Advance help

I don’t understand the menu structure!

A worthy suggestion:

It is much easier to learn by example. You can download all the source files for this website by clicking here. Compare the file & folder structure with this website’s menu and you’ll get the concept very easily.

The short version:

• Each MS-Word file represents a clickable item in the menu.
• Each folder represents a non-clickable item in the menu that has a submenu.

The long version:

• Each MS-Word file represents a clickable item in the menu. Each parent folder relative to the web root (the source input folder) represents the parent menu items the mouse have to move over to get to that item in order to be clicked on.
• Each folder represents a non-clickable item in the menu, which is parent for other menu items. Therefore, each folder is supposed to have more MS-Word files or folders in it.
• If a file and a folder have the same name, a clickable menu item is created that also have a submenu.
• If a folder has no files in it, Rapid-website will not create it in the menu.
• The order of menu items is alphabetically.
• To control the order, each file & folder can have a number followed by a full stop as part of the name.
• If a file should not be included in the menu, the filename should have “x.” in the beginning.

What files are supported?

Rapid-website support different files in different ways. There are three main categories of files.

• To-be processed files – these files will be changed the way they are before they are uploaded to the web server. They ‘way’ they are changed, refer to putting the menu and website layout ‘around’ the file.

• DOC (MS-Word document)
• HTM, HTML (the HTML programming language)
• PHP (the PHP programming language)

If you do not want a file to be changed, put an ‘p.’ in front of the filename

• Menu files – these are any files that the generator will automatically place in the website’s menu. The files are:

• DOC (MS-Word document)
• HTM, HTML (the HTML programming language)
• PHP (the PHP programming language)
• ASP, ASPX (the ASP programming language)

If you do not want a file to be in the main menu, put an ‘x.’ in front of the filename.

Please note that almost any other file can also be placed in the menu, by using the right technology associated with the above programming languages. For example URL-forwarding could be used with HTML; click here to see how.

• Plain files – these are files that is uploaded to the web server ‘as-is’

• PDF (Adobe Acrobat files)
• PPT, PPS, XLS (PowerPoint and Excel Office files)
• JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG (popular picture files)
• ZIP (archive files)
• EXE (executable/binary files)
• TXT (text documents)

To make these files accessible you must make a hyperlink to it or you must work out the generated URL of it.

How do I insert programming code in a Word document?

Useful for: Adding hit counters, Google Ads, or anything that requires you to insert code in your website.

Example: You want to add a Currency Converter to your website according to the instructions on:

http://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english/data_feed/webproducts/currencyconverter

In other words you have to add the following code (HTML in this example) to your website:

<iframe style="BORDER: 1px solid #C0C0C0;" border=0 name=I1 src="http://freeserv.dukascopy.com/currcalc/"

frameBorder=0 width=160 scrolling=no height=234></iframe>

In order to make it look like this:

The fast way: Download and view the source documents here to see how we did it.

The detailed way:

Step 1: Create a subfolder in your input “web docs” folder called “Code_Snippets” (note the spelling)

Step 2: Create the code file (for example “Currency_Converter_file_name.htm”) in that folder and insert the code in that file.

Step 3: Go to the exact place in the word document where you wish to insert the code, and type the exact name of the file there without the file extension (“Currency_Converter_file_name” in this example).

Step 4: Save every file and generate your website normally.

Some trouble shooting notes:

1. Always choose code file names that are unique. For example choosing “the.htm” will replace all the words called “the” throughout your website with the code.
2. Only choose file names consisting of “A..Z” and/or “a..z” and/or “0..9” and/or “_”. There are too many reasons for why doing this, to list them all here.
3. Always keep the key word in your Word document in the same style. For example do not do this: “Currency_Converter_file_name”, because then the code will not be inserted.

Still haven’t got the answer?

Please send more questions to technical@Rapid-website.com