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Homepage Building Help

Using the Housekeeper

This section describes the Tripod Housekeeper, a useful tool for managing your member directory.

• What is the Filemanager?
• What are the different actions that the Filemanager allows you to do?
• Can the Filemanager display the contents of my directory differently?
• How do I know my file sizes?
• How do I know how much space I have left?
• How do I promote my page through Filemanager?
• Why does Tripod care about my filenames?

Q: What is the Filemanager?

The Filemanager lets you manage all the files in your Tripod member directory. The different file type and actions you can take on those files is explained below. In addition to managing files, you can do the following from the Filemanager:

Create a new page: You can create a new Web page, using either the Quickpage or Freeform page editor.

Upload: If you have an FTP-capable browser (specifically Netscape 2.0 or better), you can use this function to transfer one or multiple files from your computer to your Tripod directory. For more information, please see the section on Uploading Files.

View lets you look at a file. Using this function, you can see your file as visitors to your page will see it.

Select All: Allows you to select all of the files in your directory.

Clear All: Clears all boxes you have checked off in Filemanager (it does not erase any files.

The Filemanager also displays statistics of the directory such as disk usage and space remaining.

Q: What do the different file types mean in the Filemanager?

The Filemanager classifies files into these catgories: text & HTML, QuickPages, images, and 'other.'

• Quickpages: Tripod specific file format indicating that the page was built with the QuickPage editor of Tripod's Homepage Studio.
• Freeform: Tripod specific file format indicating that the page was built with the Freeform editor of Tripod's Homepage Studio.
• Text/HTML: regular text or HTML files. These files are built with the Freeform editor or are uploaded to Tripod.
• Image: All files with extensions of .gif, .jpg, or .jpeg are designated as image files.
• Other: Includes sound files or any other binary files.
• Directories: All folders you have created.

Remember that the file types recognized by the Filemanager are not the only types supported by Tripod. For a comprehensive list of file types that Tripod supports, please see the section called MIME types.

Q: What are the different actions that the Filemanager allows you to do?

The different actions allow you to manipulate files in your directory. Each action is explained below:

• Edit is an option for HTML, text, or Quickpage files. Using the 'edit' function for QuickPages lets you modify your page by using the QuickPage editor and going through the same steps you used to create it. Text and HTML pages are modified using the Custom editor. The Filemanager takes you to the appropriate editor automatically.

• Edit With takes a QuickPage file and changes it into a regular text or HTML page. Pages built with Tripod's QuickPage include special formatting information; therefore, they cannot be edited in Custom mode. When a QuickPage file is converted, all the special formatting data is deleted. After converting, the page is a standard text or HTML file, which you can edit in Custom mode. You have complete control over the HTML source for the converted file, but you will no longer be able to edit the page with the QuickPage tools.

• Delete removes a file from the directory. Be careful! Once you've deleted a file, Tripod cannot retrieve it for you.

• Copy makes a duplicate of a file, but gives it a different name.

• Rename is just what it sounds like. It lets you change the name of a file.

• Move allow you to move a file from one directory to another.

Q: Can the Filemanager display the contents of my directory differently?

Under the "SORT" option in the Filemanager, you can view your files by name, type, size or date. You can also list your files by HTML, image, directory or all at once.

Q: How do I know my file sizes?

The Filemanager displays the size of each file in your Tripod directory. Each Tripod membership comes with 11 megabytes (MB) of space. A Premium Membership includes 22MB of space. Remember: 1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte (KB), and 1000 kilobytes = 1 megabyte (MB).

Q: How do I know how much space I have left?

Choose the "member stats" option from the "SPECIAL" pull down menu. Your information will be instantly displayed.

Q: How do I promote my page through Filemanager?

Choose the "promote" option from the "SPECIAL" pull down menu. Fill in the blanks in the spaces provided. And have fun!

Q: Why does Tripod care about my filenames?

Files must be named correctly so they can be properly read and served. For example, a file named 'pic.gif' or 'pic.jpg' would be recognized as a graphic and served accordingly. A filename is "illegal," which means that it won't work properly, if it contains any characters other than A-Z, a-z, 0-9, ., _, or -. A filename is also illegal if it starts with a period or a dash. And remember that filenames are case sensitive: MyPage.html is not the same as mypage.html.