Frontier 5: New Website...
New Website...
#filters
Filters are scripts Frontier uses to build pages.
- firstFilter
Called first.
- pageFilter
The default pageFilter makes the first character of every page large.
This filter can be edited to modify a page before it is embedded into the template. It is called after the directives in the page are processed but before anything else has happened.
To disable the default of enlarging the first character..., select the third line, the one that starts "try", and choose Toggle Comment from the Outliner menu. (And hit the Compile button.)
- finalFilter
FinalFilter is called at the end of the rendering process.
#ftpSite
The #ftpSite determines where Frontier will place the website files when they are rendered with Publish Page or Publish Table menu command.
- folder
The default is the Websites folder created by Frontier.
- isLocal
The default is true, meaning the files created with Publish commands will be stored on the local hard drive. If isLocal is set to false, then Frontier will launch the FTP client program and upload the pages as they are rendered with the Publish commands.
- url
This is the URL the site will occupy when it is on the Internet. Example: http://www.borg.com/mysite/
#glossary
This is a table that will contain the text substitutions called when Frontier renders a page, such as the information needed to build relative links.
Things inside the glossary table are not rendered when a site is published.
#images
This table will contain the images Frontier will render when called by the imageRef or bgImageRef macros.
#prefs
A subtable used as an organizational tool. Directives in the #prefs table do not need to be prefaced by a #, it will be assumed.
Things inside the glossary table are not rendered when a site is published. The default entries are used by the {bodyTag()} and {pageHeader()} macro and included in the <body> tag:
alink 008000
bgcolor FFFFFF
link 0000FF
vlink 800080
#template
- {pageheader (title)}
Creates the top of page HTML.
Default:
<html>
<head>
<title>title</title>
<meta name="generator" content="Frontier 5.0 MacOS"></head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" alink="#008000" vlink="#800080" link="#0000FF" text="#000000"> - {bodytext}
The contents of a web page is embedded in the page at the location of {bodytext} in the template.
- {pagefooter ()}
Adds </body> and </html> to the end of the published page.
- title
Generally included in every outline or wp object as the first directive listed.
Used by the glossary to create relative links and by {pageHeader(title)} to create the <title> tag
#tools
Objects inside the tools table are not rendered when a site is published.
