Versions of Text/Image Sections

Text/Image sections allow you to create multiple versions of each section. This feature may best be explained with the following example.

You are a teacher with a brand new, empty SiteMaker web site. It's August, before school starts, so you put information on the home page of your site welcoming your new students to your class, posting your supply list, etc. A few weeks after school has started this information is a little out of date so you change it. What you originally wrote is lost, replaced with the new text.

Now let's take the same situation and say to edit this page by creating a new version. This time the information you typed in back in August is saved as an old version of the web page. It's not lost, just hidden from public view because SiteMaker displayes the new version on the page with the more current information.

As the year progresses you make several versions of your home page, maybe one a month. You have one about Thanksgiving, another giving seasons greeting in December, even ending to a nice "Goodbye, have a good summer" statement in May. The nice thing is that the following school year you can go back and make your August version current. All the stuff you typed in the previous year is there, you just need to update the time sensitive information. This time you go through the year recycling what you wrote the previous year.

This is one use of versions for Text/Image sections. This feature does not apply to other section types.

Save vs. Save As

This concept works the same as the Save and Save As commands in applications like Word, PowerPoint, or Excel. When you first create a document in one of these applications you save it to your hard drive. The first time you save it the computer asks you what you want to name the file and where you want to store it. This is actually a Save As function. Each subsequent save simply overwrites the file on the hard drive with your updated work.

If you choose to Save As the computer will ask again what to name the file and where to store it. This treats the original file like a template and saves a new copy on the hard drive without overwriting the original.

The versioning feature in SiteMaker give you the ability to Save As.