Introduction

This tutorial will guide you through the creation of sample personal web site, which contains 3 pages.

The first page will describe me.

The second page will describe my friends.

The third page will be dedicated to my favourite writer.

You may look at the output of this tutorial at http://qixite.sf.net/doc/to/

Creating a Personal Web Site

Create New Web Site and Front Page for Your Web-Site

Run program Qixite.

This will display the main program window.

Click menu File -> New.

The node on the left side will be added to the tree structure. On the right side you will see a panel in which you can enter data.

Click menu View -> Site Options

This will display 'Site Settings' window. Click on "General Settings".

Click button '...'

This will display a dialog for choosing a directory.

Choose the directory where the generated web site files will be stored

Click OK in the Site Settings window.

Go to the field Title, and enter title "My Personal Page"

This is the title for your web page as it will be displayed on the title bar of a browser. It also will be displayed on the top of your web page.

Go to the field Article, and enter the following text:

"My name is Linas. I am also known as Bro1 or Brovienas. I live in Ireland, though I am originally from a country you may have never heard of - Lithuania.

I work as a software engineer for a software company. I study computing at the Open University.

I like computing and it takes most of my time, but I also like reading, movies, traveling, writing poetry, meeting people."

Create New Text Section on the Front Page

In the tree view on the left side of the window click with a mouse on the "My Personal Page"

Click button "New Text Section"

Go to the field Title and enter title "My Program Qixite"

Go to the field Article and enter the following text:

"I have created a program Qixite because:

1. I had a lot of ideas to be presented on the web but I did not want to bother with design, maintaining links between pages and other routine tasks

2. I wanted to become famous

3. I wanted to become rich

Anyway, Qixite allows you to build web sites quickly"

Create a Page Dedicated to My Friends

In the tree view on the left side of the window click with a mouse on the "My Personal Page"

Click button "New Page"

Go to the field Title and enter title "About My Friends"

Go to the field File and enter the file name "friends.html"

This will allow you to generate this web page to the file named "friends.html"

Go to the field Article and enter the following text:

"I have some friends.

Some of them are geeks and nerds like myself. Others are just the ones that share the views that are similar to those of mine.

Some of them are just people I like."

Create a Page Dedicated to Adam Smith

In the tree view on the left side of the window click with a mouse on the "My Personal Page"

Click button "New Page"

Go to the field Title and enter title "Adam Smith"

Go to the field File and enter the file name "asmith.html"

This will allow you to generate this web page to the file named "asmith.html"

Go to the field Article and enter the following text:

"Adam Smith (1723-1790)

Adam Smith was the great Scottish philosopher and economist best known for "The Wealth of Nations", his pioneering book on free trade and market economics."

In the tree view on the left side of the window click with a mouse on the "Adam Smith"

Click button "New Link"

Go to the field "Title" and enter title "Adam Smith Institute"

Go to the field "URL" and enter address "http://www.adamsmith.org.uk/"

Generate Web Site

Web site generation converts the web site tree you have just created to the set of html files that any browser can display. You may upload the resulting html files to web server after you have completed this step.

the resulting html files are not editable by Qixite! Do not forget to save your work as described in next section!

Click the button "Generate Web Site"

This step will generate 3 separate html files: index.html, friends.html and asmith.html. Each of the files will contain links to other two files. It also generates a css file and stores a logo png file.

Save Your Work

Do not forget to complete this step, as you will require your web site tree next time you want to update your web site.

Click menu File -> Save

I will not guide you through saving process here as it should be covered by your basic computing knowledge.