The .SIMPLEPAGE Command

This command gives you an easy way to produce the MHC-style red lines around your page, without having to create them.

It is ideally suited to converting an old HTML page into the new look, since it does most of the work for you. All you have to do is add the appropriate values for .MADE, .MAINTAINS, and .SIMPLEPAGE to your document, save it with the .shtml ending, and it automatically gets the full MHC look.

This only real disadvantage of using this command is that the page is not WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) in graphical Web editors. You can't tell how it will look without either saving the file, or using the HTML Previewer.

These are the two versions of the command. Click on an image to see a larger version:

.SIMPLEPAGE	.SIMPLEPAGE Wide

Note that if you are using the Wide option and your page does not use any graphics that go all the way from one edge of the page across to the other, you should put the entire contents of your page into a single-cell table with no border and a cellpadding of 3. This way, the contents won't run up against the red lines on the page.