#title "Commands"
<h4>Render Page</h4>

This is the central command for the website management features.

Runs the text in the frontmost BBEdit window thru the template, evaluating any macros or glossary references. The resulting file is placed in the Output folder. A message is sent to your web browser to display the rendered page. 

Note: This is not a replacement for BBEdit's "View HTML File" command, or for Lindsay Davies' extensions. The Render Page commands flows the text thru Frontier's macro processor, the BBEdit command displays the literal text, without flowing it thru the template or expanding macros or glossary entries.

<h4>Render Whole Site</h4>

Renders all the text files in the same folder as the #template.html file, and in all sub-folders.

<h4>Choose Output Folder<br>Choose Backup Folder</h4>

See the <a href="setup.html">Setup</a> page.

<h4>Open Template</h4>

Opens the #template.html file that this file will be rendered thru. There must be a window open in BBEdit for this to work.

First it looks in the folder that contains the file you're editing. The it pops out a level and looks there. It fails if it doesn't find a #template file in any of the parent directories.

<h4>Backup Site</h4>

Copies the folder containing the #template.html file into the backup folder. 

<h4>Open in Finder</h4>

This sub-menu opens things in the Finder. We can open the BBEdit application folder, or the Frontier application folder; or highlight the frontmost BBEdit window in the Finder, or the rendered version of that file. Other choices allow you to open the Output folder, the Images folder and the Backup folder.

<h4>Open in Frontier</h4>

This sub-menu opens things in Frontier including the glossary table, macros table, or the website table. We also provide a connection to the Notepad outline in Frontier because it can be very useful to take project notes in an outliner while working on a website.

<h4>Insert</h4>

This menu is just for fun and maybe to give other people ideas. We hook BBEdit up to the Internet, allowing you to get information about domain names, or insert the text value of a Frontier object.

<h4>Send Selection To</h4>

Select some text in BBEdit and then choose one of the commands in this menu.

Currently there's only one command in this menu -- it creates a new Eudora mail message and inserts the text you have selected in BBEdit.