1. Start Nvu

When you start Nvu for the first time, you'll see a window asking for FTP "Publish Settings". If the window doesn't appear, click Edit, then Publishing Site Settings... to see the window:

2. Enter your publishing details

Enter the following in the Publish Settings window:

• A "Site Name", such as www.example.com. The site name can be any text you want, and is just used to help you keep track of multiple sites.
• Address of your home page: http://www.example.com/
• Publishing Server: ftp://ftp.tigertech.net/
• User name: example.com
• Password: (your account password)
• Check the Save Password box (this step is important — it's not optional).

The window should look like this:

Click OK to save your settings.

3. Creating a Simple Web Page

Creating a simple Web Page with Nvu is easy; you don't need to know any HTML code.

On the right-hand side of Nvu you'll see a large box with a tab called "(Untitled)". This is a blank Web page. You can edit this page and insert images and text using the toolbars and buttons above. Many of these are very similar to those used in a standard word processor and perform the same functions. In the example shown below, we have entered a single line of text:

More details about creating and editing Web pages using Nvu can be found in the help documents that come with the program.

4. Saving your Web Page

After creating the Web page, you should always save it on your own computer before publishing it on your Web site.

To save the file, click the Save button. A window named Page Title will appear. Enter a title for your Web page, such as "My Web Page":

After giving the page a title, you'll be asked where to save the file. We strongly recommend creating a new folder to hold the files for this Web site.

When you save the file, it's vitally important to give the main page (the "index page") of your site the filename index.html. The "index.html" name is how our servers will know which page to display first. (If you later create additional pages, you'll give each extra page a different name ending with ".html", like "page2.html".)

5. Publishing your Web Page

To publish a Web page, click the Publish button:

The Publish Page window will appear. Click Publish to upload the Web page to your site. Again, make sure the Filename of your main page is "index.html".