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Freeway Reference: Publishing and Uploading

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How to split your Freeway document

Ideally, site splitting should be something that you plan in advance when you first begin working on the site—you should map out how

the site will develop in terms of workflow and organization.

If after creating a Freeway document you subsequently need to divide it, a couple of questions should be addressed. What sections does

the site fall into naturally (for example, Sales, Support, Contacts), and what sections need to be divided for the purpose of updating

them independently from the main site document (for example, a press releases or news area)?

To begin splitting a site, start by saving a copy using Save As… in the File menu. After you’ve made the copy, delete the pages that are

not needed in each document. As Freeway deletes pages, you will be given the option to automatically replace links to the deleted pages

with “relative links” so you won’t have to type them in later by hand.

It’s best to split the Freeway document in such a way that each new document contains the files for one folder in the site. For example,

if you have a “Sales” section and a “Support” section, you might want to divide the site so that each of these was contained in a separate

Freeway document.

To do this, begin by creating two new folders in Freeway for Sales and Support using the New Folder option in the

menu at the bottom

of the Site panel. Next, select the pages that belong in the Sales folder of the Site panel by highlighting their names and Shift-clicking to

select them, and then drag them into the Sales folder. Similarly, drag the Support pages into the Support folder. This will make it easier for

Freeway to set up the correct links between the two sections.

Now, use Save As… to make a copy of the document for the Sales section, and do this again to make a document for the Support

section. Open the Freeway document you’ve saved as Support and delete all the pages that do not belong in that section (that is, all

the Sales pages and all the pages from the main section). You will be prompted to either remove the links or replace them with relative

references. Click the button to select relative references. Freeway assumes that the folders and pages will keep the same relative positions

in the site structure. Delete the unwanted pages from the Sales document and the main document in a similar way.

When you have two or more files that constitute your web site, you will have to create links between them. You won’t be able to use

internal links to pages that are contained in other Freeway documents, so you need to use “relative paths.” A relative path is a way to

specify how to get to another page in the same site from the current page. It’s called a relative path because it specifies a location in

relation to the current location. You can find more information about this in Hyperlinks: Linking to external pages on page 113.

Creating relative links

Select the text or item to which you’d like to link, then bring up the Edit Hyperlink dialog. Enter a relative link into the URL field of

the dialog, replacing the “http://” text if it is a new link. In this dialog, you will have to enter the file name of the HTML file to which

you want to link.

The file name is shown in the Page General panel of the Inspector palette of the relevant page. If the file you want to link to is in

the same folder, just enter this file name. For instance, if you want to link to a page called

Company X Home Page whose file is called

index.html, you would enter index.html in the URL field.

If the linked file is in a folder within the folder from which you are linking, you would preface the file name with the folder name(s).

Our example illustrates a folder called

Site Folder, within which is a home page (index.html) and two folders: Sales and Support. If

you were linking from the home page to a page called offers.html within the Sales folder, you would type sales/offers.html.

If the linked file is in a folder that contains the folder in which

your current page resides, then you need to preface the file

name with a “double dot” and a slash:

../ —this means “go

up to the folder above”. For example, if you were making a link

from a page in the Sales folder back up to the home page in the

folder above, you would enter ../index.html.

If the linked file is in a folder that is in the same parent folder as

the folder that the source page is in, you need to use

../ and the

folder name. So if you were linking from a page in the Sales folder

to a page called faq.html within the Support folder, you would

type ../support/faq.html.

Generally, you should try to make these kinds of links as

infrequently as possible, as they are more difficult to maintain

than internal links within the same Freeway document. To avoid

making too many links across documents, make sure your site

is organized in such a way that there is one means of entering

the Sales section and most of the links within that section are

to other pages within the same Freeway document. This minimizes the number of links you need to check and enter by hand. It also

makes your site easier to navigate—for example, if someone wants sales information, they know that they can find everything they need

in that one section without having to jump around to different sections of the web site.

The URLs… option on the Edit menu allows you to manage these links and make global changes, and you might also find the Link

Map useful.

Before making such a major change to your web site, it’s best to make a backup of your Freeway document(s) in case you delete anything

by mistake. It’s also a good idea to create some small test documents and practice linking between them so that you can familiarize yourself

with how the process works.

Note: The Link Map is not available in Freeway Express.

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