Thanks for that. It looks fairly simple, so hopefully they will find it easy to use. The interest in web pages seems to have grown a little, so we might have another play this weekend.
I tried this yesterday, but I couldn’t get it to publish a HTML web page. Even though I selected HTML it still uploaded the page as an IMS file and those have to run on their IMS Engine server.
You are not having a very good time of this …
Have you considered teaching the ol’ fashioned way with a simple ftp client and notepad? :blob8:
I was going to look at the above … but just have not yet had any spare time…
Chris,
I went ahead and downloaded this program and then after it was installed I simply pushed publish, entered my person details and uploaded the default page that was displayed when started up and it uploaded the file as HTML…
http://www.jaxweathercam.net/WebDwarf/index.html
I will try creating a new page and see what happens…
-Bob
I see when you create a new page it prompts you to save and will only save as IMS but it does upload HTML…
http://www.jaxweathercam.net/WebDwarf/test/
Just for your Chris
-Bob
It’s installed on the family PC, so I can’t try another test just now. I didn’t try making my own page. I took the demo page any tried to publish that. Maybe there are some features on that page that don’t work in HTML so that’s why it uploads as IMS? I can see problems with children using it if that’s the case…“Dad I put a sooper-dooper spinner wotsit on my page and my web site doesn’t work now that I’ve uploaded it”.
http://www.jaxweathercam.net/WebDwarf/test/Page1.html
Just created that in about 30 seconds…
Something that I really think would be worth looking into for your kids and I already found how to create pages with different names from their Forums…
-Bob
What’s IMS? (tons of useless answers in google)
An IMS file contains all of the instructions that describe your project in a compact format. When you preview or publish your project, the internal IMS format is converted to HTML, Dynamic HTML, or SVG formats.http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=IMS
-Bob
Hmmm, sorry but I rate it about 2 out of 10. You can’t even import existing html pages into it to edit them. It stayed on my PC for about 15mins.
Well it ain’t NVU that’s for sure 8) BUT for someone that just wants to get started, especially a Kid I can see it’s usefulness…
-Bob
The reason that you can not import HTML files into it is because it uses it own format to allow it to be WYSIWYG. When you publish you ISM file it creates the HTML from it.
It is like using DIVisions for everything that you put on a page. Site Spinnet (which is what I have used), allows IFrames. It comes as a 15 free trial. I found that it is quite good and may even buy it if I need it further.