A Working BEE Website requires one and only one HTML page, called the Virtual Page.  Any URL will bring the visitor to that Virtual Page (unless you have uploading another page on that URL).  What the Working BEE does is to take the Virtual Page as a template, get the web contents from the text pool according to the URL, and insert the web contents into their corresponding TEA (Text Edit Area).

This architecture enables web pages to be created and modified online.  The Virtual Page template is always there, so all it needs for a new page is its web contents, which are stored in a separate text pool from the Virtual Page.

The user interface is simple.  All the user needs to do is to enter the URL and click the TEA icon to enter the content.  As an example, the BEE Information site got almost 300 pages, but there is only one physical HTML page there.

You may imagine the Virtual Page as the Wallpaper or Desktop of your Windows.  The "content areas" (or TEAs) on the Virtual Page is where the owner user enters and edits the content, and is also where site applications run.

Designing a Virtual Page is not very different from designing a normal HTML page.  You only need to insert some "hooks" in the right places to let BEE know where do you want things to appear.

Please have a look at the source of the model website to have a taste of the Virtual Page.  (The BEE codes are hightlighted for your reference.)

If you have your own Working BEE website, you may download the Virtual Page by FTP, redesign it and upload it back.  As long as all the "hooks" are there, all contents and applications (e.g. online forms, product database and shopping cart etc) will remain.  Remember: contents and applications are on the BEE platform, not with the HTML.  (Same as your documents and programs, they are on the Windows or Mac operating system, not on the Wallpaper or the Desktop.)

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