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00:02Hello and welcome. Welcome to EBC 2D 3D. This is called Reuse Help House or Help Book.
00:12Now supposing you want to make a portable website, supposing you want to make a user guide, a user manual,
00:21a book, that's what you want to create.
00:23If you're interested, I'll show you everything from HTML to HTML5 to 2D to 3D.
00:30Okay, I want to keep the video really, really short. Okay, I want to show you basically how to use
00:34this software.
00:35Okay, very fast, very easy. Okay, now because it's an old legacy piece of software, there's not too many templates
00:43out there.
00:44There's quite a few. Well, we want a few modern ones with HTML5. I think, okay, great.
00:49Can we mix the HTML5 with this version? Yes, we can. Okay, so I'll speak to it as we go
00:56through.
00:56I'll say, I'm making a very short video because I know you only watch about 9 minutes of my video.
01:02So here we go. Okay, go to the internet, download this. It's stored in your computer, open it up and
01:07it's running.
01:08Right, and press this. Go here, new. When I show you how to do this, you're going to absolutely love
01:15it.
01:15Go here, project, yes. Go next. In here, give it a name. That's my project. It's called DBC, 2D, 3D,
01:23reuse.
01:24Browse. Pick a location for it. I work in my downloads. Make a new file. Give it a name. Say
01:31yeah.
01:32All I'm doing is copy and paste it. Open it up. Go down here. Right-click, paste. Give it a
01:37name. Say yeah.
01:39Open, open, open, open. And now it's open. Right. First thing to do is obviously you want to be able
01:46to set up the table of content.
01:48And content. So press this. Press yeah. So what you do first is I'll show you that.
01:54Press this. And save it. You press the index and you save it.
02:00Right. Now, next thing you want to do. You want to go to new. You want to create something new.
02:08HTML document. Now, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to cheat on the topic with this.
02:13Watch what I'm going to show you. I'm going to give you a free upgrade.
02:18You press this. This is a standard HTML file.
02:23Okay. It's a HTML file.
02:26You look here. It says HTML.
02:29It's actually not. It's a HTML file.
02:32See ya. Leave it there.
02:34Now, what I'm going to tell you to do, I'm going to bring this in the screen.
02:37See here. There's nothing here, right?
02:39I'm going to tell you to type a very simple word right here.
02:41Okay.
02:42Shift back arrow.
02:44T.
02:46Shift forward arrow.
02:48Type exactly the same thing.
02:51Shift back arrow.
02:53T.
02:54Shift forward arrow.
02:56You see the second one?
02:57Just go there.
02:58And put a forward slash on it.
03:01What's the idea of that?
03:03This is the idea of it.
03:05It should be time when you write your actual code.
03:08This means open HTML.
03:10This is close HTML.
03:12This is open header, close header.
03:15It's open body, close body.
03:17This is open paragraph.
03:20And this part means close paragraph.
03:22Right inside that little gap right there,
03:25what you want to do,
03:27you want to type the word
03:28that you want to display on the page.
03:33I'm going to type that.
03:36You say, well, you didn't type that.
03:37You copied and pasted it.
03:39Yes, I did.
03:40If you want to copy and paste it,
03:42you press control C to copy it
03:43and control V to paste it.
03:47Right.
03:47Once you name it,
03:48go here.
03:50Okay.
03:51And go to save all files.
03:53You'll think where do you want to save it
03:55the first time.
03:56Press this.
03:57Go to downloads.
03:59Open your file.
04:01You see the name of the file?
04:03Change the name of the file.
04:05Call it the name.
04:06The same name.
04:07Say yeah.
04:08Okay.
04:09Now it's saved.
04:10Right.
04:10Now what you want to do
04:12if you go to your file
04:13is you get out of the file,
04:15open your file,
04:16and inside here,
04:17you've got a nice text document.
04:19An internet page.
04:20If you open it,
04:21you get it all right.
