If you click  the New button on the tool bar, a rectangle called a "text box" will drop down. That is your work area for typing text. Before trying out the typing in that box, get used to moving the box about on the screen and changing its size and shape. This is done by using "handles" which appear on the screen as short lines with small arrow-heads at the end. To get a handle which will move the entire box, position the cursor anywhere along the box border except directly over the eight small, solid rectangles along the border. This will produce a handle with four arrow heads. If you "click and drag" with this double arrow (ie click and hold the mouse button down and slide the mouse across the pad), the entire box will move over the screen accordingly. If you wish to change the shape and size of the box, you need a single arrow. To get a single arrow, place the cursor DIRECTLY AND PRECISELY over one of the eight solid rectangles along the border and again, "click and drag". Practice this for a while because you will be doing it a lot in web site construction. By clicking with the cursor inside the text box, you will get the usual vertical pillar for typing. You can position it anywhere in the box you wish to type and clicking on it in the new position enables you to start typing in that position. Try a few lines of text for practice. Now click on the Text button from the top toolbar again and you will see that you can drop additional text boxes on the screen and manipulate them in the same way.
	Drop several boxes onto the screen and practice working with them.
		Now you are ready to save your work. Click the Save button on the toolbar. In the Page Name: space on the pop-up menu, type whatever name you wish for this page of work, eg Test. Then click the Save button at the bottom of the pop-up menu. Congratulations! You have followed the signs and taken the path which has led you to the goal of completing your web page starting with text-only.
				*Here is a text box with a different size and shape. You can use   * *different sizes and shapes to add to the artistic merit of your      * *webpage. To delete a box, make sure it is the only box on the    * *page which is open and then click the Delete button on the tool  * *bar above.                                                                            *
			Now to restore your page on the screen so that you can continue to work, click the Open button on the toolbar. Position the cursor to highlight whatever web page you want to open on the "Open Page" pop-up menu. In this case that is Text. Click on Text to highlight it and then click the Open button at the bottom of the Open Page menu. Now you are back in business. Here are a couple of tips from personal experiences using PageBuilder. My experience, using a half dozen different pc's, using Explorer and Netscape to connect, has been that lengthy sessions of web page building (eg 1/2 hour or more) can be risky. Frequently red lines and red hatched areas have suddenly appeared on the screen. One cannot save the work while they are present and I could find no way to remove them so the work was lost. If work is saved every 5-10 minutes, the worst that can happen is that 5-10 minutes of work are lost instead of a half hour or an hour or more. If there is another way to solve this problem, please email <websitebuilding101@yahoo.ca> with the answer. Another PageBuilder "snafu" is that sometimes in the middle of a work session, the screen will suddenly scroll down to the bottom and your text boxes disappear from view. You cannot scroll back up. If you then click on the Save button you can, however, save the work you have done. Then when you open your page again, the boxes will start scrolling down to the bottom again. This is solved with a skeet-shoot sort of procedure. As the lowest text box scrolls by, quickly put the cursor in it and click. That stops the scrolling. Machines do have their idiosyncracies. A tiny idiosyncracy is that sometimes the Open button will give a pop-up menu without a list of your working files. Just click the Cancel button, click Open again, and you will get the list of files. A final tiny problem is that when the web page is opened with several text boxes, you may have to click and open and a box higher on the page before one lower on the page can be opened. WEB PAGE SIZE PageBuilder puts a limit on the size of an individual web page. So far my experience has been that it will do this after the equivalent of approximately two 8 1/2 x 11 pages of text have been set out. It does so when a red line or red hatching suddenly appears at the bottom of the lowest text box and new text boxes cannot be moved below this barrier. To add to the confusion,  red lines may appear at other times and they do not block new text boxes. In other words, you can drop in a new text box and use the handles to move it below the red line.The rule I go by is to plan for a maximum of a two page length and the individual web pages can be LINKED into one grand web site. Go back to Main Menu for details on linking for details on how linking is done. The vertical scroll bar to the right of your screen between the tiny black up and down arrows tells you how close to the two page limit you are. The "red line problem" can also cause limitations in the ability to locate text in the exact positions you wish on a page. I know of no solution to this at present except to delete boxes and start over or to accept a new spatial distribution of boxes other than the one planned. PageBuilder is a great free public service. It is also somewhat "buggy" software. I have even had it suddenly 'jump" right out of the session without warning. But by using the 5-10-minutes-and-save rule above, you can't lose much. Return to Main Menu to find out how to use other PageBuilder features.