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The initial series of tutorials on using NVU to create standards compliant web pages comes to an end with this eleventh tutorial which covers how to actually publish the pages that you have created to your web site. At this point if you have worked your way through from tutorial one you will know how to take an existing template, customise it for use on your site, and then build web pages from that template which you now know how to publish to the web.

Future tutorials will start to look at how you can use NVU to develop your own template from scratch.

Publishing Your Site

Apart from the text, the next most commonly used elements in web pages are images. We have already dealt with attaching images into our page template so that they appear on all our pages but these are not the only images we will want on our site.

In the tenth tutorial on NVU we look at how we can add images into the content of our individual web pages so that they will appear only on that page.

Adding Images

More additions to my series of tutorials on using NVU. In this ninth tutorial we look at how we can update a web page to add lists and links into our content so as to break up the text and provide in content links to other pages in addition to the standard navigation built into our template.

Adding lists and Links

For the search engines to display something meaningful for your web page in their search results, your page needs to have a meaningful title and a brief description in the meta data. The eighth tutorial on how to use NVU looks at how we can access these fields in the page source via the WYSIWYG interface provided by NVU.

Title and Meta Data

In the seventh tutorial on using NVU we finally look at what we need to do to start creating web pages based on the template that we have customised in the prior tutorials.

Creating Pages from your Template

Updating the background colours and images is the final step in converting a generic template into the custom template that you will use as the basis for all the pages on your web site. Exactly how you do these background changes depends on whether you have selected a template that does things properly using a stylesheet or have one that is not as well coded and uses badly coded HTML. In the sixth NVU tutorial I consider both types of template but concentrate mostly on the better written ones (which hopefully is the sort you chose).

Replacing Background Images

With the text and links in your template set up to what you want, the next step in customising your web page template is to change any foreground images. In the fifth NVU tutorial I go step by step through how to do that.

Replacing Foreground Images

Once you have the template you found loaded into NVU, the first thing you need to do is to modify it so as to create the actual template that you want to use as the basis for the web pages for your site. Hopefully the actual layout of the page will be what you want to use (otherwise why did you choose that template) but obviously the text, navigation links and images will need to be changed to match your specific requirements. In this fourth NVU tutorial we look at how to change the text and navigation links.

Updating a Template