Website and Scripting Tutorial
Building Websites
This website tutorial assumes you haven't used Frontier before. It assumes you know the basics of HTML, but aren't necessarily a scripter or programmer.
If you want to learn to build sites with Manila, see the Manila User's Guide.
If you want to learn to script Frontier, a scripting tutorial is presented here also -- but it's important to go through the website tutorial first, as the scripting tutorial assumes that you know how to build websites in Frontier.
As this is a tutorial, it's meant to be gone through in order, as each section builds on earlier sections.
Frontier Scripting
Frontier is, among other things, a scripting system. It includes its own scripting language, UserTalk, that's similar to JavaScript, Java, and C. It's less like AppleScript and Visual Basic, but it has some similarities. It's also older than many of these languages.
You don't have to learn how to write scripts to make Frontier websites. But it's often helpful, particularly for complex websites.
This portion of the guide introduces you to scripting. It assumes you've written HTML and have worked through the website tutorial, but doesn't assume you've done any kind of scripting or programming.
This introduction to script is geared toward writing macros, outline renderers, and other scripts that are used in Frontier websites. It starts with the basics of scripting, then moves to the practical, scripts you can use right now.
Appendix
Glossary of Terms
Variable Naming Conventions
Object Database Map
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Building Websites
Frontier Scripting
Appendix
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