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A Homepage (also called a Website) on the Internet consists of a front page and a number of sub-pages. These pages (documents) must be available to others. Usually these pages are available through a Internet provider that keeps the pages located on a web server.

You can think of a Homepage as a clever publication that contains information, and where you easily can search and navigate through this information. The information can be represented in many ways, typically you will see it presented as text and graphical objects or a combination of both.

You navigate through a Homepage by using links (hyperlinks).

A link can be visualized in many different ways, but you can spot them by moving the mouse across one of them and notice that the cursor changes to a image of a hand.

Try and move the mouse across this link to CoffeeCup Software, Inc. and notice the mouse. The link is shown as blue text that changes to red when the mouse is moved over it. If you click on the link (activating the link) you will see different types of links on the next page. Some of these are blue and underlined text, others are graphical objects or images.

With VisualSite Designer you can create your own Homepage. It can contains as many pages as you would like, text, graphical objects and links. You can move all these elements around on your page just by using your mouse. The pages can also have different background properties. Usually the background of a Homepage is colored white, but you can also choose different colors, fill the background with a pattern(image), or try a gradient color to create an exciting background.

Before you start making your own Homepages we think it would be a good idea that you read the chapter: How to use VisualSite Designer. With this chapter you get a good insight on how to create Homepages in VisualSite Designer.