04:23Yeah.
04:23It's not too impressive.
04:24Right.
04:25I'm thinking, okay.
04:26Can't agree.
04:27I'm going to customize that
04:29with you just a little bit.
04:30Here we go.
04:31Here's your free hooker aid.
04:33Ready?
04:34So what I'm going to do,
04:35I'm going to right click in the screen.
04:37I'm going to come down the page
04:39off the screen.
04:40So just click in the web app.
04:42Come down the page
04:43and press notepad.
04:46Okay.
04:46This is what I'm going to tell you to do.
04:48Don't give it a name.
04:49Okay.
04:50Now I'm going to tell you
04:52this is what I'm going to do myself personally.
04:54I'm going to click on this one.
04:57I'm going to go open with notepad.
05:00You can see all that code.
05:01I'm going to copy all that.
05:03Just copy it.
05:04Just click hold.
05:05Again.
05:06I'm going to click copy.
05:07Close it.
05:08Go to your new text document.
05:11And paste it right there.
05:13Okay.
05:14You say, well,
05:14how are we to go out of there
05:15and put it in here?
05:16What's what I'm going to show you?
05:17This is a standard HTML file.
05:20It's not a HTML.
05:23Okay.
05:24We're going to upgrade this.
05:25This is the software that made it.
05:27Right?
05:27So this template is built by the actual software
05:31by standard default.
05:33I'm going to basically get rid of that
05:35because now it's only a standard HTML public template.
05:42Right?
05:43Go here.
05:44Save it as.
05:47And it will give you an option.
05:49Okay?
05:49I can save it in the same file.
05:51Right?
05:51Watch what I'm going to show you.
05:53You see here,
05:54you can save it as a text file
05:56or you can save it as all of it.
05:58Watch what I'm going to show you.
05:59Click your text file.
06:01Give it the name.
06:02You want to give it the same name?
06:04See here.
06:05You want to give it the same name?
06:06Copy that name.
06:08Okay?
06:08Go back here.
06:09Then we kick off that.
06:11Go back here
06:11and just call it that.
06:13Right?
06:14This is what it's called.
06:15Right?
06:16So won't you happy with that?
06:18We don't want to call it that.
06:19See until the end of that?
06:21Get rid of that.
06:23Make sure that you're only spelling the word.
06:26Type dot.
06:28H-T-M-L.
06:31Okay?
06:32Now, this is better.
06:33Okay?
06:34You can add the standard HTM,
06:36which is that.
06:38But hold on.
06:38This one.
06:39H-T-M-L.
06:40And just in case he actually overwrites it,
06:43I'm going to go here
06:44and put number one in.
06:46And I'm going to save it temporarily.
06:48There it is there.
06:49Right?
06:51Now, I can go to the original
06:52and I can just delete it.
06:55Okay?
06:55Now, I can go back to this one
06:57and I can just delete the number one.
07:01Now, believe it or not,
07:02this is my straightforward standard template.
07:06Now, of course,
07:07if I open that,
07:08if you watch,
07:09it opens,
07:09it's standard.
07:10If I open it in a standard notepad,
07:15as you can see,
07:16it's only a standard public template.
07:20Skeleton.
07:20That's all it is.
07:21Nothing else.
07:22Click on that.
07:23It's not owned by nobody.
07:25Okay?
07:26Now, this is going to be the main template.
07:28So, I recommend you copy and paste,
07:29copy and paste,
07:29copy and paste it.
07:30Okay?
07:30Let's go back to the document
07:31because we want to add that
07:33to our document.
07:34Right?
07:35Now, go to content.
07:37Go here.
07:39File.
07:40Give it a name.
07:41Press this one.
07:42Add.
07:44Praise.
07:45Find your brand new file.
07:47Say yeah.
07:48Press OK.
07:49Press OK.
07:50Here it is there.
07:51Go to the pencil.
07:53Press advanced.
