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WebExpress
v3.0 New Features
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Enhanced
Multimedia Support |
Plug-ins (Insert
menu > Multimedia Plug-ins)
The
Plug-in Wizard allows you to easily add sounds, videos and other
browser plug-ins.
ActiveX (Insert
menu > ActiveX)
Full
ActiveX Support. Native object property sheets accessible only on
Windows 95/NT systems.
Marquees (Insert
menu > Marquee)
Internet Explorer Marquee Extension. Allows you to add text, images,
etc. Control the background color, scroll direction, scroll speed.
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Better Quality
Enhanced image quality throughout. Faster loading, better dithering
on 256-color systems.
Image Map Editor (Utilities menu > Image Map Properties)
Graphical image map editor. Visually create rectangular, circular or
polygonal image maps.
Image Text (Utilities menu > Create Image Text)
This super cool new feature allows you to easily add text to any
image. Great for defining buttons or annotating images, for example.
Image Editor (Utilities menu > Edit with...)
Launch the selected image with your favorite image editor, such as
Adobe Photoshop or PaintShop Pro. Configurable for any editor that
supports command line options.
Image Conversion (Utilities menu > Convert Image)
Convert image to any of the supported formats including gif, jpeg,
tif, pcx, wmf, png, and more. Automatically asks to convert to an
Internet format when you insert non gif/jpeg images. Allows you to
set transparent color in gif files.
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Style Sheets (Format menu > Edit Style Sheets)
Create Cascading Style Sheets giving more precise control over
formatting of HTML documents in the new generation of browsers (4.0
and beyond). Note that while very powerful, style sheets may cause
problems in portability between browsers. Therefore, they are
currently best suited for environments where a known browser will be
used, e.g., intranets using Explorer 4.0.
Character, Paragraph, and Document styles can be created and stored
within a document or in an external style sheet file (.CSS). HTML
documents can be linked to external style sheets, providing excellent
maintenance and a consistent look across a web site.
For best results, create all your styles and style sheets within
WebExpress. Importing style sheets created elsewhere may have
unpredictable results.
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Frame set pages can now be loaded directly into their frame set. The
frame pages can then be edited in-context with the correct size and
position just as they will appear in a browser.
From within a frame set page, use Ctrl-Click or F8 to load the
default frame page into its frame. Test your target links within each
frame to ensure proper link destinations before going to a browser.
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Tiled Web Site (View menu > Tile Web Site)
Keep the Web Site Manager window available at all times, making it
even easier than before to see the organization of your site and
traverse through it.
Web Site Templates (File menu > New)
Create the look and feel of your web site once using Web Site
Templates. Whenever you create a new page, you can select from a list
of existing templates to create it for you. Templates can include
color settings, background images, text, tables, graphics and links.
You can optionally link pages to the templates that created them.
When the Web Page Properties for the template change, so do the
properties for all pages linked to it.
Publish Web Site (Web Site Mgr. > File > Publish Web Pages)
Transfers files from your computer to your web site with the click of
a button. Transfer all files, or just those that have changed since
the last transfer. Uses standard FTP technology so no special
server-side extensions are required.
Web Site Rename (Web Site Mgr. > Edit > Rename)
Click on a page, link, image, or image map within the Web Site
Manager and rename the item. Optionally choose to update all
occurrences throughout your web site and file. Great for globally
changing URLs and standard image files.
Web Site Goto Reference (Web Site Mgr. > Edit >
Goto Reference)
By clicking on a page, link, image, or image map within the Web Site
Manager window, find the source of a link or image instantly. Great
for removing links, and finding where images and image maps are used.
Print Web Site (Web Site Mgr. > File > Print Web Site)
Print the hierarchical view of your web site. Collapse or expand web
site for selected views. Great to show others how your site is organized.
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Setup Wizard (Help > WebExpress Setup Wizard)
Walks the new user through the preference options to get the set up
right from the start and introduce them to the various features in WebExpress.
Runs the first time you use WebExpress or from the Help menu.
New Web Site Wizard (File menu > New Web Site)
Walks you through setting up your entire web site. You can optionally
setup a new web site from an existing site, start from scratch, or
use one of the many web site themes included with WebExpress. The
wizard will then automatically create copy necessary files, make
templates and configure the web site.
Forms Wizard (Insert menu > Create Form)
Walks you through form creation, allowing forms to be easily setup
from pre-configured popular forms. New forms can be added to the
wizard by the user.
Plug-in Wizard
Walks you through adding sound, video and other multimedia plug-ins.
Frame Set Wizard (File menu > New Frame Set)
Walks you through the creation of a frame set. Choose from popular
frame configurations or start from scratch.
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Forward/Back Browse
WebExpress now browses even more like a browser with forward and back
buttons. Allows you to return to a page even when there is now
backward link. Also available from the SpeedTools tool bar.
Insert File (File menu > Insert File)
Insert an ASCII text or HTML file directly into any HTML document at
the current cursor location. Eliminates the need to re-key
information stored within other programs.
HTML Blocks (Insert menu > HTML > Block)
Insert large blocks of consecutive HTML commands which you wish to
have WebExpress ignore. WebExpress will include this code untouched
when writing out files, allowing for hand-tuned code to be inserted
and maintained from within WebExpress.
HTML Blocks work great for HTML code snippets you receive from
someone else (e.g., the LinkExchange), with directions to simply
paste it into your HTML file.
Advanced users can also protect blocks of code from within a text
editor using the following comment matching scheme.
<!-- $MVD$:codeblock() -->
Your private HTML block goes here...
<!-- $MVD$:codeblock() -->
Note that your block must be enclosed by the two codeblock comments.
Care must be taken here! If you fail to use matching comment pairs,
some or all of your HTML file may not operate properly within WebExpress.
Unless you are confident in your HTML abilities, it is strongly
recommended that you use the dialog within WebExpress to edit HTML
blocks rather than using a text editor.
Visible Bookmarks
Inserted bookmarks are now visible within WebExpress. This makes
finding, copying and deleting the destination bookmarks much easier.
You can toggle them on and off with other HTML markers using the
View/HTML Markers toggle command.
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