It's now easier than ever to create and maintain private homepages on Tripod with our Homepage Studio version 2.0.

Version 2.0 combines our powerful Private Pods tools with our homepage building and file management utilities to give you the ability to easily create a homepage and then make it private. By making it private you can restrict access to only the people (other Tripod Members) you choose. If you already have a private pod (a private homepage) on Tripod you can now edit the page and make changes to your access lists from the Homepage Studio's File Manager.

How does this work? It's easy. The only address you need to remember (or bookmark) is the "build" page:

http://www.tripod.com/build/welcome/build.html

To create a new private homepage choose from the easy step-by-step Quickpage builder or the advanced Freeform builder. Once you've finished building you'll arrive at a confirmation page where you can choose to make the page private or keep it public. If you select the private option, step-by-step (see below) instructions for privatizing your page with our new File Manager will be provided.

Maintaining your existing private web pages, including adding members to, or removing members from, your access list; creating new access lists; and inviting new guests to your private pages can now through the Community Tools of the Homepage Studio File Manager.

To make a page private, go back to the Filemanager and do the following:

1. If you haven't already put this page into a directory, you will need to do so (only directories can be made private; not individual pages). To put this page into a directory, select 'New Directory' in the 'File-options' pulldown.
2. You will be prompted to name your new directory. Click 'OK'
3. Select the file you want to make private by clicking in the box to the left of the file name.
4. Click on the 'Move' icon in the Filemanager toolbar. Select the directory you just created. Click 'OK'.
5. Check off the directory you just made, and click on the 'Make Private' icon in the Filemanager toolbar.

Congratulations! You've just made a private directory. Now, you need to assign an access list to your private directory.

6. When you're through making your new directory private, a popup window will appear and ask you to create an access list (or select an access list you've created already). If you haven't yet made an access list, now's the time to do it! Click 'Create a New List.'
7. Enter a name for this access list. Select Create List
8. The new list you just created should be the first in the pulldown. Click 'OK.'
9. You now have an access lost assigned to this directory.