07:54Push it up.
07:56Say OK.
07:57That changes the icon for you.
07:59Go to index.
08:01To key.
08:02Say yeah.
08:03Press look for it.
08:05Down to the bottom of this time.
08:07Go here.
08:08Give it a name.
08:09Press this.
08:10Press the file in the file.
08:12Press OK.
08:13I'll take the keyboard off the screen.
08:15And when you're doing that,
08:17press OK.
08:17And press OK.
08:18Now,
08:19if you need index,
08:20it's in the file.
08:22Now,
08:23what we want to do,
08:23we want this page to load
08:25in the first beginning.
08:27Right?
08:27OK.
08:28Go over here.
08:29Press this.
08:31OK.
08:32Look at what you're doing.
08:33Now, you see this one here?
08:34That's wrong.
08:35Right?
08:36Come over this side.
08:37Press this one first.
08:38Project.
08:39Make sure you press on Project
08:41because everybody gets this wrong.
08:43OK.
08:44Project.
08:44Press the top one.
08:46You see what it is here.
08:48In the top
08:49is the name of the book.
08:51This is the name of the book.
08:53Right?
08:54Inside here
08:54is what page
08:56is going to load.
08:58Type the page.
08:59I'll bring the keyboard back.
09:01Type the page.
09:03And you have to type
09:04dot
09:05H
09:06HTML.
09:08OK.
09:09If you basically
09:10customize the file.
09:11Right?
09:12Which you
09:12that's what you've just done.
09:14OK.
09:15If it's a standard
09:15just type
09:17HTM.
09:19My one
09:20is HTML.
09:21It's better.
09:22Honestly
09:22it's better.
09:23OK.
09:24Go to compile.
09:25Do the top one.
09:27Don't do that one.
09:29OK.
09:29Do this one
09:30this one
09:30and this one.
09:31This one here
09:32keeps the file separate.
09:34and if you don't
09:35tick it
09:36you put all the files
09:37inside the file.
09:39OK.
09:40Press OK.
09:41Because you want to see
09:42what happens.
09:43Go up here.
09:43Press this one here.
09:45Compile.
09:46Just press yes.
09:48You say
09:48do you want to save
09:49in the same folder?
09:49Just say yes.
09:51It will compile it for you.
09:54Go to downloads
09:55and as you can see
09:55we've got a brand new book.
09:57If you open it
09:59bring in a page
10:00and you can see
10:00look this is our
10:01brand new homepage.
10:02Of course
10:03there's no text
10:04on it yet.
10:05So OK.
10:06So we've set up
10:07the very first
10:07user manual.
10:09Right.
10:10Now this is your
10:11portable website.
10:12This is your
10:12portable help book.
10:15It's your portable
10:15video site.
10:16It's your portable shop.
10:18It's whatever it is
10:19you want to do with it.
10:20Maybe you do poetry.
10:21You can put poetry
10:23in here
10:23and you can share that.
10:25You can publish it
10:26and maybe earn
10:27some money off it.
10:28I'll tell you
10:29it's got great potential.
10:30It really has.
10:30If you look on my
10:32website you'll notice
10:33I've got all different
10:34videos talking about
10:35the HTML documents.
10:37Yes.
10:38If you look at some
10:38of my new videos
10:39I'm still using
10:41exactly the same
10:42software.
10:43Except I'm using
10:46HTML5
10:48inside of here.
10:51OK.
10:52If you look at the
10:52videos as I said
10:53I'll show you
10:53actually how to do it.
10:56Yeah.
10:57Stay safe.
10:57Keep it friendly.
10:58I hope you love the
10:59content.
10:59I'm trying to keep it
11:00as short as I can.
11:01I'm trying to keep it
11:02under let's say
11:0310 minutes.
11:04But sometimes I'll
11:05go over a little bit.
11:06But there's a really
11:07good reason for it.
11:08See you in the next part.

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