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 Mergemill
is a great tool for creating thousands of web pages from your
database. It's just as good for building and maintaining a relatively
small website.
Vitus Chak, Cross Culture's Managing Director, shows you the
latter. He used Mergemill and the resources available here to
set up a website supporting his passion of serving others through
the remarkable Myers-Briggs
Personality Type Indicator (MBTI).
Step 1. He began
by doing keyword research. Then he decided to register the domain
name personality-type-test.com.
He also picked out a list of keywords to be targeted.
Step 2. He gave
some thoughts to the structure of the website, and decided on
the first few pages to be built. He chose a template set from
one of our collections of free web templates,
and an image for the home page from his photo collections.
 Step
3. Vitus created a new job folder for the website.
Inside the job folder are two sub-folders. One is output
and the other is templates containing his chosen templates
and graphic elements. He then started a new Mergemill data file
and imported the job definitions from the file Templates_0401
> job_defintiions.txt which is included in the Mergemill
software package installed.
Step 4. The creation
of the web pages is actually quite straightforward. Vitus selected
the single-column text template, used Mergemill's Duplicate
button to make a copy, and change the copy's job name to English
home page : index.html. Vitus intends to add Chinese pages
to the site later.
Next he changed the Job Folder, Template, Output
Folder, and the Output Filename settings.
 Then
he went to the Associated Tasks page to enter the content
of the home page. Of the 101 tasks, he identified 19 he needs,
and named the page-specific ones Use, and the others
Site-wide setting.
First he quickly disabled the field tags he won't use. He then
went through the 19 tasks one by one, editing where necessary.
For the [[Google_Leaderboard_728]] field tag, he got the HTML
code from Google's site by logging into his account.
The task he spent most time on was [[Main_Text_1]], which contains
the body content of the English home page. Vitus entered the content
directly into the task's Source Text entry box. Since
he needed to set font colors and hyperlinks etc., he opened his
browser and went to our HTML pages
to get the codes he needed. As he typed, he manually added the
paragraph and line break tags as well.
He opened another browser window to display the page he was working
on. Whenever he wanted to see how it looks, he saves the task,
clicks the Run Job button at the top of the Associated
Tasks list to regenerate the page, and refreshes the browser
page to show the latest changes.
Step 5. For other
web pages, Vitus simply duplicated the job definition for the
home page, gave it a new Job Name, changed the Output
Filename, edited the appropriate tasks, and generated them.
He can easily do the same for future pages, including Chinese
ones.
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