Basic Hitop.
About This Tutorial.
The aim of this tutorial is to give you a good start in using Hitop to build and maintain your site. First, an important question.
What is Hitop?
Hitop is an HTML pre-processor amd website design tool. At its very basic level it works like a templating system - enabling you to use one page template and slot individual page content into that template, creating many pages. However it can do much more - we will touch on many of its features in this tutorial.
What Do I Need To Start Using Hitop?
Hitop uses a similar style of markup to HTML. If you can hand code raw HTML, you should have no problem working with Hitop. If you create web pages using programmes like Front Page or Dreamweaver, then you really should consider learning to hand code HTML.
Having Linux on your system will help too - while Hitop can be installed on other systems - it has been compiled to work in Windows - it's easier to use Linux. More on installation, below.
The only other thing you need, is a web site.
About The Tutorial
Before we start looking at installation, let's quickly look at the way this tutorial works.
Throughout the tutorial, you'll see bits of code. These will usually appear
in a fixed width font, and will look like this: this is some
code. Large blocks of code are of this format:
Code line One
Code line two
Code line threeIf we want the code to stand out a little, it will do, by looking like
this: this is some code.
Filenames will look like this: filename.hitop.
Handy Hints
Boxes like this will remind you of important
things, or tell you useful stuff to know.Throughout the tutorial, you will notice little boxes containing snippets of information. On a modern graphical browser, there should be one to the right of this text, and on an older browser, or text only browser, it should be above this text.
There are many examples throughout the tutorial that you can look at. These are linked to, where appropiate. At the bottom of pages you may see a line like this, pointing to the directory that contains them:
The example files for this section are here
Let's Get Started!
And with that in mind, let's start, by looking at installing Hitop.
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