2. Getting Started

Think of a website as a hierarchy of directories each containing an index.html page and a set pf pages with some content. Each directory contains a page group, with a table of contents containing links to each page. Any directories within this directory can also contain pages and tables of contents.

SAS automatically links pages in a group together by building an index page for you. Links between pages are also made automatically. Finally, each index page is linked to the page group above and below it to form an entire site.

Look at the structure of these instruction pages as a simple example. There is only one page group here, called “SAS Instructions”. The index.html page forms the “SAS Instructions Main Directory”, and each page in the group has a link off of this index.html page.

When you create a website, you will do it in a hierarchical fashion, first setting up parameters for a group of pages, then setting up parameters for each page, and finally adding individual items to each page.

You don’t need to know any HTML to use SAS. In fact, most of the fields you will fill out should not contain any.