Your Own Website: How to use ZenWeb

How to use ZenWeb

Contents:

Contents
How to make a site from scratch
How to add a page to your site
How to convert an old site

ZenWeb is supposed to be rather easy to use. This documentation site is intended to be a demonstration that it is easy. If this takes me more than 10 minutes to do (including typing these pages), then I have failed my job.

How to make a site from scratch

Run the following commands:
- ZenWebsite.rb mysite
- cd mysite
- ZenWebpage.rb data/second
- Edit data/SiteMap and put "/second.html" where you'd like it
- make
Edit as you see fit.
See the Text-To-HTML page for markup hints and tips.

How to add a page to your site

Modify mysite/SiteMap and add the url to the page, including .html, excluding the domain of the url (ex: "/blah.html").
Run the following commands:
- ZenWebpage.rb data/blah.html
- make

How to convert an old site

Do the same as the new site instructions, except:
- For each file, remove your HTML header and footer code.