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Tips for Using Yahoo PageBuilder

Yahoo offers free website space at GeoCities.

PageBuilder is their free tool for building webpages without writing your own Html. This page is not intended to teach you how to use PageBuilder, but rather to give you some helpful hints. To learn PageBuilder, use the PageBuilder Tutorial, the built in help and the PageBuilder Help website. I'll use the term boxes to indicate an area of text or a picture. PageBuilder menus are at the top of the PageBuilder screen and act like Windows menus. Use the toolbar just below the menu for quick actions.

Clicking boxes

  • Single click a box (text or picture) to work within that area
    • Drag the box to move it around the page
    • Move cursor to corners and drag cursor to resize box
  • Double click box (text) to alter text and it's properties
  • Double click box (picture) to update image properties

Control Keys

  • ^C - Copy
  • ^V - Paste
  • ^T - Cut
  • See PageBuilder Help, Keyboard Shortcuts for more control keys

Editing

  • Cut, Copy and Paste work on boxes of text or pictures. They do not work within a text box at this time (whether using control characters or menu at top).
  • You cannot control the original location of inserted or pasted text and pictures but you can move it after it has been inserted.
  • Pasted text and pictures appear over the top of the original and are indicated by red crosshatching.
  • Red crosshatching indicates overlapping boxes of text and/or pictures. Click and drag one of the boxes to move it. (Often you need to move the one in the correct position in order to get at the one you really want moved.)
  • You cannot save the page in PageBuilder if there are overlapping boxes.

Inserting html into PageBuilder

Example: To add Yahoo search to your page

  • Go to http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/yahootogo/search
  • select the html text given (click and drag). Be sure to get all of it.
  • In PageBuilder, select Insert on the menu, then Forms and Scripts, then Hml Code
  • Paste the desired html text into the Script section and add a descrition at the top
  • It will appear as a yellow box in PageBuilder, but on your page, you'll have the the picture specified in the html code, here, Yahoo logo and a box for entering search criteria
  • An easier way to get the Yahoo search box is using Insert (on the menu), Instant Info, Yahoo! Search Box, but you won't learn how to insert html code that way.