Creating your first website: 2 easy steps

Open the program by clicking on the Rapid-Website icon on your desktop.

Step 1: Click on the “Select Home Page” button and select a MS-Word document that is preferably in its own folder (or at least with not too many other documents in the same folder).

Step 2: Click on the “Generate Website” button.

Congratulations! You have created your first website! Don’t worry about the other controls; we’ll get to them in a while.

Changing your template

Try selecting a different template in the “Select a template” select box and generate the website again. You will see that the template is basically the main graphic layout of the website that is the same on all the pages.

Creating a website with more than one page

Create an empty folder, that you call “Webdocs” or any other description that suites you.

Copy your Home page Word document into this folder (or create it and save it there).

Copy more Word documents with the Home page into the same folder (or create it and save it there).

Repeat the 2 easy steps you followed to create your first website.

Congratulations again, you are making progress! Notice that the text of the menu buttons are the same as the file names of your Word documents.

Creating a website with sub-menus

Repeat the last exercise, but also include sub folders in the “Webdocs” folder. These sub folders must contain Word documents in them.

You can download an easy example by clicking here. Compare the file & folder structure with this website’s menu and you’ll get the concept very easily.

Change the order of items in the menu

If you have had a look at the last example you would have noticed that the names of the Word files are preceded by a number and a point. It’s as simple as that! Just add a number followed by a dot in front of your Word file’s name.

For example:

1.Home.php

2.Services.php

3.About Us.php

4.Contact Us.php

Well done! You are now part of the Rapid-Website family!