NWE Help: Web: Authoring: Tutorial: Saving

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Now that you have started the asWe HTML editor, it is time to name your page and save it. Creating a named file right away will make it very simple to save any changes you make later. The page you create will be available through the world-wide web.

Follow these steps to save your web page as your home page:

1. Click on the computer disk icon in the first row of the toolbar. When the 'Save As' dialog box appears, scroll down the left directory window and double click on public_html. Once you do so, the dialog box will change to look like the one on the right, with /home/nwe/username/public_html/ in the file-name field.

   Note: When saving any web page, image or accessory for the web, you MUST save it in your public_html directory.

   Save As dialog box	after selecting public_html

2. Click in the text field for "Save File As" and type index.html so that the entire entry in the window says

   /home/nwe/username/public_html/index.html

3. Click OK. Your file is now saved as your home page.

When creating new pages, you can name them anything you want to, as long as you give them the file extension .html at the end. For example, if you save your page as

/home/nwe/username/public_html/gator.html

you may view it on the web by adding /gator.html to your home page address.

Now that you have saved your page, you may work on editing it whenever you want. It is important that you continue to save your work each time you edit. Because you have already saved your page, any additions made can be saved by clicking on the computer disk icon.

If you end this tutorial early and come back later, you can learn how to retrieve your page by referring to our page about retrieving files. In the next section, you will learn how to preview your saved web page.

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