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		<title>Getting Started</title>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;account&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Create your personal site&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="All you need is create your own iJot account. From iJot&apos;s editor page, click the &apos;create account&apos; link sitting below the login form in the right pane." type="link" url="http://docs.ijot.net/gems/account1.gif"/>
			<outline text="Then just fill in the three (required) fields.">
				<outline text="Nickname will identify yourself as an iJot author, as well as designate your iJot site on the Web, as in http://nickame.ijot.net/." type="link" url="http://docs.ijot.net/gems/account2.gif"/>
				<outline text="Password is needed to confirm your identity. You should obviously try to keep it to yourself."/>
				<outline text="Email should be a valid email address if you want to be able to change your password should you happen to forget it or should it become compromised."/>
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			<outline text="Click the &apos;join&apos; button to automatically create your iJot site. That&apos;s all there is to it."/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;home&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Update your site&apos;s home page&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="Upon account creation, or whenever logging into your account, your browser displays iJot&apos;s authoring interface." type="link" url="http://docs.ijot.net/gems/private3.jpg"/>
			<outline text="To modify your new site&apos;s home page, you need to edit its outline with iJot&apos;s built-in webOutliner.">
				<outline text="Select the &apos;Home&apos; entry under &apos;my site&apos; in iJot&apos;s left selector pane." type="link" url="http://docs.ijot.net/gems/private2.jpg"/>
				<outline text="Then either click its &apos;up-arrow&apos; wedge, or the &apos;edit&apos; button at the bottom of the selector."/>
				<outline text="Type in your modifications, using webOutliner&apos;s text editing commands."/>
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			<outline text="When you are finished - preferably before that - click the &apos;save outline&apos; icon in the webOutliner toolbar.">
				<outline text="Do not modify this outline name - Home - unless you want to create a &lt;i&gt;new&lt;/i&gt; page based on a different outline." type="link" url="http://docs.ijot.net/gems/private5.jpg"/>
				<outline text="The save dialog offers you a chance to update your home page&apos;s title."/>
				<outline text="Click the &apos;save&apos; button to record your changes on the iJot server."/>
				<outline text="If you do not change the checkboxes in the save dialog, the dialog will not appear the next time you click &apos;save&apos; in the webOutliner toolbar: your changes will be committed to the iJot server directly."/>
				<outline text="Moreover, provided you are not in the process of entering text, any change you make to your outline will be saved automatically within the next minute."/>
				<outline text="If you browse away from iJot&apos;s authoring interface while an unsaved outline is still being edited, an alert message will offer you to reconsider before losing your changes: just click the &apos;cancel&apos; button to stay in the outliner." type="link" url="http://docs.ijot.net/gems/alert1.gif"/>
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			<outline text="You can look at the &apos;&lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.ijot.net/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;published page&lt;/a&gt;&apos; version of your modifications by selecting &apos;Home&apos; in the selector pane and clicking the &apos;view&apos; button at the bottom of the list." type="link" url="http://docs.ijot.net/gems/private4.jpg"/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;add&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Create additional pages&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="To add a new page to your iJot site click the &apos;new outline&apos; icon in the webOutliner toolbar." type="link" url="http://docs.ijot.net/gems/private9.jpg"/>
			<outline text="Then enter your page&apos;s content in the outliner, saving as often as possible.">
				<outline text="The first time you click the &apos;save outline&apos; icon, the save outline dialog offers you a chance to specify an outline name - replace the default &apos;untitled&apos; - and a page title - replace the default &apos;Untitled Document&apos; if you haven&apos;t already done so in the outliner." type="link" url="http://docs.ijot.net/gems/private6.jpg"/>
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			<outline text="The new page will appear under its outline name in iJot&apos;s selector pane. " type="link" url="http://docs.ijot.net/gems/private8.jpg"/>
			<outline text="The save dialog offers an option to archive your outline locally on your workstation as an OPML format document, as well as an opportunity to mirror it to another server on the Internet." type="link" url="http://docs.ijot.net/gems/private7.jpg"/>
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		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;weblog&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Post to your site&apos;s weblog&lt;/b&gt;">
			<outline text="Your iJot site comes complete with a weblog. To access its published version, add &apos;/blog/&apos; to your iJot site&apos;s URL. For instance, the iJot docs site weblog is published at: &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.ijot.net/blog/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://docs.ijot.net/blog/&lt;/a&gt;.">
				<outline text="For a quick check, select &apos;Weblog&apos; in iJot&apos;s selector pane, and click the &apos;view&apos; button at the bottom of the list." type="link" url="http://docs.ijot.net/gems/private10.jpg"/>
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			<outline text="To post to your weblog, just select &apos;Weblog&apos; in iJot&apos;s selector and click the &apos;edit&apos; button at the bottom of the list, or click the &apos;up-arrow&apos; wedge of the &apos;Today&apos; entry." type="link" url="http://docs.ijot.net/gems/private11.jpg"/>
			<outline text="Your weblog pages are outlines of course, with dates as special outline names, in the form &apos;YYYY-MM-DD&apos;.">
				<outline text="When saving your post, changing the outline name to something other than &apos;YYYY-MM-DD&apos; will cause the outline to be treated as a regular site page instead of a blog entry."/>
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			<outline text="You may choose a date, and blog to the Future or the Past, by clicking the &apos;up-arrow&apos; wedge in front of the &apos;Pick a date&apos; entry of iJot&apos;s selector." type="link" url="http://docs.ijot.net/gems/private12.jpg"/>
			<outline text="Your iJot weblog is also published as an RSS 1.0 news feed for your readers to subscribe to. To access it. just add &apos;/blog/rss.rdf&apos; to your site&apos;s URL.">
				<outline text="For instance, the RSS feed for the docs site&apos;s weblog is published at: &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.ijot.net/blog/rss.rdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;rss news feed&quot;&gt;http://docs.ijot.net/blog/rss.rdf&lt;/a&gt;"/>
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		<outline text="This document is still in its draft process, we welcome every and any input in the &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ijot-support/&quot;&gt;ijot-support&lt;/a&gt; group/mailing list."/>
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