A Friday Tutorial

ABOUT FRIDAY and FAQs

What is a FAQ? What's it good for?

FAQs from Friday's point of view

What does Friday do for me?

What's new?

REGISTERING FRIDAY

Limitations of the free, unregistered version of Friday

How to register Friday

LET'S GET STARTED - How to create a FAQ with Friday

Learning to use Friday

A quick overview

Friday Terminology

The New FAQ Wizard

Adding and Organizing Content

Add Questions and Answers

Edit Questions and Answers

Shortcut and Special Editing Keys

Organize it

Categorize it

What's a Full FAQ?

Add a Full FAQ

Find information in your FAQ

Example Full FAQ

Pretty it up, make it interactive

Check your Settings

Choose fonts and sizes

Add background images

Using HTML tags to format your questions and answers

Add images to your answer pages

Add cross-references to other answers

Add web and email links

Choosing templates

Create HTML

View your FAQ

Put it on the web

Prepare your site

Upload your FAQ

Update your FAQ

OTHER USES FOR YOUR FAQ

Using your FAQ information with other programs

The only limit is your imagination!

Photo Galleries

ODDS, ENDS, TIPS & TRICKS

What answers are stored in which files? Is my HTML up to date?

Can I use a different extension than HTM for my answer files?

Can I use my own editor instead of Friday's?

Can I see all my questions and answers at once?

Clipboard Before/After text

Creating your own HTML Tags

<img src="friday.gif" border=0 height="16"> Icons in your questions

Odds. Ends. Other stuff.

Format the MAKEFULLFAQ entry on your Main FAQ Page

"Boilerplate" files and graphics

INSERTing text into your Main FAQ page

INSERTing text from files into answers and placeholders

Inserting text and files with Custom HTML tags

The Gallery File

TEMPLATES AND PLACEHOLDERS

Friday's Placeholders

What are Placeholders?

A summary list of all placeholders

question, question.s

answer

answerhtmlfile

faqfilename

faqnumber

nextquestion, previousquestion

nextanswer, previousanswer

firstanswer, lastanswer

currentpagenumber, totalpages

mainfaq

homepage, homepage.linktext

date, time; editdate; createdate

title, heading

font.face, font.size

bgimage.answer, bgimage.main

metadescription, metakeywords

TIME SAVERS and SHORTCUTS

Keyboard shortcuts

Test Link

The HTML Color Picker

Create HTML from single questions

View the HTML answer for a single question

Moving items up and down quickly

Other time-saving tricks

Locate cross-reference links quickly

ADVANCED TECHNIQUES

HTML Formatting and CSS

Specifying a CSS file and CSS editor for your FAQ

I don't know much about HTML, but I still want to make my own templates.

Fix HTML

Using CSS to format your FAQ

Automatic Named Locations

Create your own templates

Can I add my own custom template sets?

What items does Friday read from a template's FRIDAY.FQA file?

Converting HTML files into Templates

Misc. Other Advanced Techniques

Site Maps

RSS Feeds

Convert two-line web references into clickable URLs

Force cursor positioning after applying a custom tag

Copy your FAQ to a new location

XREFs to subheads

Gallery Files

Friday lists questions/held questions in title bar

Search and Replace

Automatic Question or Answer text

Automatic Tables of Contents

Creating your own DEFAULT FAQ settings and templates

Referring to Friday's placeholders within Friday's Answers

Getting a Status Report on your FAQ

Can I put a list of questions and answers on my FAQ site?

Create your own placeholders

Choose an alternate folder for Friday's HTML output

Can I "populate" a Friday FAQ from my database?

Invoke external programs from Friday

Can I give my FAQ HTML pages meaningful names?

TECHIE STUFF

Can I use a different program to edit my Friday files?

Starting Friday: the command line

How does Friday know where to put questions and answers?

THE FRIDAY.FQA FILE

Basic information

PowerUser

ConnectWarning

NewFAQHold

NewFAQFocus

NextPreviousQuestionLength

OmitSaveButton

DebugUpload

DateFormat, TimeFormat

MakeFAQList

External commands

ReallyArcaneStuff

AltHTMLProcessor

Confirm

SpaceReplace

A LOOK UNDER THE HOOD

How does Friday work? What does it do?

What HTML does Friday add?

Friday's file layout - where does Friday store your information?

TROUBLESHOOTING

What version of Friday do I have?

Friday won't let me create or open a FAQ in certain folders

Friday permits only one FAQ per folder

Friday will only run one instance of itself

Friday leaves old files on my FTP site

Friday doesn't strip all HTML when it copies to the clipboard

My upload password isn't working

When I Shift+Click View I get two browser windows

Placeholders in answer files cause problems

Friday seems to hang during uploads

I maximized the editor and now I can't get it back to normal size

I changed my HTML folder and Friday lost my images

I uploaded HTML but the browser can't find my FAQ site

This is a text of the createdate tag

Error message: Run-time error 28, out of stack space

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