Text came first to the Web. If you look back just a few years ago at pages on the Internet, they were comprised of mostly text. They were informative, but they were static and lackluster. As new technologies were developed and programming languages matured. the Web became a very visual place. Gone were the days of merely reading online; now Web surfers were treated to images and sounds to accompany the text.
However, without a message, without the text, Web pages are little more than blinking images and sounds. The text you place on your Web site can be informative or entertaining or both. The one thing it need not be is boring! Web Studio offers you many ways to customize your text.
Fancy Alphabets: Web Studio provides you with several Fancy Alphabets that make great titles or headlines on your Web pages. Found in the Text Gallery, drag one on to your page and a dialog box will provide you with a place to type your text. Click OK and the text will be placed on your page, ready for you to resize and place.
Format toolbar: Web Studio's Format toolbar is patterned after the existing software standard. This makes for easy editing of your text font type. Simply highlight the desired text with your mouse cursor and click the size, color, or font type button to make the appropriate change.
Note: An extremely important design consideration when you are making your Web pages concerns the choice of font types you place on your Web page. Since Windows comes with a "basic" set of fonts, many people will not have the exact same fonts on their computers that you do. If you choose an unusual font for your site there is a very good chance that when people view your site with their computers the Web page layout will differ greatly because their Web browser used the "closest" font it could find for the one you specified. When in doubt use the standard Windows fonts which are Blue and Black in the Text Gallery. Yellow (cautionary) and Red (Alert!) fonts are unique and will result in mixed results when viewed by others.
Links: Adding links to a whole paragraph, a sentence or a single word is very easy with Web Studio.
Block of Text: To attach a link to an entire body of text, be it a word, a sentence or a paragraph, drag a link from the Link Gallery and the entire body of text should change color, indicating that a link has been added.
Selections of Text: To attach a link to a single letter, a series of words, a paragraph, or any selection of text, double click on the text object to enable it for editing. Select the text to have the link. Drag a link from the Gallery to the selected text and drop it. The selected text will change color, indicating a link has been added.
Web Studio also offers you the option of importing text from an outside source. Web Studio supports two different "text" formats: text files (.txt) and Rich Text Format (.rtf). If you are using a word processing program and want to import a document to post on your Web site, (for example, a resume), be sure you save the document in one of the two accepted formats.
To import a text file go to Insert>Text from File.
Use the Windows Open dialog to locate your text file.
Double-click on the file and Web Studio will place it on your Web page.
You can now resize and place the text on the Web page.
Remember that to achieve the greatest visual appeal on your pages, be sure to place a healthy mix of both images and text on your Web pages.