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WelcomeWelcome to WebExpress v2.0. We have rounded out our feature set to better enable you to create great next-generation web sites. We still have our great WYSIWYG editing environment so that you don't have to muck in HTML codes. We've added support for important web site features such as Forms, Typeface Extensions (we call them Font Sets), and Frames. We've made it easier to incorporate scripts into your page. One of the most important changes we've made is a shift in focus from a web page to your entire web site. Using the new Web Site Manager, it is much easier to link up and maintain your web site. You can browse your web site with a simple Ctrl-Click on links to other pages in your site, allowing you to test your links for validation as well as making it easier to navigate from page to page while editing. Plus you can quickly and visually validate your site for valid links, maintain lower or upper case conventions for URLs and filenames and a host of other useful tools to make you more productive. Enjoy! The Web Site ManagerOne of the biggest and best changes in WebExpress 2.0 is the focus on the web site as opposed to individual web pages. WebExpress now conveniently tracks all the links in your web site starting from your home page down. The Web Site Manger visually displays the pages in your site, including links to pictures, email references and downloadable files. Web Sites (as they are termed in WebExpress) simulate the real web site on your internet server. They are easy to create, and we strongly urge you create one and use it. Simply use New Web Site from the File Menu, and enter the base URL for your web site and the path to your home page on your computer (you can browse for it). WebExpress will take care of the rest. Major Feature of the Web Site Manager
Ctrl-Click Here to Go to Top of File Browser LauncherWebExpress is one of the most WYSIWYG editors on the market. Every attempt is made to follow the HTML 3 specifications as closely as possible, and to mimick the behavior of the major web browsers, especially Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, due to the nature of HTML and the battle for browser supremacy, it is impossible to completely match the behavior for all browsers, since their displays differ in many ways. To allow you to view exactly how your page will look in a browser, WebExpress now allows you to launch the current page into a browser from within WebExpress. You can configure up to two different browsers which can be launched. WebExpress currently searches for and automatically configures Netscape Navigator, Mosaic and Microsoft Internet Explorer. If you configure another browser manually, please email us the details so that we can include it in future automatic configurations. Ctrl-Click Here to Go to Top of File Frame Support WebExpress now supports the creation and managment of frame based web sites. The frame based page is typically the web site's home page, and defines how the display is laid out when the web site will be viewed in a browser. Any page, however, can be designated as a frame page, and can also contain a supplemental page for viewers whose browser do not support. To switch between the Frame portion of the page and the supplemental page check the appropriate option on the View menu. When in Frame view, you will see a screen which shows how the browser will be laid out in a browser, and then name of the HTML file in each frame which a browser will first load. This looks and acts quite differently than typical HTML files. If you are switching to a frame based web site, you can conveniently use your current home page as a starting point. First load your current home page into WebExpress. Next, switch to Frame Page view using the View menu. Arrange the frames like you want them. Finally, save the page. Your home page will now be setup to support frames, with your old home page being displayed as the alternative for browsers not supporting frames. Ctrl-Click Here to Go to Top of File Form Support Full support for creating forms is now available within WebExpress. You can add a form anywhere within a web page. The tools to create forms are found on the Insert menu. You can also turn on a floating toolbar called FormTools which provides for convient access while creating the form. FormTools can be turned on from the View menu or from the ControlStrip bar. Form commands include:
Ctrl-Click Here to Go to Top of File Font Sets - The Facename Extension WebExpress now supports the Face extension found in Netscape 3.0 and MS Internet Explorer 3.0. This allows you to specify the typeface a browser should use when displaying text. The browser decides which typeface to use by checking a list of typefaces sequentially to find one available on the visitor's computer. In WebExpress, the face extension is handled by font sets. A Font Set is a named list of typefaces which the browser will search when the web page is loaded. The typefaces in the list may include typefaces not available on your system, in fact, you may want to include typefaces which are only available on Macintosh or Unix systems so that viewers on those systems also benefit from the selection. You can define as many Font Sets as you wish, but keep in mind that the more unique the typeface, the less chance it will exist on a visitor's computer. To use a Font Set to text, you apply it just as you would a normal typeface in a word processor or desktop publisher. You can access the Font Set definition dialog from the Utility menu or from the Format/Character dialog box.
By default, WebExpress comes with Font Sets which match the fonts currently provided by Microsoft Internet Exploerer. These will be found on a good percentage of Windows based computers. Ctrl-Click Here to Go to Top of File JavaScript Support You can now include and edit JavaScript, VBScript and other scripting languages from within WebExpress. To edit your scripts, use the Script command from the Edit menu. This will show a list of all scripts currently contained in the document. You can then add new scripts, edit existing scripts, and delete scripts from your web page. Ctrl-Click Here to Go to Top of File Show Paragraph Breaks Showing paragraph breaks is is an old feature with new meaing. Turning this feature on via the View menu now differentiates between the HTML commands New Paragraph <P> and Break <BR>. When turned on, the following symbols are displayed depending on the type of line break.
¶ This symbol denotes line breaks which correspond to the Paragraph <P> HTML command, and generally have a larger amount of space between lines. This type of break is created by pressing the Enter key.
¬ This symbol denotes line breaks which correspond to the Break <BR> command. These types of line breaks generally have a smaller amount of space between lines. This type of break is created by pressing the Enter key while holding down the shift key. There are a number of situations where the two types breaks generate the same amount of space, which is generally the same as the Paragraph <P> command. This usually occurs when something other formatting command is different between the two blocks of text, for example a change in alignment from Center to Left. You can also change the type of line break by toggling the New Paragraph command on the Format menu. |