I'm in the process of building my website, but I am really new to all this html stuff. I guess I'm doing okay, but I have no idea in the world how to add text and links to my link buttons along the side of my web page. I'm not sure where they are in the html that bravehost already has in the text editor???? At least I guess its there. Can you help??? Any advise from anyone is appreciated. Thanks.>

The buttons on the left side of your page a just graphic images. You will find them in your "images82" folder under the name "blankbutton.gif”". Right now they are all referencing the same image. It's up to you to create new ones.

Since Bravenet doesn't offer any graphic support, you will need to download the button image to your local PC and modify it in a graphic editor. Adding text is a pretty basic graphic utility. If you don't already have a editor to use, you might want to go to IrfanView.com and download their free graphic editor.

Once you run the editor, open the blank button image, add text, and then save it under a different name. Do the same thing for all the buttons you might need. Then upload them back to the "images82" folder on your web site. For both uploading and downloading you can use the FTP Applet, available in your Bravenet account under "manage hosting --> upload tool".

Now that you have all your buttons, you need to edit your HTML page and change the links. Right now, they are not actually links so you first have to change the image reference, and then wrap it in a link. An example of a tag, from your web page is below:



Say you have made a button named "contact_page.gif". You would then change the tag to:



Then, you wrap it in a link that references your "contact" page. The example below shows the link tag, in green, wrapped around the tag, in blue.



So you pretty much do this for each of your button images. Add or subtract buttons to the navigation area as you need them.

It's not a difficult process, just tedious. Except for the image editing, you can make your changes using the editors in the File Manager. But, it is recommended that you doanload your template to your local pc and use a web page design application. You can then create your pages, or make changes, and then upload to your web site. You will find them much easier to use, and more versitle than the on-line editors.

Try some of the following links:

Nvu.com - Mozilla based Free site designer.

Netscape.com - Composer available with full download.

WebEasy.com - Limited free version available through the Download link.

CoffeeCup.com - Nice, low cost, web design packages.

HTML-Kit - Free text based web page editor. Great if you want to learn a little HTML. I use this one all the time.

Thanks for the help!