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Using Adobe Homesite it’s easy to replace and search over selected files, current files or each and every file in your site. Once you are used to global replace and searches, then you are going to wonder that how you ever lived without it.

To do replace and search it’s a pretty easy job and it takes not more than 5 to 10 minutes.

To search in a file, in Homesite open the file to be edited

In the Search menu choose Replace option or press Ctrl-R

Type the words to found in the find box and type the words to be replaced in the replace box

Keep on clicking the replace button until all the words are replaced properly.

To search in an entire Website:

Open the Homesite.

In the search menu click on extended replace, or use CTRL-R

Type the words to be found in the find box and the words to be replaced in the replace box

Ensure that all the open documents are selected properly that you want to search the files you have got open it for editing in a folder, or in a particular folder or in a project. So if you require all the pages in the project to be opened then click on replace.

Then Homesite will show you the words you have searched for and the results found will be displayed under the site.

Tips:

Create a specific find string so that you can avoid the items that shouldn’t be replaced at all. For example the string “in” is found inside the words like bin, inside etc. Here you have to include your phrase part inside the replace box. For example: if you want to replace “in the narrow lane” with “on the narrow lane”, here you have to induct all the words in your replace and search string. Just searching for the word in will end up in each and every instance of that particular word being replaced with “on”.

HomeSite lets you to choose options to slight down the search.

The case will match the exact lower or upper case strings of the text you write in. ‘on’ will not match ‘On’. Regular expressions allow you to search with the wildcard characters While searching the skip tags inside the HTML tags will ignore the results. While searching exclude binary files will ignore non text files. Line number of results will be displayed in the line info.

You have to just click on the results to what are all the changes have been made and make the necessary editing.

How to create a link in HomeSite?

Write the text you want to link
Select the entire text
In the standard tool bar, click on the ‘Anchor’ icon.
To link the text to the Website, type the URL to that file or text
To link this file to file in the hard disk, from the file menu select the file you want to link
Then click OK.

If you want to make one of your images clickable, then follow the same procedure mentioned above.

Once the web site is complete the next important task is to publish it on the web. As a single web site can contain lots of HTML documents rich in multimedia content, hyperlinks and other real time resources it is quite difficult to manage the whole structure and publish each document on the World Wide Web perfectly. Thus in order to make the web publishing easy different companies has come up with a number of web publishing softwares which offer a large number of options and tools. Below are some of the popular web publishing tools:

Netscape Navigator Gold: It offers a visual editing environment that is same as a web page so that the user can edit and publish his HTML documents without getting confused. Netscape Navigator Gold includes a number of formatting tools, menu designers and text editors. Right from the visual appearance to directory structure management, the Navigator Gold is able to handle everything smoothly.

Backstage Desktop Studio: This one is developed by Macromedia and consists of a complete suite of web publishing tools to assemble and manage end-to-end HTML documents. The Backstage Desktop Studio specializes in Web authoring. It features WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface which makes it easy to design the web page. Apart from this the desktop studio offers dynamic options for site management.

Page Mill and Site Mill: Both Page Mill and Site Mill are the excellent tools for web page design and publishing created by Adobe. Most of the features of these two applications are similar in nature and thus one can use any of them in place of each other.

The Site Mill is a perfect choice for managing and editing the HTML documents. It records the whole structure of the web site and checks each hyperlink for its reliability and functionality and the remaining content whether in the form of text or images, and displays all the errors.

The Page Mill can be used in two different modes, i.e. Browse Mode and Edit Mode. The Browse Mode is the default mode of the application and it allows you to view your page in exactly the same manner it will look on the web. In the Edit Mode you can make the necessary changes to your web site. Page Mill supports a variety of operations such as cut, copy, paste, RTF (Rich Text Format) support, image editing, hyperlink management, site map management, image maps management, web site navigation management, style sheets handling, form, frames, tables and much more.

Apart from all these applications there are other tools also which provides awesome options for editing and managing the HTML documents. Some of them are Adobe GoLive, HotDog, HotDog Pro, HoTMetal, HoTMetal Pro etc. All of them are equipped with the WYSIWYG feature. However there are some differences among them with respect to the Operating System needed, supported file extensions, processing speed etc. One can make use of any one or more depending upon his/her needs.