I need to change the text on my home page, what is the file I need to change?

There are several different ways to organize the content of your website. 

Option 1 - Index.html as home page
This option requires you to ask our staff to make the default document of your website index.html, as our default setup is to make the default document index.wws (which is stored in your templates folder).

If your home page is index.html, you will still need to create a template page called default.wc and store it in your templates folder.  We often refer to default.wc as the 'second level', which simply means it is in use after any link is clicked on the home page (index.html).

The major drawback in this setup, is that you will have to maintain two pages with navigation, index.html and default.wc.

Option 2 - default.wc + body.wws as home page

This method is the easiest method to manage your entire site.  The simple reason is that the page default.wc (stored in the templates folder) is the MASTER document ie template used at your site.  When you change a word, or a link on this page, it is automatically changed at every page of your site. 

The body.wws template file is stored in the templates folder, and is 'included' inside the default.wc.  When you code the body.wws page you can leave out the <html>, <head>, and <body> tags as they are already in the default.wc file.  It is best to test this method out, by putting a single sentence in the body.wws file, such as "This is where the home page contents go".

After you do that, visit your site's home page, by entering http://www.yoursitehere.com/ and see what you get.


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