click on the "Upload" button on the upper right hand corner. Clicking on the button takes you to another page named "Upload Files." It says "Save Files To" and there's a drop down. Simply select from the drop down the folder you want to upload to. Then click on browse and pull up the folder from your hard drive. Once the correct file is in the slot, scroll down and click on "upload files." It's that easy.