Please read. This includes a list of tips and known bugs. Please let us know if you find any others. Send email to development@forman.com. Thanks.
HINTS....
To upload your site in an uncompressed format you may run WFTP.EXE in your IC program directory and do this manually.
The Font Size option in the Object Dialogs may be confusing to HTML novices. Sizes 1 - 7 increase in size from 1 (smallest) to 7 (largest). Sizes H1 (largest) - H6 (smallest) are primarily used for Headings, and not only affect size, but in most browsers affect font face as well (i.e.: italics, bold, underline). Also, most browsers do not support Underlining.
Forced Auto-Saving:
Internet Creator automatically updates your site database after each paragraph object change. You are not required to save your site to ensure that changes are written to disk. You cannot, at the moment, undo any paragraph changes after you have clicked OK on that paragraph.
Copy: Currently, you cannot copy a paragraph object in IC.
Image Object Paragraph:
Flow text around image, with image aligned center is not a valid HTML construct. You will receive unpredictable results depending on the browser. Aligning the image to the left or to the right works well. To stop subsequent paragraphs from wrapping around an image with image wrap selected, place a <BR CLEAR=ALL> HTML tag in the caption text of the object immediately following the image.
BACKGROUNDS: The swatches in the Easy Site Setup Wizard are supposed to set up a default appearance for new pages only. However, there is a bug, where the background image of the chosen swatch will become the background image for all existing pages which were built using the previous default appearance. Because the text colors do not change as well, this can produce pages which are difficult to read. You can fix this by re-selecting your first background through the default page-style options or through the new-page page-style options dialog box.
SITE GENERATION OPTIONS: Changes to the "site generation options" made through any of the Setup Wizards, do not update the display in the Setup/Generation options menu until you re-open your site. The affects the display of the options only and does not affect the HTML generation.
COMPRESSING AND UPLOADING: Occasionally, the first time you compress and submit your site, an error is reported that Site.zip is not found. Just resubmit to correct.
IMAGE PROBLEMS: Image Problems with 4-bit .GIF, 8-bit .JPG and transparent .GIF.
Internet Creator does not currently support these image formats.
4-bit .GIF and 8-bit .JPG are, at the moment, non-standard and not very widespread, However, as there is an increasing demand for low-bandwidth image transfer over the Internet we intend to support these in future releases. For now, 4-bit .GIF's will show up blank in the image selector, and an 8-bit .JPG will cause the program to create a General Protection Fault (the program will crash). Please convert these images before importing them into IC with an image tool (such as Photoshop or Photofinish) to an 8-bit .gif or 24-bit jpg format. Importing a transparent .GIF will cause you to loose the transparent nature of the image. The fix at the moment is to re-copy the image to your HTML directory before uploading your site.
