Start MacroHTML
Choose File | Open Project
Select the c:\simplesite\simple.hhj project as displayed below:
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Open it.
you will see that MacroHTML now looks like this, with the project loaded:
Click on the 'INDEX.HTML' file in the left hand list - the contents of the file will be displayed in the right hand editor.
Press the 'Build All' button. The pseudo HTML file that is displayed in the editor will be converted to real HTML, which you can view by selecting the 'View' tab of the right hand area or by pressing the View/Run button.
Switch back to the editor & notice the first line of text: '<<header.inc>>'
This tells MacroHTML to include all the text that is found in the header.inc file at the spot where the <<header.inc>> directive is located, replacing it.
The next line is: //==MacroHTML==// This tells MacroHTML to start italics ('//'') to start 'heading 1 style' ('==') and to output the text until those sybbols are found again, at which point MacroHTML will close the heading 1 and italic tags in the final HTMLText.
Click on the 'View' tab to see the final HTML in a 'rendered' form. Click on the 'Generated source' to see it as raw HTML.
Click back on to the 'Edit' tab. After the line '//==MacroHTML==//', add something like 'My added text' followed by a new line. Notice tha tthe 'Save' button to the left of the toolbar is enabled whenever you change any text in the editor. Press 'Save' & 'Build'.
Change back to the 'View' tab. The text that you have added has been added to the final compiled HTML page.
If you check what's in the c:\samplesite directory, you'll see the following:
These are the files that you are editing in MacroHTML.
Now check the c:\samplesite\output directory. These are the files that MacroHTML makes for you when you press the 'Build' or 'Build All' buttons.
And they are the files that comprise your website. MacroHTML does not produce or manipulate images, so you need to have placed them in the output directory yourself. There are many good image manipulation programs available on the interenet - such as IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.net/)
Obviously, if you want them to be visible on the net, you'll need to copy them to a webserver. typically using an FTP program, such as TotalCommander.