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  1. To work on your site, you need a few bits of information, which should have been provided when you opened your account. Go to the login page, type in your site ID and password, and click on log in. To view your developing site, you will also need its address, which should also have been given to you when you opened your account.
  2. When you first log in, the only option available is to configure the site. Once you have done this, the other options will appear.
  3. It is important to proceed by clicking the modify and continue buttons rather than by pressing 'previous page' on your browser. This is because the pages are created dynamically to take into account the changes you make to the site.
  4. Pages are only valid for about 30 minutes (this is to prevent someone else from calling up one of the pages from the browser cache at a later date and using it to change your site). If you spend more than 30 minutes on one page, Carrelet will refuse to accept the changes, and you will have to log in again. To avoid this, click on modify every ten minutes or so (this also effectively saves your work).
  5. Carrelet writes new files to your site every time you change something. While this has many advantages, it is not what most browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape etc) expect to happen. In order to see changes, you need to click on reload page. Furthermore, some browsers, notably Netscape, do not reload graphics when the page is reloaded, so seeing a new image can be difficult. The radical solution is to quit and reload the browser...
  6. If you want to start a new paragraph in plain or formatted text mode, you need to leave a blank line.

Apart from that, most things should be fairly obvious, and, in any case, you can always change any mistakes. Or, in extremis, you could always look at the rest of the documentation...