in the toolbar.If you are viewing this file in Visual Page, activate the links below by selecting
the preview button in the toolbar.
How Do I Purchase Visual Page 2.0?
What are the New Features for Visual Page 2.0?
What is Included with Visual Page 2.0?
Creating Commercial Web Sites Book
Cascading Style Sheet Templates
Dozens of Web Page Templates and Samples
Active Desktop Backgrounds for Windows 98
You can purchase a fully licensed version of Visual Page from any of our retail and catalogue partners or directly from Symantec. Retailers that sell Visual Page include Best Buy, Computer City, CompUSA, Fry's, Micro Center, and J and R Computer World. Visual Page is available from popular mail order catalogues such as CDW, MicroWarehouse, Programmer's Paradise, PC Connection, and Provantage. Visual Page can also be ordered directly from Symantec's Web site. Products ordered directly from Symantec can either be shipped to you or downloaded to your computer. Please note that products that are downloaded from the Symantec Web site don't include the 3rd party book, "Creating Commercial Web Sites".
Following is the contact information for our Partners:
Partner |
Phone Number |
Retail |
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| Best Buy | (800) 369-5050 |
| Computer City | (800) THE-CITY |
| CompUSA | (800) 294-4727 |
| Fry's | (408) 487-1000 |
| Micro Center | (800) 634-3478 |
| J and R Computer World | (212) 238-9000 |
Mail Order |
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| CDW | (800) 363-4239 |
| MicroWarehouse | (800) 255-6227 |
| Programmer's Paradise | (800) 445-7899 |
| PC Connection | (800) 800-5555 |
| Provantage | (800) 336-1166 |
Online Reseller |
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| Egghead.com | (800) EGGHEAD |
Specify your home page and Visual Page quickly creates a project file containing information about the files that make up your Web site. The project file allows you to quickly understand your Web site's structure, to automatically maintain your Web site's integrity, and to greatly improve the speed in which you can update and enhance your Web site.
Once you have imported or created your Web site, Visual Page's project manager provides you with four distinct views of your Web site.
Your Web site's links are automatically checked in the background while you build your Web site. Invalid and missing links are highlighted in both the link and status views. Invalid links are links to files that are located outside of your local Web site's directories. These links will be broken when your Web site is published. Missing links are links to files that don't exist. These are caused by files that are moved or removed after links are made to them.
Fixing your Web site's broken links is as easy as selecting the broken link and browsing to the file that should be linked to. Once you have fixed the link, all files that contain the same broken link are also automatically fixed.
Once a project file is created, all of your links are automatically maintained for you while you build and modify your Web site. Changing a file name results in all links to that file automatically being updated to the new name. Changing an email link in any of the project manager views results in all of your Web pages that contain the email link being updated.
Updating content across your entire Web site is easily achieved using Visual Page's site-wide search-and-replace. No more worrying that you have forgotten to check all of your Web site's files for content that should have been changed.
Visual Page's site-wide spell checking helps to ensure that you avoid embarrassing spelling mistakes that take away from your professional image.
Once you have finished making changes to your Web site, publish the Web pages that have been updated with a click of the button. Only the files that have been changed will be published. You can also select specific files that you want to upload to your Web server or download to your local system.
Use cascading style sheets to build a uniform look and feel across your entire Web site. A visual cascading style sheets (CSS) editor makes it easy to create, apply, and preview styles. Create and assign a CSS file to your project and your entire Web site is automatically updated with a new and uniform look. Add different style sheets to specific Web pages to build a distinct look for sub sections of your Web site.
If you are viewing this file in Visual Page, try the following to experience the benefits of using style sheets:
Enter edit mode by selecting the edit icon 
from the Visual Page toolbar and then select Page Style Sheets from the Edit menu. Select Add from
the Page Style Sheets Window and then browse to the whimsical.css file which is located in the Highlights subdirectory
of where you installed Visual Page. Select this file and select Open to add it to this page. Now select OK to experience
this page's new look. The difference is astounding as this page now contains a whole new look. To change this page
back to its original style, select Page Style Sheets from the Edit menu and select Remove from the Page Style Sheets
Window. Now select OK to return this page to its original look.
The fully licensed version of Visual Page 2.0 includes many sample style sheets that you can use to give your Web site a whole new look.
Use absolute pixel positioning for ultimate control over the layout of your Web pages. Easily convert Web page objects to layers and take advantage of grid tools for quickly positioning your layers in a professional manner. Create layers within layers in order to mix word processing and desktop publishing layout schemes for ultimate control of your Web page look and feel.
Upon installation Visual Page automatically detects the default installations of the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator browsers. These browsers are then automatically added to a drop down menu list. This list is used for loading your current Web page into the browser of your choice for easy previewing. Additional applications can be specified in the preferences file so Web pages can easily be loaded into any application that works with HTML files.
Change the text font and size that is used in the syntax editor window to meet your viewing needs. The syntax editor represents text, tags, attributes, values, and comments with user specifiable colors in order to make it easy to work at the code level.
Visual Page comes with a complete set of documentation and online help to assist you in the process of learning Visual Page.
The Getting Started Guide consists of installation instructions for Visual Page, and a Tour of Visual Page.
The Tour is designed to familiarize you with the main features of Visual Page by guiding you through the process
of building a working Web page. It requires no previous experience in Web page development.
The Tour is the quick way to learn Visual Page - and it's fun!
This may be the document you turn to most frequently as you work with Visual Page, as it contains step-by-step information on using Visual Page's features. The chapters in this guide cover general topics involved with creating Web pages, such as text and graphics formatting, advanced Web features, site publishing, and site maintenance and management.
Visual Page has an extensive help system, providing all of the procedures for building a Web page. You can press F1 to access Help that is specific to your current Visual Page activity, or search the index for your related topics.
This is an excellent book that discusses strategy for creating Web sites. A very colorful version of this book is included along with a CD that includes shareware applications and utilities. This is a $49.95 value.
Topics covered in Creating Commercial Web Sites include:
This is a collection of over 12,000 professionally designed backgrounds, banners, page dividers, and color matched sets. These images are royalty free and will help you to quickly build a unique and professional looking Web site.
This is a set of CSS files that you can use as is or modify for your personal taste to quickly give your Web site a new professional look. Simply add one of these style sheets to your project file and all of your Web pages will be updated with the new styles that the style sheet contains.
This is a set of professional designed Web page templates and Web page samples that can be used to quickly create professional looking Web sites. Use these templates in conjunction with the style sheets templates to quickly create a Web site that contains professional looking images and styles.
This is a set of 15 Web pages that can be used as Active Desktop backgrounds for Windows 98. Each Web page contains ten image links that are part of an overall theme.
Themes for the Active Desktops include:
Included on the Visual Page CD is trialware for Symantec's award winning products.
The trialware includes:
