Griffon file manager

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If you are connected to the Internet when you run the installer, a dialog box with the heading "Special Offer" will appear. The contents of this dialog box differ each time you install but it will generally offer to install some additional software on your computer.

For example, during one of my installations, it offered to install a new toolbar into my browser and change my default search engine to some service or other sorry, I can't remember the name. At another time, it wanted to install an IM client. For those of you worried about whether the software is needed for BlueGriffon to work, please note that this is just an advertisement.

None of the software offered is actually part of BlueGriffon itself. They are not used by BlueGriffon nor are they needed for it to work on your computer.

As such, if you don't want the software offered, you can safely uncheck all the boxes in this dialog box before clicking the "Next" button.

Incidentally, don't worry if you don't see this screen. It's not important. I think it's only displayed if you're connected to the Internet at the time you run the installer. The next two dialog boxes offer to let you choose the folder to install to as well as the name of the Start menu folder.

Accept the default. That is, click the "Next" button for the installation folder dialog box, and when the "Select Start Menu Folder" dialog appears, click the "Next" button for that as well.

A dialog box with the heading "Select Additional Tasks" should appear. Click the checkbox for "Create a desktop icon" before clicking the "Next" button.

Actually, you don't really have to do this if you like a clean desktop. However, make sure that you know how to launch programs from the Start menu if you don't, otherwise you won't be able to run BlueGriffon later. The next dialog box lets you look at your choices so far before committing to it. Click the "Install" button if you're satisfied. You can also click the "Back" button if you want to make changes to your choices, or click "Cancel" to abort everything, if you like.

The final dialog box, with the heading "Completing the BlueGriffon Setup Wizard", will appear after the installer has finished setting up everything. Uncheck the box "Launch BlueGriffon" on this screen before clicking the "Finish" button. I want to deal with the first run of BlueGriffon in a separate section, because you may need to install some additional software namely some free Microsoft software libraries used by the BlueGriffon program.

Sorry, but I don't have a Mac, so I can't help you there. And each Linux distribution has its own method of installing things, so you'll just have to find out how to do it for your particular distribution assuming you don't already know. There's no point creating a website and just letting it sit on your computer. No one in the world, except users of your computer, will be able to see your site.

As such, you'll need a way to transfer your website from your system to your web host's system. There are many free FTP programs around, for a wide variety of systems. For this tutorial, we'll be using one such free program, known as "FileZilla".

Go to the FileZilla download page and download the appropriate version for your system. Note that if you don't follow my link, but go directly to the main page of their site, make sure you click the link for the FileZilla client download page, not the server page.

For Windows users, download by clicking the default download button rather than getting the zip file, unless you know how to manually install computer programs. As usual, I will only provide the installation instructions for Windows users since I don't have a Mac. Doubleclick the file you just downloaded to launch the installer. Follow the instructions given by the setup utility. In the dialog box entitled "Choose Components", click the box "Desktop icon" to check it, so that a shortcut to FileZilla will be placed on your desktop.

When you reach the last window in the installer, uncheck the box that says "Start FileZilla now". We'll run FileZilla later, when we actually have something to transfer to your website. Doubleclick the BlueGriffon icon on your desktop. If you don't see an icon on your desktop, it means you didn't follow my recommendations earlier about putting an icon on your desktop. If so, you can still start it from your Start menu, unless you disabled that option in the installer too.

In such a case, if you don't know how to proceed, return to the earlier section and reinstall BlueGriffon again, this time following my suggestions. If you are using Windows, you may get an alarming error message that says something like "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Read on for the solution. Note: if you do not see this error message, but instead find that BlueGriffon starts up normally, skip this section.

Your job, where the installation is concerned, is done. BlueGriffon uses some components from this package, and if you don't already have it installed on your system, the program won't run.

In case you're wondering why some people don't get this message, this package is used by a number of other programs and so may already be installed on their systems. Note: the specific redistributable package that you will need is also linked to on the BlueGriffon download page. If the package linked to on that page is different from what I mentioned above, use their link instead.

In any case, after you download the file, run it and follow the instructions to install it. As far as I can tell, from the version I ran, it's a pretty straightforward installation that doesn't require you to make any real decisions. After that, if you are one of those who elected to run Windows Update manually rather than allowing the default of having it automatically update your system in the background , you may want to start up Windows Update so that it can install security fixes, if any, for the redistributable.

Since the redistributable is a Microsoft product, updates are delivered using the usual Microsoft channels, which for the average home computer user, means Windows Update.

Note that the first time you successfully start up BlueGriffon, you will get a dialog box prompting you to download an add-on and the user manual. If you click the button agreeing to the download, your web browser will open and load the BlueGriffon site, where you will be given the option to buy the add-on and user manual. This is strictly optional. It's okay if you can't afford to buy anything. This tutorial series was written so that it doesn't depend on or even use those optional add-ons or manual.

The website that you'll be creating with this tutorial will have a two column layout. Such a layout is favoured "favored" in US English by many webmasters because it is both space-efficient and user-friendly. You can see an example of a two-column web page by looking at any of the article pages on thesitewizard. As you can see, it's called a 2 column layout because it literally has 2 vertical columns. In the case of thesitewizard. This layout is very familiar to Internet users because you see it everywhere, making it a user-friendly layout since almost everyone knows how to navigate a site with it.

As a webmaster, you will always want to make your website user-friendly, so that your visitors can get to where they want to go on your site. When you start up BlueGriffon, once you've dismissed the "Tip of the Day" window and other stuff see above , you will be confronted with a blank window.

To create your web page, click the word "File" on the menu bar, which you can find near the top of the window. A drop down menu will appear. Click the words "New wizard" on that menu. Important : in the interest of brevity, I shall describe such a sequence of steps as simply clicking "File New wizard".

For example, if I were to say to click "File Save" on the menu, it means to click the word "File" on the menu bar, followed by the word "Save" on the drop down menu that appears. Note that I'm just using "File Save" as an example here; you don't actually have to click it and you won't succeed if you try since the "Save" is disabled at this time given that there's nothing to save at present. A dialog box with the title "New Document Wizard" and a sub-heading "Document type" will appear.

By default, the radio buttons "HTML5" should be selected. If it is not, click it to enable it. If you don't know whether it is selected or not, just click it anyway. Then click the "Next" button at the bottom of the dialog box. The contents of the dialog box should change, with a new sub-heading that reads "General document properties". The first page that you'll create for your website will be what is known as the "Home page". This is just the main page of your website.

It is the page that your visitors will see if they simply type in the domain name of your site into their browser. For example, if you were to type "thesitewizard. Since this is your home page, enter the name of your website into the "Title" field. For example, if your website is called "Example Company", enter "Example Company" into that first field. If yours is a personal website, and your name is Shakespeare, enter "Shakespeare's Website" into that field.

Those who are at a complete loss as to what to say, put your domain name into that field. Do not leave the "Title" field blank for any web page you create. Even though BlueGriffon will not force you to enter something into this field, it is a very important field.

The contents of this field is displayed in the title bar of your browser window or in the browser tab for some browsers. Search engines also use this title in their search results for your page. Most people also add a short description of their site immediately after the site name for their home page. Or if they have a slogan commonly attached to their brand, they may add it there.

But don't get stuck over this. If you can't think of anything to say, just put your site name or domain name here. Note that the words in the title field are not actually displayed in the main window of any web browser for your website.

It is only shown in the title bar as I mentioned earlier. As such, you don't have to worry about decorating those words so that they look pretty or anything like that. By default, BlueGriffon inserts the user name you use on your computer into the "author" field. You can either accept this, or change it to your real name, or delete the contents of this field altogether.

This field is optional, and is neither displayed nor used in any way by the web browser. If you can't decide, delete its contents, leaving it empty.

The "Description" field is supposed to contain a brief description of what your current web page contains. Home pages are special though, since home pages are usually just pointers to the entire website. Most people just give a brief description of the website as a whole in the "Description" field of their home page. This field is not used by the web browser in any way.

Search engines sometimes put the description you enter here as the blurb for the page in their results. If you don't know what to say, just leave it blank. Skip the useless "Keywords" field , and click the "Select a language" button next to the "Language" field. The default character set or character encoding should be "Unicode UTF-8 ". If it isn't, click the drop down arrow for the field and choose it.

If you use English, you can either click the "Left to right" radio box for the "Text-direction" field, or just leave it at the default of "Unspecified". You will be presented with a new dialog box with the heading "Colors and backgrounds". Leave the checkbox for "Make the above my default settings" ticked and click the "Next" button.

Don't worry, you will learn how to change the colours of your words and their background in a later chapter. When the dialog box with the "Document background" heading appears, click the "Next" button.

You will find out how to change the document background in a later chapter. In general, unless you're an experienced web designer or a talented visual design artist, you'll find it much easier to decide on colour and background images when you actually have some concrete content on your web page to customise. Otherwise, you may end up with unrealistic colours that clash with your actual content.

In the dialog box that has the heading "Page layouts", make sure that the checkbox for "Apply a predefined CSS layout" is ticked. If not, click it once to put a tick there. Then make sure that the "Width" field, directly below that checkbox, has the words "Full width" selected. If not, click the down arrow for the field and click "Full width" to select it. The "Sidebar" field should have the words "Left px" selected by default. If it doesn't, click the down arrow for that field and select it yourself.

Click the "New row" button that is just below the large empty box in the middle of a dialog box. Yes, you read that right. Leave the checkbox for "Include 'lorem ipsum' dummy content" ticked. If it is not checked, click the box once to put a tick in it. It's much easier to work on your page with some dummy content already there, otherwise with a completely blank white page, you'll have a hard time figuring out where one column ends and where another begins.

You will see an initial web page that looks something like the picture below. At the moment, the web page probably looks ugly with the placeholder text placed in awkward positions, but don't worry.

We will be fixing the page in this and the following few chapters. Let's familiarise ourselves with this window, so that you'll know what I'm talking about when I refer to the various portions of the page later in this tutorial.

These words reside in a horizontal band that stretches across the width of your web page. This band, sometimes referred to as the "header" section, is often used by webmasters to put things like a website logo. Directly below the header section are 2 columns. The space below those words is empty, so that vertical stretch probably doesn't really look like a column to you right now.

However, you will, in later chapters, replace those words with your own navigation menu, similar to the set of clickable buttons you see in thesitewizard. To the right of the navigation column is a wide space currently filled with some placeholder text. This right column is where you will place the real content of your page.

You will be replacing the dummy text with your own content later in this chapter. This column is variously referred to as the main column or the content column.

At the bottom of the page is another horizontal band that stretches the entire width of your web page. This section is often called the "footer" of the page. Click your mouse cursor somewhere in the right column in the section where the block of text beginning with the words "Lorem ipsum" words are currently placed.

It doesn't matter exactly where you put your cursor, since you'll be moving it in a second. If you're not sure where to click, click somewhere in the word "Lorem" the first word in that paragraph. This causes a text cursor to appear where you clicked. At this point, BlueGriffon acts a lot like Microsoft Word or any other word processor.

That is, you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move the cursor to any position where there are words. In plugins. This entry was posted on June 26, at pm and is filed under Application. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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