Before you start using Friday, here's an overview of its buttons and other features. We'll cover each of these in more detail later.
This is what Friday looks like when you're working on a FAQ. This very FAQ, in faqt.
Click this | To do this |
Any question in the list | Select the question. Shift+Click to copy answer to clipboard, double-click to edit it |
Question | Add a new question to the list |
Heading | Add a new heading/subhead to the question list |
Move: Up Arrow | Moves the selected question up one line |
Move: Down Arrow | Moves the selected question down one line |
Del | Deletes the selected question |
Create | Creates HTML (ie, web pages) from your FAQ Shift+Click to create HTML of just the currently selected question |
View | Launches the Main FAQ page in your browser Shift+Click to view just the currently selected question's answer |
Upload | Uploads the FAQ files to your web server Shift+Click to upload just the currently selected question's answer |
Find | Searches your FAQ questions and answers for specific text or locates a particular FAQ by number |
Help | Gets help on using Friday |
Exit | Quits Friday |
Always on top | If checked, makes Friday "float" above other programs |
When you click Create, Friday generates web pages for you automatically.
It generates a main "index" page containing all of your Questions. Each Question on this index page is a clickable link to the corresponding Answer page, which Friday also generates.
Friday generates all of the file names and links automatically for you. Friday frees you to do the interesting stuff and makes your computer do what computers are so good at: the dumb, mind-numbing, boring chore of keeping all the file names and links straight.
Settings
Choose FAQ, Settings from the menu bar or press Ctrl+S to see the Settings dialog box.
This is where you choose settings that affect the overall appearance and behavior of your FAQ. We'll discuss each option in detail later in the tutorial.
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