First, if you want to see detailed information about what WebMaker is doing as it makes the web, choose WebMaker > Log. That command opens a window containing a log of status information.
To make a web, either click Make a Web or choose WebMaker > Make a Web. A dialog appears, enabling you to specify options about the web. The dialog is shown in Figure 4.3.
Notice now that WebMaker may have filled in the MIF File field for you, if you have used RapidRules or Make a Web in this session. If the default that it chose is incorrect, you can change it.
Now notice that the Destination Directory and File Name Prefix fields are also filled in. The contents of these fields are based on either the name and location of the MIF file in the MIF File field, or, if there is no MIF file, on the name and location of the WML file.
If no fields are filled in, or if you wish to specify other files and prefix, follow these steps:
sim
(which is appropriate for the Simple Example document), the HTML files are named as follows: sim-1.html
, sim-2.html
, and so on. Note that on platforms where filenames have a length limitation, if that limit is reached (by means of a file such as sim-10000.htm
), WebMaker continues to number the files but it removes a character from the prefix in order to adhere to the filename length limitation (for instance, si-10000.htm
).
Now you should fill in the other options:
Filename Format Option | Behavior |
---|---|
Long File Names | Uses long, descriptive names for the generated HTML and image files (for example, |
8.3 Lowercase File Names | Uses filenames that conform to the DOS 8.3 file naming conventions, and generates files that have lowercase names (for example, |
8.3 Uppercase File Names | This option also uses filenames that conform to the DOS 8.3 file naming conventions, but it uses uppercase file names (for example, |
.css
file and inserts CSS-related markup into the HTML files. If unchecked, WebMaker does not create a .css
file and does not insert CSS-related markup into the HTML files. For more information, see Chapter 5, "Cascading Style Sheets". Additional CSS-related options are available as command-line options; see Section 6.2.3, "Options for style sheets".