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Lesson 3: Populate the Web site with Web pages

This lesson illustrates how to create Web pages from a Web site structure.

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Once you have your Web site laid out using page icons in Web Site Navigation, you are ready to begin creating your pages. The page icons are currently bordered by broken lines; this indicates that the file represented by the page icon, or the actual page, does not exist. After the files are created, the page icons will have solid lines as borders.

You have now created blank pages for each of the pages you will have in your Web site. To start the next lesson, click Next

  1. In Web Site Navigation, right click the page icon for the View All Classifieds page, and from the pop-up menu click

    Create Page. The New Web Page wizard appears.

  2. Accept the default folder (/ClassifiedsTutorial/WebContent).

  3. In the

    File Name field, type the name for your new file, all_records. Though it can be convenient to name your file the same as the navigation label you assigned the page when laying out your site, you can also name your files in a way that makes sense for the resources on your local system, and use the navigation labels only as a naming convention for your future navigation.

  4. Ensure that

    JSP is selected under the Basic Templates folder. For the rest of the fields, accept the defaults.

  5. Click Finish. The new file is opened in Page Designer. Save and close the file. Web Site Navigation appears again.

  6. You can now see that the View All Classifieds icon has a solid border and a small blue diamond icon (

    ) to indicate that a JSP file has been associated with it, while the other page icons still have a broken border to show that files have not yet been created for them.

  7. Continue creating JSP pages for the other page icons in the same manner. You can also double-click the page icon to open the Create Page wizard. For this tutorial, follow this naming convention:

    • Post a Listing - new_record

    • Update Listing - update_record

    • Filtered Listings - filtered_records

  8. Press Ctrl+S to save the Web Site Navigation.

When you are finished creating the four pages, your Enterprise Explorer view shows all of the new resources under the WebContent folder:

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