Tips and Tricks

Creating Reusable Content Snippets

You can define small reusable content chunks through the Publishing tab. Learn the basics in the Reuse small content snippets tutorial.

Creating Generated Content Snippets

You can define small generated content chunks through the advanced tab.

Customizing the Default Collection

You can customize the default collection, which is use as the starting point of any new collection you create through %product_name%.

Customizing the Editor Toolbar

To customize the editor's toolbar, edit the following entries from the topico.ini.xml file.

Creating Topic Templates

You can edit the default topic (topic.xml) if you want some specific boiler content when you create a new page. You can also create new topic templates of your own and have them appear in the template selection window.

Creating a New Publishing Package

Creating new publishing packages is the best way to share your %product_name% personalization.

Working with Multilingual Collections

You can work with multilingual collections in %product_name%, which makes is easy to switch between all translated versions of the collection.

Translating the User Interface

%product_name% saves all the individual topic files with a language extension so you can create multilingual collections more easily.

Setting up a Dynamic Web Site

You can use %product_name% to supply content to small multilingual dynamic web sites by editing topics in multiple languages.

Updating a Topic on a Web Server

If your publication resides on a web site, you might prefer not spending your time between %product_name% and your FTP software to make updates to the web site.

Editing the Tópico Ini File

%product_name% initialization file (topico.ini.xml) contains many settings that do not yet have a graphical user interface. You can edit most of these settings yourself by opening the ini file in your favorite XML editor.

Editing the Tópico User File

%product_name% initialization file (topico.ini.xml) contains many settings that do not yet have a graphical user interface. You can edit most of these settings yourself by opening the ini file in your favorite XML editor.

Using a different file extension

It might be convenient to use a different file extension than HTML for your publication if, as an example, the output files are associated with a specific application.

Adding a Site Meter To Your Publication

After you've published your collection online, you might be interested to learn a little bit more about your visitors. Adding a site meter and statistic is the best affordable way to start your analysis.

Recommended Best Practices

Here's a list of questions you'll eventually be faced with, along with short answers that might help you.